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Justin.tv And Giz at Nextfest
Watch justin live video and chat on Justin.tvWe're down at Wired's NextFest with Justin.tv, checking out the robots and cool stuff from the future. Check out the video to see what we're seeing.
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Cellphone Disco Boogies Into NextFest
newVideoPlayer("cellphonedisco.flv", 478, 288); This is the Cell Phone Disco by Informationlab at NextFest '07, it's basically a large wall covered in LED's. These LED's only turn on when in the presence of the same electromagnetic interference...
Nextfest: Playing With Virtual Balls
While sneaking around Nextfest, the big technology conference that's happening this weekend in New York City, Richard managed to take some footage of a giant table game starring big virtual balls. This video shows men and women "holding" the...
Nextfest: Video Recap of the Technology Convention That Wired Built
Nextfest, the big convention in New York City that showcased tomorrow's technology (today!) just wrapped up and we've got a nice video recap for your prying eyes. Some of the highlights include virtual kayaking, a robot bartender and, the coup de...
Jeff Han Talks Multitouch, iPhones, and Lame Minority Report Jokes
newVideoPlayer("jeffhan.flv", 476,288); Bumping into Jeff Han, a man highly obsessed with touchscreens, was a highlight of my Nextfest fly through. He was showing off Perceptive Pixel's 16 foot long multitouch system and I got a chance to ask him...
Bartending Robot Mixes Drinks, Helps Ruin Lives
Wired's Nextfest is about to begin in New York City, ushering in a weekend of gadget geeks walking the mean streets and getting lost. Our camera man Richard was able to sneak in early and grabbed some groovy footage for us, the first of which is...
Origami Cameras
These fully-functional paper cameras from IDNProShop are fantastic. I wonder if they take real film or if you have to fold that up, too? (Thanks, Naoya!) Read [IDNWorld]
Best of Wired NextFest 2007 Walkthrough
Before I catch my flight back to SF, here are a few choice shots of my favorite fun at Wired's 2007 NextFest down in LA. Notable things include nano ferrite "magnetic fluid" solutions, prototypes of JPL's Mars rover running over Justin from...
WineM RFID Wine Rack at NextFest
ThingM's WineM is one part intelligent wine rack, one part light show. This concept, currently on display at NextFest, works by taking bottles of wine tagged with RFID stickers and placing them onto the rack. Now if you're having Lamb Shank for...
Video of a Blonde Being Smashed by a Shovel (While, Thankfully, Wearing D3O Body Armor)
newVideoPlayer("d3o.flv", 478, 288);Here's a video of an attractive blonde woman being hit by a shovel wielded by another blonde. I swear, this is not merely lesbionic, but gadgety, too. She's wearing a knee brace reinforced with that D3O body...
Wired's NextFest Gadget Concepts
In a story that I'm sure will appeal to almost every single Gizmodo reader, Wired Magazine challenges five design groups to come up with their visions of gadgetry a decade from now—all speculation, of course, but we'll all have forgotten it...
Killacycle Inventor Crashes at NextFest
I forgot to tell this story. Apparently one exhibitor on an electric motorcycle took his ride out for a spin, and his throttle jammed. That's bad on any motorcycle cough*joebrown*cough but really bad on an electric drag racer with a zero to sixty...
Next Fest 2006: Automatic Door
Not the kind you're used to. This door has many slats with infrared sensors on their tips. When you walk up to it, the slats slide out of the way, conforming to your body. We've written about this, but here's a video of it in action.–Brian Lam
Me Being Run Over by a Mars Rover Prototype
newVideoPlayer("marsrovershiatsu.flv", 478, 288); Motorcycle crashes aside, here's another case of Man/Machine collision: The JPL designed NASA Mars Rover climbing over a viscous, blubbery, greasy surface known as My Back. The JPL lady said this...
Keepon Robot Keeps on Keepin' On in Spoon Promo
Austin band Spoon have collaborated before with yellow robot Keepon, but their new video, for "Don't You Evah" gives us a little more than the first one. Keepon's creator, Hideki Kozima, costars alongside the little blob of sunshine, and there's a...
Killacycle Electric Bike Breaks World Record For Quarter Mile in 8 Seconds, 168MPH
That dude who drove his electric motorcycle into a minivan while showing off for reporters at Wired Nextfest got out of the hospital and put some 300 extra Li Ion cells on his bike. Then he broke the electric vehicle world record in the...
Jeff Han's Media Wall Available Now
We bumped into Jeff Han back at Nextfest and absolutely loved the guy, as well as his slightly-buggy-at-the-time Perceptive Pixel multitouch system. That very device, renamed the Media Wall, is now available for purchase. Sure, we are a little...
D3O Armor Protects Shovel to Head
newVideoPlayer("smackhead_gawker.flv", 475, 376);When our own Brian Lam beat up a blonde at Nextfest to test D3O soft body armor, we were...well, a little weirded out, but also impressed and a bit proud. But Brian, being the upstanding citizen...
SiCortex Supercomputer Can be Powered by Bicycles
Here's a common predicament: You've got a supercomputer handy and you have some complex mathematical equations you need crunched. The problem is, there's no power source available! That's what you get for setting up your supercomputer in the...
Gizmodo: While You Were Passed Out
I saw you sleeping at your keyboard last night. It was pretty pathetic, drool coming out of the corner of your mouth, eye buggers building up... Wait that's getting off topic! There was some sweet info you might have missed; such as the World...
Sans Digital NAS with iTunes Support
At first glance the Sans Digital's MN2L NAS looks pretty standard. It has two SATA drive bays, USB2, Ethernet, and even FTP access. But what sets this NAS apart is the built in iTunes support. It can take your music files and dupe iTunes into...
The Last Samurai Bot Would Eat Tom Cruise's Children
newVideoPlayer("samuraibot.flv", 478, 288); Here's a Japanese robot named Kiyomori designed to show off fully articulating knees that can bend and expand like human knees. Combined with the articulating pelvis that has 2 degrees of movement, it...
Zeno Robot Boy May One Day Replace Inventor's Son
David Hanson, known to Giz readers for some brilliant-but-creepy robotics, has unveiled his masterpiece of five years: Zeno, by no coincidence also the name of Hanson's 18-month-old son. galleryPost('HansonZeno', 4, 'Hanson Zeno');
Amazing Robot Reality, or Techno Puppet Show?
Jules is an impressive animatronic puppet created by American robotics designer David Hanson, first presented at the Wired NextFest last year. He's the next version in a long line of 13 robots by Hanson so far. This one has camera eyes that can...
Architectural Wind: Clean Energy, Birds Like It, Too
Harnessing energy from the wind is getting serious, and Arrow Vironoment takes it to the next level with Architectural Wind, a relatively small 6.5-foot, 60-pound turbine it rolled out at Wired's Nextfest last week. It's designed to mount on the...
MIT Cyclists Set Record for Pedal-Powered Supercomputing
A team of 10 cyclists from MIT have set a new world record in the field of Human Powered Computation (HPC) by drawing 1.2 kilowatts of electricity and powering a a SiCortex SC648 supercomputer over the course of a 20 minute nonstop ride. If you...
EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger
This week at TreeHugger: Though we tend to stick to the green, we still dig gadgets as much as the next blog, so we're happy to find the Energy Star podcasts that dig into the efficiency of consumer electronics. Wired's NextFest had so much green...
EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger
This week at TreeHugger: A roving TreeHugger sends a dispatch from Wired's NextFest, with a report on the "future of green." We sure like digital media, but what should you do when it comes time to get rid of your original Doom CD? We investigate...
EcoModo - The Best of TreeHugger
This week at TreeHugger: We revisit Potenco's ingenious pull-cord generator, get some hands-on experience with it and get up close and personal with its human power generation goodness. Unipixel has developed a new design for a handheld display...
