Designer Johan Frossen has come up with this concept video recording device that seems to jump out of a sci-fi movie. The user wears this over their eye, letting it record whatever they see, making this a truly cool hands-free video camera. You wear this camera around your neck, where a semi-large lens and microphone reside on one end. There is no need to stuff memory inside this thing though, since it will upload all your video in real-time wirelessly to a nearby computer, but the downside would be remaining within the vicinity of a wireless network. Wish I could beam one of these from stores.

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The folks at Parkoz Hardware must be smoking some pretty strong stuff to come up with this Transformer-inspired cellphone, changing from your average clamshell handset into a bi-pedal mini weapon of mass destruction which looks like the ED-209 of Robocop fame. A pair of miniguns are more than enough to shred away anything in its path though, and could work great when it comes to threatening your boss for a pay raise. I wonder what the battery life is on this thing, and what do the miniguns actually use as bullets? Broken pieces of plastic?

Source: Gizmodo

I’m a huge fan of the works of SuperUber. To create the mood in a party to celebrate the launch of Audi TT in São Paulo, Brazil, they developed two multimedia projects, Super Bar and Interactive Shadows. They had the help of Muti Randolph, which created the images and cenography to the party. The Super Bar uses a camera with a sensor to create a very long touchscreen interface. When someone puts a glass our touches the bar, the point is connected with lines to other points. The lines create connections between the objects and hands over the bar.

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According to organizers of the annual Glastonbury Festivals, concert goers who spend the week rocking out tend to abandon the tents they sleep in during the rockfest. And it’s growing from 10,000 abandoned tents in 2005, to 15,000 this year. Not very environment friendly in these globally sensitive economic times.

But what seems like a budding ecologic disaster in Glastonbury, turns into an economic opportunity to Designer James Dunlop, who’s Myhab disposable habitats can solve the problem of what to do with tens of thousands of barely used, yet abused, tents left behind. “People use and abuse their tents because they are so cheap,” Dunlop said, “they are just tired and want to go home after festivals. They do not want to mess about putting their tent away.”

That’s why myHab was born, but that’s not the only use Dunlop envisions. There’s also disaster relief and with 2012 Olympics coming to London, and possibilities for incoming sports fans are endless.

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Polish design students have come up with a truly revolutionary design for the humble wheelchair. It looks like a pretty mean machine of war, and is driven by muscular force. The addition of a gyroscope mounted just below the seat enables the wheelchair to remain vertical on just two wheels (sorta like a seated Segway). These wheels measure 26″ in diameter, making them larger than those found on my car. Looks pretty neat – now the world will just have to wait for a working version to be released.

Source: Medgadget

Signs are pointing towards a brand new Mighty Mouse from Apple, and it is highly likely that this new peripheral will not be any other ordinary mouse. No sir, according to a US patent that was filed by Apple early last year, this new desktop mouse will utilize part of the multi-touch concept that is currently found on the iPhone. This concept will turn the humble mouse into a hand controller of sorts, where an optical sensor integrated within the mouse will be able to map the surface and recognize contact from the user’s hand according to the changes experienced in the image. Read on after the jump for more about the inner workings of this new mouse.

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German researchers have successfully worked on a bionic robot arm after studying an elephant’s trunk as the basis of its design. The technology applied is hoped to be used within a couple of years in therapy, restoring the use of injured limbs while producing low cost, flexible prosthetic devices. Since ordinary robotic arms are way too expensive to build and dangerous to operate for the layman, this bionic robot arm dubbed ISELLA will be pocket friendly and gentle on humans. As mentioned, an elephant’s trunk was the inspiration for its design, and hence let’s delve into it further after the jump.

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Steorn was supposed to unveil their “free energy” technology to the public today with a demo video on their website. “Technical difficulties” mean it’s now coming tomorrow (5 July). According to the Irish newspaper RTE the device is also going on public show at the Kinetica museum in London where we can all gaze at it from behind glass and try to figure out how it works. Personally I can’t wait!