Hasta La Gadget!

Digital paper – does this particular term sound rather ironic to you? It does to us actually, although it is a kind of technology that we would more than welcome. Mention Sony and you would think of their Bravia TVs, the PlayStation consoles over the years, and of course, who can forget about the iconic portable music player line that kicked it all off – the Walkman? Having said that, Sony’s foray into the world of tablets has not exactly been an encouraging one to date where its track record is concerned, since their only major notable presence at this point in time would be the Sony Xperia Tablet Z. Well, perhaps they might be able to make larger strides than what they have already achieved with the aforementioned tablet if they were to incorporate some digital paper into future products. After all, Sony has successfully developed a 13.3” digital paper device, where the main aim would be to do away with paper educational materials and documents while helping improve learning effects and productivity among others.

Sony has every plan to propose new learning and working styles through the use of such a device, in addition to having it deliver, store, write and share electronic files over a network. As for the digital paper, Sony has made use of a 13.3” flexible electrophoretic display that relies on its own technology which will form TFTs on a plastic substrate with a high resolution (and that, our dear readers, would be the so-called electronic paper). This unique display can show up to 16 levels of grayscale and has a pixel count of 1,200 x 1,600.

Not only that, it is said that the thickness and mass of the digital paper are just 6.8mm if you do not take into consideration its pen holder and 358g, respectively. You can use it for up to three weeks on a single charge (and this is assuming that the Wi-Fi function is turned off, and PDF files are viewed for an hour each day), which will also include the use of the hand-writing function for five minutes per day. Anyone want to see Sony succeed?

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Captains log: “I’m currently in sick bay with another nasty paper cut. Bones says I’ll live, but… I… have… my… doubts…” If you’re a Star Trek fan who’s into papercraft, you will definitely want the new DIY Paper USS Enterprise 1701 over at ThinkGeek. This is exactly what it sounds like, a  papercraft kit that allows you to build your own version of the original Starship Enterprise.

The kit even includes electronics to add a flashing lights and to play the theme from the original series. Along with the paper model of the 1701 Enterprise is a book that chronicles the different versions of the enterprise in the Star Trek universe. The kit has 10 different sheets of punch out paper and step-by-step instructions to assemble the paper spaceship.

When the project is done, your paper Enterprise will be nearly a foot long. It appears that the only thing you need to add is some glue and your time.

Warp on over to ThinkGeek to grab your DIY Paper USS Enterprise Kit for $19.99(USD).

Creating something out of LEGOs is an art I personally can’t ever do as I don’t have that good of an imagination. But thanks to the Internet, we’ve seen people use LEGOs to build an X-Wing, a tiny mac and they’ve even been used in mobile accessories. All of those examples of LEGO use are all well and good, but if there’s something we need in our life immediately, it’s a LEGO machine that can fold and throw paper airplanes.

The LEGO machine featured in the video above was created by NXTLOG user hknssn13 which uses 2 NXT micro controller bricks, 5 servos, 10 DC motors, pneumatics, infrared, and additional sensors as well as very steady fingers to complete the machine. At the end of the video, we see the machine fling the plane, although we don’t see how well it does in flight. My guess is that it does exceptionally well and is probably good enough to prop a small LEGO person on top of it to give them a ride of their lives.

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Forget chocolates and flowers. Those tokens of your affection don’t last. What does last? A robot. Robots are forever. That is why they will be our eventual doom. Robobbie is an adorable robot paper puppet that you can give your significant other this Valentine’s Day.

These cute toys come from Etsy paper artist crankbunny. A special key card activates Robobbie’s heart when you insert it into Robobbie. Just insert the card and it’s eyes blink and light up in bright colors that tell the giftee that your circuits are overloading for them. It’s not just for Valentine’s Day either. You can get the key card in several options. Like for birthdays, a blank card, a star card etc.

This cute guy has many moving joints, LED lights and of course electrical parts. It measures 7 x10 inches. Give the gift of a robot this year for only $29.40(USD).

Hardcore beer drinkers who want to try every beer there is on the planet (or at least, a majority of them) will want to get their hands on a handy reference guide called Beertone. Its name is obviously a play on Pantone, which is behind one of the most widely used color matching systems used by many companies today.

Beertone folds out to provide colors of 202 different Swiss brews that were tested. The lightest beers start the guide, and it ends with the darkest ones. Each Beer will be presented with picture, description and of course its color information in RGB, CMYK, Web, and SRM (that’s the beer color scale).

The booze-guzzling guys behind the guide plan to expand their guide to feature beers from different parts of the world in the months and years to come.

Beertone is currently available for pre-order for $39(USD).

[via Laughing Squid]