Archive for July 2011
Woman Wants to Have Prosthetic Eye-Camera: the Fifteen Thousand Dollar Woman
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I’m sure some of you still remember Rob Spence and his Eyeborg project, which aims to develop a video camera that fits in a prosthetic eye, effectively substituting for the one Spence lost when he was a kid. Now, a woman named Tanya Marie Vlach wants the exact same thing… |
July 14th, 2011
Fleet Commander: the Best Star Wars Game to Never Exist
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…not officially anyway. Arthur Nishimoto, a graduate student at the University of Illinois’ Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), is currently working on a touch-based real-time strategy game based on the Star Wars… universe. The rest of us will probably never be able to play it though, mostly because it’s for research, |
July 14th, 2011
Protect Your Hard Drive Secrets With a Simple Sticker
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While I don’t think that hackers need any info on how to destroy their data in case of an FBI raid, other people might need a helping hand. Here’s the easiest way to destroy your hard drive, in case of an emergency. FYI, you’d best keep a drill handy.… |
July 14th, 2011
Rollei’s Bullet HD Action Camera Shoots Pictures, Not People
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Rollei’s Bullet HD Action Camera sort of reminds me of that 1938 revolver that shot a picture when you pulled the trigger. I wouldn’t want to be the person who’s picture was being taken with that thing, since, you know, it would probably be my last and all. |
July 14th, 2011
Jawbone Up Wellness Wristband Knows if You’ve Been Sleeping, and Knows When You’re Awaks
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Up is a new health and wellness gadget from Jawbone, which uses hardware and software to track your eating and sleeping habits, as well as your movements. It’s the same size as those rubber straps that people wear, and it contains enough sensors to track all of the relevant info.… |
July 14th, 2011
Concrete Building Blocks Look Like LEGOs
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I see all sorts of cool projects that geeks come up with where they use LEGO as the medium to build. Even though it comes in a kit, the LEGO Imperial Shuttle is one of my favorites. It’s rare to see an art project where the LEGO bricks themselves are… |
July 13th, 2011
Docs Successfully Transplant Synthetic Trachea Made with Patient’s Stem Cells
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Unless you have good reason to know what a trachea is, it might be new word for you. The trachea is the part of the human body most often referred to as the windpipe. A 36-year-old man has become the first person to successfully have a trachea transplant using a… |
July 13th, 2011
Giant R2-D2 Proves You Can Make Anything with Cardboard and Duct Tape
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One of my all time favorite characters in the Star Wars flicks is R2-D2. I always thought that R2 was the coolest droid in the universe because he was one of the smallest, didn’t have any real weapons to speak of, but he would throw down if he had to.… |
July 13th, 2011
Computer Mice Grow Tails With Elecom’s Oppopet Mouse
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It’s not every day that you chance upon a mouse with a tail. I’m not talking about that huge, mangy thing running around in the darkest corners of your attic though. Rather, I’m talking about none other than that little clicker that you’ve got beside your keyboard or laptop.… |
July 13th, 2011
FitBot Shape-Shifting Mannequins: These are the Droids that You Look Like
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A company called Fits.Me has invented robotic mannequins that can emulate thousands of different body types. The – wait, eager commenter. Before you launch into an immaculately-spelled, benevolent and profanity-free tirade deriding the laziness of man, let me assure you: Fits.Me knows that it’s easier to put the clothes on… |
July 13th, 2011
