Balancing Vest helps one get around
Boffins at UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT) have come up with a vest that contains accelerometers located across the shoulders and pneumatic balloon actuators which allows those who have lost their sense of balance due to injury or disease to regain their walking ability. The accelerometers which are located on the [...]
Vest turns a dog into a 4-legged Internet
A student at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design named Laura Boffi invented that concept for a vest to be worn by messenger dogs. The dog would be trained to find public (during a catastrophe, in the mountains, whatever) and sit in front of them so they can type their name and record a voice [...]
Tactile Gaming Vest Is Out To Hurt You
This Tactile Gaming Vest isn’t the first force feedback vest that we’ve encountered, and hopefully it won’t be the last. that one was created at the University of Pennsylvania, and is designed to let its wearer feel a punch or gunfire hit in sync with what’s happening on screen. Aside from enhancing the game, and [...]
Solar Vest aims to compose batteries obsolete
For those of you living near or along the Equator, might we propose picking up the Solar Vest from Chinavasion? It boasts 5V, 6V, 9V and 12-20V output alongside eight (yes, count them, eight!) capability connectors and seven device connectors. Just in case it seems to be cloudy that specific day, you can always boost [...]
Dectectair vest helps you avoid pollution
The price to pay for being an industrialized nation would be living with pollution. We’re pretty certain when our forefathers came to North America a few hundred years ago, everything was in pristine condition – fast forward to today and we have clogged up rivers, polluted seas and the ever present problem of smog. The [...]
WIND master-slave controller
Future Robotics Technology Center (aka fuRo) has come up with a nifty master-slave controller known as WIND (Wireless Intelligent Networked Device). WIND consists of a bunch of tiny System-on-Chip processors and 3D position sensors which are mounted to a vest that senses your body’s movements. All corresponding movements will be translated into commands for a [...]