Back in May 2007 I had a look at brain controllers, one of which was promising to launch in October 2007. They are now accepting developers to use and program for their unit, but still not on the commercial market.

This is about the Epoc from Emotiv Systems though. The picture of the brain controller has changed quite a bit, but they are taking pre-orders (if you live in the US) and say they will be out towards the end of this year. Their software can recognise emotions, expressions and thoughts and intents.

If you work with HDs a lot, then this hard drive dock to usb2 thing might be usefull to you

This system, built for bikers, allows others to communicate with each other over a range of 500m.

G-tech/Pro is famous for its accelerometers or g-meters. They measure how fast you accellerate, how many G’s you’re pulling, how fast you brake and how that compares to your turns. Their SS ($199) / RR ($299) series are the top of the line, but it’s a bit unfortunate that you need to spend an extra $100,- to be able to export to your PC.

Of course, you could hook up your wii-mote to a laptop and let Excel do the number crunching 🙂

The Expandable Gauge System (EGS) is a real piece of engineering with shift lights, a rev meter, a digital display with loads of measurements all easily plugged in through your cigarette lighter and a controller. You can buy extra modules for it and expand it as much as you like. Starts at around $279

Link to G-Tech/Pro Homepage

Of course there is also the DashDAQ Series II which allows you to set your own gauge layouts on the screen and plug loads of third party elements into it.

But pricing at $695 is a bit steeper

PLX Devices has digital gauges you can customise and skin from your computer starting at $79,- per piece. The DM-200 ODB is full colour, 60mm and OLED.

Many more gadgets of to be found on Racergadget.com

This is a lovely story for a great development: a honeycomb structure that seems to be transparent and conducts sound, allowing you to transmit audio over just about any surface.

Looks like a good gaming keypad to me…

A great concept – put your keys anywhere on the board you want them, then program them with single keys or multi key macros. The board (tray) is clear, so you can print out templates if you like.

Sometimes a product comes along that’s so simple you wonder why you’ve never spotted it before. This is one of them. Wide enough for a keyboard and a mouse or a laptop and a mouse:

Without the balding guy (hopefully)

This seems to be the ulimate in erognomic keyboards for heavy use.

Olympus creates 360-degree HD camera and projector – Engadget

Really quick and easy video tutorial

It works by chemically filtering anything larger than 15 nanometers, thus cleansing it. Very usefull for the military or, well, anyone!

This keyboard costs more than the Optimus keyboard, also has OLED programmable buttons and even has a screen on it and easy mode changing stuff, but still manages to look like a throwback from the 60s.

There’s a video after the jump.

Want to lock up something and make it look cool too? Samsung has the answer. Pictures speak more than words.

It’s a touch sensor you build on a PCB.

A totally simple elegant idea.

Ion Audio has a tape deck you can copy your casettes to PC with, for just under GBP 100,-. They also have a system that copies LPs to PC using the USB port.

Saitek is launching some small LCDs which plug into flight simulators (please write a lot of drivers for these things!) and can be used to replace the instrumentation. These Head Down Displays turn your PC into a glass cockpit at around $99.99 per piece.

Yes, you have decided you really, really want to bluespam or bluesnarf everyone within a massive range – then this little box is the one for you. The Aircable Host XR gives 30 kilometers of unsuspecting targets to your PC.

This seems to have more promise than black and white digital ink: flexible OLED displays. Not so very very flexible yet, but it’s a start. The linked article is a bit down on it, but I want!

These tiny remote controlled helicopters are fitted with lasers so you can dogfight each other. When you make a hit, the other helicopter has it’s power cut and crashes to the ground…

Then this thing may be the way to quit. It’s an electronic cigarrette, which “feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette, it even emits vapor. In many ways, it is like an actual smoking experience”. $208,- per piece from Golden Dragon

Tracking how many people look at your products is an expensive thing to do. Sony has a system that tracks people in stores and detects where they are looking and for how long, but expect astronomic prices.

Xuuk is offering the Eyebox, a pinhole camera that connects to your PC through USB2. Install some software and voila it counts the amount of people actually looking at the product / advertisement up to a distance of 10m away. The software links into Google’s pagerank technology for revenue models on a how many times your product was seen and gives you loads of statistics. And this for only $999,-

Using this camera you can measure or track how many viewers your poster has.

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 focusing on the gaming market with the Epoc.

CyberLearning Technology LLC wants to target people with disorders, but has a pricepoint of around $600,- and hooks up hrough existing products such as XBox and Wii.