Tag: tech Digest
Wall gear clock turns your clock inside out
The wall gear clock makes some profound statement about time and technology by turning your clock inside out, or possibly is art, or may just be a really difficult clock to keep clean. Designed to let you see the entrails of your busily whirring timepiece, the Wall Gear Clock goes for £75.00 (though is temporarily out of stock). [GT]
Wall gear clock (viacoolest-gadgets)
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Robotic lawnmower kills Danish man
The robotic lawnmower concept is terrific in all directions — they’re electric, so they don’t generate ghastly diesel emissions, they tend to mow daily and mulch the clippings so the lawn is healthier and there’s no clumps of grass to dispose of, and they spare your precious time. However, they do still involve heavy duty spinning blades and require caution, as demonstrated in Denmark recently when a municipal worker was killed by a robotic lawnmower. The mower became unbalanced, tipped over, and fell onto the worker, killing him instantly with a blade to the head. Video of the mower itself, the Spider ILD 01, after the jump. [GT]
Robot lawnmower kills Danish man (via Engadget)
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Marka27 mini god speakers
Bow down before your new gods, mortals! Dreamed into existence by the entity known as marka27,the vinyl figures stand at an imposing 16 inches. They plug into any music player via a built-in 1.5mm audio jack and are powered by a 9-volt battery. The gods will manifest themselves at the San Diego Comic Con in July through the auspices of Toy Tokyo.
marka27 (viatechnabob)
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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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Meraki solar powered outdoor Wi-Fi access kit
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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Drunk salaryman cell phone strap
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]
Drunk salaryman cell phone strap(in Japanese) (viaTokyo Mango)
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