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Intelligent Carpet That Knows Your Sex
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...Virtual Reality Roller Shoes
Monday, July 24, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Gauging Age With Cameras’ Red-Eye Effects
Friday, July 7, 2006
Unless you are some pro photographer, you’ve probably seen those dreadful red-eye effects in some of your pictures taken with flash. Because of the intensity of most camera flashes, any reflection off the retina of the subjects’ eyes shows up as red-eyes in the resulting picture. So what does it has to do with gauging a [...]
Continue reading...NBA Rolls Out New Official Basketball
Monday, July 3, 2006
For the basketball fans, a new official NBA ball will be rolled out the next 2006-2007 season. This marks the very first change of ball in over 35 years! Developed by Spalding and featuring the Spalding’s Cross Traxxionâ„¢ technology, it sports a new design and supposedly much better grip, feel and consistency. “The design is comprised of [...]
Continue reading...Computers Can Soon Transform 2D Images Into 3D
Friday, June 16, 2006
Creating 3D animations from regular 2D images has long been thought impossible by researchers since three decades ago. Describing the geometry of objects to a computer was no easy task back then. Even research computers are so much slower than our current home computers. But the time is different now. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has [...]
Continue reading...PC That Fits In Your Wall Power Sockets
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
I bet most of us would rather have a desktop powerhouse than this mediocre-performance Jack PC that plugs right into our standard wall power sockets. Still cool nonetheless, as it requires merely 5-watts to power itself up, and can be powered by ethernet alone. And its main purpose isn’t for you to blast through your [...]
Continue reading...Strap-On Jet Pack Flying Wings
Friday, June 2, 2006
This funky-looking Gryphon Single Man Flying Wing is a 1.5m-span delta wing that is able to carry a single parachutist as far as 200km (110 miles) away if jumped from a height of 4,000m (13,000ft). The 30kg wing carries around 2-liters of jet fuel, oxygen equipments and thermal clothing. When it gets close to its destination [...]
Continue reading...Honda Develops Mind-Controlled Robot Interface
Thursday, May 25, 2006
World-renowned Japanese automaker Honda has announced their recent achievement in developing a thought-controlled interface for robots. Using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, Honda succeeded in making a robotic hand mimic the movements of a demonstrator’s hand, by reading the brain patterns from the MRI machine. The robotic hand was able to accurately make a fist, [...]
Continue reading...Samsung Q30-SSD Notebook with 32GB Flash HDD to Launch in June
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
It was only two months ago that Samsung made an announcement about the 32GB flash memory powered notebook that they are working on. And today, Samsung has told the world that they’re now ready to ship them in June! This is great news, because flash memories, a.k.a solid-state disks (SSD), have so many advantages over traditional [...]
Continue reading...Turn Your MacBook Into MacSaber
Monday, May 22, 2006
Got yourself a spanking new MacBook that comes equipped with a Sudden Motion Sensor? Put it into “good” use with MacSaber, a Mac application that creates realistic lightsaber sound effects in concert with the notebook’s movement speed and acceleration. Now, if they could make the display or even MacBook Pro’s keypad (keyboard backlight effects was added [...]
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
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