“Medical Tricorder” is a medical diagnostic scanner invented by Tech startup Scanadu, which not only allows people to measure blood pressure, pulmonary function and temperature at any time they need, but sends information like diagnostic results and medical suggestions to their smartphones.
Jayne Vidheecharoen from the Art Center College of Design, California has invented a machine that converts your physical hands into virtual ones, so as to help you control the virtual world directly. Just as shown in the video, the prototype of the technology uses Google Streetview as its background, with various objects of the Streetview that are controlled by people’s hand. Though quite amazing, the prototype model is actually constructed with really cheap components such as a duct tape, a desk lamp, an end table, fabric scrap, a borrowed monitor and a cheapest possible webcam, as the designer listed on her blog.
You’ve got anything more attractive than this 3D fingernail gun art, at the very beginning of 2012? No, at least that’s my answer. Designed by Laurent Theopane Bertrand, these amazing fingernails are especially created for the cover of London-based SuperSuper! magazine, and we bet it would soon become a new fashion trend worldwide.
Install the Clipp to any wood or plastic plates and then you can create your own tables… When not in use, the Clipp is also smart enough to ensure an easy storage.
In order to help the visually handicapped people better find their ways independently, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore have collaborated an electronic cane that lets its users explore through unfamiliar ways with no difficulty.
The beverage or snacks in vending machines seldom attracted your attention? Never mind, as they have now managed to draw the crowds to move closer and closer, by offering WiFi without any charge. Unveiled by Japanese company Asahi, the machine sends out internet waves that cover about 164 feet around it, allowing people to use it continuously even though there’s a 30-minute limit on each session. Asahi is planning on rolling out 1,000 of these in 2012.
Over one hundred years ago, the Wright brothers invented a practical flying machine that allows humans to fly like birds, and today Jarnos Smeets from Netherlands has created a Human Birdwings that makes us not only fly like birds, but look more like them. These wings seem interesting, composing of an HTC Wildfire S, a Wii remote and something else to be controlled by a person’s waving of his arms as if to fly. But currently the project is still under experiment, requiring further development to turn them into real wings that can help human to fly.
How popular do you think the Facebook is? Normally we’re no longer contented with using it for most time of the day, as we’re in big favor of sleeping with Facebook! You got it? We need a Facebook Bed simply the same as this one designed by Tomislav Zvonaric. It’s amazing, combining almost all features of the Facebook website, but so pity that it’s merely a concept at the time.
Work smarter, not merely harder. FLEXiT is an ultra-flexible light that can be wrapped around tubes, bent into tight corners or magnetically fastened onto metal objects to serve as different types of lights: table light, camping light, work light, directional light and so on. Except for it adjustable shapes, the FLEXiT’s light functions can be changed too, offering low, medium and high light according to your various needs.
Life is music, thus we all love symphony instead of monotony. Keeping that in mind too, a Dutch designer Jeriel Bobbe has created the ‘Suitcase Symphony’ using several rearrangeable wooden panels that each features a ridged surface, to take the place of monotonous floor in airports. Assembled together, the panels will produce a particular music composition as people pulling their suitcases through on them. Even though the music created by these panels is not that fabulous as those produced by an instrument, it indeed sounds more pleasant than the monotony of airports.
Nothing unique… Honestly that was my opinion to these sculptures created by Sang Sik Hong, until I was told that they’re all made of thousands of drinking straws. Showcased at the Scope Art Fair in Miami, Hong’s work are mainly about human’s desire, power and sex, coming in forms of lips, hands, eyes, faces and so on.
Diaper for men? Sounds bit of ridiculous, it is real product recently showcased at the Eco-Products 2011 in Tokyo. The pas has a cozy penis pocket, an electronic urine sensor, and a suction tube that’s hooked to a bedside vacuum with a tank. Whenever the diaper detects urine, the vacuum then starts sucking until the pad becomes virtually dry once again. That means the diaper not only features an outstanding ability of absorbing urine, but also quite ideal for reuse. According to its demonstration on the Eco-Products 2011, the vacuum can suck up almost all the urine, leaving merely a maximum of 0.5 cc (0.01 ounces) in the pad.
New method is put forward here to keep your cars away from theft, and it’s the Car Seat Identification technology developed by Japanese researchers.
Recently, an intelligent smart bandage is developed by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that can promote angiogenesis and guide exactly where the vessels should go. It is built of layers of a hydrogel made of polyethylene glycol and methacrylic alginate. The bandage is porous and allows small molecules to leak through while directing the flow of larger molecules. Several experiments are conducted on the surface of a chicken embryo, revealing that the network of new blood vessels mirrors the patterns of the channels of the bandage. There are several potential applications for this intelligent bandage including directing the growth of blood vessels around a blocked artery and normalizing blood vessels that feed a tumor to improve the delivery of anticancer drugs and so on.
Quite surprisingly we’re informed that in the Bronx Zoo there’re several animals seldom moving or eating but keeping in merely one single posture. Why and what happened? The truth is bit of interesting, as all those animals mentioned above are actually life-like statues made out of LEGO. So how do you like them? If you’d like a tour to the Bronx Zoo, you can ask for a LEGO Zoofari Passport along with your ticket for a comprehensive guide to the installation’s whereabouts, and collect 6 different stamps for souvenir-like proof of your visit there.
