As our technology advances, the size of our gadgets seem to have decreased, and the same can be said for our mobile devices too. As much as everyone loves wants their tablets and mobile phone displays to be large, there is sometimes still the issue of portability. Here’s some very promising research from the Samsung […]
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Flexible PaperPhone: The Future Flexible Mobile Phone?
Mobile phones today are multitasking machines that we all know and love, but let’s take it to another, more flexible level. In this case, it’s literal with the Flexible PaperPhone, the world’s first of its kind. Developed by a team of researchers from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, they believe that this new communication device […]
World’s First Zombie-proof House
Time for a little architectual geekery this week, with the world’s first proper zombie-proof house. Anyone who’s ever watched a decent zombie movie (28 Days Later, anyone?) or played one of those nightmare-inducing zombie games (say, Left 4 Dead), will want this zombie-proof house as their humble abode. Designers KWK Promes has dubbed the design […]
German Factory Manufacturing Human Skin Goes Online
Technology today is speeding along at a speed at which is almost incomprehensible. Yesterday’s science fiction may very well become today’s science fact. Though are some facts stranger than fiction? It certainly must be true as we are now able to mass-produce human skin at a low cost for clinical testing and other uses. The […]
The Collector: Conceptual USB Device To Turn microSD Cards Into Refillable Thumb Drive
Ever wonder what you are going to do with all your microSD cards that are lying around? Most of them must only have a few of gigabytes in capacity, and they’re so small and easy to lose anyway, if they’re not sitting nice and snug in a device. A lot of them must have come […]
Tourists Model As Their Very Own 3D Souveneirs
This is a rather more interesting take as souvenirs go, because it isn’t every day you can strike a pose on the street, and instead of having it immortalised in your digital camera, you get to bring it home with you as your very own 3D-printed sculpture. For two weekends in January 2011, on Barcelona’s […]
Young Engineer Wins Prize for Electronic Drum Trousers
I’ve always love the idea of incorporating musical instruments into our everyday clothing. There was one where a keyboard was built into a jacket. Now, a 17 year old student of Hymers College in England has created a pair of jeans that double as a drum kit. Aseem Mishra won the senior age group title […]
360-Degree 3D Fog Display
By now, 3D displays are nothing new, with 3D being rampant everywhere from the cinemas, to your home theatre system and even to handheld gaming devices. Some of these systems have improved upon the idea, with the first step in removing the ever prevalent 3D glasses. Now, the researchers at Osaka Universiti‘s Oshiro Lab have […]
Kinect Puffersphere: DIY Creepy Eyeball That Tracks You Around The Room
Kinect hacks are aplenty out there, and there are many strange and wonderful things that people have come up with to make the virtual and real world a much more interactive place. This little do it yourself is sure to be a favourite amongst Lord of the Rings fans. The ‘hack’ allows for one to […]
Panasonic Solar-Powered Wireless Charging Table
In this day and age of the technological era, we are still highly dependent on non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels. In the move to greener and more environmentally friendly sources of energy, we have turned to the power of the Sun. In this case, I think it’s an cool move that Panasonic has […]