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E-Skin Could Mean Robots are Able to ‘Feel’
Scientists at UC Berkeley have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic ‘skin’ which they hope will be used to restore the sense of touch to patients with prosthetic limbs. E-skin is made from semiconductor silicon nanowires, over 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, that could potentially also be used to make an artificial skin for robots,…
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Charge Your Cellphone as You Chat
What better to power your cellphone than your very own chatter? Research by scientists in Korea has revealed that this may be possible in the future. They have identified the potential of the main ingredient in calamine lotion – that horrible pink cream your mom smeared on your sunburnt back when you were a child…
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Looxcie Looks Like an Earpiece, Doubles up as a Camcorder
Hot on the heels of the news that Youtube is exploring the possibility of live streaming, comes the launch of a wearable camcorder, by Artiman Ventures. Looxcie is a mini camcorder that look-sie like-sie an audio earpiece. It fits over your ear, allowing you to video short clips and immediately share and post them on…
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Glass Speakers Look Like Glaciers, Light up Like the Northern Lights
It is common sense to say that loud noises and glass do not go together, so these glass speakers from Greensound Technology are either mad, or very brave. They are designed to look like flat, glass towers, and whilst the Serac is somewhat like a towering glacier, the Floe has a slightly softer curve. The…
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Motorola Defy Advertising Norms By Launching Handset on Oprah Winfrey Show
If you want to ensure the largest amount of publicity for yourself or your product, get yourself on Oprah. That is exactly what Motorola has done with their new handset, Defy. I dread to think how much Motorola had to cough up to get their new phone endorsed by the queen of daytime TV, on…
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Vintage Mobile Cinemas Hit UK Roads Again
Long distance journeys are always easier if you have some light movie entertainment to keep you distracted, but would you really opt to take a bus just for the in-travel flick? Back in the 1960s, the British Ministry of Technology proposed exactly that, and commissioned seven mobile cinemas for UK roads. Not surprisingly, they were…
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Poop Powered Park Spark is Flaming Fantastic
As a bit of a Greeny, I love hearing about new inventions to protect our planet, and the Park Spark is no exception. Park Spark is an environmentally friendly lamp that uses dog poop to fuel its fire. The invention has been unveiled in a dog park in Cambridge, Mass., where there is certainly no…
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Star Trek’s Klingons in Operatic Final Frontier
I never understood what the fascination with the Klingons was all about. Why did the ugliest, lumpiest characters in Star Trek attract so much interest? Some Star Trekkie nerdy linguist even created a Klingon dictionary, for God’s sake! Now the Klingons are starring in their own opera: U. U, the Klingon word for universe, tells…
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ZELTIQ’s CoolSculpting Machine May be the Answer to American Obesity
The CoolSculpting system from ZELTIQ has sent shivers down my spine. Not just a fad, this fat freezing machine has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to help the fattest nation in the world with its obesity problems. CoolSculpting promises to help you move those love handles and shift that stubborn…
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John’s Phone is a Slab of Scandinavian Minimalism
Dutch designers are going back to basics with the John’s Phone mobile. A chunky slab of a handset with a monochrome display and simple control buttons down the sides, John’s Phone is somewhat like a cross between mobile phone history, Scandinavian minimalism and a kindergarten toy. John’s Phone has up to three weeks of standby…
