What was once science fiction is becoming a reality faster than you
might have thought thanks to the work of internationally-supported
applied presence and applied cognitive neuroscience research. Just ask Tirosh Shapira who recently, from a laboratory in Israel, commanded a humanoid robot
in a French laboratory to walk and pick up objects simply by imagining that he himself was walking and picking up objects.
When I read about the dissolvable electronic medical implants created by Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto of Tufts University and John A. Rogers at the University of Illinois, my first thought was what about dissolving all my old cell phones packed up in my garage? And, sure enough…
Most self-respecting geeks find a certain charm in art with order, symmetry and simplicity. If that’s the case for you, then you won’t be able to help but fall in love with Leonardo Ulian‘s beautiful geometric patterns made up of electronic components. More »
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior VP of worldwide marketing, may have wowed the faithful at the iPhone 5 keynote kickoff on September 12th but not all of the stats the suits were trumpeting stand up to scrutiny.
You gotta love the Russian company SKN for converting old Russian ammunitions
into diamonds, and didn’t you always want to know how many steps you’d
have to take to create the inevitable splash of coffee on your carpet?
But the SpeechJammer in 2012? A machine that delays speech and
makes one stutter is decades old, and it actually has the practical
application of helping stutterers speak without stuttering.
On the day the National Snow And Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced the
dreary news that the level of ice in the Arctic Sea is the lowest it has
been since such information was recorded, the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) presented some positive news regarding
its goal to reduce the global warming potential (GWP) of the
refrigerants used in our homes and cars.
Biomimicry is almost a byword of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Indeed, if any group has
discovered that ‘nature does it better,’ it’s DARPA, and you have to
admit the Agency is pretty adept at imitating it. Here, are two of
DARPA’s latest robotic tributes to nature’s designs: the Cheetah Bot and
the Pack Mule Bot.
Apple’s highly-anticipated iPhone 5 is finally here and what do China’s fanatical fanboys & gals get after their long wait? A longer iPhone… Really? Less than impressed with this critical post-Jobs product, China’s clever, creative and critical netizens have logged into China’s social media matrix to call Apple out.
It would appear that a handful of tablet manufacturers want to take a piece of Apple’s marketshare pie by tempting consumers with low-priced slabs. And, well, such is the case with small UK company Ergo Electronics. The Euro outfit recently introduced a trifecta of relatively economical GoTab GTi tablets; two of which come pre-loaded with Ice Cream Sandwich and one with Google’s 4.1 treat. For starters, the top-of-the-line, Jelly Bean-loaded GTi97 boasts a 9.7-inch, IPS display alongside a dual-core, 1.6GHz RK3066 CPU and 1GB of RAM. Meanwhile, the GTi8 (8-inch) and GTi7 (7-inch) are both designed to be “super portable and lightweight,” though the GTi8 packs a heavier punch thanks to a “high resolution” 160 ppi screen, same amount of RAM as its GTi97 cousin and a single-core, 1.2GHz CPU. Ergo Electronics is pricing these starting at £79 (around $128), with availability expected to be later this holiday season across the United Kingdom.
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Pick up your iPhone and measure your blood alcohol content instantly with the digital, no-batteries-required Alcohol Analyzer for Apple’s iPhone, iPad or iPod from Japan’s Spec-Computer.
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