The swimming pool at Kobe university Japan was home to the first underwater robot festival. With around 75 % of our planet covered in water these robots will help us uncover secrets what lies in dark world underneath. Of the 21 robots showcased we pick the 3 most interesting and unique ones. No 3 - Squid Robot Developed by Osaka university it is 1 meter in length and has a servo motor on each side which move the rubber...
Think about this, calm winter evenings, soft jazz music, a dimly lit room and rows of artistically designed bottles of whiskey on the bar shelf. Wow, that’s the ambience we look to create in our home bars. Take one of the ingredients out your bar may not provide all the pleasure you would seek on those lonely evenings. Add an ingredient to the setup and well, a change, for the good. How about a beautiful Measure Bracket full of...
To be filed under pimp my car category the Autoloc Car Flamethrower mounts in the exhaust pipes and with the press of the magic button shoots flames upto 20 feet back. The single tip is available for $ 130 and double tip for $ 200. Needless to say it is for offroad use only. Did you know that one of my pet peeves is tailgating? This could be far more persuasive than those Yosemite Sam "Back Off" mud flaps....
With holiday season just around the corner we are on the lookout for innovative ideas to light up our homes. The Cool Hunter store is soon going to bring forth the unique Rechargeable Stick on Buttplug Lights. The bulbs provide with suction cups at the bottom that help it firmly attach to your walls, cars, refrigerator, etc. These would surely be preferred over tiny LED glowers since they provide a good amount of illumination and can be used to...
The Live! Cam Optia by Creative comes into the markets this month. The camera provides with good angular adjustments with its incredible rotational axis. The main feature being its plug-and-play capability, the Optia works on Windows XP service Pack 2 and above without needing to install any drivers. A Precision Lens makes the camera more sensitive and interactive to use. Also a good 640x480 resolution for videos makes the Optia a good choice for home use. Good video frame rates...
Asus have ventured into making media centered PCs and have actually come out with the very impressive Asteio D22. Empowered with E6300 Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB DDR2 RAM, this machine sure is a workhorse. An impressive 250GB of storage is available on a SATA drive. The multimedia needs are well met with a nVidia GeForce 7600 GS graphic adapter, a 7.1 channel surround sound audio and dual TV Tuners. Other multimedia features include a microphone, stereo output,...
Sony is out with a really slim and portable travel speaker. The VGP-USP1 is sleek, neat looking and delivers decent output. Given the 1.1 inch thickness, one would certainly marvel at its sight (and its performance). It connects to your laptop using a USB connector and delivers outputs way beyond what most devices of the same thickness would possibly provide. The speakers pull of a power of 2x2W. The slim body is what is expected to drive the VGP-USP1...
There may have been times when you have heard the RJ blabber about the artist of the next song he is going to play, you turn a deaf ear but and when the song begins to play you wish you had paid more attention. Well, there are no flashbacks in the radio. So, as for every other problem in life, we have a solution here too. This time, it’s the Instant FM USB Recorder to the rescue. It does record...
Samsung has partnered with Korea university and developed the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry. It is equipped with two cameras with zooming capabilities one for day time and one for infrared night vision. It has a sophisticated pattern recognition which can detect the difference between humans and trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun. The robot also has a speaker to warn the intruder to surrender or get a perfect headshot. The robots will go on sale by 2007 for $ 200,000...
The 600c GPS by Lowrance is a truly admirable navigator. It provides with satellite imagery of many US and Canadian highways, buildings, roadways and important landmarks, covering over 5.5 million POIs and a provision to store up to 1000 additional locations (thanks to the huge amount of memory provided). The maps can be updated using the USB port with any Windows, Macintosh or Linux PC. It also provides with three different display modes: 2-D Track up, 2-D North up...
Nokia are out with some rather interesting innovations off late, the transparent bombox is their latest addition to this list. All one has to do is to attach a Nokia phone (no news out about compatibility with other models out as yet) to the boombox via a connector and enjoy good music, a good way to share your music with friends and loved ones during the upcoming festive season. There hasn’t been much word as to how many batteries would...
Wireless technology has been a boon to us in various forms since many years. Whether you're out and about listening to your MP3 player or rocking out at home to your high-end stereo, wireless headphone allows total freedom. iPod lovers too can free themselves from the cords tethering them to their iPods with cordless headsets. BUT…..the only hitch is when you and your spouse both want to enjoy high quality wireless music at THE SAME TIME! And why should...
You got the right shoes (Nike) and the great music loaded on the iPod in the great combo kit: Nike+iPod Sport Kit. Managing the iPod can be made easy with the SwitchEasy RunAway Any Shoe Adaptor. The all weather friend is made from splash-proof polycarbonate/ABS plastic. RunAway claims to be the first organizer for both the sensor and the receiver designed for the iPod Sport Kit. You can easily tuck your receiver under the RunAway for convenient storage. It features...
People who have garages often use the space to park plenty other things too. This leads to the perennial problem of parking the car correctly without bumping into the various stored items. To help you in this situation we suggest you install the Dual Laser Parking system. No, it will not park the car for you, you need to do that yourself, but it will surely guide you to park your car precisely. Just when the car enters the garage,...
It is not only sunlight, water and care which is needed for your precious plants you also need the Plant rearing LED stand which provides all the nutrients which your plant would otherwise miss indoors. The stand has a built in timer which switches on the LED at 6.00 am and turns off automatically at 8.00pm for the complete cycle of photosynthesis. The stand has two arms featuring Blue LED's which assist in photosynthesis and Red LED's influence the...
