Author: Camille Dumas
The Sky Ceiling
Taking the trompe d'oeil one step beyond, SkyCeilings are photographic illusions of real skies that fit into standard ceiling grid systems. Luminous SkyCeilings feature fluorescent or LED lighting that illuminate the translucent images from behind. Ambient SkyCeilings are made…
Accenture Technology's "Persuasive Mirror"
As if it isn’t dispiriting enough to look in the mirror at the best of times, Accenture Technology is developing a "persuasive mirror" which inspects your body via cameras on either side, then sends results to a monitor which…
The Smile Helmet
Blogging as I do, I can be grumpy all day and no one will be the wiser. But if you're in a field that requires you to be pleasant to people all day long, you might consider the Smile…
Stainless Steel Pocket Map
Suck.uk presents this map of the London Tube that's credit card sized and made of stainless steel so you don't have to worry about spilling coffee on it if you're checking it during rush hour. It retails for £7.50….
Oooms Wooden Memory Sticks
Intended to be a little more on the natural side than the typical weirdzoid USB drives, the Oooms Wooden USB Sticks are all uniquely constructed from random pieces of pretty looking wood. €45 for 256 megs, €60 for 512…
MUS2 super-oversized pointer mouse
Reportedly having learned from Apple's hockey puck mouse, the MUS2 Mouse is a strangely shaped peripheral that nonetheless is statedly engineered to not lead to carpal tunnel: designed ergonomically for smooth handling and is a pleasure to use. Aside…
Play musical safes with the Zaporozhye
If music be the food of love, play on, seems to be the message of the Zaporozhye, the musical condom. There's a sensor in the base and some teeny-tiny speakers that play music "louder and faster" as the sex…
US Air Force prototypes a PHaSR
The Personnel Halting and Stimulating Response uh, device, about the size and weight of an M60, fires a pulse of light that temporarily blinds anybody in the beam. It seems to be a crowd-control device more than anything else,…
Actriod DER2 Fembot
Kokoro just brought out a brand-new robot, the Actroid DER2, who loves Hello Kitty and has improved movement patterns over the original Actroid DER. She's presently the guide-bot at the Sanrio headquarters in Tokyo. She has more accurate-looking limbs…
Danes teleport light into matter
As usual, the most cool technologies are still in the prototype stage, but one can't help mentioning that physicists in Denmark have teleported light into a cloud of atoms. In this case, the light is basically the data and…
