Robotic Ant

Robotic Ant: A-Pod is an ant inspired hexapod robot with a 2 DOF abdomen (tail), a 3 DOF head with large mandibles. 6 legs with 3 DOF each. Total 25 servos.

DancePants

Dancepants Dancepants Kinetic Music Player designed by Lithuanian designers Inesa Malafej and Arunas Sukarevicius. It is a brilliant and simple concept, using kinetic energy to generate the power for MP3 player while you running and dancing. The kinetic module is attached at the pants leg with a connection running along the leg up to a … Continue reading

Leonid meteor showers to light up night sky on Tuesday and Wednesday

 Leonid meteor showers to light up night sky on Tuesday and Wednesday:  For people in Pakistan: the websites say the meteors will be seen at 21:40 (9:40 PM) GMT on 17th November which is 2:40 AM of 18th November in Pakistan.. we have to add 5 hours to the GMT times to get the Pakistani … Continue reading

Sixth Sense Technology

Sixth Sense Technology    Pranav Mistry: MIT grad student Pranav Mistry is the genius behind SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html  http://www.pranavmistry.com/ Why you should listen to him: Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab. … Continue reading

Pomegranate Phone

Pomegranate Phone:  http://www.pomegranatephone.com/ The Pomegranate is a fictional mobile phone, from Nova Scotia releasing in late September 2008. The website boasts a number of comic features (such as a video projector, live voice translator, harmonica, coffee maker, and shaving razor, among many other standard features that current leading mobile phones have), but upon clicking “I’ve … Continue reading

Is Photovoltaic Moore Law Really on Track?

Is Photovoltaic Moore Law Really on Track?  Last week, based on an IEEE photovoltaics conference that had just taken place in San Diego, I reported on some positive developments: a kind of Mooreâ¿¿s law allegedly at work, a better outlook for first-generation silicon cells, and a growing expectation that solar electricity may be commercially competitive … Continue reading

A Personal Power Generator

A Personal Power Generator Nanoscale sensors are exquisitely sensitive, very frugal with power, and, of course, tiny..  The goal of Zhong Lin Wang, a materials scientist at Georgia Tech, is to bring power to the nano world with minuscule generators that take advantage of piezoelectricity. If he succeeds, biological and chemical nano sensors will be … Continue reading

NOKIA hazardous mobile charger exchange program

Nokia hazardous charger exchange program Nokia is replacing 14 million cellphone chargers which it says could give users an electric shock. Dear Nokia Customer, http://chargerexchange.nokia.com/chargerexchange/en/ Nokia has announced an exchange program for a limited number of Nokia-branded chargers manufactured by a third party supplier. We have determined that the plastic covers of the affected chargers … Continue reading

Brust Projector Cell Phone

Brust Projector Cell Phone :Burst is a concept projector phone designed to boost the functionality and mobility of the conventional touch phones. Burst can project images onto any type of flat surface from projectors mounting aside with its specialized software to deform and compress the touch space display. The touch screen performs just like the … Continue reading

D-Roll Laptop

D-roll is a next generation concept laptop design which is way distinctive from usual laptops in both shape and function. The long tube shape of this laptop, which was inspired from the storage tubes that artists are using for storing large drawings, eliminates perception of the traditional book looking laptops. This multifunctional laptop has two … Continue reading