This is a game controller made from a bra and a pair of shorts. Both have 6 sensors. The woman stands in front of the man, and by touching each other they can play the game. This was designed in response to women feeling alienated by their boyfriends playing games and their exclusion from them.
Using the brain to control a computer used to be a comparitive rarity, but this article looks at 3 different companies who are launching products soon which allow brain control. Neurosky Inc should be launching a cheap product towards October 2007 and they want to retail the controller at $20,- Emotiv Systems Inc is also Read more about More using brainwaves[…]
This guy is rocket crazy. He’s built a rocket belt, which looks like the James Bond jetpack (and actually works!) and is building rocket cars, bikes, whatever. He’s even built a machine to make Hydrogen Peroxide at home so you can build your own fuel. Viva Mexico!
VisionAccess has a 3D face regocnition unit which they claim will recognise your head from different angles, in different lighting and even with different hair styles. Put it in your car, and instead of them chopping of your hand to steal it, they’ll decapitate you.
Ron Simandl has been busy developing a duster for invisible particles. He’s come up with a treatment that can turn any rag into a superduster, allowing you to use it to clean your car with as well as Beryllium. Swiffer, move aside!
The simple but effective way to do it! Put a take-along projector under your windscreen, attach it to GPS and it can show you how fast you’re going without you having to look down. Nice! It also connects to your handsfree kit, so you can bluetooth your pda / tomtom / phone to it as Read more about HUD for your car[…]
Oh so simple, but oh so effective – how to get rid of all the computer related gunk on your desk? Strap it to the bottom, of course!
This tutorial shows you how to easily build a heart rate meter attatched to your PC. Beware you don’t blow yourself up, please.
Are you too cheap to buy a stainless steel kitchen appliance, but want one anyway? Here’s your answer – it ain’t supercheap, but it works – it’s a paintjob.
XLR is something used by audio devices – microphones, keyboards, drum machines (and maybe even electric gituars… dunno, didn’t research it). Lightsnake has developed a little kit to just plug these machines into your PC without the need for drivers. The hardware is bundled with waveform and karaoke software, which is nice but not necessary. Read more about XLR to USB[…]
Razer has released the first set of desktop speakers to feature THX. The speakers are specially built to rest on tables and other surfaces, ensuring sound quality isn’t lost when the sound waves hit the surface to give you awesome THX sound. There’s a headphone slot in the system for when you need to tone Read more about Razer desktop speakers[…]
If you’re hearing impaired, this may be the thing for you – wireless stylish earbuds with award winning quality and noise cancelling technology so that voices come out crisp. clear and loudly without having to up the volume too much. You can switch between mono and stereo sound depending on the environment you’re in and Read more about Linx Audio Clear Harmony[…]
These guys sell some unusual cool lighting, especially LED lighting which changes the entire look of your room using colour.
If you want to do VR, how do you avoid bumping into the walls as you’re wondering about? Use the battle ball – weighs around 500 pounds, easily dissasembleable and mounted on wheels allowing you to walk, run or crawl. Finally!
The Image Replication Imaging Spectrometer is a gadget that sees coloured light views 32 bands in the light spectrum and composits them into the 3 that humans can see, allowing the camera to show low observable (to humans) objects. These images can help not only in spotting IEDs and land mines, but also have medicinal Read more about IRIS sees many colours[…]
The RFID Gaurdian project is to build a hand held RFID blocking field which will offer bodywide protection from scans on your RFID tags (which you can disable on command) allowing people to reap the benefits of RFID whilst being able to maintain personal privacy. They’ve managed to build a prototype, with video demonstrations.
The MJoy controller can be used to create your own programmable joystick, or convert your current analogue joystick to a digital, more accurate one.
Using air bubbles to create pixels.
fake legs and feet are now incredibly advanced – so much so, that for GBP 60,000 you can get one which is microprocessor controlled and will allow amputee soldiers back into combat.
By using a wireless 802 antenna from an old piece of kit stuck into the keyboard you can increase the range by about 400%
Ceelite creates flat lightbulbs on sheets of bendable plastic. Want it in my house, but no pricing on the site.
This huge scanner has a monitor built in to it, and scans the tabletop in less than a second. It also has animation and image editing functions in the software.
You attach some electrodes to your throat and mouth the word. The device says the word in the other language. Far from complete, with an 80% accuracy rate with a lexicon of 100 words, it’s very promising and the only system that doesn’t try to work with acoustic input.
Using a laser pointer and a mirror mounted to a motor you can make cool laser vortex effects cheaply.
For $34,- you can travel using your non-enclosed SATA HD and plug it into just about anything. This tiny gadget sits in between the cable and the USB port.