Tag: gadgets
Sonaki Vitamin Massage Shower lets you C the day
The very snazzy-looking Sonaki Vitamin Massage Shower gives you a mega-dose of vitamin C as it makes you squeaky clean. Vitamin C reduces chlorine, which means your hair and skin will be less dry, chelates heavy metals, and makes…
South Korea drafts "Robot Ethics Charter"
"Imagine if some people treat androids as if the machines were their wives. Others may get addicted to interacting with them just as many Internet users get hooked to the cyberworld," said Park Hye-Young of the robot team at…
Make your iPod mini flash based
Don't toss that old iPod Mini! (Not that you were going to, anyhow, since you could at least stick it on a pin and wear it on your hat like a badge of honour.) The warranty's void anyhow, so…
Harnessing the Power of Sweaty People
It's only logical that where you've got people generating heat, someone's going to want them to generate light. In this case, that means a gym in Hong Kong has hooked up batteries to their exercise machines, so that the…
Radio Controlled Water Cannons
In the ongoing war of getting people wet, Frontgate has made a ballistic leap with the radio controlled water cannon. You can control the following moves – forward, backward or spin – on the device by using the simple…
Origami Robot Vs. CAD System Robot
Can an origami expert create a humanoid robot before a computer aided design system does? Mr. Torimoto Solidworks Robot Challenge has the result. Somewhat different from the Deep Blue chess playing situation in that origami theoretically involves more aesthetic…
Master Lock Street Cuffs
This is not the latest in S&M wear, ah, that I know of. (Actually, it probably is.) It's the latest in high tech bike lock gear. MasterLock has replaced that nasty chain you had to tie your scooter with,…
Black & Decker InfraWave Countertop Oven
What exactly is an infrawave? Infrawaves are short, high-frequency wavelengths poke the surface in a way that makes the surface get all taut and crispy instead of gummy and soggy like microwaves, and longer, lower-frequency wavelengths that whang on…
Luminetx VeinViewer makes your red blood green
I have this phobia of needles, which makes taking blood from me pretty much impossible. But now a company called Luminetx has invented the Vein Viewer which uses near infra red light locate the veins in the body. The…
Plen: Desktop Skating Robot
The Plen robot has 18 degrees of freedom and a 3 axis accelerometer, which it uses to skate around your desktop with surprising delicacy. It's also programmable via Bluetooth, sporting a 33 Mhz 32bit ARM7 processor and a USB/RS-232C…