Jan 23
Gotta catch ’em all… before they catch up to YOU! These new Yakuza action figures bring the gritty intensity, tattooed imagery and distinctive fashion sense of Japan’s criminal underworld to every collector’s display shelf.
Jan 22
Need This New Innovation: The Revolving Cradle, A Drop Box For Unwanted Infants
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The baby drop box, revolving cradle, baby hatch, or stork’s cradle is actually something that had been around in one form or another for many centuries. They were very popular during the Middle Ages and the 18th and 19th centuries when they were called foundling wheels. The custom has been coming back in the past few years and bringing with it controversy over making it "too easy" for women to abandon their children.
Jan 22
Unveiled at the Spring 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Withings Aura Smart Sleep System has all the indications of a gadget that might actually help consumers. The Smart Sleep System monitors your sleep experience and actively works to improve it using light and sound.
Jan 21
Geothermal heat pumps are a cost- and energy-efficient way to stay warm during the long, cold months of winter. They have been around since the late 1940s, but as the technology gets better and the prices continue to fall, they have recently become more popular for home use. Today, about 80,000 geothermal heat pumps are installed per year in the United States. Here’s how geothermal heat pumps work — and how you can get one for your home.
Jan 20
One of the biggest driving forces in robotics innovation is the manufacturing industry. See, the machinery used to construct cars could easily tear a human apart of miscalibrated. The latest development comes from the Georgia Institute of Technology: a control system developed using the human arm.
Jan 20
As of January first the state of Colorado is either going to pot or up in smoke. Maybe both! The state had already made history by becoming one of the first two states to legalize the medical use of medical marijuana. As of the New Year the state became the first to legalize the drug for recreational use. Within days the marijuana dispensaries faced shortages and sold out. It may be time for a new distribution system for this hot (or pot) commodity — vending machines.
Jan 17
…. You can go to your credit card issuer and ask to have your debit and
credit cards re-issued without an RFID chip or you can protect your
cards, all of them, by buying a secure wallet or credit card case to
protect the cards from e-thiefs. I don’t often carry my money and my
credit cards in the same case, so I ordered a well-reviewed wallet and a
few credit card security cases to try them out. Here’s what I like…
Jan 17
Today at Steam Developer Days, Valve reportedly unleashed a ‘holodeck-level’ virtual reality demo on attendees. The bad news is that this demo won’t be made available to the general public. Instead, Valve will be providing the tech to Oculus, with whom the studio collaborate on future VR hardware.
Jan 16
It seems like practically everything has Bluetooth capabilities these
days, but there is one place the technology hasn’t hit yet- your mouth.
That is, until now. Get ready; coming soon to a mouth near you is the
Kolibree Bluetooth Toothbrush.
Jan 15
As Valve’s Steam Developer Days conference kicks into full gear in Seattle, the studio began sending out the first invites for Steam’s in-home streaming beta. Pretty soon, Steam gamers will be able to play games in their library on other systems, even if said games aren’t installed.
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