Author: Gabrielle Taylor
Biotex programme "intelligent textiles"
God knows we’re not very good at keeping track of our own health as a species, so it’s a good thing science is bringing us smart clothes that will keep an eye on how we’re doing physically. The Biotex programme “intelligent textiles” are designed for recovering hospital patients, people with chronic illnesses and injured athletes, to monitor sweat acidity, salinity and perspiration rate. By tracking metabolic changes the expectation is that infections and relapses will generally be easier to catch before they become severe. It is expected that future versions will have military applications, to allow mobile hospitals to track battlefield injuries. [GT]
Smart clothes to monitor health
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The Pentagon brought new meaning to “don’t ask, don’t tell” with its undercover plans to develop a ‘Gay Bomb’ chemical weapon to, er, turn enemy soldiers gay so they’d start being, er, gay, on the battlefield, instead of fighting, as part of its exploration of non-lethal weapons development. “The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another,” said Edward Hammond, of Berkeley’s Sunshine Project. [GT]
Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A ‘Gay Bomb’ (via Metafilter)
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The Meraki Solar Powered Outdoor Wi-Fi Access Kit spreads a broadband wireless signal up to 700 feet in all directions. When you add an antenna, the range increases to six to EIGHTEEN (!!) miles. It’s $99 but it means that the entire neighborhood will have broadband. Not only is that a superlatively good deal on the face of it, personally that would mean that I would no longer have to worry about trying to find places in the neighborhood with internet access, and I’d probably save $99 on coffee in the first month. [GT]
Meraki solar powered outdoor wi-fi acess kit (via SciFi Tech)
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LiveScribe Smartpen: Flytop for grown-ups
The LiveScribe Smartpen lets you link audio to the notes you’re writing on the special dotted paper, and it also stores the notes you’re writing inside it electronically. You can then download the audio and holograph to your computer and index all the notes. If this thing is half as convenient as it claims, it’ll show up everywhere from grocery shopping lists to making classroom notes actually valuable to meaning I don’t have to tape record my interviews and then transcribe them painfully later, since my notes will again be in a usable format. It stores 100 hours of audio and you can print out the special paper it needs on most inkjets or laser printers (it doesn’t oblige you to continually buy expensive consumables to keep it useful). It also has an open SDK so geeks can expand it. The pen is projected to cost less than $200, meaning I will have one. [GT]
LiveScribe: Turn your paper on [via Gizmodo]
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Why settle for a Hello Kitty or Dr. Who cell phone charm when you can have middle management workers spiraling downwards into alcoholism? Either it’ll provide you with a salutory lesson and steer you back onto the dry and narrow, or, you’ll have a little plastic friend hanging from your mobile. Either way, it’s 400円. [GT]
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Wii Crystal Chameleon case mod
Already willing to risk your Wii’s life and safety in pursuit of blingification? Try the Wii Crystal Chameleon case mod, which makes your Wii a jellyfish-like box glowing red, blue, cyan, gray, orange, green or purple, as your whim dictates. Disassembly video and installation video thoughtfully provided. There’s also the small matter of the bill, which is $55, but since you bought a Wii instead of an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3, you should have plenty of extra folding money lying around. [GT]
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While the laser-sighted pool cue may look cool to geeks, taking this into any purist pool hall is a great way to get stomped. The cue has a small crosshairs projector in its tip, which places a big red X on the white cueball. The better your aim, the bigger the X. The creators, CueSight, have thoughtfully provided video of the laser-sighted pool cue in action so you can see exactly how it makes robots of us all. $150. [GT]
CueSight laser-sighted pool cue (via Coolest Gadgets)
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Qigo (via Engadget)
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This may look like a regular 4 stone cat on a leash but it’s actually the Cat Of Tomorrow! The Ashera is a blend of the Asian Leopard cat, African Serval and an unnamed domestic breed (probably “alley”). It will grow to be 13-15 kilos. Lifestyle Pets also claims to be developing a tiny dog which I guess can be fed to the cat. My cat Lacerda weighs over 10 kilos, and what did he cost? Nothing, he just showed up in the kitchen one day. Feel free to drop by any I’ll see if I can turn up any of his brothers. But if you want your cat high tech, it’ll be $22,000 – or $28,000 if you want to raise it from a kitten. Plus $1500 shipping. [GT]
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