Experience the softer side of Tony Stark with this awesome Iron Man amigurumi. He is completely adorable and also nicely detailed. As you can see in the picture, Iron Man’s mask even flips up. As a bonus the helmet also comes off completely, revealing Tony’s head and he even has facial hair. Hug him, squeeze him, cuddle with him in bed. It’s all good. No one will know what a softy you are.
He’s the cutest Avenger. It must have taken a lot of time and effort to get all of that detail. In the end he turned out perfect. I wish I had one to put on the shelf and admire for myself.
Toyota may have sold 5m hybrids worldwide since the launch of the original Prius in 1997, but the company’s next goal is a lot more localized: 5m hybrid sales in the US by 2016. Speaking at the company’s Hybrid World Tour, senior vice president of automotive operations Bob Carter threw down the gauntlet to not […]
ASUS introduced an updated Transformer Pad Infinity this past June which would come with a 2560 x 1600 display and a 1.9GHz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor. The new Transformer Pad Infinity has been left out of the limelight ever since it was introduced, but it looks like a new ASUS tablet has just shown up at the FCC that leads us to believe this is the company’s recently announced tablet. (more…)
Apple is always out to file a patent on just about any technology its engineers can dream up whether or not it intends to actually put that technology into a product. A new patent application has turned up that was published by Apple recently showing a way to turn a device like the iPhone into […]
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt design museum in New York just acquired the source code to an iPad app called Planetary from its now-defunct developer. Code is officially art now.
Remember SMI’s Eye Tracking Glasses? They use a pair of small cameras on the rim to follow your gaze, allowing corporate and academic types to to see exactly what consumers and other subjects are focused on. Now the German company has launched Eye Tracking Glasses 2.0, an update that brings a slimmer design, instant setup, 60Hz eye-tracking performance and a smartphone-based recorder — currently a customized Samsung Galaxy S4. Along with a bit less dorky look, the new electronics allow for much smoother tracking and shorter gaze time perception, according to SMI. There’s no word on pricing or availability for businesses, but there is a rather dry video after the break.
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s unveiling of their new line of Latitude laptops, Dell is now unveiling a line of touchscreen monitors that will let you reach out and… well, touch your monitor in ways that would probably be illegal in most countries. (more…)
Melbourne IT, an Australian domain name registration, just got hijacked, apparently by the very busy Syrian Electronic Army. This shouldn’t be a surprise since it’s the same company that was implicated in Tuesday’s New York Times and Twitter hacks.
If you’re a gamer that has been around for more than a few years, chances are you have played Madden NFL at one point or another. Madden NFL has been the predominant NFL football game for the last 25 years. To celebrate the franchise’s 25th anniversary EA has announced the launch of Madden NFL 25. […]
Researchers at the University of Washington, Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco, have created a remote, non-invasive brain-to-brain interface that allowed Rao to move Stocco’s finger remotely on a keyboard using his thoughts.
“The Internet was a way to connect computers, and now it can be a way to connect brains,” Stocco said in a release. “We want to take the knowledge of a brain and transmit it directly from brain to brain.”
Rao has been working on these interfaces for a decade and brain-to-brain control has been achieved in mice using invasive techniques. This is the first time the process has been used on humans and requires a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil to be placed on the head of the subject. The user in control can then send a signal by reacting to something on a screen or in the room. A electroencephalography machine picks up the brain waves and transmits them to the subject who, in turn, mimics the motion of the controller.
Thus far the team has been able to demonstrate how to play a simple video game remotely. The controller plays in the game in one room in the lab and the sensors pick up his hand motions. The signal to initiate these motions is sent to the subject and, in turn, the subject begins mimicking the actions of the controller using the same game interface, essentially playing the game remotely without seeing the screen.
This is not mind control. The subject cannot be controlled against his or her will and neither party can “read” each other’s thoughts. Think of this as sending a small shock controlled via the Internet to trigger a fairly involuntary motion.
The researchers are planning to expand this to more complex motions and try it on other subjects in the next round of testing.
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