By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Watch out, Power Glove: There’s a new sensor-based item on the market, and this one has the potential to change lives. A team of computer engineering students at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a glove that can convert hand movements into spoken words. The idea is to give deaf […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] It’s no secret cell service isn’t cheap. What you may not know, though, is how many cool tools are out there just waiting to make your life easier. Most of them are free, and all of them will help you get more bang for your buck. So grab your […]
Despite the joke in the image above, it certainly seems that the web “hearts” Unicode. According to Mark Davis of Google, the use of Unicode on the web has recently surpassed both ASCII and Western European encodings, as shown by the blue line in the chart below: In case you can’t read it, the red […]
Festo Didactic, a company that is known for producing robotic masterpieces, has unveiled many cool robots in the past year. A few months ago they gave us the Air Ray, and now they’ve developed 2 new ones: The Aquajelly and the Airjelly. Both robots have been designed with the biologic structure of a jellyfish in […]
By Mark O’Neill Welcome to the latest new German product – a self-destructing DVD disk which will make return trips to the movie rental store a thing of the past. DVD-D Germany Ltd’s ‘Einmal‘ (German for ‘Once’) will shortly bring out a disk which will be useless 48 hours after it is unwrapped from the […]
By Patrick Biz Contributing Writer, [GAS] There are a number of reasons why HDTV and home theater gear are now mainstream: prices of Plasmas and LCDs screens have dropped considerably; personal video recorders (PVR) have kicked VCRs out of the living room; the offering of HD channels is growing rapidly; and Blu-Ray has officially buried […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Starting today, the GPS system has a new power: sensing high-crime areas and warning you before you make a potentially dangerous turn. Honda has just introduced its new SatNav system in Japan. International news agency AFP reports the system will use information provided by police to mark “crime hotspots,” […]
The folks at LM3Labs have developed an extremely cool interactive hologram system that can be controlled via hand gestures. Check it out in the following video. Looks a bit creepy doesn’t it?