PhD candidate Bum chul Kwon shows off his work on the ReadingMate: an enabling technology that allows multi-taskers to exercise their minds and bodies simultaneously by reading as they run. (via Purdue) As more information becomes available to t...
www.youtube.com/watch We have seen the Microsoft Kinect used for many things besides gaming. However, the latest use of the Kinect, which comes from a Japanese clothing store, United Arrows, may create one of the creepiest advertisement schemes ...
Atlas, a Boston Dynamics creation (via DARPA) As robotic technology increases more and more emergency civil agencies, first responders and military units incorporate them into their respective arsenals. Doctors will soon be able to use remote im...
www.youtube.com/watch Tired of cruising from place to place on your typical 4-wheeled transportation machine? Have you already seen all that the sky has to offer high above on your private jet? Or maybe your private yacht isn’t quite meeting you...
Volvo’s new Pedestrian and Cyclist Detection System monitors the distance between pedestrians and vehicles while also tracking their movement path. (via Volvo) Motor vehicle related accidents make up a large amount of preventable injuries and f...
Squito, toss this camera for eyes on a dangerous location (via serveball) Photographers know how difficult it can be to get those perfect shots. More so if there trying to capture images during extreme conditions such as fires, foreign insurgent...
"oh, small helicopter... why can't we fly away?" Micro-helicopter, Nano-Falcon, wows audiences at the Tokyo Toy Show (via CCP) Everyone has an inner child no matter how old one becomes. Some things we grow up playing with as children can be just...
(Left) A face getting squished by the Keio University's rolling pin. (Right) It does not roll like a regular kitchen tool, but houses a series of rollers and sensors to track what the user wants to do. (via Keio University) Have you ever felt li...
www.youtube.com/watch Technology is changing and shaping our culture in so many ways that it should not come as a surprise to see robots playing music. Music is a large part of all cultures. It has been with us throughout history from the good t...
(Left) Controller parts (Right) Lap pad (via Caleb Kraft & Hackaday) Gaming, computer access and use of digital devices can help any person learn and have fun. The ways in which they are used are not always as simple as we take them to be. D...
Leap Motion controller (via Leap Motion) The Leap Motion interface is just a couple of weeks away from sitting on your desk. Fortunately, unlike other secretive Natural User Interface (NUI) manufacturers, the makers of the Leap released all nece...
QUADEYE military IR headset (via Elbit Systems) Infrared optical devices can be extremely expensive, depending on the application for which they are being used. This is especially true when it comes to science and military applications such as c...
(Left) Cheetah-bot on its own showing a cute, familiar, cat-like stance. (Right) Shown for size comparison (via EPFL) EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, has been busy of late designing several impressive biomechanical r...
(via eyeSight) It is surprising that with all the devices and electronics that have built-in camera systems that nobody thought sooner to develop a way to incorporate some kind of gestural control to go along with them. Well that was the case un...
RoboRoach "models" (via Backyard Brain) Sometimes science can be a little gruesome especially when it concerns progress in areas such as the medical field. Other times it can be a bit on the strange side, which is the case when it come...
players.brightcove.net/.../index.html The list of mind-controlled robotics keeps growing. New advancements are showing high accuracy and precision without any of the surgical steps required by some brain-computer interfaces. A team of researcher...
A dunebot at the Cornell Cup USA (via Cornell University & engadget) The Cornell Cup USA, which just wrapped up this past weekend in Walt Disney World, is an Intel sponsored event pinning the nation’s top engineering students in a competitio...
The Mexican 1000 rally is the Daytona of off-road racing. Beginning in 1967 and founded by the same people who began the National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA), off-road enthusiasts from around the world all envy those who are fortunate enough ...
WorldKit in action, detecting objects on the left. The projector and Kinect depth camera on the right (via Chris Harrison & WorldKit) Despite the negative response to the XBOX ONE’s Kinect ever watching eye, the tech can really change how we...
www.youtube.com/watch In the future, a robot will come into your room, recognize the bed you sleep on, realize its environment is a bedroom and then it will know to look in the closet where you are hiding. Fun… or scary? The processes that would...
Logo (via Rainforest Connection) We’ve all seen them before; those cell phone recycling bins found in most office supply and electronic stores like Office Depot or Radio Shack. Those used phones typically either get recycled for their rare-earth...
The Cat 789D Mining Truck. If the driver of this monster fell asleep... many will suffer (via CAT) If there were two things that should not go together it would be drowsiness and operating a mining machine. It’s not hard to imagine the destructi...
(Left) LightUp learning app. Helps users build complicated circuits. (Right) LightUp is bringing Arduino in tow as well (via LightUp) Learning about electronics can be an ambiguous process, difficult to visualize and full of questions that are l...
(via Carnegie Mellon University) Have you ever had the feeling your being ‘watched’? Chances are at some point you have, especially if you have ever been in a store, gas station or even a street corner. While this may be bothersome to both crimi...
