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Yet another amazing invention by the Japanese. Susumu Suzuki, president of Tokyo-based building material maker Total System Conductor, has created a battery that gets its power from water. The electric current from this battery is as powerful as regular alkaline batteries, yet as much as ten times cheaper to produce. The battery is even recyclable for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Halloween costume? Nah, it’s a helmet made by Toshiba that claims to provide a 360-degree view in a 40cm (15.7in) dome-shaped display. But how are we going to enjoy the experience with this 3kg (6.6lbs) thing on our head? No thanks, Toshiba.
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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...Monday, September 18, 2006
Microsoft Zune is finally officially announced! Will it really become the iPod-killer that some have wished for? Well, let’s take a look at the features it offers. Wireless Zune-to-Zune file-sharing (the star feature!) 30GB of storage 3-inch display Built-in FM Music, video and photo playback Audio supported: MP3, AAC and WMA Video supported: h.264, MPEG-4, WMV Photo supported: JPEG 12 hours of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 16, 2006
Created by Russian scientist Viktor Gordeyev, the Power Boots is capable of propelling the wearer up to speeds of 25mph, with each step up to a distance of 13 feet! The boots use bio-fuels such as bio-diesel, vegetable oil, SVO and waste vegetable oil (WVO) to produce the propelling power whenever the user steps down [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 14, 2006
Chinese company First Auto Works has wowed everyone with its latest Hongqi HQ3 self-driving car! The luxury sedan features two onboard cameras that detects the car’s surroundings and feed it to a computer, which analyzes the situation for safe steering. The company claims that the vehicle is able to recognize turnoffs, street crossings, and stay [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 1, 2006
Just a couple of weeks ago, we reported on the handshake-eliminating algorithm invented by the smart people from MIT. Very promising piece of software that can help minimize the effects of handshakes even after the fact. But what it doesn’t do is eliminating blur caused by motion. This is where Mitsubishi’s new flutter [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 31, 2006
Who said 3G phones have to be all bulky? Samsung sets the record straight with its new Ultra Edition 8.4, also known as the Z370. The slim candybar phone is 8.4mm thin, weighs just 71g, features a 1.93-inch TFT display and dual cameras (a 2-megapixel and a VGA). It takes in microSD cards for data [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Gadgets harnessing E-ink technology is nothing new. But a prototype e-book reader with flexible e-paper screen sure is. The Philips READUS prototype shown in the video above features a 5-inch 320×240 e-paper screen that can be kept rolled up when not in use. A simple pull unrolls the battery-saving screen, which uses power only when [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Everyday, advancement in technology is slowly replacing the need for humans themselves to perform tasks. People that used to station at carpark entrances are now replaced by machines. And heaven forbid, robots performing unassisted heart surgery. The latest invention that is also replacing a human’s task is the Virtuoso. It is an amazing violin that is [...]
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