Automower: The incredible lawn-mowing robot

Since summer is quickly approaching, and since we northerners haven’t seen anything green for the past five months, I thought a post reminding us of warmer temperatures would be appreciated. A Swedish-based corporation named Husqvarna just released what many will consider the perfect lawnmower. Not only does it mow your lawn without any human intervention, […]



Minority Report-like interface presented at CeBIT 2008

The following video shows a new Minority Report-like multi-touch interface that was presented last week at CeBIT 2008. Yeah, we know, this is not the first multi-touch video we’ve posted on [GAS], but since we think the technology is so exciting, we can’t help ourselves! Original Minority Report multi-touch interface

MP3 Players: 10 Years of Digital Music

This month, exactly 10 years ago, the father of all MP3 players, the MPMan F10, was released. Initially presented at the 1998 CeBIT exposition, the MPMan F10 featured 32 MB of memory, which could stock around eight songs, and a tiny LCD screen. The gadget’s starting price was set at $250, and for an additional […]



Want to play God? Hold the Milky Way in the palm of your hand

I don’t usually fall for useless desktop accessories, but when I saw this 3D Living World model of the Milky Way, my brain started trying to convince me that I couldn’t live without one. Each 12 X 12 cm glass cube is created using real space data collected from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory and holds […]

Geek Support : Using your Blackberry as a voice dictation machine

By Mark O’Neill Serge Nicaudie asks : I have a Blackberry and one thing I would love is the ability to speak into it and it would write an email for me. Like a dictation machine. I also want to use it for quick notes to remind myself about stuff. Can you see if there […]

AIR + AOL = One nice little desktop music widget

By Mark O’Neill I am normally rather wary of anything coming from AOL, but I have to admit that their free little music desktop widget, which runs on Adobe AIR, has impressed the hell out of me. It’s a nice little program to have running while you’re surfing away on the net. If you download […]

Silver TAG $100,000 Shower will wipe your butt clean in no time

If you think that your “working-class” shower isn’t quite as effective as you’d like it to be, then you’ll want to have a look at the $100,000 Silver TAG Shower. This baby comes equipped with 18 computer-controlled showerheads, including one that looks to be specially made to clean dirty derrières, and features six zones, which […]

Magnetic Levitation Haptic Control Technology

Researchers at Carnegie mellon University’s Robotics Institute are currently developing a magnetic levitation system that they claim provides the most realistic sense of touch yet to be seen on similar devices. Possible applications include microsurgery, computer-augmented design, robot control, and even data visualization. Haptics is the study of touching, and haptic technology refers to that […]