Playing hokey game is not an easy job for people, but how could a robot do it? A team of engineering from Nuvation, a hi-tech company, will give you the answer. You’d better think twice before you say that you will sure win this robot.
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Huge display is not unusual. But most of them cannot provide HD videos. Recently, Comcast unveiled a massive HD wall display in their Philadelphia center. The whole display put together with 10 million pixels which could provide videos clearly enough.
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As one of the most popular traditional decorative material, glass is very beautiful to form a gorgeous surface. Now it will be more popular because of new technology emerging recently.
This keyboard is actually a conventional glass, but the new interactive technology change it into a keyboard. The built in lighting and camera could form the keys and even track the motion of your fingers so that you can type words with this so-call keyboard. Wow~~
Designer: Kong Fanwen
The shelf speaker we mentioned in daily life is a speaker which could directly fit for your shelf, but this shelf speaker we are introducing is a speaker in the shape of a shelf. What’s more, it can play music in an interactive manner which allows you to gain more happiness from it.
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Designer: NoDesign
The projector for handset has been developed for about one year and is expected to be released within this year. However, if you want make a presentation, laptop is apparently more useful than a cellphone, what’s more, laptop’s battery life is longer. So, I bet you would like to own a laptop with a built-in projector.
ASUS, a Taiwan based PC maker provide a good choice for us. It comes with an mini-projector on the top of the LCD display and you can rotate it to adjust the position to get the best image.
Unlike normal ceramics, this series of design is actually translucent. The shallow carve is very beautiful but not transparent.
Designer: Eeva Jokinen
How could a to-do list be a high-tech product? You’d better check it out by yourself.
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Because of the four force sensor built in the case, you can control the handheld by twsting.
This new patent from Microsoft give you a chance to use a mouse by wearing on hands and, better still, you can control it with gestures and positions.
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All-in-one hand device is very common in nowadays, but this one is still very good because of featuring a scroll screen.
Second life is the most popular online virtual game. But how to make a virtual game like a real one, I mean play second life with real motions, just like the Wii manner.
This hands free 3D system is a brilliant gadget which is able to determine where your legs and arms are located and your in-game avatar will response your similar actions in reality.
So you still think second life is a virtual life rather than a real one?
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This is really a fantastic robot. Wanna get more information. Video after the jump
Tame is a perfect concept gadget for those always be busy in dealing with something not important enough, IM and E-mail message for instance.
You can program the very status and messages for every surface in advance and then, when needed, just start it by changing the cube’s position. It will automatically answer all disturbers, from Instant Messngers, Email, facebook or something like this, with the same message you set. Therefore, you can do your own work without disruption.
Similar to Sony Rolly, this speaker from Segatoys can also dance with the beats.
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It is said that this is the world’s smallest USB drive. The PICO-C only comes with a length of 31.3mm.
Chinese is not simply combined by alphabets, so you can not get the translating service merely by looking up a dictionary. Recently, Nokia launched a new technology called shoot-to-translate allows you to get the translation only by shooting a picture.
You want go to China but still afraid of complex Chinese? You will like this gadget.
You still embarrassed to FORCE your kids brush their teeth? Then I bet you gotta like this brilliant invention from National Taiwan University.
Thanks to the popular interactive technology, this system can monitor the movement of the toothbrush through LEDs attached on the toothbrush and then translate this kind of movement into a video game.
With a similar structure to the snake robot we mentioned before, this surgical endoscope can enter the vessel without damaging any tissue.
Moreover, because of the 102 degrees of freedom, it will surely make a better performance.
To get really happy pictures, photographers have to shot when one do not pay attention to them. What if there is not any photographer at all?
Take a look at this Tospom camera. When TosPom is thrown from one to another, the another’s face will be taken automatically as he/she catches it, and the picture will be shown on the display.
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Designer: Izumi Yagi & Mitsuyoshi Kimura
This is an innovative MDS (Mobile/Dexterous/Social) robot from MIT media lab.
Wanna know the advantages of this robot? Just watch the video after the break:
Because of the colored elastic silicone cover, your USB drive will be more interesting.
Designer: Jacek Ryn
This is the best news for those who like to play Quake 3 Arena. This classic game has successfully been ported to iPhone / iPot touch.
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This gadget is actually used in the same way as traditional ones. The only different is that you should plug it into the computer via USB port. And read result from the display or the device.
Price: $18
Thermaltake BigTyp VP is a unique fan. It can provide extra cooling for VGA and RAM with a multi-directional satellite fan.
In a April Fools’ Day, you will sure need some innovative funny things. So, just try this unique virus for Macbooks.
This weird gadget which seems like a snail is actually a keyboard. It comes with a unique loop responding to your hands movement. The loop has a 5:1 gearbox, which means you can only move 1/5 distance to touch the same key in conventional keybaord.
You may find that there are only three rows of keys on the interior loop. Actually, it also features a standard qwerty keyboard. Because it uses the unique tri-directional keys, a single key in this loop can function as three keys of normal keyboard.
With a unique stand featuring projected keyboard and a sensor, this stand can transform your iPhone into a desktop computer.
Although there’re some perfect IT gadgets in healthcare area, most of us do not so familiar with them as iPhone or Wii. So, if the cool gadgets like iPhone or Microsoft Surface are going to be used in healthcare, what will happen?
Just watch the video from Microsoft Office Labs:
