Yamaha Keyboard Notepad
Check out this notepad with a integrated keyboard designed by Yamaha. Its perfect for musicians and composers and allows them to try out their tunes right then and there, with or without using the built-in headphone jack.
No word yet on availability.
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Brain Wave Reading Headset - game play with your mind…
Researchers have developed a set of brainwave reading headphones. The headset needs NO battery as it’s powered by the body heat and sunlight. The headset is actually a portable electroencephalogram (EEG) device that is made to resemble a set of headphones. Which makes it not looking too weird while the user is wearing it on the head.
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Keyboard Trousers by Erik De Nijs
Check out these geeky keyboard trousers designed by Erik De Nijs. Not sure how practical they are but 10 out of out for originality.
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Honda Assist Walking Device
Honda began research of its walking assist device in 1999 with a goal to provide more people with the joy of mobility. Currently, the device has entered into the feasibility stage. The compact design of the device was achieved with flat brushless motors and a control system developed by Honda. Honda began research of a walking assist device in 1999 with a goal to provide more people with the joy of mobility. Currently, the device has entered into the feasibility stage. Honda is planning to offer interested attendees an opportunity to wear and experience this walking assist device at the Honda booth at BARRIER FREE 2008.
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LED Wallpaper
If your wallpaper is looking a little drab never fear as a breakthrough by GE (General Electric) in OLED technology could now see organic LED’s being printed on to wallpaper. GE managed to find a way to allow OLED’s to be printed on to very thin surfaces.
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RoboTurtle - AUV new propulsion system
The RoboTurtle, described as an “agile and aggressively maneuvering biomimetic autonomous underwater vehicle,” with its oscillating foils maybe opening up new avenues for propulsion. The foils allow RoboTurtle named Finnegan to enjoy a high degree of maneuverability in confined spaces and high speed in open water, which is key for an AUV which will switch between traversing bodies of water and exploring underwater wrecks.
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Brother Retinal Scanning Display
These futuristic display glasses have a retinal scanning unit built in that “irradiates low-intensity light on the retina and scans it with the light at a high speed.”Basically it uses your eye’s retina as a projector screen and displaying an image right onto it. The main unit weighs 25g and the eyeglass measures about 20cc.
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Accordion USB Drive
Recently designed by Polish student Jacek Ryn this accordion USB drive protects itself when not in use using a silicone case. The casing is made of a colored silicone and makes smart use of the materials’ natural elasticity to reveal the plug when pushed into the socket, and automatically slip back when removed.
Prototyped his idea at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (Poland). Via Engadget
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Wireless Sensor Images in 3D
This 3D sensor helps compose a 3D model, simply by projecting a stripe pattern onto the subject, using the couple of “eyes” to capture slightly distinct angles of the image based on the deducted geometry.
“It consists of two cameras with a projector in the center,” said IOF Optical Systems department head Gunther Notni, PhD. “The two cameras provide a three-dimensional view, rather like two eyes. The projector casts a pattern of stripes on the objects. The geometry of the measured object can be deduced from the deformation of the stripes.”
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Creating Solar Panels using Inkjet Technology
Today FUJIFILM’s cartridge-based Dimatix Materials Printer (DMP), Konarka Technologies has demonstrated the world’s-first fabrication of highly efficient solar cells using of inkjet printing technology.
The DMP used for the demonstration is a turnkey, bench-top materials deposition system that uses FUJIFILM’s inkjet technology and Shaped Piezo Silicon MEMS fabrication processes in depositing picoliter-sized droplets of functional fluids on all types of surfaces. By employing single-use cartridges that researchers can fill with their own fluid materials, the DMP system minimizes waste of expensive fluid materials, thereby eliminating the cost and complexity associated with traditional product development and prototyping. The DMP is suitable for prototyping and low-volume manufacturing, and the technology is scalable from research and development to production.
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Lenovo’s Ideapad U8 MID
Feast your eyes on the Lenovo Ideapad U8 MID, which is based around Intel’s new Atom processor. It’s got a sizable 4.8-inch touchscreen display and a “bullseye” optical mouse for one-handed web surfing operation over either EDGE or 3G data networks.It also has GPS built in for location-based applications and will allow for hand-written notetaking on that touchsceen it has. No details are known as to when the device will be released.
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Two-seater Suborbital Spaceship
Californian based XCOR Aerospace has unveiled a two-seater suborbital spaceship the size of a small private plane that the company expects to have airborne in 2010. Named the Lynx, the spaceship will be capable of flying several times each day and give passengers a front-seat ride to the edge of space where they will experience zero gravity and see the curvature of the Earth.
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Robot Babysitter
Major Japanese retailer Aeon Co. said Tuesday it has introduced a 1.4-metre (four-foot-seven) yellow-and-white robot at a store in the southern city of Fukuoka in charge of entertaining the children.If parents want to leave their children with the kid-sized machine, they arrange for the youngsters to wear special badges that bear codes which the robot can read.
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Giant Kites save Cargo Ships 20% on their fuel
A cargo ship has just completed the first trans-Atlantic trip using kites to help propel it. The giant kite helped save 20% of the ships energy, which will the shipping company up to $2,000 a day in fuel costs once an even bigger kite is hooked up on the next trip.
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Siftables Interaction Platform
Check out this Siftables Concept a collection of small, self-contained input / display devices wirelessly link together to form an independent mini-network, or a control system for a PC. Siftables can sense their neighbors, allowing applications to utilize topological arrangement. No special sensing surface or cameras are needed.
Each Siftable unit contains a short range infrared communicators, a 3-axis accelerometer, Bluetooth radio, flash memory, an integrated processor, a lithium polymer battery, some haptic hardware, and what look to be USB expansion ports. All that stuff in each Siftable. As you can see from the video, such complexity (especially when it comes to motion sensing and proximity communication) enables all sorts of interactive options.
Siftables aims to enable people to interact with information and media in physical, natural ways that approach interactions with physical objects in our everyday lives. As an interaction platform, Siftables applies technology and methodology from wireless sensor networks to tangible user interfaces. Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. Siftables can be used to implement any number of gestural interaction languages and HCI applications.
Imagine overturning a container of nuts and bolts, then looking through the resulting pile for a particular item. Or spreading photographs out on a tabletop and then beginning to sort them into piles. During these activities we interact with large numbers of small objects at the same time, and they utilize all of our fingers and both hands together. We humans are skilled at using our hands in these ways, and can effortlessly sift and sort - focusing on our higher level goals rather than the items themselves.
The Siftables interaction platform is a collaboration with Jeevan Kalanithi.
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