Powertraveller adds an ultra-versatile portable charger to its gadget charger line.
Not only does the new Powermonkey Expedition include standards like a
clamshell solar panel, AC adapter and crank charger, it complements them
with a portable wind/river turbine. Carry the kit on your adventures
and simply connect the generator component that's most suitable for the
current conditions. Read More
Piper monitors security and automates your home
By Stu Robarts
January 29, 2014
Blacksumac, a developer of remote presence-based
smart technology, has announced the US and Canada launch of Piper, a
home security and automation device. It allows users to monitor and
interact with their home via a smartphone or tablet. Read More
Orange Amplification has announced the arrival of OPC
triplets. For the Mark IV release, Orange has divided its musician's
computer into Studio, Professional and Ultimate editions, each coming
with the same impressive suite of player-friendly software, but packing
slightly different hardware configurations. Read More
Israeli artist Liat Segal has created a device
that uses light to print fading messages onto photosensitive paper. The
Confession Machine uses ultraviolet (UV) LEDs that are programmed to
switch on and off at certain intervals in order to print people's
confessions onto paper coated with a UV sensitive pigment. Then they
disappear. Read More
Something fishy about new robotic filleting machine
By Darren Quick
January 28, 2014
Manual filleting of fish can be a time-consuming
task. Due to higher salaries in Nordic countries, processing of fish
caught there is often carried out in places like Asia, Eastern Europe
and Russia where labor costs are lower, before the fish is returned to
Scandinavia for sale. The APRICOT (Automated Pinbone Removal In Cod and
WhiTefish) project set out in January, 2012 to find an automated
solution that would keep fish processing local and it has now developed a
machine that achieves just that. Read More
CODE mechanical keyboard aims to push all the right buttons
By Nick Lavars
January 28, 2014
Despite the advent of touch screens, speech recognition and eye-tracking, the keyboard
still reigns supreme as the input device of choice for many of us.
Somebody who places a lot of value on this intermediary is programmer
and prominent blogger Jeff Atwood who, disillusioned with the range of
mechanical keyboards on the market, set to work in producing the CODE
Keyboard. Read More
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on Friday that the Alvin
deep-sea submersible is returning to service. The DC3 of the
oceanographic world was launched fifty years ago in 1964 and is ready to
begin its second half-century of service after a three-year overhaul
involving significant redesigns and upgrades. Read More
US$5,000 for the world’s first 3D carbon fiber printer
By Loz Blain
January 28, 2014
Auto and motorcycle enthusiasts with a bit of CAD
savvy will soon have access to a remarkably affordable dream machine –
the US$5,000 MarkForged Mark One. Touted as the world’s first 3D printer
capable of printing in carbon fiber, the device could trigger an
avalanche of aftermarket carbon fiber bolt-on parts. Read More
Vespa's lethal 150 TAP: A scooter with serious attitude
By Mike Hanlon
January 28, 2014
For motorcyclists wishing to balance the
inequities of the road-going pecking order, this could be the perfect
mount. Vespa's 150 TAP might only be good for 40 mph, but the integrated
M20 light anti-armor cannon shoots 75 mm rounds capable of penetrating
100 mm of armor from four miles. Read More
Gamers outshine computers in crowdsourced RNA modeling
By Heidi Hoopes
January 28, 2014
Results from the crowdsourced game and
experiment, EteRNA, which combines RNA folding puzzles with laboratory
synthesis, show that human gamers are able to develop better models of
RNA folding than previous computer algorithms. Design rules formulated
by the online community have even been used to construct a new
algorithm, EteRNABot, and in some cases represent completely new
understandings about RNA folding that have yet to be explained
mechanically. Read More
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