Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Samsung Omida

I want one. 

Monday, June 23, 2008

Refrigeration Without Electricity

A great idea for the developing world. And cheap, too. People are coming up with more and more things like this. Which is why I get annoyed by all the chicken little hysterics who say we’re doomed, etc. We are moving in new exciting directions away from older technologies. Just as the cars, telephones, refrigerators and other applicances aren’t as clunky and inefficient as they were in the 1940s, so will technologies be radically different in the next 10, 20 years. They will be more energy efficient and much smaller and smarter.

It’s important to think positive and ignore the crazed depressives running around talking about end times. 

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Holodeck 1.0?

The HoloVizio is a 3-D screen that will allow designers to visualise true 3-D models of cars, engines or components. Better yet, gesture recognition means that observers can manipulate the models by waving their hands in front of the screen. The function offers enormous scope for collaboration across the globe.

“The aim of the COHERENT project was to create a new networked holographic audio-visual platform to support real-time collaborative 3-D interaction between geographically distributed teams,” explains Akos Demeter, spokesperson for the project.

Science Daily

Saturday, May 31, 2008

I Want One

Website

Monday, May 26, 2008

Very Cool Future Tech

These are amazing design concepts soon to be in your future. 

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Robots ReAssemble

Sunday, March 30, 2008

The “Luke Skywalker” Arm

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Instant Merchandizing

You can now manufacture products on demand, using your own designs, very quickly, easily and cheaply. And it’s only going to get better.

Welcome to the age of the instapreneur. With nothing more than a design, amateurs can manufacture jewelry, robots, T-shirts, furniture — anything. No warehouses. No minimum orders. And no money down. The digital economy isn’t just digital; the same market forces that allowed midlist musicians to make a living distributing their songs online now give amateur clothiers the chance to sell their wares without having to persuade Barney’s buyers to carry them.

Thousands are launching instant businesses. Zazzle, of Redwood City, California, offers a dizzying array of user-designed products from posters to tennis shoes. StyleShake, a custom-clothing site in London, received 25,000 dress designs in its first three months. Spreadshirt, founded in Leipzig, Germany, hosts 500,000 individual T-shirt shops. “These companies significantly lower the threshold for someone to bring anything to market,” says Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. “There’s an industrial-age bias that you need volume to support a factory; but with this, much-more-creative low-volume businesses become viable.”

Friday, March 21, 2008

More Impressive than a Segway

Dean Kamen has invented a machine that will purify any water source, whether it be seawater, urine, or toxic waste. It can make clean drinking water from any source of water. Very nice. 

Monday, March 17, 2008

Big Dog Robot