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Sit tight if you operate bars or have a bar counter at home. This really cool piece of gadget called iBar consists of a video projector and an intelligent tracking system. It detects any object on or hovering above the tracking panel and illuminates the position with pretty patterns. For example, placing a wine glass on [...]
Continue reading...31. July 2006
It is so unlike Gizmodo to be writing posts specifically for babes. But both you and I are probably just as glad that they put in the great efforts to come up with a Top 10 Samsung Product Models list. Not wanting to pirate their hard work (but they probably enjoyed every single bit of it), [...]
Continue reading...30. July 2006
Sure, it isn’t practical. And the volume-changing dance that you gotta do even makes you a clown. But I guess we could call it innovative. I mean, who would have thought of spending hours to make an iPod controller, which you can’t use if it isn’t raining? Made by a student from University Karlsruhe, you can [...]
Continue reading...30. July 2006
I bet many of you out there can’t tell an under-ripe or an overripe fruit apart from the good ones. At least not as proficient as Mum. But help is here as Professor Mark Riley from University of Arizona has invented a sticker that changes in color to indicate the ripeness of the fruit. “Right now, [...]
Continue reading...28. July 2006
Dr. Claus-Dieter Ohl and his team of researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands has created a device that mimics the movement of sea scallops, which can be used to carry drugs to difficult-to-reach places of our bodies. What’s amazing is that the device needs no power and hence no wires. It also has [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2006
Dr. Jeff Sargent and his team of researchers over at BAE Systems’ Advanced Technology Centre in Bristol have developed a material that closely mimics a gecko’s feet. For those who don’t know, a gecko’s feet are covered in hairs so tiny that they stick with whatever they come in contact with. Not only is the [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2006
Remember the new Nikon DSLR that is expected to launch on August 9th? Looks like we found some real pictures of it, which seem to be leaked from their Nikon Europe website. The new model will be name Nikon D80, not the D90 (50, 70, 90, get the drift?) that some of you might have guessed. [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2006
Next time you lie about your age, remind yourself to check for suspicious carpet below your feet. Researchers over at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan has invented an intelligent carpet that is able to detect your weight, age and gender by simply having you stroll across it. “The carpet’s intelligence [...]
Continue reading...25. July 2006
Sick of handling all the cash notes whenever you play Monopoly? After all, they aren’t real money and the texture of the notes just doesn’t feel as good as the real thing. Well, good news because Hasbro has announced a new version of Monopoly called the “Monopoly Here and Now Electronic Banking” edition, which comes with [...]
Continue reading...24. July 2006
Virtual Reality is cool and all, but it never really took off. Because no matter how cool the cyber world is, if you start walking you’ll bump into a “real” wall soon enough. So Hiroo Iwata, Hiroshi Tomioka and Hiroaki Yano from the University of Tsukuba in central Japan had a smart idea. Why not make [...]
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31. July 2006
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