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For Royal College of Art design students Chris Glaister, Afshin Mehin and Tomas Rosen, the problem with concrete is once you put it down you can’t change it, and people have to just get used to it. So they decided to make concrete that changes color and came up with Chronos Chromos Concrete, a system…
It’s hard to think of technology in Las Vegas beyond updating the neon lights and the surveillance cameras surveying every pit, but the truth is a lot of time and money goes into developing new products for use in casinos. Take the Table Master by Shuffle Master, at your left, for instance. It’s a fully-automated…
Microsoft said today that they will be boosting shipments of the Xbox 360 by two to three times this week. They are doing this in response to the constant shortages that have been going on since the release. Good luck finding a unit, looks like the odds have gotten a lot better. Microsoft to boost…
In our ever-suicidal spiral towards a Matrix-like dystopia full of evil, slave-driving robots, we are pleased to introduce Cicerobot, a robotic museum guide that is watching and will strike when the moment is at hand. While this robot is designed to guide museum visitors around the Agrigento Regional Archaeological Museum, other robots will be programmed…
Who needs Origami when you have Linux? The ‘Municator is a $146 computer designed to surf the web, get email, and listen to audio and video. It weighs about a pound, has 256MB RAM and 40GB hard drive, a 800-MHz Godson (???) processor and TV output. Four USB ports, VGA-out, and PS2 port make this…
This project, named carpet/?s, allows personalized ascii carpet to be purchased. All that is needed is a single click and the program will generate a unique ascii output. It is based on the time when the surfer goes to a web site. The time in a form of hh:mm:ss is then used as a keyword…
If you’ve got an iPod Video and watch lots of things during a long commute, Belkin’s new TunePower rechargeable battery pack might be for you—it promises to add an extra six hours to your iPod’s two hour battery life. So in the real world, that’s probably an extra three or three and a half hours,…
This week at TreeHugger: We uncover another great way to stick it to the local power utility, with a DIY project called the Pedal Powered Prime Mover that’ll juice up your TV and almost anything else that plugs in. Plus, Israel s energy future is so bright, they have to wear shades: the National Solar…
Nyko has killed a couple birds with one stone with a new accessory for the Sony PSP. The Nyko Charger Grip includes a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that will extend the playing time battery life by five hours and include a grip to give the PSP a more PS2-controller feel. The PSP Nyko Charger Grip retails…
Task lamps are so ubiquitous in our daily lives and therefore so blah that we barely think about them, and yet somehow Ron Gilad’s Dear Ingo chandelier, made with sixteen of them, manages to be surprisingly sinister and incredibly sexy at the same time. $2951, if you think you can live with this exquisite monster.…
This watch is not digital, it’s not analog, it’s Neolog, where graphic bars build up in groups of three showing you what time it is. Designed by Scopetime GmbH headed by designer Arman Emami, the Neolog A-24 II quartz watch is made of stainless steel and is water resistant to 3 atm. All this minimalist…
A lot of the little gadgets that we post about are chosen because they’re just so pointless that they must be lovingly mocked in a public forum, but we think the Keyring Kite, a fully-functional kite that folds into a pouch so small it fits into your pocket, is a thing of beauty. If you…
Philips is singing the praises of its MPC9350i Media Center PC, a VHS-looking box with a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of memory and a 250GB hard drive running Windows XP Media Center Edition. The company calls it the ultimate home entertainment center, because it’s able to play back music and movies and has PVR…
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better… stronger… faster.” If you’ve ever fantasized about becoming the Six Million Dollar Man—and we don’t mean those dream romps you took with Lindsay…
Education In the HD Era by Brian L. Clark I have this annoying—some would say pathetic—habit of trolling around television sections at consumer electronics and department stores, listening to what salesmen tell customers shopping for an HDTV. It s been an educational experience. I began thinking about this because earlier this week, I had some…
Samsung rolled out a 2.5-inch, 32GB flash drive that the company intends to market as a hard drive replacement unit. As it is with solid-state anything, it uses up just a fraction of the energy of devices with moving parts—in this case, 5% of the power of an old-fashoined spinning hard disk. This technology will…
So sad. Saffo has an interesting examination of the TR3, a calculator with a vestigial sliderule on the back. This strange creature was created as a “bridge” technology for sliderule manufacturers to work their way into the calculator market that was fast destroying their bottom line. In hindsight, the effort was wasted. This is a…
Sion Power developed lithium-sulfur batteries that last much longer than standard lithium-ion batteries. We’re hearing they’ll power a tablet PC all the live-long day, compared to the six hours of a lithium-ion battery. But there’s a catch. They’re a lot heavier and they only last 60 charges until they’re ready for the recycling center. They’re…
Over the next couple months Apple may be phasing out the 60GB iPod video in favor of something else, hopefully the true iPod Video that we have been hearing about non-stop for the past month, according to an Apple analyst. Apple told distributors that the 60GB iPod will be “at risk” until the end of…
Lenovo weighs in with its own take on the cube—the Easy Cube M500 is 2.75 inches square, which is apparently just enough room to squeeze in a portable speaker, four AA batteries and an SD memory card that you supply yourself. Maybe that’s why it only costs $50, a great deal if you want to…