13 functions, you can program it by pressing your old remote whilst holding it to your wand.
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Star Wars Lightsaber Laser Pointer
PLX Kiwi Wifi – Connect your iPhone / iPod Touch to your car’s OBD2 OBDII Port.
Kiwi Wifi is a plug and play wireless device measuring only 2.75 x 1.25 x 0.6 inches. Kiwi Wifi comes attached with a 6 ft OBDII cable for easy installation. It also comes included with a power switch built-in to prevent the need for having to constantly disconnect your unit from the OBDII port. It is compatible with 1996 and later vehicles. Connecting to your iPhone / iPod touch is made by 802.11a/b/g connection in adHoc mode. This unit is upgradeable to Kiwi Wifi + iMFD.
via PLX Kiwi Wifi – Connect your iPhone / iPod Touch to your car’s OBD2 OBDII Port..
Razer TRON® Gaming Mouse
Mavizon Technologies – Autobot
This plugs into the ODBC port of your car and feeds information to your mobile / desktop device through the cloud as well as sending information (such as GPS location) and making automated phone calls after events, such as your airbags going off.
Hopefully they’ll make it an open architecture so we can see cool car tuner apps for it!
Mavizon Technologies – About Autobot.
GoPro Wearable Digital Cameras for Sports
These things are ruggedised and for the price they aren’t expensive at all…
GoPro Official Store: Wearable Digital Cameras for Sports.
Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground
Israeli researchers have created the tiniest-ever optical gyroscopes, as small as a grain of sand, but still maintaining the keen accuracy of their counterparts hundreds of times larger. Optical gyroscopes are generally used for navigation in airplanes, ships and satellites, in which they track movement without reference to external navigation points, by measuring the vehicle’s rotation rate and linear acceleration. This is called inertial navigation. It’s extremely accurate but, up until now, only possible in gyroscopes and weighing two to three pounds.
They only need to set their position once, quickly, and then they can remember where they are for quite some time.
via Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground | Popular Science.
Google TV
Well, this is Google’s take on TV. You buy either a Logitech box or a Sony TV and it’ll let you browse the web, watch youtube, use some apps and do some other stuff on it. You can control it using your iPhone or Android. Looks like it could be interesting.
Since then I have been contacted by Kevin of jofoandroid.com and he has a complete guide online https://joyofandroid.com/android-tv/Android TV: Everything You Need To Know
32 Tablets, Slates, Pads, and More
A good list of what’s available or will be and how much it costs as well as links to reviews. What does the iPad have to face?
iPadversaries! 32 Tablets, Slates, Pads, and More.
MakerScanner – open source 3d scanning
This system uses a laser and a webcam to scan an item, which can then be printed with the cheap Markerbot 3D printer, or other printers.
MakerScanner – open source 3d scanning.
Indian $35 tablet computer prototype
Texas Instruments doesn’t want you to own your hardware either
In a growning and disconcerting trend among hardware manufacturers, TI has released a new version of it’s OS for the TI-Nspire series, that blocks off a whole load of its’ user base from using the machine the way they want to.
I guess Apple, Android, TI, et al are afraid that the community will program something so awesome for their hardware that they’ll never upgrade again?
Nspire 2.1 out, don’t install it!.
Droid X bricks on jailbreak / root
Android users all seem to throw about that it’s an open architecture, but it quite simply isn’t. In order to do everything on an Android phone you have to root it, which is the same as jailbreaking it.
Motorola has taken the extreme measure of making sure that if it gets rooted, it’ll completely fuck up the startup stack, thereby permanently bricking it. A kill-switch for tampering.
Using Gravity to Detect Underground Structures
Unexpected deviations in gravity are indicative of differences in density. If you point your detector (a gravity gradiometer) in that direction, you can tell what kind of structure is underground. Lockheed Martin is calling this the GATE (Gravity Anomaly for Tunnel Exposure) programme.
Using Gravity to Detect Underground Threats | Lockheed Martin.
X-Ray vision from tens to thousands of feet
DIY Smoker for around $60,-
Breitling Professional line
Iphone 4 reception issues
It turns out that the metal band around the casing of the iphone 4 is part of the antenna. If you hold it like you would hold a phone, you hamper reception.
Steve Jobs doesn’t think it’s a problem though: his response?
Steve Jobs on iPhone 4 “Just don t hold it that way”.
Sawstop keeps your fingers whole
This is a $60,- addition you can put onto a table saw. It detects electrical conductivity and stops the saw as soon as it gets into range – from 5000 RPM to 0 in a millisecond. This means you can shove your finger into the spinning saw without it being harmed at all. Of course, you destroy the device and the saw, but especially at that price it’s going to save a lot of fingers.
The Tinbasher Sheet Metal Blog.
Solar powered light bulb
Fully charged it provides 4 hours of light. You hang it in the sun by day and use it (duh) at night. Cost? $15,- per piece and it will last between 5 – 10 years.
Solar light bulb to shine on developing world | Crave – CNET.
Sony’s Flexible OLED
At 80 microns thin, it’s flexible and can be wrapped around a pencil. It’s 432 X 240 resolution and 4.1″ display looks crisp!
Sony’s Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair.
Mind controlled spy robot
This guy has gone all out – he’s mapped his Emotiv headset commands to Rovio commands, which are sent out via skype to the robot.
Emotiv Headset Controls Rovio Robot Via Brainwaves – Rovio emotiv hack – Gizmodo.
Robot Touchscreen Analysis
This shows pretty conclusively that the iphone has the best touchscreen followed by the Palm Pre. The Androids don’t do too well at all.
labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » Robot Touchscreen Analysis.
Skinput turns your body into a touch device
The system beams a keyboard or menu onto the user's forearm and hand from a projector housed in an armband. An acoustic detector, also in the armband, then calculates which part of the display you want to activate.
via Body acoustics can turn your arm into a touchscreen – tech – 01 March 2010 – New Scientist.
HUD Ski goggles
The Zeal Optics Transcend googles feature a head mounted display with GPS, speed, altitude, vertical odometer, stopwatch / countdown timer, temp, time, anti fog and a whole lot more and have 3 buttons on the side to switch between the modes and functions in a coverflow type of fashion. Unfortunately either $350,- or $450,-.
