The Sensor Clock: Please Keep Jokes to a Minimum
Maybe in eastern Asia they’re a little more comfortable with making consumer electronics in the shape of…well, body parts, which may explain how the Sensor Clock came about. Aside from looking sort of like “that,” it does actually have some uses. The three “windows” (excuse the Google translation) show time, temperature and date. When it…
iPod Nano Now iPod Sport Kit Compatible
Five weeks after the initial announcement of their partnership with Nike, Apple has released the required software update for its iPod nano that allows it to interact with Nike’s Moire running shoe. Christened by both companies as the iPod Sport Kit, the iPod nano + Moire marriage lets runners keep tabs on various statistics, including…
Solar Tent
Get all “Inconvenient Truth” on your campmate’s asses with this solar tent. It has a set of panels that capture and store the precious rays of the sun to power interior LED lighting or to recharge your batteries. It comes in 4- and 6-person versions which cost $150 and $200 respectively. They seem to be…
COGNITRON: It Feels Your Pain
This whole release is pretty weird—lots of rhetorical questions and little meat—but Dr. Raja Chatila of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique is working on a robot system called the COGNITRON designed specifically to help us with our every day tasks. Research breaks down into four capacities required by a cognitive robot companion:…
YellowSheepRiver Municator Takes Aim at Developing Nations’ Laptop Market
Believe it or not, not everybody in the world has as much disposable income as the average Joe in the US. Getting past this digital divide, as the mainstream media loves to call it, is one of the major goals of international organizations and companies alike. What will be the catalyst for change? Why Linux,…
Mark VII Keyboard
Imagineer Russ Nelson has taken it upon himself to improve the keyboard, a device that hasn’t seen any real innovations for ages, seemingly. His Mark line of keyboards, the latest being the Mark VIII, are designed to be used with just one hand. Considering much of it is made out of cardboard, the low weight…
Doorbell Privacy Device
Make is featuring a breadboard-based timer that turns off your front bell for a pre-set period of time, thereby ensuring day sleepers will get their 10 hours rest. It doesn’t look very complex—but then again I couldn’t even mod my PS2 without burning it up, so I’m useless with electronics—and seems like an excellent and…