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South Korea has overhauled its public transport network with recharging roads, where the vehicles use power from buried electric strips in the road. It was invented at the University of California, before South Korea adopted it for an amusement park. The system is being tested at an amusement park in Seoul, but if all goes…
It’s not a micro four thirds, but Pentax has lifted the lid on the 645D medium format camera, which will be available this May for close to $10,000. Why so expensive, you ask? There’s that 40MP Kodak sensor for starters. It’s also got a SAFOX IX+ autofocus system with 11 sensor points, a Pentax original…
We often speak of material being used to conduct electricity, but what if underwear makers AussieBum—who’ve created underpants made from banana fiber—used carbon nanotubes as well? Think of the possibilities banana-derived electricity-conducting pants could bring you. [KoreaHerald] https://gizmodo.com/nanowires-could-turn-your-t-shirts-into-nano-power-stat-356380
12 Full Color Printed VHS Video Boxes: $9. Full Scale Plastic Washer and Dryer Set: $139. 2 Piece 20″ Wide Screen LCD Style Computer Package: $49. Outfitting your entire home with prop gadgets: Probably a bad idea. If you’re like me and ever looked at one of those prop TVs in a store and wondered…
Here’s some tasty-looking hard candy. And here’s that same tasty-looking hard candy scanned by an SEM. Tuns out that there’s a company offering to stick almost anything under an electron microscope and we can’t help but wonder: What to pick? SEM Elemental Analysis company ASPEX is offering this great service where people can submit their…
Lego biped robots are a dime a dozen, even while some look pretty sweet. This one is special: It’s the first walking Lego robot. And, unlike your usual feet-dragging toy robots, it actually walks by raising its feet. https://gizmodo.com/massive-lego-mecha-can-probably-kill-humans-then-drink-5045280 Click to view This is definitely not easy to do with Lego or any other material.…
Here are a few things you don’t have time to do when your car plunges into an icy lake: remove a Leatherman multitool from your glove compartment; unfold it; cut through your seatbelt; refold it; smash through your window. Thankfully there’s the ExiTool, a clever little gadget that attaches to your seat belt for quick…
If I were Neil deGrasse Tyson—host of the Pluto Files and director of the Hayden Planetarium—I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. Not after reading the hate mail from thousands of outraged American kids. The kids wrote to de Grasse Tyson demanding an explanation about why scientists changed Pluto’s classification from planet into a…
Sometimes Wi-Fi just doesn’t do the trick when streaming something to several devices. Zinnet’s Brite-View LinkE system will cover you there by allowing you to stream things over a powerline network to four ethernet devices and at up to 200Mbps. It’s pretty simple: You plug an ethernet bridge into a wall outlet and connect it…
We just finished watching Google’s live announcement of the launch of the Google App Marketplace. Keep reading for information on what they’re offering users and developers. Oh, and know that the Marketplace is live today. Updating. The event is called “Google Campfire One” and it’s all about how easy it will be to create, set…
Some days, it happens two or three times. I bet that you and most of your friends and family find themselves in the same situation too. [Loldwell]
For every time you’ve brought a scooter to the airport and wished it fit into the overhead compartment, I give you the Nexus: a battery-powered scooter that folds into a luggage-sized case. The TSA will love this. Nexus is a concept designed by Francisco Lupin, and if it were either a) for sale or b)…
As a kid I had a pair of Barbie sneakers that lit up with every step. Sadly those aren’t made in adult shoe sizes, so I’ll have to settle for something like these slinky illuminated heels. These shoes came from the minds of Rodarte, a two-sister design team mind of Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte, and…
Sorry, everybody who bought a Zune HD! You screwed up. It won’t be a part of the XNA Game Studio 4.0 party—meaning it won’t play those new mobile Xbox Live games for Windows Phone 7—unlike the Zune HD2. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-demos-game-across-windows-phone-7-xbox-360-5487232 It’s through MIcrosoft’s XNA Game Studio 4.0 that developers get access to the Xbox Live goodness,…
Sure, these days it seems like everyone has an iPhone, but in bizarro 2010 literally everyone has a watchphone. They’re miniature. They’re wireless. They have geometric buttons. And they’re eating bizarro AT&T’s bandwidth alive. Oh, 1995, you are so naive. This ad was dug up by Wired Reread, a site that does just what its…
Wires. Lame, right? Always getting tangled up, keeping you tethered to your desk. But! We’ve hit the age of wireless USB. Now Macbook and PC alike can connect cordlessly to any desktop setting through products like the Warpia Easy Dock. We had some concerns over the InFocus wireless set-up that popped up last month, but…
In today’s Remainders: tomorrow’s news! Cisco’s ushering in the next generation of internet with the CRS-3; Kempler & Strauss’s futuristic PhoneWatch gets reviewed; geolocated Tweets; a WebKit-borrowing Firefox; an HTML 5 drawing app; Samsung’s point and shoot prices, and more! Hang Ups Back in October we previewed the Kempler & Strauss PhoneWatch—the smallest of its…
Buried in a site devoted to early robots is my dream man, Electron. Russian, born in 1967, he has 4ft-wide shoulders, waltzes, plays chess, and while he only understands 112 commands, his steely gaze is reassuringly paternal. [CyberneticZoo via BotJunkie]
Netbooks’ mobility and smaller screen sizes demand applications that are optimized for a mobile, on-the-go audience. So Intel® set up the Million Dollar Development Fund to help developers respond to this challenge. The goal of the Intel® Atom™ Developer Program Million Dollar Development Fund is to help accelerate innovation in software applications for Intel Atom…
According to Jonathan Schwartz—then Sun’s CEO—that’s what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass, a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X’s. After that, Schwartz put Steve in his place: “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?”…