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What if you could change the window glass, the table surface, or even a piece of plastic into a sensitive touch screen? That sounds attractive, right? Then you’ll be quite interested in the thin film invented by Displax. Easily stuck onto common materials like the glass, plastic and wood, the film could turn most flat surfaces that are range from 3-inches to 120-inches into touch screens. It features a transparency rate of up to 98 percent and comes with an outstanding ability to detect 16 fingers on a 50-inch screen. The first thin film will be available in July. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We’ve been used to seeing through the windows from time to time, because in that way, we could learn clearly what is happening outside. And maybe that’s why windows are made of translucent glass. But this piece of glass not only tells us what is happening outside, but also what will happen in the future. Powered by solar energy, the cute gadget will show you any needed information when it is wirelessly connected to your computer. So next time you need weather reports, dates and flight information, check them out on your windows. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You know E-ink, but you may not have heard of E-skin. Very basically put, the E-skin and E-ink presents more or less the same technology, but the former is better and more popular than the latter one. No longer featuring a black-and-white technology, the E-skin, Philips claimed, allows several colors to be built into one layer while still ensures that each color is separately controlled. Therefore, either separate colors or multiple colors will appear on a transparent layer, all coming under an accurate control. Hopefully, the new technology will soon be applied to players, cell phones and other devices. This time, it is colorful words that make the life colorful. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Control a ball with brain? Oh, man, only if I had a super power, or that will never happen. However, in fact, every one wearing a special apparatus presented here is enabled to keep a ball floating in the air.

It has been on the market since October 1st, 2009. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Yeah Christmas is still far away, however, some scientists couldn’t help waiting to wish us a happy Christmas with the world’s smallest snowman, which measures only 0.01mm across. Do you really know what that means? Well, let me tell you, the snowman is merely one fifth of the width of the average human hair, and you couldn’t notice it with bare eyes even if it is rightly in front of you. It is a wonderful creation by the National Physical Laboratory. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I’m not mad about electronic gadgets, and it’s all right for me to use an old-fashioned computer for 5 or more years, that doesn’t matter. But what matters to me is convenience, for example, I could transfer documents and files from my phone to a flash disk, without needing a computer. And that’s just what this innovative gadget aims to do. Click here for a video demonstration.

Hmm… What is this？Have you had an answer? Let me know then. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ever wished you had a witch mirror that tells you everything? Well, let me introduce you to the Virtual Butler mirror that keeps a watch on everything inside and around your house. Simply connect it to your doors, alarms, cameras and other digital appliance, the loyal butler then works in a stunningly effective way. Of course, since this butler is not a real man, you needn’t have to pay out wages every month. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We’ve seen pretty high-tech clothes in our day, like the ‘Protective Coat’ if you remember, but few are as utilitarian as this. Using a new clothing technology called as e-Press, the shirt is built with bio sensors to check out the wearer’s stress levels in different parts including the chest, the back and both shoulders. If stress levels are high, the bio sensors will send signals to corresponding LEDs, which will then indicate that by blinking fast. On the contrary, if those parts are given a massage, the LEDs will blink slowly as the stress levels go down.

The music player by Idan Traistman and Avishay Meron is a new high-tech product designed to work with your hand movements. When you raise your hand higher over it, the volume is correspondingly increased, and vice versa. Want the songs to skip? Just move you hand at right or left side.

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The high-tech mirror is composed of several built-in equipments, including a radio, a clock, a barometer, and a loudspeaker. What you would like most may be the easy way to control all the tools simply through the touch screen on the mirror surface.

In this year full of hi-tech gadget, even bolt can be smarter. This bolt equipped with a tiny indicator disk on the top which can show you how tight it is. The tighter the bolt is, the dark the indicator. [Read the rest of this entry...]

How could a to-do list be a high-tech product? You’d better check it out by yourself.

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How, you may wonder, do Tetris and wrestling connect with each other? You should watch this video after the jump. It is fairly funny.

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With the development of digital technology, such digital music as MP3 is fairly popular in nowadays. Believe it or not, however, this kind of hi-tech music is not as smooth as analogue mediums like tape and even be harmful for your ear. [Read the rest of this entry...]