Sep 20 2008
It’s a timepiece unlike anything you’ve ever seen. And with six patents for bizarreness, the Corpus clock is guaranteed “eccentric.” It displays time not with the help of hour and minute hands but through blue LEDs shining through...
Sep 20 2008
Product Description: Four years from now, we might see the first “neurally controlled artificial arm.” We have been witness to a lot of robotic arms that restore basic movement but stopped short of replicating an actual limb to its entirety. Now,...
Sep 20 2008
A dual-core option for the Intel Atom processor did take a while coming. There are a couple of noteworthy features that draw our attention to the Atom 330. One, there isn’t an upgrade to the clock speed over the N230, which offered 1.6GHz. Two, the...
Sep 20 2008
The origin of the universe has always been shrouded in mystery. Asteroids may offer critical information in the study of the formation of the solar system. European scientists are now planning an intensive mission to collect dust and rubble from an...
Sep 20 2008
The Robotic Wheelchair is an advanced autonomous machine that relies on pre-registered location information to wheel a user around. Unlike the joystick-controlled automated wheelchairs that we see today, the MIT machine takes vocal commands from the...
Sep 19 2008
It would be too far-fetched to expect an 85-year-old camera to capture images. Well, with the Leica II, you would realize it isn’t the case always. A true collector’s item if you value old cameras, the Leica II was popular during its times...
Sep 19 2008
We have seen keyboards with a built-in CPU and even PCs built into monitors. Now, the tables will be turned and you’ll see a touchscreen stuck onto a PC. Yes, the Shuttle D10 has a 7-inch LCD screen neatly tucked away into the central unit. The...
Sep 19 2008
When you’re wired, you are stuck and when it is wireless, the additional freedom is something you can feel good about. We haven’t seen a wireless USB hard drive so far and hence, the Imation Apollo Pro WX comes across as a pleasant...
Sep 19 2008
The HISMAR (Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics) is being developed as a moss cleaning system for ships. It is known that the presence of marine growth on the hull can increase drag and thereby slow down the ship. This robotic...
Sep 19 2008
Imagine a hard drive that is just about as thick as your credit card. Imagine Buffalo MiniStation Shinobi! We are left in no doubt about its claims of being “the world’s thinnest external hard drive,” especially after learning that...