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 […]
Category Archives: Gadgets
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 […]
Elfoid: The Human-Shaped Mobile Phone
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 […]
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.
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.