zibits mini r/c robots spin into town

February 14, 2010 by Eran Abramson · Leave a Comment 

Would you believe this cute little robot toy costs less than $10 bucks? Zibits are a new series of low-priced miniature robots that are perfect on your desktop or for your kids (or cats) to play with

sony shows off internal wireless circuits

February 13, 2010 by Tal Siach · Leave a Comment 

Sony recently showed off a prototype of a high-speed wireless technology which ships signals around between internal electronic components. Sony says they developed the wireless technology to overcome current costs and manufacturing complexities due to the sheer number of wires and circuit layers required to handle today’s complex circuits. The prototype circuit sends signals using radio waves in the 60GHz millimeter waveband (I think I saw them play at a local nightclub last night), and can transmit data at up to 11Gpbs over a distance of up to 14mm

killing mosquitoes with laser beams

February 13, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment 

Talk about overkill. This new technology can track down individual mosquitoes and take them out using a laser beam.

south koreans using sausage as iphone stylus

February 13, 2010 by technabob · Leave a Comment 

It’s no secret that the iPhone’s touchscreen is hard to use when one is wearing gloves. But what will iPhone owners do when it’s winter?

yogen hand-powered mobile device charger turns your hand into a socket

February 12, 2010 by Tal Siach · Leave a Comment 

Hand-powered chargers are nothing new, but Fame LLC claims that their product, YoGen , delivers as much power per second as the chargers for your mobile device. In other words, if it takes a couple of hours for your device to be fully charged via its power adapter, it will also take you two hours to fully charge your device using the YoGen. Watch Fame LLC Vice-President of Sales/Husband of CEO/Dentist Robert F.

praying mantis vs. mouse cursor

February 12, 2010 by technabob · Leave a Comment 

It took quite a while for the Master of the Mantis-style to realize that even the most powerful strikes won’t work on his seemingly defenseless enemy… …because his enemy wasn’t real. Whoa

apple ][ gets a brand new synthesizer

February 12, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment 

I still remember my first Apple computer. It was an Apple ] with a whopping 16k of RAM and it didn’t even have a floppy drive. So the sounds that come to mind when I think of my old [ are the squeals of program data loading from cassette tape

animestudio lets you shoot your own animations: no computer required

February 11, 2010 by Tal Siach · Leave a Comment 

I finally got a chance to see Coraline a few weeks back, and was completely blown away by the incredible things that could be done with miniature models and stop-motion animation.

nasa’s new robonaut 2 looks like daft punk made it

February 11, 2010 by Tal Siach · Leave a Comment 

This awesome looking robot isn’t made in Japan, nope! It’s made in the good old US of A by GM for NASA (fun with acronyms!) Of course it makes perfect sense to send robots into space. And would you believe it? It’s called the Robonaut

pong anti-radiation cellphone case: proven to protect users from something that may or may not be harmful

February 10, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment 

I’m finding it hard to take Pong Research seriously because, well, “Pong Research”. I didn’t think I’d ever see those two words combine to stand for something serious. Yet here it is, so let’s get on with it

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