Textspresso machine takes coffee orders through text message
Posted by admin in Design, Robots on 17. Apr, 2012 | 0 Comments
A start-up in Seattle has created the ‘Textspresso,’ a coffee machine that accepts and prepares specialized coffee orders via text message and will soon also print directly onto the coffee’s top layer of cream. When Seattle-based start-up, Zipwhip, wanted to show off its new cloud texting platform, it needed a way to demonstrate just how [...]
The stem, a citrus spritzer that stabs directly into fruit
Posted by admin in Design on 11. Apr, 2012 | 0 Comments
The Stem is a teeny little bit of plastic a sort of invention incubator and store, that looks like the top half of a spritzer bottle. Instead of having an actual bottle or vessel on the bottom, filled with the liquid to be spritzed, the Stem ends abruptly with a serrated edge. To use it, [...]
Speech jamming gun freezes any talker mid-sentence
Posted by admin in Design, Medicine, Science on 02. Mar, 2012 | 0 Comments
Want to be the kind of person who causes entire rooms to fall silent when you enter? Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tskuba and Ochanomizu University in Japan have created a speech jamming gun that takes the words right out of speakers’ mouths using a clever trick of [...]
The world’s first 3-D, free-standing invisibility cloak conceals from all angles
Posted by admin in Design, Science on 27. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
The search for the perfect invisibility cloak lumbers onward, but that lumbering is starting to pick up speed. We’re hearing more and more these days about metamaterials, the possibilities of time cloaking, and other such future-stuff. And today, from deep in the heart of Texas, we get another tantalizing finding: UT researchers have, for the [...]
Powering insect cyborgs with an implantable biofuel cell
Posted by admin in Alternative energy, Design on 09. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
Research into developing insect cyborgs for use as first responders or super stealthy spies has been going on for a while now. Most research has focused on using batteries, tiny solar cells or piezoelectric generators to harvest kinetic energy from the movement of an insect’s wings to power the electronics attached to the insects. Now [...]
