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Combating handshake is one of the greatest challenges in low-light photography. With the introduction of Image Stabilization (IS) or similar technologies, things had gotten a bit easier. But not every camera gets the joy of having IS, such as mobile phones and Canon/Nikon DSLR with no IS/VR lenses. That’s where a team of computer scientists [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 1, 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...Sunday, July 30, 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...Friday, July 28, 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...Thursday, July 27, 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...Wednesday, July 26, 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...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...Friday, July 21, 2006
Japan’s DoCoMo and Aquafairy have announced a recharger for cell phones that charges not with electricity but water! Called the polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC), the technology is a result of combining DoCoMo’s recharger technology with Aquafairy’s thin-film power unit technology and catalyst that could produce hydrogen from water. This compact recharger is less than 1/4 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Detecting light has always been the realm of lenses. Much like the retina in our eyes, lenses are limited by direction and field of view. But with the development of a new transparent light-detecting fiber by Professor Yoel Fink of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Research Lab of Electronics in MIT, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 18, 2006
This is perhaps my favorite invention for the month. Because this will be the stuff that’ll keep my smooth KilKenny cool while I lie in the sun, enjoying the beautiful sky, sea and the babes! Active Building Envelope (ABE) is the name of the project, developed by Steven Van Dessel and his fellow researchers at the [...]
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