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Heat-Seeking Robot Absorbs And Shares The Warmth In Your Home
By AutoBlog at 6 February, 2012, 11:00 am
It’s useless for keeping your floors clean, but those of us who hate the cold will certainly appreciate this concept Hagent robot that seeks out the warmest places in your home, absorbing the heat to share with you later. Think of it as an autonomous roaming heater, but instead of generating its own heat, which would chew through a set of batteries in no time, it hunts down and steals the wa …
Read More >>Siri Makes For A Terrible Fitness Coach
By Hong Kiat at 5 February, 2012, 4:00 am
So by now we’ve realised that Siri isn’t the end all of personal assistants that Apple claimed it would be. In fact, as Nick Douglas discovered, she’s particularly unhelpful when it comes to assisting with your morning exercise routine. You’d think she might be a little encouraging given she’s there to serve, but Nick soon discovers that her automated abilities are pr …
Read More >>Artful Winemaker Review: How I Learned To Love Cheap Wine In 28 Days
By Hong Kiat at 3 February, 2012, 11:15 am
I’ve been interested in home brewing for a while, but the price, space and involvement needed has always been off-putting. The Artful Winemaker, however, puts the brewing process on auto-pilot. What Is It? The Artful Winemaker is an all-in-one home wine-fermenting kit. Who’s it For? Wine lovers who want to try their hand at making hooch without having to stomp their own grapes. Design …
Read More >>TypeWay iPad Keyboard Adapts To Fit Your Hands Perfectly
By admin at 2 February, 2012, 4:00 pm
The limitations of typing on a touchscreen hinder how effective tablets can be as productivity tools. There is hope, though, at least for iPad users. This TypeWay keyboard supposedly makes things easier, by adapting the key layout for each user. Like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park , the TypeWay replacement keyboard learns and remembers, automatically adjusting the layout and placement …
Read More >>Wi-Fi Controlled LED Tubes Make For Easy Office Upgrades
By admin at 2 February, 2012, 10:30 am
By creating these lights with the exact same form factor as a fluorescent bulb, NetLED has made it incredibly easy to upgrade the lighting in a store or office to its LED tubes, which can also be remotely controlled over Wi-Fi. Most lighting automation systems require a reality show’s worth of renovations to electrical systems and fixtures, but these LED lamps just slot into a fluorescent fi …
Read More >>Future Earbuds Won’t Care If You Mix Up Left And Right
By admin at 2 February, 2012, 8:00 am
One day you might not have to worry about sticking your left and right earbuds in the correct ears. Because researchers have created a clever system that automatically adjusts the stereo mix depending on what side each bud is inserted. The solution, created by researchers at the Igarashi Design Interfaces Project in Tokyo, is actually quite elegant. One of the headphone’s buds is equipped wi …
Read More >>The Peavey AT-200 Is The T-Pain Of Electric Guitars
By AutoBlog at 1 February, 2012, 5:15 pm
Why should Akon have all the fun? This new guitar has a built-in Auto-Tune feature that can change the pitch and tuning of any note played — in real-time — at the press of a button. Sure, Gibson’s been making self-tuning guitars for a while now, but the AT-200 works differently. It’s outfitted with an Auto-Tune for Guitar DSP from Anteres — makers of the original Auto …
Read More >>Apple’s Patented Magic Remote Is Only Missing Apple’s Patented Magic TV
By yanko at 27 January, 2012, 8:30 am
Apple has filed a new patent application, an Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control. In the application, Apple claims that current remotes are cluttered, so they propose using a touchscreen that can automatically detect every AV device near you. Really? According to the patent, the remote will have a discovery mechanism that will automatically detect every AV device …
Read More >>How Do You Police Cars That Drive Themselves?
By Engadget at 25 January, 2012, 3:00 am
Google is already testing its autonomous cars on the roads of California, and plenty of other manufacturers are starting to muscle in on the act too. But when they hit the roads, how do you go about policing a city full of self-driven cars? The New York Times reports that that very question is causing lawyers and government officials to break out in a cold sweat. It’s not just worki …
Read More >>BMW Is Making Cars That Drive Themselves
By admin at 24 January, 2012, 3:30 pm
Everybody’s working on self-driving cars! Google, Ford, Volvo and now even the ultimate driving machine, BMW, is trying their hand at hands free driving. BMW’s self-autonomous system uses four types of sensors, radar, cameras, laser scanners and ultrasound distance sensors and can even change lanes to zoom past a slowpoke car. BMW. The ultimate lazy-driving machine. The BMW team create …
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