Pretty much everyone has a mobile phone today, in all shapes and sizes and different capabilities. There are smartphones with touchscreens and then there are some pretty cool concept phones out there. The Elfoid certainly fits the category of strange, and I’ll admit it, rather creepy. This Japanese invention, developed in Osaka University with the […]
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Hand-held Medical Scanner Detect Health Level
It certainly sounds something straight out of Star Trek, but believe it or not, this scanner is reality. The scanner is able to detect if a patient is healthy or not just by pointing it at the skin. Development on the scanner was carried out over a period of five years by a group lead […]
Massive 3D Touchscreen
Touchscreens are always fun to play with and they’re definitely a cool element to have with an interactive audience. There have been many forms that the touchscreen has taken on, even as ice, but I think this is one of the coolest (no pun intended) one yet.
RD Mute, Android App That Mutes Your Phone
Well, there are obviously plenty of reasons for you to mute your phone. I do it when I’m working, sleeping, driving in my car, and at the cinema. Whatever your reasons for doing it, it’s not always ideal for you to have to pick up your phone and fiddle with the settings. I know I’m […]
Epson Launches A3+ Inkjet Printer: Ensures Saleable Medium Quality Prints
Most of the time, artists, designers, photographers and the like have to rely heavily on printing companies in order to get proper saleable good-quality prints that are able to last and meet the customer’s criteria. At the other side of the spectrum, home printers nowadays are becoming cheaper and much more affordable to the laymen. […]
Autonomous Quadroters; Building Our Way to the Future
Autonomous robots certainly aren’t a brand new technology, but I think it gets a little more interesting when these robots start to be able to build things, not just preform tasks.
Real-Time Speech Translation with Google Translate for Android
Here’s another translation app for you guys, and this time it’s with a twist. Remember the iphone app Wordlens that does real-time translation of text? Well, Google has taken that a step further and has added a feature on Google Translate in translating speech in real-time. Check out the video demo here.
DIY Briefcase opens at the Right GPS Coordinates
I’m always amazed by the sheer ingenuity some people have for making things out of scratch, and this case is certainly something that falls into that category. Here’s a nifty little case made by Arduino Forum member RickP, that can only be unlocked when it is at the correct GPS coordinates that have been programmed […]
Legocamera automatic pinhole camera of Lego Mindstorms
Pinhole cameras can be made from pretty much anything, and you could make pretty much anything out of Lego Mindstorms. So it comes as pretty much a no-brainer when someone did combine the two. This is the brainchild of Basil Shikin, who has created the Legocamera, a fully automatic pinhole camera built of Lego Mindstorms.
Instant Translation of Foreign Signs with this iphone App
The future is certainly now with this interesting new iphone app developed by Quest Visual. In a mix of image recognition technology and augmented reality, the app, Word Lens, functions by having the user point their iphone camera at a foreign language sign and having it instantly translated in video by the app on their […]