October 2009
pocket light portable folding light bulb is a really bright idea
October 31, 2009 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Ryan Harc says that his Pocket Light concept will let us share #8220;the blissful moments with your beloved. Draw out a little light which can be the best conveyor of your feeling.#8221; Wink wink. I wish this was a real product; it#8217;s just so nice to look at. And practical. And so nice to look#8230;
robot plays rockband on the iphone, drowns music out with its squeaky fingers
October 31, 2009 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Why, or why not, that is the question. Wait what? Yeah that#8217;s right; Joe Bowers is a free man in a free land, so if he wants to build a robot that plays emRock Band/em on the iPhone, no one can stop him! Why the hell not Joe Bowers, why the hell not. Besides, building a#8230;
oled lighting about to make rooms a whole lot cooler
October 31, 2009 by technabob · Leave a Comment
As we look for more ways to generate energy-efficient light, we#8217;ve seen a gradual move away from the warm glow of incandescent light, to the ugly pinkish hues of CFL, to the strange blueish-white point-source light produced by LEDs. And frankly, none of those are nearly as cool as what awaits us in our futures#8230;
faceid: open locked doors with your face
October 30, 2009 by technabob · Leave a Comment
Imagine someday walking up to the front door of your home of office, and instead of whipping out your keys or RFID keycard, you stare into a facial recognition device that decides whether or not you#8217;re really you. While this sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, this technology is real, and available#8230;
nyko zoom case is coming to make your dsi less portable
October 30, 2009 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Sure, the Nintendo DSi is pretty nice (though apparently not big enough), but that camera just doesn#8217;t have enough emoomph/em for some people. You know the type: the folks who need giant thrusting accessories, be they useful or not. The Nyko Zoom Case is almost certainly useful#8230; unless you#8217;re concerned about that whole ease of portability#8230;
coke can spy cams: i’d like to teach the world to snoop
October 30, 2009 by technabob · Leave a Comment
As digital video cameras keep getting smaller and smaller, you never know where one might be hiding. Next time you walk into a room and there#8217;s a Coke can sitting on the table, you might want to check that it#8217;s not a spy cam.
These Coke can spy cams each have a tiny little video#8230;
robot riding shotgun: aida the in-car robot companion
October 30, 2009 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Developed by researchers at MIT#8217;s SENSEable City Lab in cooperation with Audi, AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent) is a drivers#8217; companion that offers useful information while interacting in a #8220;socially appropriate and informative way.#8221; AIDA will be mounted on a car#8217;s dashboard, where it#8217;s #8220;face#8221; will be visible to the driver.
As you can see#8230;
clearview: one software to fix them all
October 30, 2009 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Ah, software problems. We#8217;ve all experienced them in varying degrees #8211; sometimes it#8217;s just a stupid online video that won#8217;t load, and sometimes the operating system itself gives up. Now imagine a future where programs can still be compromised, or attacked, but will no longer crash or hang. A group of MIT researchers, led by#8230;
ropid jumps and runs and steals your heart
October 29, 2009 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Tomotaka Takahashi, creator of the high endurance EVOLTA robot, recently showed off his new robot, ROPID. The name is supposedly a combination of rapid and robot, so it was either ROPID or RABOT. The cute robot is about 15 inches tall and can jump about 3 inches high. It#8217;s twisting torso also makes it an#8230;
nintendo dsi ll officially revealed: bigger on the outside, still the same inside
October 29, 2009 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
The rumors were right #8211; Nintendo officially unveiled the DSi LL, which is basically a Nintendo DSi but with much larger 4.2-inch screens, a 93% increase over the 3.2-inch screens on the DSi. The DSi LL also has 2 pens, a relatively jumbo sized 5-inch pen and a smaller pen that#8217;s still slightly larger than#8230;
