The End of the World is Nigh: Cellphone Bed
Do you ever worry that you have been overworking your cellphone? Yes, thought so. And since we’re not allowed to send them away on holiday (just think of the chaos an unaccompanied cellphone would provoke on a plane, I’m seeing the movie posters already, dang) then perhaps the least we can do is buy them…
Haier Sterling Available Unlocked for $199 this Summer
Haier’s sister phone to its Elegance (aka the Black Pearl) will be available from July. The Haier Sterling is another beautifully designed teeny-weeny phone (it measures 3.8 x 1.6 x 0.6 inches) and for $199 you get MP3 and MP4 players, full WAP and Web access, 1.3 megapixel camera, 1.8-inch color screen, micro SD card…
Claytronics: Programmable Nano-matter Creates Objects, Bad Fake Ads, Lousy Actors
This is Claytronics, a concept technology “formed by billions of microscopic robots, each with computational abilities and sensors that enable interaction.” In theory, it will allow you to create 3D objects directly and manipulate them in real time. Like Silly Putty but smart, animated and without all the mess. I truly hope that Claytronics becomes…
The Oldest Working Vacuum Cleaner in the World (Clue: it’s at the Bottom of the Picture)
It may not have the look of a Dyson about it, but Archie Cameron’s vaccuum cleaner lays claim to the oldest working model in Britain today. The retired Scottish civil servant has had his Goblin Triumph electric cleaner since 1936, when his mother bought it from a traveling salesman in Glasgow. Archie has had to…
LG.Philips LCD Teases World With A4 Color Electronic Paper
LG.Philips LCD keeps teasing the world with dream display products that will not reach the mass market until sometime in the next decade. https://gizmodo.com/lg-phillips-e-book-flexible-means-flexibility-196837 This is their all-new, world-first A4 electronic paper, a 4,096-color flexible 14.1-inch page made using “metal foil and plastic substrates rather than glass.” They only use power when the image changes…
ClearSmile: Tooth Cleaning Machine
Here’s an entrant from the Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge. He’s a dentist with an Idea: a machine that cleans your teeth called the ClearSmile. It works by pumping cleansing solution around your teeth for those times when mouthwash just won’t do. Even with as awkwardly as this gadget looks to operate, we have to…
Crow Vending Machine…As Foretold by Hitchcock
What if you could train crows to work for peanuts…literally? It’s possible, according to one student at the ITP Spring Show. I’d say more, but I don’t claim to be a crow expert. (They aren’t covered much on Discovery as of late but I’ll be happy to expound upon sharks and/or army ants.)