If you are too lazy to clean up after yourself, then Samsung has just given your lazy streak a new boost! Yup, thanks to the Tango, Samsung will now help you clean your floors, scrub your carpets and tidy your furniture too. Equipped with 13 sensors, which includes a 30fps camera and a crash sensor that sends out 26 to 6000 bursts to your protect your precious gadget from nasty crashes, Tango can clean your floors up to 1cm...
What if you can grow fishes that you don't have to clean up after, that don't die and come with zero maintenance? Seiko Clock together with Takara has come with a funky gadget that helps you do just that and a bit more. Animated fishes which display time react to your touch. You can use it as an alarm clock or a night lamp too. What's more, you can use it as a device to project cute dolphins and...
This is just like the games we used to play as kids, on tree-houses with really sinister clubs. ‘Groupism’ was the way of life back then and rivals often popped in to spoil the fun. So we had a secret knock that matched the beats of ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’. It worked. No one but club members could understand it. Similarly, the Knock-Detecting Door Lock manages to keep your door sealed, with a secret lock that opens up only after...
Well, even those who are probably hogging out of it right now, will find it hard to believe that there exists a burger wending machine among them. In the land of the rising sun, vending machines have a whole new dominance as compared to the western world. They have vending machines for cigarettes, t-shirts, cokes on credit, etc. Burgers are the latest things to be popping out of these machines. I would like to house a Wimpy prototype near...
TIM stands for Time Is Money. Well, there are no second thoughts about that fact but what are we doing about it? Having long meetings to discuss a companies marketing strategy can get so stretched that one may forget that there could be quite a few calls made and a few deals struck in that time. So to avoid such situations and gauge the losses incurred by overdrawn meetings we have the TIM device by Bring. It’s basically a...
NEC have developed a one-of-a-kind wearable translator. Though the device is still in its primitive, prototype days, it surely impresses us immensely with its real-time language translation capability. The optical device has to be worn over the eye and can project translated text directly on the retina. It’s called the Tele Scouter. Though it leaves us wondering about what the possible disadvantages could be, NEC states that it is quite safe for the eyes and doesn’t cause any kind...
If you do no know who Ibn Sina is, then let me enlighten you about the great Arabic thinker of the 11th century. So great were his works that he managed to land a tribute to himself that’s got its share of AI and robotics in it. Meet Ibn SIna-the robot. He looks as real as any regular Arab, walking the gulf streets. It took nine years to develop by French firm Acapela. The robot is so well groomed,...
There is always something that can lighten up your day. It can be anything from the sun shining promisingly outside your window or just some duct tape! Yes, the otherwise-very-patchy and messy looking duct tape has been converted into something that can totally kick ass. In fact, with the Illuminated Duct Tape around we may see people making some deliberate repairs to their wrecked circuits. Though the tape is still a work of research, there is a huge chance...
Low resolution has been the biggest limitation for those who worked on extreme graphics of the past. However, it’s all healed with everyone having a minimum of 1024x768 ready monitors. So here’s a great investment you can make for Halloween next year, it’s called the Low Resolution Halloween Costume. Imagine the freaky appearance you could put up as someone would see a pixelized person moving about town, for real! The painted face and the blocky collar have everything to...
Ever wondered how well those guys at the bar carry their drinks to their respective girlfriends without letting it spill? It’s quite simple actually. Just get a hold of these cool Link Mugs. Each of them have, err, ‘male’ and ‘female’, cross-shaped, err, ‘organs’. You know, like the sticking-outties fit into the holes. Exactly! So you can link these mugs and make sure that they do not let go of one another. It’s a pretty cool idea at the...
FaceID is a cool, new system that will be the driving force behind most home security systems. The usual password, swipe card, retina and fingerprint scanning systems are already behind us, as face recognition takes it place in our midst. What’s really exciting about it is that it isn’t the usual concept that leaves us dreaming for a particular gadget, instead, FaceID is available, and looks good enough to make your porch look like the entry of a Smart...
If your great-grandson manages to learn the queen on instruments, it wouldn’t be too hard for him to know what his great-grandpop would forsee. Maybe, he would even be playing the Gayari Violin! With people who are ready to pay up huge amounts of money to play instruments that may have been designed centuries ago, it is plainly evident that these must have been designed to produce best results. And also, to inspire future generations. The Gayari Violin looks...
Nokia have rolled out something quite different from their usual offerings. The Storyplay e-reader for kids gives a new take on storytelling and reading of books. It will feature Elmo from Sesame Street on a removable paper book that’s attached with magnets. At the head of the reader, there will be two screens. One will display Elmo and his antics continually while the second screen will display a live video screen (of God knows what)....
We had featured something by JR East some time back that promised that there would be a clean, resourceful source of energy in the future that would be pumped up by nothing more than steps taken by people. Another research done by one Lawrence Kemball-Cook from Pavegen Systems has yielded in a more practical, realistic approach. Instead of placing the energy producing material at a railway station, he has placed them on a pavement. Every step taken on this...
There has been a fair amount of anticipation to match a new offering of the lights of Samsung. With just a 10:1 contrast ratio being mastered, the 10 inch offering from the company has a long way to go. However, Samsung are in no hurry to unleash this one on hungry yes of fans who totally dig it. However, their delay could well make their e-paper the ‘second’ one around. The reason – PVI are planning their move a bit...
