Living Kitchen project
Love all the moving parts that the Transformers movies featured? Well, you can evoke the same sense of awe and wonder with the Living Kitchen project that boasts faucets shooting out at your head, trays and containers that pop up all by the place for your convenience. Thanks to designer Michaël Harboun, he thinks that [...]
Experimental robot mouth
Check out that experimental robot mouth from Japan (where else) that is a pretty worthy attempt to teach robots to talk – while it is still a lengthy way off from robots being as intelligent as the ones we see in sci-fi movies, at least it is a start. The mouth right now looks more [...]
Algae could be harvested for electricity
Boffins at Stanford University are currently attempting to generate electrical current by tapping into the electron activity of individual algae cells. that has been proven somewhat successful with a specially designed gold electrode which has been pushed through a cell membrane, followed by sealing it up after that. The cell remains alive and will continue [...]
Human arm transmits broadband signals
Hmmm, some boffins from South Korea managed to use human skin as a medium to transmit input, with a recent experiment capable of touching the 10Mbps mark – putting many World Wide Web connections around the world to shame. that experiment relied on small, flexible electrodes to achieve such a aftereffect, and could possibly be [...]
Liquid-adhesion device grants you Spider-Man powers
Let’s have a show of hands here – how many of you out there wished you were bitten by a radioactive spider (and survive the ordeal) only to be endowed with Spider-Man’s powers? Well, we believe that many public wished they were the webslinger during their childhood, but that fantasy could soon become a reality [...]
Power-generating rubber could be the future
The boffins at Princeton and Caltech have come up with something which could revolutionize the future – a power-generating rubber material which has the potential to harness walking and other movements in order to charge electronic devices. that material comprises of nanoribbons that are made out of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) alongside a ceramic substance [...]
MIT Surround Vision is a blast
Posted by on April 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The brainy boffins at MIT have come up with Surround Vision which is a pretty interesting method when it comes to breaking the perception barrier. How does it do so, you ask? Well, Surround Vision will enable a viewer to pan around a specific scene which is located ouside the perspective that is limited by [...]
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