Here’s Paul Gierow’s “big ball of connectivity” – satellite communications anywhere, anytime, via a blow-up antenna – No, it’s not a giant beach ball. It’s an ultralight, ultraportable antenna tucked inside an inflatable shell that can pull down a superfast broadband satellite connection at any location. The GATR-Com is designed for disaster-relief responders, far-flung video […]
Pop Sci on the Fab@Home project – Roboticist Hod Lipson wants you to stop shopping and use his portable 3-D printer to make your own stuff. As a child, Hod Lipson lost Lego pieces constantly. Now the 39-year-old director of Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab can build replacement parts on the spot. Completed last year, […]
I really like the Contex 3D printers, here’s a sales video from their site (the Z printer 450 does color 3D models)… – Link.
Microsoft is showing off their multi-touch table “Surface” complete with RFID, wireless, sensors and a whole lot of other things (watch the Popular Mechanics video on how it works)… You can’t buy one, but they will be appearing in a couple casinos and some stores to demo… Link. More: Surface computing – Link. Surface @ […]
MagicMouse, a three-dimensional computer mouse was designed by a team of five WPI undergraduates – …the mouse uses an array of receivers to track the motion of a tiny ultrasonic transmitter worn on the index finger like a ring. The unique design, the first radical change in the computer mouse in more than 40 years, […]
DNA worldwide can print your genetic code on your shirt, help figure out who’s related to who and they claim they can tell a new Mother if their kid is a boy or a girl 6 weeks in… Once a woman has taken the test, she sends her sample directly to the company’s laboratory for […]
This is sorta scary- billboards that count eyeballs, but that just means someone is going to make an IR array at the right frequency, point it at these cameras and you’ll see a whole new type of click fraud… Google unveiled an eye-counting video camera Tuesday (May 8) that could enable the company to extend […]
