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Miniature solar powered engine, can’t ride it or drink it
Miniatures, and I don’t mean the ones the pretty flight attendants serve you on a plane, have been one particular designer’s passion. The gentleman’s name is Szymon Klimek, a Polish designer who’s been creating these works of art for the last five years. He has designed a collection of miniatures that he’s placed inside glass…
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Star Trek Phaser developed, works on worms
All of the sci-fi gimmicks and gadgets that directors, producers and writers have been dreaming up over the last few decades seem to be slowly but surely becoming reality. The latest is in the form of a Star Trek weapon, the one and only Phaser. The gun-like device was capable of either killing an enemy…
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Change channels and open websites with your brain waves, bye bye remote
First we hear about IBM working on a system that will reduce the size of micro chip and provide cognitive thinking to ‘computer’ brains which could be just the start of the A.I. revolution. Today it’s Intel’s turn to showcase some more ideas for the future with microchips that put our human brains in charge…
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First official look at Google Chrome
Take a look at some of the recent images revealed of the new upcoming Google Chrome OS. I’d love to see this on a tablet styled touchscreen netbook.
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Social networkers will rejoice with the arrival of Google’s Chrome OS
Google’s full of announcements these days and the latest was at an event at which they finally previewed their Chrome OS operating system. Of course this new Linux based OS that’s also based on the Chrome browser is quite far from being a finished product and there isn’t even too much information provided as to…
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Robots steal the show in staged production of Mid Summer Night’s Dream
You know this is the 21st century now when you‘ve got robot actors. And I don’t mean the ones that can’t act because they’re too stiff, but real live (in a matter of speaking of course) robots. At a recent event, The Bard’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was performed featuring, for the first…
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MOTO aims to ‘Crush’ competitors with affordable touchscreen handset
It seems like Motorola is seriously getting their act together with launches of mobiles left right and center. Another new handset after the announcement of the DROID and its GSM counterpart the MILESTONE is the Crush. Rather an odd name for a phone but then again there are handsets that have names like Magic and…
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The secret lives of Imperial Storm Troopers – My favorites
Make way for Troopzilla!!! Ever seen that Pixar movie, Toy Story? Sorry stupid question, but it does beg a rather improbable answer to the question – What do your toys do when you’re not around? Well someone, a genius in my book, managed to offer a few notions. Out of the large collection here are…
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A shirt to indicate stress, recommended therapy – touch it
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen technology merge with the ever changing fashion industry. That’s always a rather innovative way to use technology and quite fascinating… sometimes. But smart textiles have been around for awhile in all sorts of forms. e-Pressed is the name of this new clothing technology fashioned into a snappy looking shirt…
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Make way for Microsoft’s malleable motion magnets
For the moment forget about touchscreens, multi-touch technology and all that regular interactive stuff. Microsoft has got something new in mind when it comes to computer-human interface collaboration. The new technology Microsoft is designing is an even more interactive way of dealing with the technology at hand (pardon the pun). Sure it uses multi-touch and…
