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Samsung’s Robot Vacuum Cleaner Keeps an Eye on Dirt and Security
Vacuum cleaner robots are nothing new. I recently brought you news of the self charging vacuum cleaning MS800 from MSI. Now Samsung have launched their competition, the VC-PL62W, a robot vacuum that doubles as a surveillance camera. As well as sucking up your floor dirt, the VC-PL62W keeps an eye on your house too. Better…
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RFID Tag is Technology for Your Runners
Runners competing in races are often given plastic tags to attach to their laces, which record their start, finish and therefore total running times. The RFID tag from UPM Raflatac is somewhat different. Flexible, disposable and easy to attach – no need to unpick and rethread your laces – the RFID tag communicates with ‘readers’…
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Speed Control Illusions of Children are Totally Irresponsible
I cannot imagine what kind of person thought of this and worse still, who on earth would give it the green light (no pun intended). The Canadian city of Vancouver is experimenting with a speed control creation that uses an optical illusion to fool you into thinking there is a child in the road. Being…
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LED Clothing Could be an Electrifying Design No-No
LED clothing is continuing to steal the spotlight. I brought you news of iLuminate clothing when it made its stage debut during Chris Brown’s cringe-worthy Michael Jackson tribute in June this year. Now I have news of another new development in the LED clothing world – Sp4rkl3 skirt. The design baby of Rehmi Post and…
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Nike+ Fitness App Lets the World Watch You Jog
Nike+ fitness app for the iPod Touch and Nano was seriously lagging behind its competitors. This was mainly because it required separate hardware – Nike-specific trainers and an imbedded chip to track the progress of your jog. The new Nike+ app, launched last weekend, has jumped into the game with a bang louder than a…
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Sharp presents new Quattron TV’s at IFA
Sharp Electronics have announced four new lines of TV at the IFA, each sporting Quattron technology. Quattron, the latest innovation from Sharp Electronics, is an LCD color display gizmo that utilizes a fourth color subpixel, yellow, as well as standard RGB color subpixels. According to Sharp, this extra subpixel increases the range of colors your…
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Philips Releases Wider-Than-Widescreen 3D TV
There can scarcely be a home without a widescreen TV these days. However, this new release from Philips threatens to eclipse the lot. The Philips 21:9 3D TV is a super-duper, living room shrinking, wall dominating screen that will consume household space. With a 21:9 ratio, regular 16:9 widescreens pale in comparison. Unfortunately, since most…
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Stalkerbook Takes a Turn Towards the Creepy
We all enjoy secretly looking up exes and checking out what old school friends are up to on Facebook. Don’t pretend you don’t do it. Now the boys behind the social networking phenomenon are offering us a greater and more blatant opportunity to stalk those we know and may not even have met, but are…
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Domestic Robots Promise to Make Housewives’ Lives Easier
Nippon News Network has brought us details of a series of new robots that promise to lighten the load of the average Japanese housewife. First up is Toshiba’s ApriPoco, an 8.4-inch tall bot that is essentially a universal remote control in cutesy robot form. ApriPoco uses infra-red technology and ‘listens’ to verbal commands to control…
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Britvic Brainteasing Vending Machine is Bonkers
UK soft drink maker, Britvic, is installing vending machines which dispense free drinks to those who can prove their intelligence and solve brainteasing questions. Juicy Drench vending machines have touch screens programmed with games that test the customer’s mental agility – the idea being that our brains perform best when hydrated. The tests include simple…
