Author: Gabrielle Taylor
Car Seat Knows If You're Sleepy
After studying the driving habits of 100 test subjects, researchers from the University of Tokyo, Oita University, the Shimane Institute of Health Science, and Delta Tooling, developed a car seat which can tell if you're about to have an…
Giraffe Video Conferencing Robot
While videoconferencing theoretically can save thousands of dollars per meeting and cut down on unnecessary travel in a big way, good videoconferencing hardware is prohibitively expensive still and bad hardware, such as the average (or even above-average) webcam is…
WaveBox Portable Microwave goes on vacation with you
What are we, animals, that we have to cook our food over a fire if we want it to be hot in the outdoors? No longer! The The WaveBox Portable Microwave is specifically designed to go on the road…
New space suits powered by ear hair?
Prestin, a protein in ear hair – a substance you likely hitherto thought of as a cosmetic annoyance, if at all – converts tiny electrical charges into sound amplification in the ear, and also can convert vibration into tiny…
Bio-art interfaces life and art
The first really new art form of the 21st century is taking hold: bio-art. Bio-art ranges from Adam Zaretsky playing Englebert Humperdinck to E.coli for 48 hours to see how it reacted (it produced antibodies to, seemingly, try to…
Spy Cye takes robot voyeurism to the next level
If you thought the Net Tansor was already a bridge too far, the Spy Cye will take you all the way across the Channel. Essentially a webcam on wheels which you can control over the web, the Spy Cye…
Sonaki Vitamin Massage Shower lets you C the day
The very snazzy-looking Sonaki Vitamin Massage Shower gives you a mega-dose of vitamin C as it makes you squeaky clean. Vitamin C reduces chlorine, which means your hair and skin will be less dry, chelates heavy metals, and makes…
South Korea drafts "Robot Ethics Charter"
"Imagine if some people treat androids as if the machines were their wives. Others may get addicted to interacting with them just as many Internet users get hooked to the cyberworld," said Park Hye-Young of the robot team at…
Make your iPod mini flash based
Don't toss that old iPod Mini! (Not that you were going to, anyhow, since you could at least stick it on a pin and wear it on your hat like a badge of honour.) The warranty's void anyhow, so…
Harnessing the Power of Sweaty People
It's only logical that where you've got people generating heat, someone's going to want them to generate light. In this case, that means a gym in Hong Kong has hooked up batteries to their exercise machines, so that the…
