Join Eko Stoplight gives countdown on red light
No one enjoys sitting at a stoplight. As you sit there you get to contemplate all kinds of things. Like wondering how much of your life has been wasted waiting on stoplights. Then you notice you’ve been sitting there a good long while and begin to wonder if the light will ever change. Then comes the agitation and impatience. Well instead of wondering how long you’ll be at that ridiculous light, you could know exactly how much time you have left if only your city would install these Eko Stoplights.
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X-BRAT automatically shoots targets, and is the beginning of the end
Take a look at this video, and discover a deleted scene from T3: Rise of the Machines.
See how the man has programmed a machine to only shoot at certain targets. Note how the targets are painted hot electric pink. You should also note how the gun seems to rest after its target has been “eliminated”.
You will also note how the man gets hit in the process of setting up this little experiment. I can’t help but feel sorry for the guy, and was glad that the bowl of ammo serendipitously spills.
Apparently, this robot, which is known as X-Brat, has been made for the Mech Warfare event at RoboGames 2010. Part of me can’t wait to see this guy open fire with lots of rapid fire.
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4Fitness Gym is made to be compact
This seems to be a trend in home exercise equipment to fold up into something very compact, like the Hidden Grove Fitness Armoire Collection and the Fitness Cube. I suppose it is a sign that our living places are just too darn small.
The 4Fitness is a gym system that is designed to fit together and conveniently lean against the wall when it is done. Each of these four sections, when separated, are designed with a specific purpose.
For example, there is one for endurance that has some pedals. Then there is another for power which includes some ropes with handles to hold. It also has a board with a circle on it that is designed to increase balance.
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3D Rendering not difficult with ProFORMA
Whenever I think of 3D scanning, I think of this very complicated process of a multitude of cameras surrounding an object, taking pictures at every angle, and then blending them all together with a computer.
A PhD student at the Cambridge University Engineering Department named Qi Pan has made like Apple and “thought different”.
As you can see from the video after the jump, Pan took a detailed paper building and rotated it on an axis, filming it with an ordinary web camera. His ProFORMA (Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition) program scanned it, and he immediately had something ready for 3D model generation. He could even shake the real thing and move it, and the CG image would do the same. Wild!
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Clock Sheet tells you the time, by touch
Ah, you got to love concept technology at its finest. I mean, look at this thing. Someone actually made it so the time appears on my bed sheet for crying out loud.
And those numbers don’t just appear in that corner, they are very touchable, just like Braille. So when I get up in the middle of the night, and want to know what time it is, I don’t have to look at my cellular phone or the bright numbers on a clock radio. All I need to do is feel the sheets for the proper time.
Yes, besides the blind, I don’t really see a good use for this product. I mean, if I am too lazy to open my eyes and check the time, I doubt I’ll want to feel the corner of my bed for the time.
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Dancepants is a kinetic-powered MP3 Player
Is it just me, or are MP3 players in everything these days? I guess some concept designer just had to put an MP3 player in clothes, and why not the pants? After all, the words “dance” and “pants” rhyme.
Say, is that an MP3 Player in your pants, or…all right, I think you all know where that one was going. I’m not liking where the Dancepants is going.
You see, the Dancepants isn’t just an MP3 Player that is designed to fit in the pants. That would probably be easy. You would just find a convenient place to stitch in the apparatus, and just make certain that the user can charge it and download tunes easily.
The Dancepants are not like that. You see, it is powered by kinetic energy. So if you like to listen to music while you are jogging, then you had better keep jogging, or your music will die. That, or you will. Heh heh heh.
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Pee Powered Diaper Monitor System
There are far more people than just parents that have to worry about the changing of diapers. There are the obvious ones within daycare and preschool. Then there are those that work within hospitals that take care of young children as well as the elderly. This diaper monitor system was developed for the elderly to make life easier on those caring for them. However, there are plenty of other areas in which a device like this could easily be used.
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Map Hole: A manhole cover that gives directions
If you walk on many city streets, you will often see the street name carved in the street itself.
I’m guessing that is there for tourists who have lost their way, and designer Jaie Kwon has figured out a way for people to have a better sense of direction.
It’s called the Map Hole, and it is designed to turn an ordinary sewer cover (politically correct word for manhole cover) into a round map and compass.
I’m not certain if you can see this in the photo, but it has a location carved onto the metal itself, a direction where the landmark is, and the time it will take to get there (presumably by walking).
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