Tag: gabrielle
Noise cancelling technology for windows
For once, vibrations are causing less noise. Thilo Bein, head of the business unit for energy, environment and health at Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF, has a German team working with treating glass with small…
From the size of that projector, you're very happy to see me
So it turns out stealing a Toshiba multimedia projector by stuffing it down the front of your trousers is not as difficult as you might think. All it requires is you keep going, no matter how compressed your genitals…
Desktop Factory 3D printer brings rapid prototyping to YOU!
In rapid prototyping, you design a real-world object in 3D software, and then use a 3D printer to "print" it into existence. By you, I mean you, since Desktop Factory 3D printers are aimed at home use. Can't find…
Bloggers "crossed the line" in posting HD-DVD breaking code, sez industry
Over 700,000 pages have now published the HD DVD key which exploded on digg.com last week, and unsurprisingly, the AACS group controlling HD DVD encryption is rousing its legal muscle. AACS chair Michael Ayres also reminded the public that…
Artificial snot for electronic noses
Scientists at my alma mater, Leicester, and their fellows over at Warwick, have created artificial snot for electronic noses. The faux-mucus improves sensitivity of the faux-nose by a huge factor, allowing them to pick out a wider range of…
5 inventions that shouldn't have been made
Pull up a Monday morning cuppa and save your energy – the project you're working on might be one of those which shouldn't have been made. My personal fave is the USB-powered barbeque, since it reminds me of the…
Solar thermal power plant
Harnessing the power of six hundred high-tech mirrors, with thousands more mirrors en route to installation, a new solar thermal plant outside Seville shows the way to the ultimate clean power source. Light is focused on a 40 storey…
Alien voice changer must not be used to make threatening phone calls!
The Voice Changer allows you to mimic — no, I'm sorry, you ARE an Alien when you speak into the Omnitrix-shaped Electronic Voice Changer. It has Greymatter, Heatblast, and Fourarms as pre-sets, and also allows you to "create wild…
Zap-X electric car recharges in as little as ten minutes
While I understand that new electric cars must look like conventional ones to give new buyers a soothing sense that they are getting a car that will function as well as any other (and not some freakazoid chunk of…
LawnBott even puts itself away after the mow
With the proliferation of lawn-mowing robots, why should you even leave your house? Sit inside, tell the (for example) LawnBott to go out and manicure your green for you, and it even puts itself away after its done clipping….
