Archive for the ‘New Gadgets’ Category
31st October 2008
After Microsoft Surface, the computer technology Co. takes a leap forward in the touch-sensitive table technology, introducing the Secondlight. Microsoft Secondlight projects images through the table itself – for which we have a video presentation to depict. The used dual technology identifies what is touched to the interface on the other hand and also projects that what you are working on simultaneously. This may not sound to convincing to you, and it hasn’t it to us as well – we are still trying to figure out what this concept intends to do and what are the applications that this touchscreen wonder can be used for. We will take it as that for the while we have updates on its utility. However, one thing is sure, Microsoft Secondlight will give surface touch interface technology a new direction.
Via: Slashdot
31st October 2008
The craze for Lego Bricks is just immortal. Lego is one thing that lures us back every time, we may avoid it for a while, but these professionals churn out the newest of things, prompting us to go head over heels for their exquisite makes. This conceptual security bracelet for kids, a project led by Rodrigo Torres, is the hottest Lego creation that we could get about in a period. The bracelet is a perfect device for parents to keep track of their child’s whereabouts.
What’s innovative:
If you and your child are wanderers, you will need something to stalk your kid’s movement, which the security bracelet intends to do. If keeping him attached with the other security gadgets on the market gets difficult coz of their monotonous makes and gadgetry, the Lego makeover of this will keep the security device as a playful toy to him. The Lego crafted security bracelet also houses a number of media attributes to keep the child wanting to have this gadget on his wrist more badly with each passing day’s routine.
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31st October 2008
Humans are passing their sense and ability to machines – making robots wiser with each passing day. If robots are made to reach places where humans cannot, the day wouldn’t be a bad call anyway. With life-like possibilities found on the Red Planet, scientists and robotic engineers have been making swarms of ant-sized micro-bots that could be sent as the first inhabitants of Mars. While we wait the day, the wise minds at I-SWARM project are slogging to develop tiny autonomous bots with the knack to work together and collectively perform tasks. I-SWARM and Jasmine are two robots built by the project – the former are 3mm robots with 2KB RAM powered by solar cell mounted batteries, moving with vibration, while the latter roll around on wheels powered by batteries.
What’s innovative:
The ant-sized robots being built under the European I-SWARM project can also join together, like transformer robots, along with their colonizing and collective chore performing traits. If the robots are to be sent onto the Red Planet, in process to unravel the hidden, the bots will require precise judgment to perform tasks at split seconds and with utmost diligence. For which the researchers are emphasizing on the best possible plans to solve the problems of the complex machines.
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31st October 2008
Today technology speaks of OLED screens which intend to power themselves. And the result is new and better information each passing day. Then we find excuses to claim that technology hasn’t really reached beyond the obvious. Perhaps Samsung’s Flapping display – the latest exhibit from the maker at FPD International 2008 – is a display to challenge your thought outright. Flapping OLED Panel is a 4-inch screen measuring only 0.05mm in thickness yet boasting of a contrast ratio of 100,000:1 with 480×272 pixel resolutions.
Price and Availability:
There isn’t a word on price or availability yet, but this thinly amazing panel at display made out of flexible OLED in place of the normal glass substrate, housing a drive circuit made in low-temperature polysilicon TFTs, gives the screen the desired flexibility to lurch around with the breeze.
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31st October 2008
Times come when liberal minds need vision. Creativity flows, but ideas don’t reflect it. In the modern day, where maneuvers in the electronic world are targeted towards consumers, we feel the other sections need thought too. Emphasizing on the same, Rob Tannen and his team at the Bressler Group have designed FieldCREW, a concept tablet, directed toward researchers accumulating product design feedback. The researchers spend hours in research, a product that can provide them just all in itself, is what the FieldCREW intends to do. Bringing together some technologies of tomorrow, FieldCREW could be the perfect concept that if put to reality may show an easier life to researchers.
What’s Innovative:
Doomed for observation of user’s interaction, the tablet concept features remote controlled tracking cameras. The tablet also comes with wireless connectivity, for recording and speech-to-text transcription, subvocalization to silently record notes and observations along with A/V incoming feedback verification. FieldCREW has a compartment embedded wherein the wireless camera and tagging units are stored. Everything recorded would be automatically synchronized on a timeline, for ease of review and reporting.
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