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This cool-looking door has infrared sensors on each of its slats. With them, the door detects the shape of the person or object passing through, and opens up to a neat approximate shape of it. Other than just looking plain cool, it helps minimize loss of air-conditioning and even entry of dust.
Continue reading...29. September 2006
Yes, three-holy-terabytes (3,000-gigabytes) of data on an optical disc the size of our regular CD-R might just be possible soon! Harvard researchers have developed an “optical nano antenna” which helps focus light from an inexpensive laser onto a spot size of 40-nanometers. To put things into perspective: CDs use lasers with a wavelength of 780-nanometers, DVDs [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2006
The Snore Stopper is a wristwatch that claims to put an end to your snoring woes. It works by having a sensitive microphone that detects snoring. Upon detecting snores, the Snore Stopper zaps the wrist of the wearer. The zaps are harmless and are not strong enough to disrupt sleep. But it does cause the wearer [...]
Continue reading...21. August 2006
Similar to the illuminated bar counter that was featured some time ago, the DeLighTable is a small table that interacts to touches with fancy lighting effects. But instead of projectors and sophisticated tracking systems, the DelighTable is a little simpler. Its surface is opaque liquid sandwiched between a transparent plastic film and the light sources. Hence [...]
Continue reading...20. August 2006
If you remember yourself when you were a kid, I’m sure you’ll recall how you seem to be stuck to the television whenever your favorite cartoon is screening. And how difficult was it for your mum to pull you away from it and onto the dinner table. It is a known fact that every kid [...]
Continue reading...2. August 2006
Hell has frozen over! A survey commissioned by U.S. cable television’s Oxygen Network has shown that 77 percent of the 1,400 women surveyed actually prefer a new plasma television to a diamond necklace. “People make the assumption that women are not as advanced as men when it comes to technology and I was surprised at the [...]
Continue reading...1. August 2006
Isn’t it interesting to know that there is actually a worryingly number of people who doesn’t know how to boil an egg? According to the British Egg Information Service, tons of Britons are in fact clueless as to how to boil an egg. And so, a special kind of egg was created. It is a self-timing [...]
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...16. July 2006
Here’s an interesting toy called the Room Defender. Loaded with up to 16 foam disks, the Room Defender can be set to automatically sense motion and fire the disks at unsuspecting intruders. It comes with four security settings - Target, Ambush, Warning and Assault. There’s even a remote control included to put things into your own [...]
Continue reading...4. July 2006
If computer LED fans aren’t enough to show-off your geekiness to your friends and family, I’m sure this fan will. The illuminating LED desktop fan sports multiple LEDs that glows and creates different lighting patterns, making the geek in you feel real great everytime you stare at it. Costs just Â¥3,800 (~US$33) from rakuten.co.jp.
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