Archive for January, 2007
Fix that posture of yours
If you’re a member of the “terrible posture group”, you might like this next gadget, the Visomate USB Vision and Posture Reminder. It might not fix your posture instantaneously, but it’s probably worth a try. Or you could just stay hunched over the computer your entire life and end up with 20/1,000 vision. It’s your choice.
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Next generation batteries getting closer
A Texas based company called EEStor recently announced that the development of its most innovative product, an hybrid battery-ultracapacitor, is evolving fast. The company is aiming to actually replace all the electrochemical batteries on the market (quite an impressive goal), including car batteries as well as laptop and cell phone ones.
Not everyone is buying those results, though, here is a quote from an article of the Technology Review website “The implications are enormous and, for many, unbelievable. Such a breakthrough has the potential to radically transform a transportation sector already flirting with an electric renaissance, improve the performance of intermittent energy sources such as wind and sun, and increase the efficiency and stability of power grids–all while fulfilling an oil-addicted America’s quest for energy security.” Continue reading » Next generation batteries getting closer
Peugeot, any way you pronounce it, you’ll be close!
Yes, Peugeot’s yearly design contest for aspiring transportation designers is upon us.
The top thirty are there for us to revel in, in all their glory. Here are the top 10, and here are the 20 behind them.
This year’s well caffeinated young designers will have spent this semester (and possibly longer) sketching their brains out to Peugeot’s theme of PLEASE Innovate, with the word PLEASE forming a clever acronym of: Pleasurable (to drive), Lively, Efficient, Accessible, Simple, and Ecological.
Apparently this meant to the students, crazy shapes that have nothing to do with going fast, and inserting imagined eecological nuace. Arrgh!
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Luxiium LED Keyboard
This may not be quite as cool as the Optimus LED keyboard but it ain’t half bad. The Luxiium keyboard has an LED inside each key, so by using the supplied software you can program each key to have it’s own color and have a bit of a disco on your desktop.
Source: Everything USB
Thin lens, it’s just here to blow your mind origami style
So be looking for wafer thin telephoto lenses.
WHAT!?
Yep, those peppy gents at UCSD (San Diego) with more brains than brawn (but are probably great surfers anyhow) have developed a thin telephoto lens.
How thin is this lens? 5mm is equal to a focal length of 38mm. So yeah,, WOW!!
This sort of stuff is in the waaay cool category, as it has applications for many different imaging systems we all deal with on a daily basis. From cell phone cameras, to in car cameras (I’m looking at you Coulthard), to Micro Air Vehicles, security cameras, and anywhere else you want to slap a camera; now you can do it in the smallest thickness possible.
Best of all, this develops a concept that was brand new in 1672,, so, uhhh, we’re on the leading edge here.
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Caffeine Necklace
My girlfriend is an absolute bitch in the morning before she’s had her hit of coffee so this is what I reckon I’ll be getting her for valentines day, the caffeine necklace.
By wearing the molecule form of caffeine around her neck she’ll be able to show off her addiction with pride. Available from factalspin for $85 (so maybe she won’t be getting that 
).
HydraCoach, The Intelligent Water Bottle with LCD
The HydraCoach is the first water bottle I’ve ever seen that incorporates an LCD screen, the purpose of which is give feedback on your personal hydration needs (or in laymen’s terms have you drank enough water).
It does seem some what OTT but if you really need to know this stuff I guess this is the only bottle to do it. Features include:
- Calculates Your Personal Hydration Needs
- Tracks Your Fluid Consumption Throughout The Day
- Paces You to Ensure Hydration Goals Are Met
- Motivates You to Stay Properly Hydrated
Availability and more serious info over on the Hydracoach site, found via Book of Joe.
