Tag: gabrielle taylor
Superthunderstingcar go!
Have you ever wondered how they did cartoons in the days before computer animation? Well, it was not normally like this. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (the comedy duo who brought us the very obscene Derek and Clive, and…
Jonny Glow: Toilet Locater
Jonny Glow Toilet Locater [sic] is not a mystery radio show from the 1940's but a useful way for people (and by people I mean males) to make sure their aim is correct in the middle of the night….
RFID chips in surgical sponges
Surgical sponges and other equipment being left in patients constitute a serious health hazard, but so much hardware is involved in even simple surgery that keeping track can be very difficult. RFID is ideal for this situation, adding an…
MagicTouch USB Touchscreen Kit
Touchscreens are awesome, but historically very expensive, so the MagicTouch USB Touchscreen Kit is plenty exciting. Allowing you to convert your conventional screen to a touchscreen at about the same price as the screen itself ($160 for a 12"-14"…
Nokia Coffin tops geek death wishes
Some people want to be buried with their mobiles, but how about being buried in a mobile? The Ga carpenters of Ghana can carve coffins (or smaller chests) in any shape that you want including Ferraris, shoes, beer bottles,…
Sanki and Okamura Entryway gives wind showers to pedestrians
Dust, pollen, and volatile organic chemicals pose serious health hazards, especially in modern sealed office buildings. To address this, Okamura Corp. and Sanki Engineering have developed a new kind of wind tunnel, which basically sucks (or blows, as you…
USB Roll Up Drum Kit
The USB Roll Up Drum Kit rollup drum kit has six different pad areas which can have preselected sounds programmed to them. The enclosed software helps teach you how to play then later you can record your own songs….
Silicon chip mimics brain cells
“A repairman doesn’t need to understand music to fix your broken CD player," says Ted Berger. He and Vijay Srinivasan are working at USC’s Center for Neural Engineering to develop silicon chips that'll fix everything from momentarily memory lapses…
Ear Light solves the book-light problem, Borg-style
The problem of reading in bed while your partner sleeps probably won't be solved properly until virtual reality allows us to pretend we're actually lying in bed reading alone (which is one of the saddest uses of VR I've…
Put your DNA on the page with Ko-Sin Printing
The ultimate in vanity press: Tokyo-based Ko-sin Printing has developed a printing process that blends DNA with the ink used for printing. Ko-sin has already put the technology to use in some self-published autobiographies whose title pages are printed…
