It's summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, and
that means the bugs are out – specifically, ticks. In light of the
ensuing infestation, otherwise known as the annual repopulation, three
professors at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) have crossed the
business of pest control with the world of robotics by last month
testing their robotic "tick rover" to determine its efficiency at
removing the blood suckers from the yard. Read More
Since we first looked at John Dabiri's hypothesis that vertical axis wind turbines should be arrayed like a school of fish
to reduce the land area required for wind farm installations, the
MacArthur Genius Grant recipient has continued to work on the idea.
Following the latest round of coverage, Gizmag takes a deeper look at
his concept, and wonders whether the idea of packing turbines into as
tight a space as possible might overlook some wind energy fundamentals.
Read More
It was back in 2006 that we first heard about Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies’ H-Racer
fuel cell-powered toy car. Two years later, Corgi International teamed
up with the company to create a remote-control offering, called the H2GO. Today, Horizon announced the latest model in that line-up, the i-H2GO. Read More 
The stereotype of the clumsy robot may soon
become a thing of the past thanks to ongoing research at the University
of California, Berkeley, where a team of engineers has created a thin
and interactive sensor network that can be layered onto the surfaces of
virtually any shape. The device gives out immediate feedback via an LED
light when touched, and could be used to create smart bandages that
monitor vitals in a patient in real time, wallpapers that act as
touchscreens, or even to give humanoid robots that elusive "human
touch." Read More
Given how diligent most of us are about putting
on our seatbelt when we get in a car, it seems funny that we think
nothing of riding on highway-going buses that don’t even even have
seat belts. While it’s possible that coach manufacturers may be
required to install safety restraints on new buses in the future, that
will still leave a lot of belt-less older buses on the road and in use.
That’s why Blake McCauley and Charles Bedell have created the
SafeHarness portable seat belt. Read More
Like many mobile workers, my notebook, tablet and
smartphone share backpack space with portable storage. Accessing stored
files over a physical connection, however, can be something of a
challenge. Even if you're luckier than I and manage to find a free USB
port when you need one, connecting multiple devices to your storage can
quickly turn into a messy cable fight. SanDisk has launched a new
Connect range of storage vaults that can bypass that nightmarish tangle
soup altogether. The Wireless Flash Drive and Wireless Media Drive are
each able to wirelessly connect with up to eight mobile devices
simultaneously without so much as an external router in sight. Read More
Since LG and Samsung both made world's first
curved OLED TV debuts at CES back in January, the former has been
leading the race to get units into the hands of consumers. Samsung took silver
when it entered the South Korean market last month, and is playing
second fiddle again as LG's 4.3 mm thin immersive big screen makes a
break for US shores courtesy of Best Buy. Read More 
Panasonic's Lumix FZ-series of bridge cameras
have offered photographers the versatility of vast focal ranges, without
the need to change lenses, for several years now. But its new Lumix
DMC-FZ70 (FZ72) takes things even further by packing in a monstrous 60x
zoom. This gives it a 35-mm format focal length equivalent of an almost
ridiculous 20-1,200-mm. Read More
When Honda first unveiled its Micro Commuter Concept EV
a couple of years ago, there were likely many people who doubted that
the futuristic little car would ever be seen anywhere other than auto
shows. Last week, however, Honda announced that it will begin
field-testing an unspecified number of the MCC's successors later this
year. Read More
Hong Kong's Muku Labs has launched a Kickstater
campaign for its news gadget, the success of which suggests there's a
thirst for remote camera shutter controls for iPhone and Android
handsets. Gizmag goes hands on with a pre-production prototype of the
thin and compact Shuttr to see whether the excitement is justified. Read More
It was back in 2006 that we first heard about Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies’ H-Racer
fuel cell-powered toy car. Two years later, Corgi International teamed
up with the company to create a remote-control offering, called the H2GO. Today, Horizon announced the latest model in that line-up, the i-H2GO. Read More
Since LG and Samsung both made world's first
curved OLED TV debuts at CES back in January, the former has been
leading the race to get units into the hands of consumers. Samsung took silver
when it entered the South Korean market last month, and is playing
second fiddle again as LG's 4.3 mm thin immersive big screen makes a
break for US shores courtesy of Best Buy. Read More
It's summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, and
that means the bugs are out – specifically, ticks. In light of the
ensuing infestation, otherwise known as the annual repopulation, three
professors at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) have crossed the
business of pest control with the world of robotics by last month
testing their robotic "tick rover" to determine its efficiency at
removing the blood suckers from the yard. Read More
Since we first looked at John Dabiri's hypothesis that vertical axis wind turbines should be arrayed like a school of fish
to reduce the land area required for wind farm installations, the
MacArthur Genius Grant recipient has continued to work on the idea.
Following the latest round of coverage, Gizmag takes a deeper look at
his concept, and wonders whether the idea of packing turbines into as
tight a space as possible might overlook some wind energy fundamentals.
Read More
It was back in 2006 that we first heard about Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies’ H-Racer
fuel cell-powered toy car. Two years later, Corgi International teamed
up with the company to create a remote-control offering, called the H2GO. Today, Horizon announced the latest model in that line-up, the i-H2GO. Read More
The stereotype of the clumsy robot may soon
become a thing of the past thanks to ongoing research at the University
of California, Berkeley, where a team of engineers has created a thin
and interactive sensor network that can be layered onto the surfaces of
virtually any shape. The device gives out immediate feedback via an LED
light when touched, and could be used to create smart bandages that
monitor vitals in a patient in real time, wallpapers that act as
touchscreens, or even to give humanoid robots that elusive "human
touch." Read More
Given how diligent most of us are about putting
on our seatbelt when we get in a car, it seems funny that we think
nothing of riding on highway-going buses that don’t even even have
seat belts. While it’s possible that coach manufacturers may be
required to install safety restraints on new buses in the future, that
will still leave a lot of belt-less older buses on the road and in use.
That’s why Blake McCauley and Charles Bedell have created the
SafeHarness portable seat belt. Read More
Like many mobile workers, my notebook, tablet and
smartphone share backpack space with portable storage. Accessing stored
files over a physical connection, however, can be something of a
challenge. Even if you're luckier than I and manage to find a free USB
port when you need one, connecting multiple devices to your storage can
quickly turn into a messy cable fight. SanDisk has launched a new
Connect range of storage vaults that can bypass that nightmarish tangle
soup altogether. The Wireless Flash Drive and Wireless Media Drive are
each able to wirelessly connect with up to eight mobile devices
simultaneously without so much as an external router in sight. Read More
Since LG and Samsung both made world's first
curved OLED TV debuts at CES back in January, the former has been
leading the race to get units into the hands of consumers. Samsung took silver
when it entered the South Korean market last month, and is playing
second fiddle again as LG's 4.3 mm thin immersive big screen makes a
break for US shores courtesy of Best Buy. Read More
Panasonic's Lumix FZ-series of bridge cameras
have offered photographers the versatility of vast focal ranges, without
the need to change lenses, for several years now. But its new Lumix
DMC-FZ70 (FZ72) takes things even further by packing in a monstrous 60x
zoom. This gives it a 35-mm format focal length equivalent of an almost
ridiculous 20-1,200-mm. Read More
When Honda first unveiled its Micro Commuter Concept EV
a couple of years ago, there were likely many people who doubted that
the futuristic little car would ever be seen anywhere other than auto
shows. Last week, however, Honda announced that it will begin
field-testing an unspecified number of the MCC's successors later this
year. Read More
Hong Kong's Muku Labs has launched a Kickstater
campaign for its news gadget, the success of which suggests there's a
thirst for remote camera shutter controls for iPhone and Android
handsets. Gizmag goes hands on with a pre-production prototype of the
thin and compact Shuttr to see whether the excitement is justified. Read More
Located on the south coast of
Victoria, Australia, Crofthouse offers its owners a simple and
sustainable home which blends into its natural environment while also
capturing the vast coastal views. Read More
If you want something to look
elegant, you build it out of wood. If you want it to look cutting-edge,
on the other hand, you make it out of carbon fiber. So, what happens
when you combine the two materials? Well, you end up with something like
Peugeot's one-off GTi Surfboard Concept. Read More
If you were designing a robotic arm
for use in pharmaceutical research, you’d want to make it easy to
sterilize between uses. That’s why Kawasaki Heavy Industries has encased
its snazzy-looking new MSR05 arm entirely in stainless steel. Read More
Located in Brisbane, Australia, One
Wybelenna is a luxurious property designed to achieve a high level of
sustainability – as evidenced by its turf roof which not only provides
insulation but also serves as home for a local species of bird. Read More
Mounts for iPad are thick on the
ground, but the creators of MagBak are looking to stand out from the
crowd with a slimmed down approach to attaching the tablet to any
surface that also keeps the Smart Cover closed and provides a convenient
grip. Read More
Unveiled at the company's
Design@Home event in Munich this week, the Vision concept shows some of
the new design language and features we can expect from MINI in the
future, both inside and out. Read More
Within mere days of the announcement
that ground had been broken on China's super-tall Sky City skyscraper,
local media is reporting that workers have downed tools. Read More
With systems like the Kinect and Leap Motion,
controlling a gadget with just the wave of a hand is starting to become
much more commonplace. The one drawback to those gesture-based devices
however is that you never actually touch anything. No matter what you
see on the screen, you're still very aware that you're just moving your
hands through the air. The Pittsburg branch of Disney Research may be
able to change that with Aireal, a low-cost haptic system which fires
out small rings of air that allow people to feel virtual objects. Read More
There are few things more embarrassing than being
caught in an all-out thermonuclear war and realizing that you've
forgotten your Geiger counter. To prevent this social faux pas, MTM has
released its Special Ops RAD watch. Available in black or silver (gray
has already sold out) titanium cases, the RAD watch includes an
integrated Geiger-Müller tube for measuring exposure to harmful ionizing
radiation. Read More
Today Motorola and US carrier Verizon rekindled their old romance, releasing three new phones under the Droid
brand. We have the Droid Ultra, a high-end phone with a razor-thin
build (but no Razr branding). Then we have the Droid Mini, which offers a
smaller form factor without skimping much on quality. The one that
really turned our heads, though, was the Droid Maxx, with an advertised
battery life of 48 hours. Let's put it side-by-side with the Samsung Galaxy S4, and see how they compare. Read More
Reports that the High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program (HAARP) had been shut down permanently were apparently a
bit premature. According to HAARP program manager James Keeney, the
facility is only temporarily off the air while operating contractors are
changed. So why does anyone care? Despite being associated with various
natural disasters over the past two decades by the conspiracy fringe,
HAARP is in reality a facility for studying the ionosphere. Let's take a
look at the goings on at HAARP – past, present, and future. Read More
The world record price for a car at auction was
smashed this month when Juan Manuel Fangio's 1954 Mercedes W196 F1
Silver Arrow sold for US$30 million, doubling the previous auction
record. The only W196 outside of Daimler Benz or an
internationally-recognized museum, this car won its first two starts –
the 1954 German GP at Nürburgring and the Swiss GP at the
uber-frightening, tree-lined Bremgarten circuit – and sealed the 1954
World Drivers Title for Juan Manuel Fangio, statistically the best
racing driver in history. The following year, it was released in
roadgoing form to become the world's fastest road car: the legendary
Mercedes 300 SLR (aka W196S). Read More
Motorcycle helmet innovator Reevu has come up
with what it claims is the world's first commercially available
intelligent helmet with a built-in heads-up display, or HUD. While
that's a bit misleading – it won't actually be available for another
18-24 months – a HUD for bikers is clearly an exciting prospect, and
Reevu with its experience in building in rear-vision capabilities is probably in an excellent position to get it to market. Read More
Swiss company misC sport & leisure has designed a lighter, simpler version of its SwissRoomBox camper-in-a-box system.
The RoomBox EasyTech is designed to transform a station wagon or van
into a functional camper within just five minutes. Its series of panels,
attachments and hardware creates sleeping, cooking, eating and
showering space, even in smaller cars. Read More
Mechanized characters, such as clockwork
automatons that move using a series of gears, go back hundreds of years.
Now the most difficult aspect of their mechanical design, which took
specialized engineering skill and lots of trial and error, has largely
been eliminated by a pair of new software tools developed by Disney
Research labs in Zürich and Boston, and labs at ETH Zürich and MIT.
They're being presented this week at ACM SIGGRAPH 2013, the
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive
Techniques. Read More
NASA and Boeing have unveiled a mock up of the Crew Space Transport (CST-100)
space capsule. In an event held at Boeing’s Houston Product Support
Center in Texas, members of the press were invited to view a fully
outfitted test version of the spacecraft. As part of the proceedings,
two NASA astronauts kitted-out in flight suits conducted tests on
working in the capsule. Read More
Located on the south coast of
Victoria, Australia, Crofthouse offers its owners a simple and
sustainable home which blends into its natural environment while also
capturing the vast coastal views. Read More
The news release announcing the availability of the Leap Motion controller and supporting software
isn't even cold yet, and the first applications that make use of its
gesture recognition capabilities are already making a break for freedom.
Asetniop
creator Zack Dennis has joined the fray with an alternative to the
physical keyboard he's calling DexType. Essentially a Google Chrome
browser plugin, the Dex-typist uses mid-air point and poke gestures to
select characters from a strip at the bottom of the screen. Read More
Bentley showed the world what an ultra-premium
SUV might look like at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. Based upon the mixed
reactions, it didn't seem clear if the world was really ready for an
ultra-premium SUV – but it's going to get one. Bentley confirmed that it
is moving ahead with production of what it says will be "the most
powerful SUV in the market. It plans to launch the new model in 2016.
Read More
If you want something to look
elegant, you build it out of wood. If you want it to look cutting-edge,
on the other hand, you make it out of carbon fiber. So, what happens
when you combine the two materials? Well, you end up with something like
Peugeot's one-off GTi Surfboard Concept. Read More
Nvidia is currently a force to be reckoned with
when it comes to consumer graphics, with powerful cards such as the
GeForce GTX Titan sitting right at the top of benchmarking tables. The
company is also no slouch when it comes to professional graphics
solutions, and it's aiming to cement its position in the market with the
Quadro K6000. The new card offers a significant performance bump over
its predecessor, the Quadro 6000, providing five times higher compute
performance and almost twice the graphics capability of the older card.
Read More
If you were designing a robotic arm
for use in pharmaceutical research, you’d want to make it easy to
sterilize between uses. That’s why Kawasaki Heavy Industries has encased
its snazzy-looking new MSR05 arm entirely in stainless steel. Read More
If you're looking for a small tablet and you're working on a budget, then you can do much worse than the Nexus 7.
After today, though, the Google and Asus mini-tablet just became a much
better deal, with the arrival of a new second-generation Nexus 7 that
gets upgrades in every nook and cranny. Read More
Fundamental to the Internet of Things
is the idea that objects must be uniquely identifiable. RFID chips are
perfect for assigning objects a digital fingerprint, at least so far as
traditional manufacturing goes. But with the rise of 3D printing,
incorporating an RFID chip into your object means interrupting the
printing process. Now, scientists have come up with a way to 3D print a
unique tag, called an InfraStruct, inside the object as it's being
printed, and it's made possible by the slowly emerging field of terahertz imaging. Read More
If the midweek hump has you in a contemplative spirits, this stunning image of Earth as pictured by the Cassini
spacecraft from Saturn, 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers)
away, may offer a little context. The Earth and the Moon appear to be
seemingly insignificant specks from the perspective of the spacecraft
from its orbit around the gas giant, the second biggest planet in the
Solar System. But as it turns out, Cassini is actually talking us up.
Read More
Toyota begins testing Winglet on public roads
July 24, 2013
Toyota is taking to the public sidewalks of Japan
with the Winglet, its two-wheeled personal mobility robot that looks
like a miniature Segway. The trial, designed to test the Winglet's
safety and practicality in the real world, takes place in Tsukuba city's
Mobility Robot Experimental Zone, an area designated for just this type
of thing. The move points to a possible commercialization of the robot
in the future, which has been demonstrated only as a concept thus far.
Read More
If you want something to look
elegant, you build it out of wood. If you want it to look cutting-edge,
on the other hand, you make it out of carbon fiber. So, what happens
when you combine the two materials? Well, you end up with something like
Peugeot's one-off GTi Surfboard Concept. Read More
If you were designing a robotic arm
for use in pharmaceutical research, you’d want to make it easy to
sterilize between uses. That’s why Kawasaki Heavy Industries has encased
its snazzy-looking new MSR05 arm entirely in stainless steel. Read More
The news release announcing the availability of the Leap Motion controller and supporting software
isn't even cold yet, and the first applications that make use of its
gesture recognition capabilities are already making a break for freedom.
Asetniop
creator Zack Dennis has joined the fray with an alternative to the
physical keyboard he's calling DexType. Essentially a Google Chrome
browser plugin, the Dex-typist uses mid-air point and poke gestures to
select characters from a strip at the bottom of the screen. Read More
Bentley showed the world what an ultra-premium
SUV might look like at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. Based upon the mixed
reactions, it didn't seem clear if the world was really ready for an
ultra-premium SUV – but it's going to get one. Bentley confirmed that it
is moving ahead with production of what it says will be "the most
powerful SUV in the market. It plans to launch the new model in 2016.
Read More
If you want something to look
elegant, you build it out of wood. If you want it to look cutting-edge,
on the other hand, you make it out of carbon fiber. So, what happens
when you combine the two materials? Well, you end up with something like
Peugeot's one-off GTi Surfboard Concept. Read More
Nvidia is currently a force to be reckoned with
when it comes to consumer graphics, with powerful cards such as the
GeForce GTX Titan sitting right at the top of benchmarking tables. The
company is also no slouch when it comes to professional graphics
solutions, and it's aiming to cement its position in the market with the
Quadro K6000. The new card offers a significant performance bump over
its predecessor, the Quadro 6000, providing five times higher compute
performance and almost twice the graphics capability of the older card.
Read More
If you were designing a robotic arm
for use in pharmaceutical research, you’d want to make it easy to
sterilize between uses. That’s why Kawasaki Heavy Industries has encased
its snazzy-looking new MSR05 arm entirely in stainless steel. Read More
If you're looking for a small tablet and you're working on a budget, then you can do much worse than the Nexus 7.
After today, though, the Google and Asus mini-tablet just became a much
better deal, with the arrival of a new second-generation Nexus 7 that
gets upgrades in every nook and cranny. Read More
Fundamental to the Internet of Things
is the idea that objects must be uniquely identifiable. RFID chips are
perfect for assigning objects a digital fingerprint, at least so far as
traditional manufacturing goes. But with the rise of 3D printing,
incorporating an RFID chip into your object means interrupting the
printing process. Now, scientists have come up with a way to 3D print a
unique tag, called an InfraStruct, inside the object as it's being
printed, and it's made possible by the slowly emerging field of terahertz imaging. Read More
If the midweek hump has you in a contemplative spirits, this stunning image of Earth as pictured by the Cassini
spacecraft from Saturn, 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers)
away, may offer a little context. The Earth and the Moon appear to be
seemingly insignificant specks from the perspective of the spacecraft
from its orbit around the gas giant, the second biggest planet in the
Solar System. But as it turns out, Cassini is actually talking us up.
Read More
Toyota begins testing Winglet on public roads
July 24, 2013
Toyota is taking to the public sidewalks of Japan
with the Winglet, its two-wheeled personal mobility robot that looks
like a miniature Segway. The trial, designed to test the Winglet's
safety and practicality in the real world, takes place in Tsukuba city's
Mobility Robot Experimental Zone, an area designated for just this type
of thing. The move points to a possible commercialization of the robot
in the future, which has been demonstrated only as a concept thus far.
Read More
One of the more annoying behaviors in Windows 8
and 8.1 is that all of your files are set to open in native Metro-style
apps. For instance, if you're working on the desktop and view a picture
or PDF, it opens full screen in the associated app. If you're working
on a traditional computer without a touchscreen, this is frustrating to
say the least. Especially if you're on a laptop with a single screen.
Here's how to take control of your Windows 8 system and make your files
open in the desktop programs you want them to. Read More
Feeling cheerful? Why not remedy that by going
online and seeing what would happen if someone dropped an H-bomb on your
hometown? The browser-based Nukemap3D uses a Google Earth plug in to
produce a 3D graphic of the effects of a nuclear weapon on your city of
choice. All you have to do is pick your target, select your favorite
thermonuclear device, and you can see an animated mushroom cloud rising
over ground zero. Gizmag caught up with the creator, Dr. Alex
Wellerstein, to talk about Nukemap3D. Read More
Parkour is all about hurling yourself quickly and
efficiently past whatever obstacles are in your path while maintaining
as much momentum as possible. It's a challenge for humans, so how would
robots fare? In an effort to push the boundaries of robotic agility,
researchers at the University of Pennsylvania decided to find out by
teaching their RHex robot some Parkour moves. Read More
While there's no shortage of breathalyzers
capable of detecting if you’ve had one too many drinks, a prototype
device developed by researchers at NTT DOCOMO Research Laboratories
analyzes your breath to detect if your body is burning fat. Besides
letting users know if that exercise regime is actually shedding some
pounds, its creators say the portable sensor could be helpful for
diabetics and those trying to lose weight manage their daily diet. Read More
Located in Brisbane, Australia, One
Wybelenna is a luxurious property designed to achieve a high level of
sustainability – as evidenced by its turf roof which not only provides
insulation but also serves as home for a local species of bird. Read More
If you're shopping for a smallish tablet, we wouldn't blame you for narrowing it down to the iPad mini and Google's new Nexus 7.
But how do you choose between the two? Let Gizmag lend a hand, as we
compare the specs (and other features) of the two mini-tablets. Read More
Mounts for iPad are thick on the
ground, but the creators of MagBak are looking to stand out from the
crowd with a slimmed down approach to attaching the tablet to any
surface that also keeps the Smart Cover closed and provides a convenient
grip. Read More
Multi-tools have come a long way. At one time
they were simply pocket knives with a handful of other functions. Today
they're tooled smartphone cases, multifunctional snowboards, bike-specific Swiss Army tools and bottle-opening wallets.
The Survival Multi-Tool Shovel from AceCamp is advertised as a
multi-tool on steroids thanks to a design that incorporates wilderness
essentials like a hatchet, shovel, compass and bottle opener. Read More
The humble smartphone stylus may soon be gaining
new features, thanks to a seemingly simple piece of technology.
Developed by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
PhD student Sungjae Hwang, the MagPen is essentially just a plastic tube
covered in conductive tape, with conductive rubber tips at either end
and a coin-shaped magnet inserted half-way down its length. Via a custom
app, however, magnetometers already present in the phone are able to
determine where that magnet is in relation to the screen, and respond
with a variety of drawing and writing functions. Read More
Hot on the heels of the Leap Motion Controller,
which began shipping last week, Leap Motion has released the
accompanying software. The software allows people to control their
computers with natural movements, detecting both hand and finger
movements. In addition, the company launched its Airspace store which
includes apps specifically designed for use with the device. Read More
Usain Bolt is often described as the world's
fastest man. The reigning Olympic champion in the 100-meter and
200-meter sprints as well as a member of the Olympic champion 4x100
meter relay team, Bolt is the first man to win six Olympic gold medals
in sprinting, and is a five-time world champion. Long and lanky at 6 ft 5
in tall, he towers above the (mostly) much shorter sprinters. How has
he managed to come out on top for the past five years? A team of
physicists from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) has
analyzed Bolt's past performances in the 100-meter sprint to understand
what makes a record-breaker. Read More
Unveiled at the company's
Design@Home event in Munich this week, the Vision concept shows some of
the new design language and features we can expect from MINI in the
future, both inside and out. Read More
Think it takes more time to build a boat than
make a French omelette? Think again. The Quickboat is the first foldable
boat we've seen that a team of two can put together in a minute or
less. That's insanely fast compared to the build times of other foldable
boats we've covered, such as the Transporter (10 minutes) and the Smartkat
(20 minutes). In fact, the boat is so easy to construct says Deryck
Graham, the Managing Director of Australian company Quickboats, that one
person with a beer in hand could assemble one in three minutes even
with friends around to distract them. Read More
No athlete likes hitting “the wall.” You know,
that point at which their energy level suddenly plummets, and they just
can’t go on. Using something that looks like a temporary tattoo,
however, they may soon be able to receive a warning when they’re
approaching that threshold. Read More
When someone has a heart attack, the damaged
heart tissue doesn’t grow back. Instead, it’s replaced by non-beating
scar tissue. As a result, the heart is permanently weakened. Now,
however, researchers at Tel Aviv University are getting promising
results using patches that contain cardiac cells and gold nanofibers.
Read More
When the going gets tough, the tough reach for a
rugged tablet. Xplore Technologies has been kicking out ruggedized
tablets for over 15 years, but its new RangerX is both its lightest to
date, and its first to run Android. Developed for mobile workers rather
than adventurous consumer types, the durable ICS slate has a 10.1-inch
outdoor-viewable display, features a dual-core ARM processor, and packs
enough battery life for a full day's work. Read More
Depending on what part of the world you live in,
mosquitoes can range from being an annoyance, to acting as carriers of
life-threatening diseases such as malaria and West Nile virus. Sprays
containing deet do a fairly decent job of keeping the mozzies at bay,
but they’re also highly toxic. Less-nasty sprays, bracelets and other
devices are also available, although (as I can attest to from personal
experience) they tend not to be very effective. Now, however, a group of
California-based entrepreneurs are developing what could be the ultimate deterrent – the Kite Mosquito Patch. Read More
Lomography is looking to make old new again with
the reinvention of a 19th century lens known as the Petzval. This lens
creates an instantly recognizable image style famous for its sharpness,
color saturation, and swirly Bokeh effect in the background of the shot.
It also has an incredibly narrow depth of field, which creates a very
distinct look, especially for portraits. Read More
Within mere days of the announcement
that ground had been broken on China's super-tall Sky City skyscraper,
local media is reporting that workers have downed tools. Read More
With its new Project Logan mobile system-on-chip,
Nvidia has not so much raised the bar as blown the roof off
expectations of computer and game graphics on mobile devices. In an
impressive display of Logan's "oomph," the company has shown it running
Ira, an incredibly detailed and effects-heavy demo of a human head
animated in real time. The demo was itself unveiled in recent months,
and previously shown running on Nvidia's super-heavyweight GeForce Titan
graphics card. Read More
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