40-inch multitouch desk set for CES debut
Posted by admin in Computers, Design on 25. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
Could multi-touch desks be the wave of the future? ExoPC thinks so, and has posted a video of its new 40-inch multitouch desk on YouTube – a desk it plans on officially announcing at the Consumer Electronics Show at the beginning of January. The teaser video (below) doesn’t offer a ton of information about [...]
PreVue would offer parents a live 4D baby watch window during pregnancy
Posted by admin in Design, Mobile technology, Science on 30. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
The PreVue concept from industrial designer Melody Shiue proposes using 4D ultrasound technology to enhance the bond between a growing fetus and its parents Checking the health of a baby inside the womb using ultrasound has been going on for a good many years and can be a useful tool for detecting problems early. A [...]
Screechy Theremin Fork Whines When You Try to Eat the Food Impaled On It
Posted by admin in Design on 26. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
This fork, demonstrated at Interaction 2011 and profiled by DigInfo, has an embedded theremin that begins making its unique and oddly unpleasant screeching noises once it touches a person, completing a circuit. But the pitch of the theremin changes based on the feedback from the fork’s tines: The more resistance it encounters, as when you’re [...]
Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights
Posted by admin in Concept, Design on 12. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
Someday, This Tree Could Be Producing Its Own Light nauright on Flickr Taiwanese researchers have come up with the elegant idea of replacing streetlights with trees, by implanting their leaves with gold nanoparticles. This causes the leaves to give off a red glow, lighting the road for passersby without the need for electric power. This [...]
Augmented Reality Renders Concrete Block Invisible
Posted by admin in Hi-tech on 04. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
The amazing disappearing concrete block Clever augmented reality applications are becoming the natural byproducts of our modern computers–computers that are tiny, have eyes and other location-aware sensors, and are able to place a synthetic layer of information on our view of the world around us. The latest is this "invisible" block of solid concrete dreamed [...]
