New York City In 3D Thanks To Google Earth
With all the goods that Google has in Google Maps and Google Earth, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to see that Google has used all that input to come up with a 3D city effect of New York City. So now, instead of navigating boring city maps from the top-down, you [...]
Eee PC 1008P-KR Karim Rashid Edition Arrives In The UK
The fashion-conscious crowd will certainly remember the Asus Eee PC 1008P-KR that was designed by Karim Rashid, and whether you’ve been dreaming about that, you might want to take note that that netbook will be hitting the UK market as well, and will be popping into London that weekend. There will plus be a mouse [...]
Augmented Reality Makes It Into The Fashion Scene
We’ve started to see Augmented Reality (AR) pop up in all sorts of places nowadays, such as mobile phones, gaming, scavenger hunts and even buildings. So what’s the next bold step for AR? It seems like it’ll be the fashion scene. Designers by in London have come up with 3D animation “softwear”, which ties in [...]
iCharge And Square Both Vying For Your Credit Card
You might have heard of Square, which is a prototype payment device that plugs into your iPhone’s headphone jack, allowing it to be turned into a credit card terminal. Now it seems that Square is going to have some competition on its hands from the Berlin and London-based iCharge. On paper, they seem to operate [...]
Heineken Bot Might Be Your Next Best Friend
This is probably just what you need during the next World Cup finals. that robot, aptly called the Heineken Bot, was created by the folks by at Middlesex University, and displayed at the Kinetica Art Fair in London. It’ll steadily invent its rounds along a preprogrammed path, and all you have to do is hover [...]
Tanita FB-730 pedometer has more than meets the eye
Tanita managed to turn their common pedimeter, a $77 device known as the FB-730, into one that is able to send goods to a nearby RFID travel card which is similar to those found on train and bus networks in Japan, Hong Kong and London. Once you have arrived home, all relevant details can be [...]
Zoom Into Paper Maps The Old Fashioned Way
We’re all so used to multi-touch zooming nowadays, it really does build you feel intrigued when you can get hold of a traditional paper map that you can zoom in. No, you won’t be pinching the map with 2 fingers; rather it can be unfolded into a zoomed version of the map, giving you a [...]