Funky stuff, man!
If you’ve ever wished that things weren’t so stressed and life wasn’t moving so fast, then you might appreciate the technology that German art student Lorenz Potthast has embedded in his Decelerator Helmet.
If you’ve ever fancied yourself as a bit of an author, there’s never been a better time to dive in and try your hand at writing that blockbuster novel. Amazon, self-publishing and Kindle e-books have revolutionized the way books are bought and consumed, and the result is there’s more opportunity than ever before.
Western Digital has just announced the first of a range of Ultra Slim WD Blue 2.5 inch hard drives, which at 5mm in size are about half the thickness of an average smartphone. Now pushing aside for the moment the astounding engineering involved in getting a 5400 rpm spinning platter, motor and all the electronics into such an incredibly skinny form factor, the fact that the company is offering an initial capacity of 500GB suggests that it won’t be long…
A refrigerator that dispenses cold water is nothing new. But one that heats water for tea is amazing. General Electric’s new Café French door refrigerator features a hot water dispenser that delivers 10 ounces of hot filtered water in minutes. Irs four pre-programmed settings include 90 degrees for warm water, 150 degrees for hot cocoa, 170 degrees for hot tea and 185 degrees for soup. While this new feature was a challenge for GE’s design team, they figured out how…
Billed as the world’s first ever foldable wheelchair wheels, these Morph Wheels actually started life as a folding bicycle design, but the developers quickly realized that there was a huge market of wheelchair users desperate to make their chairs more convenient to transport from place to place.
Wherever you’re driving one thing is a given…trucks and cyclists don’t get along. One’s too big and the other too darn uppity to be real close friends, which is why there are far too many accidents involving both trying to occupy the same piece of tarmac. Unfortunately we know who always comes off worse.
Scientists at Panasonic, along with Belgium based researchers at IMEC, have developed a new DNA testing machine on a chip that can deliver results in an hour, instead of the current 3 or 4 days. The device, which is about half the size of a business card, contains all the mechanics to process a blood sample, including a tiny electromagnetic pump which pushes the sample along a full blown analysis and processing line inside the chip.
There are days when your eyes just can’t seem to handle looking at a computer screen anymore. If you’re at work, you have to force yourself to look on, and all you end up getting is a headache. Our eyes are bombarded with so much of the cooler end of the light spectrum from fluorescent light that we just can’t take it all.
Yeah sure, winter’s really good fun if you’re into skiing downhill at unfeasibly high speeds or you enjoy hurling lumps of ice at people’s faces for a laugh, but for the rest of us it’s a disaster. All that icy rain and brain-sapping wind chill makes it hard to get out of bed, let alone slog about doing boring stuff like work.
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Photography and technology go together like apple pie and butter…no wait…anyway, the fact is that people are discovering the joys of combining smartphones and digital cameras to achieve more with their photographic activities.
The world is rapidly running out of ways to economically cool down data centers like those used for services like Google, eBay, Amazon and other huge companies. A typical 10-megawatt data center uses the equivalent of the energy of a small town, of which at least half is used to cool down all those humming computer cabinets. The problem is getting so bad that Facebook recently relocated its European data center to the Arctic circle in order to keep it…
We did a mashup for fun. Switch off the sound on the left hand video, click start and then immediately click start on the right hand video for the best effect. The robot is not being remote controlled. Just think, one day these robots will be doing this without all the programming, which will be part scary and part amazing. Man and Machine in perfect harmony?
You know what’s outstanding about the Web? The fact that one guy can sit down in a small country somewhere and produce stuff that is mind-blowing in concept and delivery. Seriously, that’s what makes the whole Internet thing so amazing, and it’s what scares the pants off Big Co. executives when they try to plan for the future.
One of the most powerful things about this here Internet thing, is the fact that it allows for an almost infinite number of ways to slice and dice information. We’re already blessed with a huge amount of free data on the Web, from Wikipedia to blogs to forums and beyond, and now new forms of data visualization are starting to hit our screens.
Well it’s another day and another Kickstarter project hits the store shelves, funded by enthusiasts and built by visionaries. Or something like that. This concept promises to take the 35mm film scanning world by storm, providing a cheap, easy to use tool which will interface nicely with any smartphone and give great results. Have they succeeded?
![Hands on with the cool new Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner for iPhone and Android [Kickstarter Review]](http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/dsc01149.jpg)
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