Tag: Technology
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World’s Most Powerful Subwoofer!
By Josh Ray. No, it’s not a fan. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the world’s most powerful subwoofer: the Eminent Tech TRW 17. Rather than your garden variety 10 or 12 inch paper cone pulsating back and forth, this subwoofer creates a wall of air as big as your living room. In other words, the…
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Riya, Photo Sharing With Face Recognition
By David Ponce Riya is just what Flickr is missing. It’s a photo storing site, just like Flickr, but it incorporates face recognition technology. That way, tagging your pictures becomes much easier. Think about it… Say you have 10,000 pictures on your hard drive. Family, friends, crazy ex-girlfriends. You really want to identify the people…
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Start Your Car Through The Internet
By David Ponce Remote car starters are still partying like it’s 1999. True geeks move on, and find new ways to start the car when it’s freezing outside. Like with the Guidepoint system. It’s a little like OnStar, except they have the added feature of being able to access some of the features through the…
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The Toyota iSwing
By David Ponce I got on a Segway, once, for $5 at a car show. It was pretty cool. You should try it. Now, at the Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota came out with the iSwing. From what I gather, there are two main differences between it and Kamen’s baby. First, no self-stabilization. This thing has…
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Scientists Create Functional Nanocar
By David Ponce OMG, Holy Crap and all that noise! Some scientists at Rice University have done the unthinkable: they’ve created a functional “nanocar”, consisting of a chassis, axles, and four Buckyballs as wheels. It’s about 4 nanometers across (slightly wider than a strand of DNA, a human hair being 80,000 nanometers across) and the…
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The Agitor, Integrated Beverage Agitator
By David Ponce So, complete information on this next product is all spotty, like a delicious Swiss cheese, on the account of some craptacularly designed product page. It’s called the Agitor, by Tinkatec, and it will allegedly revolutionize the way you stir your next Starbucks hot chocolate, or whatnot. Tinkatec owner Creighton Schlebach says the…
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eINK Coming in Color!
By Asim Waqar eINK’s technology has been around, making flexible, low power displays for a while. Now eINK engineers have built a full-color electronic paper display that is suitable for mass production. This paper achieves 12-bit color – 400×300 pixel – resolution of 83 pixels per inch. It creates an image that looks like a…
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The Gyrosensor Golf Putter
By David Ponce Take some quartz based motion sensors, cram this in a golf putter, add a little LCD screen, and you’ve suddenly got an entirely different ball game. Epson Toyocom, which is the result of a recent merger between the Quartz Device Operations Division of Seiko Epson and Toyo Communication Equipment are now selling…
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The LoveJackets
By David Ponce You know you’ve found your geek soulmate when he/she agrees to wear the LoveJacket. They come in unique pairs, and each contains an infra-red emitter and receiver, a set of LEDs. a PIC chip (programmable interrupt controller) and little speakers. When you and your mate are within 10 feet of each other…
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The SeeFree Glasses Remove Adverts
By David Ponce It’s been going around for some time now, but somehow I missed it. The SeeFree glasses are some really fugly eyepieces with some un-fugly “augmented reality” functionality. When you wear them, all ads disappear: billboards, posters, annoying commercials everywhere, all gone! How does it do this? An integrated camera scans your environment.…