Flyfire: mini-helicopters create futuristic 3D display
Posted by admin in Design, Electronics, Robots on 24. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
The basis of most 3D systems is to "trick" our eyes into believing that an image shown on a flat screen has three dimensions, but what if you could throw away the screen entirely! It sounds simply too far-fetched and impossible to choreograph, but that’s exactly what researchers MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and Aerospace Robotics [...]
Computer takes guesswork out of anesthetizing
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 22. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Anesthetists cannot take their responsibilities lightly. Too little anesthetic and a patient may feel the whole procedure, too much and a patient might shuffle off this mortal coil. Researchers in the Canary Islands have taken the guesswork out of this thorny dilemma and developed a computer-controlled system that measures a patient’s hypnotic state and applies [...]
Click and Grow – growing plants via computer
Posted by admin in Computers, Design, Electronics on 22. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
As someone who has been responsible for the death of every single pot plant that has been placed in my charge, I was interested to discover a new computerized system that is designed to take the guesswork out of growing houseplants. It’s manufacturers say the Click & Grow system takes care of all a plant’s [...]
Eyeball-tracking earbuds let you control your MP3 player with a glance
Posted by admin in Design, Electronics on 20. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
How the heck does it do that? Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo has used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to demo a very cool new handsfree interface you can use to control an MP3 player using gestures you make with your eyeballs. Sensors in the earbuds themselves measure changes in electrical potential to convert [...]
Wally + Hermes = unconventional mega-yacht with space and style
Posted by admin in Concept, Design on 18. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Image Gallery Prior to the launching of the outrageous Wally Island megayacht two years ago, Monte Carlo-based Wally Yachts was probably best known for its millennium-award-winning Wallypower 118, but with the launch of Wally Hermes Yachts (WHY), a joint venture with French high fashion house Hermes, it will almost certainly be known for its first [...]
