Join Here’s a printer for your flesh
Okay, this is one of those very intriguing concept technologies that seems too crazy to ever be true.
This is an experimental procedure at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine that allows the user to print new skin on using a device that looks similar to a regular ink jet printer.
This “skin printer” uses two heads that can propel a combination of skin cells, collagen, blood coagulants onto a wounded area. It is much better than getting skin grafts from other areas in your body.
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The Transparent hole-puncher
Disclaimer: There are probably a lot cooler gadgets to report on rather than this. After all, we’ve got robots that look and sound human, for crying out loud! Not to mention all the cool consumer electronics that get released on a daily basis.
So why should I consider writing about a three-hole punch made of transparent plastic? Because we flippin’ need one, that’s why!
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Null Concept Car has “Apps” option
This is the Null, and it is a concept electric vehicle designed by Jeongche Yoon to be the super-compact car of the future.
I suppose the electric and super-compact design are supposed to be made for this era of eco-friendly vehicles that are often taken on the road by one driver. It also has another feature for this century: the App.
Yes, this car has apps. These apps aren’t the smartphone software that creates an App on a touchscreen. This is more like hardware that you put on your car to make it do more. You can catch a video of this concept car after the jump.
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This coin-operated machine accepts PayPal
One of the problems with PayPal is although you may have PayPal money, sometimes you don’t have cash.
I receive all payments for my writing work through PayPal, and I’m sure most of you know about the three or five day delay before that money officially gets to the bank after a deposit.
At the PayPal X Innovate 2010 developers conference, there was a vending machine on display that takes PayPal. It was designed by Ray Tanaka and PayPal labs with a WiShield, an LED display, and a simple coin-operated vending machine.
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Very real-looking Android, the Actroid-F
So who is this woman in this picture? A better question is: what is this woman in the photo?
This is the Actroid-F. I realize that sounds like title for the theme of Beverly Hills Cop by Harold Faltermeyer, but according to the Guinness Book of World Records, Actroid-F is “the first true android”.
You have to watch the video after the jump to see Actroid F in action. I find that even though she is sitting down, she shifts her head around in a bobbing motion like a real person.
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Power Loader Light from Activelink
It has been a year since we reported on the Power Loader, an Exoskeleton that allows the user to lift heavy loads.
The Power Loader is made by a company known as Activelink, a Toyko-based robot venture spun off from Panasonic. It is clearly inspired by scenes from the James Cameron/Sirgourney Weaver science fiction classic Aliens.
This version that you see here is known as the Power Loader Light. I suppose it is Ripley’s big and heavy yellow metal suit on a diet. As you might have guessed, it isn’t that light, though.
In fact, it weighs in at about 84 pounds. Yes, that is pretty heavy, but it can help the user lift about 220 pounds worth of weight. Granted, I’m not certain how that can be possible, because I don’t see any robot arms included in this picture. Anyway, my Source says it can also boost the power of the legs by 88 pounds.
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KeyGlove makes one-handed computing a reality
Imagine how much more efficient that you could be if you could type with one hand and mouse with another? Now, let’s take that one step further with this KeyGlove that allows you to type and use the mouse with just one hand.
This is the vision of programmer Jeff Rowberg, who put 34 strategically placed contact sensors that can be pressed together to form individual letters. As for the mouse movements, there is an accelerometer for that.
It was built around an Arduino platform, and, as you can tell, it is quite a work in progress. Would you buy a glove that had this much threads coming out of it? When I saw the Peregrine MMO gaming glove for the first time, it didn’t look anything like this. It wasn’t on the market yet.
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Samsung Portable X-ray Machine
I remember seeing that Will Smith movie The Pursuit of Happyness where he is trying to sell a bone density scanner.
Clearly, he was in the wrong business, because I can’t remember the last time I had my bones checked out by a bone density scanner. I believe that the main character is quoted as saying that it gave a readout twice as blurry as an X-ray. However, Samsung is planning to get in the mobile X-ray business with this portable X-ray detector.
This detector is apparently attached to some monitor that converts the captured X-ray image right onto the screen. This certainly would make it a lot easier for doctors that have to leave the office. Aren’t most X-rays these big old machines that take up a whole lot of space?
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