You have to admire a company that can continue a research program over 20 years and countless millions of dollars. A research program with the far reaching aim of mimicing human motion in robotic form. It was science fiction when they started it and it’s getting closer to science fact with every new revision.

So what is Asimo? It’s a robot modelled after a human being. Unlike sony’s qrio, which was an excuse for technology research, Honda are giving every impression that they really want to develop Asimo into a viable product. Not this year of course and probably not for another ten, but Honda’s show was full of references as to how an Asimo type of design can help people in their daily lives.
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These looked cool, ultra flexible animated posters. Flexmedia uses EL (Electroluminescent) to manufacture striking signage. The above picture doesn’t do the display justice, animation after the jump. So what exactly is EL? Read the rest of this entry »

Being a father, I’m always interested in finding gadgets that make parenting a little easier or less stressful and On Guard Kids does just that.

On Guard Kids is a personal safety alert system. Your child wears it around their wrist like a regular watch and if the nightmare situation occurs where somebody tries to abduct your child they can quickly and easily set off an ear piercing 110 decibel alarm. When this was demoed to me I was in a busy and noisy conference hall and it still caught peoples attention.
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I’m a fan of wireless but that hasn’t prevented the spaghetti like mess accumulating under my desk. One of the more low tech gadgets I came across over on the CES main floor was Cable Capture a simple but highly effective way of hiding cable excess. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a simple, exceedingly obvious and about time kind of gadget, the MFUEL series consolidates multiple chargers into one device (well one device with multiple changeable connections as manufactures just like to be different).
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The iRecord Personal Media Recorder is a very cool device. It’s designed to get media onto your portable device. Any portable device in fact and that’s the trick it’s got up its sleeve. Things don’t get much simpler than this – to use it, you just plug your TV/DVD player/whatever into one end of the box and plug your portable media device into the other end.
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I’ve seen 3D screens before. They cost as much as the space shuttle and were limited to strictly commercial applications. So it was a bit of a shock to find myself looking at a first person shooter in 3D on a 22″ widescreen LCD panel. The catch is that you need an NVidia graphics card – the panel uses the standard NVidia stereo drivers to produce a strikingly effective 3D image.

You must also wear the supplied shades, which translate the images on screen to the left eye / right eye images necessary for the 3D effect.

Resolution is a respectable 1680×1050 and the final surprise is the price, which at $999 is not that far above a standard 22″ widescreen display. Pre-order it now at www.iz3d.com