If you belong to an avid Nintendo Wii gamer
family chances are someone will keep forgetting to charge their Wiimote
and ruin the fun for the others (or start WWIII). Thankfully, Konnet has
come to the rescue. The company’s new charger lets you store and charge
up to four controllers wirelessly, using advanced induction technology.
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It can be extremely frustrating, watching the
destruction of our environment and not being able to do a thing about
it. Sure, you can give money, write letters and take part in rallies,
but... wouldn’t you rather be out there on the front lines, where you
could physically help save the threatened habitats, animals and
cultures? Well, you can. In fact, you’ve been able to for the past 39
years. Next year, the US-based Earthwatch Institute will celebrate 40
years of giving people the chance to volunteer on environmental
research projects all over the world. Read More
Instead of looking to upgrade a network of
computers with the familiar PC-server setup, Pano Logic offers a
solution where users still benefit from a Windows-like experience but
the desktop PC is gone. The PC is replaced by the Pano Device, a small
silver or black box which connects to a virtual computer hosted at a
data center. It's said to require little or no maintenance thanks to
there being "no processor, no operating system, no memory, no drivers,
no software and no moving parts." Read More
Getting away from it all in Germany, where there
are 8000 camping grounds and an equally massive motorhome industry, you
need to go just a bit further to escape the madding crowd. Bocklet
caters to the adventure touring market by building “go anywhere”
motorhomes for those who do not wish to travel the road well traveled,
and the company's latest is the Unimog-based EUR 250,000 (USD 315,000)
Dakar U685. Capable of carrying 330 liters of fuel and 300 liters of
fresh water, the Dakar can take you a long way off the beaten track yet
seemingly wanting for little. Creature comforts include diesel-powered
heating and air conditioning, a hot water service, shower, toilet and
kitchen, 110-liter refrigerator, 220 Ah battery, 260 watt solar panel,
automatic battery charger, 1.2 kW inverter, satellite TV and a king
sized bed. Anything else you need, just ask. Read More
Sony has released two new models in its Bright
Era 3LCD business projector series - the VPL-FX500L and VPL-FX30. Both
projectors have native XGA resolution of 1024 x 768, excellent lens
shift capabilities, feature long-life lamps and filters and have low
power consumption even with their high-brightness performance. The
FX500L (7,000 ANSI lumens) is suited to large screen applications like
those found in lecture halls and auditoriums, while the FX30 (4,200 ANSI
lumens) has been created for midsized classrooms, boardrooms and
meeting rooms. Read More
To any who work in audio or communications, the
name Sennheiser is synonymous with the absolute top quality in sound;
indeed there are many who wouldn't dream of using anything less. So it
is with regret that this year the industry loses the founding father of
the brand, Fritz Sennheiser, who died on May 17th a few days after his
98th birthday. Read More
Electric auto pioneer Tesla Motors
and Toyota Motor Corporation have signaled their intent to work
together on a number of initiatives, primarily developing EVs in
California. Toyota's purchasing of US$50 million worth of Tesla shares
completes a stunning twelve months for the start-up which has included Daimler purchasing a substantial (more than 5%) share,
a US$30 million tax break and a US$465 million DoE loan. Partnering
with the world's largest automobile manufacturer gives Tesla immense
credibility and the security to purchase a new factory. For Toyota, it
sures up its ability to compete in the EV market, at the same time as
winning a few cool-school points by partnering with the trendy,
publicity-savvy Tesla brand. If, or as-seems-likely, when Tesla goes
public, it will be first American auto company to do so since Ford more
than a half century ago. Read More
On display at the Tokyo Make Meeting this past
Saturday was Beatfly, a cleverly designed illuminated blimp created by
Hideki Yoshimoto. Rather than just implement simple radio controls, he
has playfully given Beatfly a number of control interfaces. You can
drive it by iPhone, MIDI controller, Flash web interface, a standard
keyboard, voice control, or even music. Read More
We mentioned last week that Formula One was celebrating its sixtieth birthday
but a key fact escaped our attention - to mention that only one team
has been there for all sixty seasons, and hence was also celebrating its
sixtieth birthday. The Ferrari F1 Team made its debut in round two of
the inaugural F1 Championship at the Monaco Grand Prix on May 21, 1950. A
second place for Italian Alberto Ascari in the Ferrari 125 set the tone
for the next six decades. To date the team has taken part in 799 Grands
Prix, meaning that Istanbul next weekend will be the eight hundredth.
To date, Ferrari’s race record shows 211 wins, 16 Constructors’ and 15
Drivers’ titles, which makes this team the most successful in mankind's
most followed sport. Read More
If your computer is lacking the necessary video
port to marry up with the new display you desire, Gefen has just made it
easy for you with a “USB to DVI HD” adapter. The adapter offers plug
and play connectivity for any digital display using the DVI, VGA or HDMI
format, with support for resolutions up to 1920x1200, 1080p and 2k.
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Seagate has revealed a hybrid solid state/hard
drive which is claimed to be "the world’s fastest 2.5 inch laptop PC
hard drive." The Momentus XT offers users the price and capacity
benefits of a hard disk drive and the speed advantages of solid state
memory in one laptop-sized drive. Read More
ExoPC has developed a Windows-based tablet PC
which is larger and more powerful than an iPad, is WiFi-enabled and
supports Flash. The Slate will be available with 32GB and 64GB SSD
storage, benefit from 2GB of memory and has a built-in webcam... but
will this be enough to make it a serious contender in the emerging
tablet computer market? Read More
Computex Taipei 2010 is the biggest IT show in
Asia and one of the most important such shows in the world and we'll be
there next week to report on the hundreds of new products. One Computex
new release certain to cause a stir is ASROCK's AIWI, an Apple app which
turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a Nintendo Wii-type motion
controller for computer games, and maybe more importantly, using the
touch screen as a touch pad for controlling the cursor and keyboard
functions of a computer. It's not just very clever and very cool – it
might just have some serious implications for the future of the Computer
(and TV) Human Interface. Our esteemed colleagues at Tweaktown.com have
released a sneak peak video demonstration which is well worth a look. Read More
At the beginning of May digiZoid introduced the Zo personal subwoofer,
which claimed to enhance a listener's sonic experience by offering
increasing degrees of bass contouring to any audio fed through it. Over
the past week I've had the chance to take the Zo for a spin. Has it
lived up to the claims of its manufacturer? Read on for a full review.
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The satellite-aided search and rescue technology
pioneered by NASA is credited with saving more than 27,000 lives
worldwide since its inception nearly three decades ago. Now the agency
has developed new technology that will more quickly identify the
locations of people in distress and reduce the risk to rescuers. Read More
Want to turn your Mac into a DVR with full access
to premium cable or satellite TV content? Elgato says its customers can
do just with its EyeTV HD, that lets users watch, record, edit and
enjoy cable and satellite TV in high-definition, including all their
premium channels, on a Mac. What’s more, the EyeTV HD includes a unique
dual-format capture mode that records in iPad and iPhone formats at the
same time, allowing users to stream live and recorded TV to an iPhone or
iPad using the optional EyeTV app. Read More
Donor corneas are extremely rare, but for 40,000
people in Europe corneal transplantation from donors offer the only hope
of addressing blindness in one or both eyes. That was, until Dr.
Joachim Storsberg of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer
Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm created the first artificial cornea. Read More
Intel has introduced new ultra-low voltage (ULV)
versions of its Intel Core processors. Based on Intel’s 32 nanometer
(nm) technology the Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 processors are
destined for the insides of ultraportable laptops - which Intel defines
as less than an inch thick and weighing just two to five pounds -
without sacrificing performance, connectivity and battery life. Read More
Among the many sounds emanating from the Tokyo
Make Meeting 05 this past weekend was the unusually shaped electronic
instrument, the Uda. It's played with two hands, and looks like it might
be a less-flexible cousin of the accordion. Notes are played by
pressing different sections of a rope that's coiled around the device,
on both the right and left sides. Exactly where you touch it determines
the pitch, and there's a one octave difference between one row of rope
and the adjacent row. Read More
Diamonds aren’t just a girl’s best friend - they
also boast outstanding physical properties that makes them an ideal
material for industrial applications such as cutting and polishing. It
is extraordinarily hard, conducts heat well and is practically inert to
chemical substances. Ceramics – particularly high-performance ceramics –
are likewise able to demonstrate special qualities. They are robust and
withstands high temperatures. Researchers have now created a diamond
coated ceramics composite material that combines the best of both
materials. Read More
The much-talked-about Dell Streak is finally
scheduled for release, albeit exclusively to the UK's O2 network for the
time being. The 5-inch touchscreen device is billed as slotting in
"between traditional smartphones and larger-screen tablets" and features
a 1GHz processor, 2GB of internal memory and runs on Google's Android
operating system. Read More
The "ultimate in road legal quad biking" is how
the makers of the Venom Evil describe their creation. If its exclusive
designer styling and the splash of shiny chrome on the front crash bars
and speedos don't manage to turn heads, then perhaps the water-cooled
250cc engine, twin exhaust and sporty alloy wheels will. Read More
We've covered some creative bicycle wheel LEDs on Gizmag recently, so when we discovered the amazing Anipov project on display from Suns & Moon Laboratory at Tokyo Make Meeting this past weekend, we couldn't help but take a closer look. Read More
The most obvious obstacles for the widespread adoption of fuel cell
technology are cost and performance. Although they promise benefits
over internal combustion engines and batteries in terms of environmental
impact, they are still fairly limited in use for these reasons. One of
the most expensive elements used in most fuel cells is platinum, but now
researchers have created a unique core and shell nanoparticle that uses
far less platinum, yet performs more efficiently and lasts longer than
commercially available pure-platinum catalysts at the cathode end of
fuel cell reactions. Read More
The damaged Deepwater Horizon oil well in the
Gulf of Mexico is a huge environmental disaster that's said to be
gushing anywhere from 5,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into the
ocean per day. BP has deployed a reported 2.5 million feet of oil booms
in an effort to contain the slick, as well as bringing in over 1,100
vessels to skim it and even burning some of it off the water’s surface.
One need only watch the news, however, to realize that some other ideas
are needed. BP has received over 10,000 suggestions for dealing with the
disaster and is looking into approximately 700. What follows is a look
at some - but by no means all - of those products being touted as a
solution, and what they would supposedly do to the oil. Read More
Earlier in the week we covered Microsoft’s agreement with Australia’s Foxtel that will see pay TV content streamed to Xbox 360 consoles. Now Sony has announced that PS3 and PSP
owners in the US will now be able to access programming from premium
cable TV network HBO on their consoles. Using the PlayStation Network’s
(PSN) video delivery service PS3 /PSP owners can now purchase shows from
HBO’s popular lineup, including True Blood, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Flight of the Conchords, to name just a few. Read More
Remember that montage from Rocky IV
where Drago’s high-tech training is contrasted with Rocky’s decidedly
more low-tech approach? Well, we can’t help thinking that if the
Interactiv’ Boxing punching bag was available in the mid 80’s that Drago
would have been pounding away on it. This 21st century take on the
punching bag features built-in sensors and LEDs that direct you where to
land your fists of fury. Read More
The era of electric motorcycle racing which began at the Isle of Man in June last year has grown into a world series road race for 2010. On May 16th, history was made as TTXGP
North America Round 1 took place at the Infineon Raceway in California.
It was the first-ever electric superbike race to take place in that
continent. Read More
iLuv, one of a number of manufacturers of Apple
accessories, has added three small and portable speaker options that
provide high quality sound while eliminating cable clutter. The three
speaker options include a mini clip speaker, a portable speaker bar and a
pair of newly designed cube speakers, all powered by USB to reduce
cable clutter on the desktop. All three speaker designs work with Mac or
PC. Read More
With so many mobile workers and executives lured
in by the lightweight appeal of the MacBook, it seems crazy there isn't
already a raft of compact, Mac-specific scanners on the market. Now,
Canon is putting things right with the launch of the lightweight,
portable imageFORMULA P-150M Scan-tini personal scanner, designed to
shine with the Mac operating system. Read More
Digital photo frame manufacturer Pandigital has
announced its entry into the world of the e-reader with the 7-inch full
color Novel. The multi-touch Android-based reader features a gigabyte of
internal memory, is powered by an ARM Mobile processor and has two
reading modes. Users will also benefit from the company's partnership
with Barnes & Noble, giving access to over a million titles as well
as services such as the book-lending LendMe technology. Read More
Continuing our reports from Tokyo Make Meeting
2010, here's a fascinating group of bicycle hobbyists who brought some
very creative bike designs to the show. The Tasuke I group were set up
in the far corner of the exhibition hall, where they happily brought
interested onlookers out the back exit for demonstrations. Read More
Facebook has caved to pressure from users and
privacy advocates and overhauled its privacy settings. The site and its
social networking brethren have come under increasing fire from users,
privacy advocates and lawmakers, so in an attempt to address such
concerns Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, says the site will introduce
simpler and more powerful controls for sharing personal information.
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They're not a failed attempt at Belgian jigsaw
camouflage or a trophy from clown school, these colorful lycra gloves
are the vital component in a new gestural user input system developed by
researchers at MIT. When used with a standard webcam and some clever
software, the wearer's hand movements are instantaneously translated
into on-screen commands or control gestures. Commercial development of
the system could lead to widespread availability of cheap and
easy-to-use spatial gesture interfaces. Read More
Almost two years to the day after it landed on the red planet
NASA has announced its Phoenix Mars Lander has officially ended
operations after repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft were
unsuccessful. Phoenix was not built to survive the dark, cold, icy
winter on Mars and a new image transmitted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter shows signs of severe ice damage to the lander’s solar panels.
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Lockheed Martin has won a $3.93 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
to develop high-tech rifle-scope attachment. Designed to improve
marksmanship over distances of between three and 600 meters, the Dynamic
Image Gunsight Optic (DInGO) system combines a low power laser
rangefinder, an embedded ballistics computer and onboard sensors that
determine wind and other environmental effects. Read More
The miniaturization of electronic components has
seen mobile devices shrink to the point where screen size is a major
limiting factor. That could be set to change with Sony announcing it has
developed a super-flexible full color OLED
display which can be repeatedly wrapped around a thin cylinder while
still producing moving images. Could we soon see mobile phones with
pencil form factors and roll out displays? Read More
In preparation for the December release of its much-anticipated all-electric LEAF
automobile, Nissan announced this week that it will be selling
in-house-designed EV quick chargers. The company plans to install 2,200
standard non-quick chargers in Nissan dealerships throughout
Japan, with 200 dealerships offering the new 49-kilowatt/200-volt
quick-charging units for sale. The idea is that ultimately, there will
always be a charger within 40 kilometers of any one point on the road.
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If you’re into R/C vehicles, there’s just the
slightest chance that you might be interested in a power train that runs
three to four times longer than regular battery-only systems, and that
requires nothing but sunlight and water to recharge. It also educates
people on what will likely be the power system of choice for future
real-size automobiles... and oh yes, it looks dead sexy, in a
Doc-Brown’s-Delorean-flux-capacitor kinda way. Without any further ado,
please open your wallets for H-Cell 2.0, the latest miniature hydrogen
fuel cell hybrid drive train from Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies. Read More
Canada's Kiwi Choice has announced the release of
a strangely familiar-looking portable solar charger for mobile devices.
The three-panel photovoltaic fan design first used by Solio
has found its way to Kiwi's U-Powered charger. Featuring a powerful
battery, LED flashlight and magnetic feet, the product also comes with
multiple device connector tips for maximum compatibility. Read More
If you’re really looking to shine in any
water-based hostilities this summer then the Saturator AK-47 Automatic
Water Gun could be just what the aquatic arms dealer ordered. This
weapon ups the ante on any previous manually powered water guns that
rely on the handle being pumped to fire a semi-continuous stream of
water. With the battery powered Saturator all one needs to do is hold
down the trigger until the ammo runs out. Read More
Ever wanted to levitate a can or bottle inside an
illuminated ring? Of course you have. Well, this device from
Chinavasion uses the force to do just that. Unfortunately it uses force
of the magnetic variety and not the Jedi kind, but the snappily named
Magnetic Suspension Device is sure to be a conversation starter
nonetheless. Read More
SAIC is already one of China’s biggest automotive
manufacturers, which means that by 2050, when China will have 500
million automobiles on its road, it will become one of the largest
automakers in the world. Beyond its potential for growth, it's the
company's futuristic thinking that most impresses us. It recently showed
the groundbreaking YeZ Concept car, and its next concept car, which we bring you a sneak peak of here, is equally as thought provoking. Read More
A prize of US$200,000 is being offered for the
first robot that can successfully move 10 km (6.2 miles) within 10,000
seconds. Sound easy? Well, to claim the “W” Prize the robot must also
negotiate four sets of obstacles that would stand in the way of ordinary
wheeled vehicles, but could be easily overcome by a pedestrian. The
robot must also accomplish this task using no more than 10 kj per kg of
machine mass – in other words, less energy than it would take for a
human to do the same task. Read More
James McHugh Construction has officially
completed construction on Aqua, the Chicago high-rise that was named
2009 Skyscraper of the Year by international building database Emporis.
Aqua beat out over 300 competitors worldwide for the honor, thanks in no
small part to its no-two-alike undulating concrete balconies. It turns
out, however, that there’s more to the 82-story tower than just good
looks. Read More
Boeing's X-51 WaveRider has made aviation history
by completing the longest ever supersonic combustion ramjet-powered
flight. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
flew for almost three and a half minutes in the skies off the southern
California coast on Wednesday, reaching an altitude of about 70,000 feet
and hitting hypersonic (Mach 5) speeds. Read More
Self-healing “smart building materials” have the
potential to reduce structure repair costs, lower cement-production
carbon emissions and even save lives. One barrier that has kept these
materials from being commercialized, however, is their potentially
labor-intensive and thus expensive production process. Recently, an
engineering student from the University of Rhode Island (URI) announced
that she has developed a self-healing concrete that would be inexpensive
to produce. Read More
Rather than wait for the blogosphere to come up with its own rumors with varying degrees of accuracy, ASUS
has opted to start its own pre-Computex 2010 rumor mill. The company's
online technology magazine has hinted at the event release of a couple
of notebooks, a pair of gaming motherboards and a new all-in-one.
Details are almost non-existent, though. Read More
A researcher from the UK's University of Reading
has warned of possible future infection issues for recipients of medical
implants. The cause for concern is not biological, though. Dr. Mark
Gasson's disquiet relates to the fact that as implants become more
sophisticated, the computerized systems running them could become prone
to virus attack. And to prove his point, the good doctor purposely
infected a chip implanted in his hand with a virus, which subsequently
spread to an external communication system. Read More
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