Tag: Robots
MagicTouch USB Touchscreen Kit
Touchscreens are awesome, but historically very expensive, so the MagicTouch USB Touchscreen Kit is plenty exciting. Allowing you to convert your conventional screen to a touchscreen at about the same price as the screen itself ($160 for a 12"-14"…
Nokia Coffin tops geek death wishes
Some people want to be buried with their mobiles, but how about being buried in a mobile? The Ga carpenters of Ghana can carve coffins (or smaller chests) in any shape that you want including Ferraris, shoes, beer bottles,…
Sanki and Okamura Entryway gives wind showers to pedestrians
Dust, pollen, and volatile organic chemicals pose serious health hazards, especially in modern sealed office buildings. To address this, Okamura Corp. and Sanki Engineering have developed a new kind of wind tunnel, which basically sucks (or blows, as you…
USB Roll Up Drum Kit
The USB Roll Up Drum Kit rollup drum kit has six different pad areas which can have preselected sounds programmed to them. The enclosed software helps teach you how to play then later you can record your own songs….
Silicon chip mimics brain cells
“A repairman doesn’t need to understand music to fix your broken CD player," says Ted Berger. He and Vijay Srinivasan are working at USC’s Center for Neural Engineering to develop silicon chips that'll fix everything from momentarily memory lapses…
Ear Light solves the book-light problem, Borg-style
The problem of reading in bed while your partner sleeps probably won't be solved properly until virtual reality allows us to pretend we're actually lying in bed reading alone (which is one of the saddest uses of VR I've…
Put your DNA on the page with Ko-Sin Printing
The ultimate in vanity press: Tokyo-based Ko-sin Printing has developed a printing process that blends DNA with the ink used for printing. Ko-sin has already put the technology to use in some self-published autobiographies whose title pages are printed…
New dissolving plastic sutures made from E. coli
Normally E. coli is the last thing you want threaded through your colon, but now that super-strong, slow-dissolving sutures are made out of the bacteria, you should ask for it by name. Made from genetically engineered organisms, the resultant…
Butterfly cell phone – designed by a 15 year old
I made my first documentary when I was 13, so I'm not entirely shocked by the idea that the Butterfly mobile phone concept was designed by a 15 year old – and looks better and has more sensible design…
Publish your digital photos with Booksmart from Blurb
Though Apple's offerings for publishing your own photo books are slick and pretty, how do I put this, I first heard the phrase "Apple Luxury Tax" from someone who works at the place. Blurb's Booksmart is a more affordable…