Earlier today, Intel was presenting many of its R&D projects in San Francisco, and a few of them caught my attention. For example, this demo by Paul Crawford, a senior research scientist at Intel Labs, was particularly interesting. One of […]
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For the beginning (or even experienced) cyclist, making your own bike repairs can seem like a daunting task. Most bike repair guides you’ll find around the ol’ internet can be complicated labyrinths of instruction that end up doing more harm than good. But taking your wheels to a pro can come with a major price tag. Bike Doctor wants to give you the knowledge you need to save a trip to the shop—but in an easy, digestible form that’s useful to all walks of the bicycle world.
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They may not be anything new to the Android faithful, but Google’s today brought a few notable additions to the iOS version of Currents. First, the software now sorts audio playlists for any listening content that you fancy alongside the existing playback features. Version 2.1 of the app also displays articles in a vertical-scrolling format and allows for pinch-to-zoom on pictures should the need arise. If your iPhone or iPad has yet to alert you to the update — or if you’re looking to nab the reader for the first time — you can snag the latest release via the source link that follows.
Source: iTunes
Apple promised us a software-rich WWDC this year, and the company delivered. While iOS 7 looks set to be the biggest change in the company’s mobile offering since the original iPhone, OS X Mavericks teased the latest refinements to Apple’s desktop platform. Not so flashy as iOS 7, perhaps, or as sweeping in its changes,
Samsung may have been busy this past week with the launches of the Galaxy S4 Active and Galaxy Note 8.0, but it hasn’t forgotten its duties to Android programmers. It just posted the kernel source code for both the AT&T variant of the GS4 Active (the SGH-i537) as well as the LTE-equipped Note 8.0 in its American and Canadian forms (SGH-i467 and i467M). As with past releases, the source material gives developers a better understanding of the hardware; it also gives tinkerers an easier time when modifying the firmware or creating fully functional custom ROMs. Whichever camp you’re in, the kernel code awaits at the links below.
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Via: Android Police
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Tony Stark used exotic composites, metal alloys, and other Hollywood-only make-believe materials to build his armor-plated Iron Man suit. But researchers at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute, constrained by the limitations of reality, took a different approach with a muscle-enhancing exoskeleton that could one day be as comfy to wear as your favorite pair of jeans.
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In order to ensure that human beings stay relevant in the context of a rapidly digitised and automated society, our creativity should be used and stimulated by enhancing interactions and experiences with new technology. Across Asia many corporations, start ups, R&D institutes, and universities are finding ways to apply human-centric designs in the production of technological tools that can be useful for our everyday lives. This is part one of a series focussing innovation incubators in Asia, showcasing the Real Projects in development by students at Keio Media Design.
Food Media creates new ways of cooking and eating, by applying media design techniques to non-traditional mediums, such as molecular gastronomy, food styling and photography, fusion food and collaborative cooking. Both the cooking and eating process becomes like playing a game whilst at the same time consuming information about what is being prepared and eaten. This could serve as a great tool for educating children and adults about nutrition, and possibly contribute to healthier lifestyles.
Fashion Media seeks to simultate our senses by experimenting with clothing and accessories that emit light, sound, smell and reponsive touch in order to enhance our human communication experiences. Imagine if your boss wore glasses that emitted red glows when they were angry, or you had a way to emit perfume suddenly on a date, or if you trousers spoke to you when they are getting too tight. This project offers great potential to designers and researchers to incorporate such technology into the future fashion collections.
Reality Media aims to generate a more comfortable and enjoyable ‘reality’ through the stimulation of sensory organs and perception. Augmented reality in the case of being able to see the view from outside of your projected inside your car when backing up could potentially be much safer and more reliable than mirrors and small camera views. Avatar robots that can be used to perform repairs or even medical surgery in far off or inaccessible locations offer huge potential for both healthcare and energy industries. Imagine a specialised doctor living in Tokyo who is able to perform a unique surgery on a patient in Hawaii, or an engineer that can perform repairs on a nuclear plant whilst sitting several miles away.
Keio Media Design (KMD) is a Graduate School of Keio University (Tokyo, Japan) that offers students the chance to combine research in the four areas of creativity; design, technology, management and policy whilst engaging in these intensive ‘Real Projects‘ with their peers. KMD works closely with industry professionals, partner institutions worldwide, and has two satellite campuses in Osaka and Singapore. Keio Media Design is already becoming the launching pad for new technology and products that can generate enterprising start ups or contribute to large corporations across Asia and the globe. Driving innovation and creative approaches to technology is the key to ensuring future economic growth in Japan and across the globe.
Pakistani-American artist Mahwish Chishty was originally trained in painting miniatures in her native Lahore. But these days, Chishty is also emerging as a notable conceptual artist abroad, treading the potent line between Pakistani and American culture. Yesterday, in an interview with Mother Jones, Chishty discussed her paintings of American drones—which she covers in traditional Pakistani ornamentation.
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I do a fair bit of drawing and reading, two activities that generally require good lighting. Thus, you’ll find more than a few extra lamps in the various rooms of my house. This is because standard overhead lights either don’t cut it, or provide more light than I need, depending on the situation. My favorite kind of lamp is one attached to an adjustable arm. This is because I can quickly and easily reposition it without much effort. Wouldn’t it be great if larger lamps were this easy to adjust? Well now you can buy one that is.
The Anglepoise Giant1227 Classic Range may look like your average desk lamp, however, it is anything but. In fact, it can’t actually sit on your desk at all(unless you have the desk of a giant, that is). Instead, its shape mimics one that you might see sitting in an office. It uses a set of aluminum bars and springs to keep the beam of light just where you need it.
So how large is this lamp? It is roughly three times the size of its smaller brother. It stands a little over 6.5” tall, and even the lamp shade is about a foot and a half across. For lighting, it comes equipped with a 100 watt halogen reflector bulb, though it can be replaced with any standard bulb. Unlike most similar desk lamps, you’ll find a dimmer, so you can get the lighting just the way you want it.
Now I bet you’re wondering just how much this interesting lamp will set you back. Unfortunately it is priced like an art piece, rather than a simple piece of home décor. You’ll be looking at around $3,500 to get one for yourself. If you do feel like picking one up, you’ll be able to choose from white, black, grey, or red.
Source: GeekAlerts
[ Giant1227 isn’t your ordinary desk lamp copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
In less than 24 hours, Microsoft will be making Windows 8.1 available for download for all those users out there in the wild that work now with a full version of Windows 8. This release is being tipped as being a bit of a veil for a much larger shake-up to the Microsoft desktop and
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