Published on Friday, July 2, 2010 by admin If you had to press the buttons a few times before you managed to change the channel on TV, you know the batteries in the remote are going flat. You do not have any spare batteries and it is a hassle to run down to the 24-hour convenience store so late at night. While you can walk to the TV and change the channels there, a better option would be to stock up o...

Published on Friday, July 2, 2010 by admin Basically battery comes with two polarities and in order for it to work correctly, users have to insert it in right position so that the battery charge can be sourced accordingly. While it see@!ms to be quite simple to identify the correct polarity, but some devices may not have very clear instruction that add confusion. And that is how this innovative techno...

Published on Thursday, June 24, 2010 by admin Live long enough and you will see a digital version of everything familiar to you. Kids used to have so much fun scribbling on the magic slate with a magic pen and then erasing it off by just lifting a plastic sheet or sliding a knob across the bottom of the slate. Not any more. The 21st century kid is more comfortable pressing buttons. A slate for the digita...

Published on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by admin Its called the Myon, a new humanoid robot which has developed by Studio Frackenpohl Poulheim and the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin-Germany. Myon- Robot has an artificial intelligence and motor skills. [ad#300x250_image_ads] It can conduct and command their-self to do something, like pressing the lift-button. My...

Published on Friday, June 4, 2010 by admin Needle injection probably is a nightmare for many people even adults. Many patients tend to avoid it unless it is insisted by the physician. A new device, namely Painless Laser Epidermal System (P.L.E.A.S.E.) developed by Pantec Biosolutions, a private drug delivery company specialized in using laser microporation technology to deliver large molecular weight ...

Published on Thursday, May 27, 2010 by admin Apple fan-boys and -girls, rejoice. The iCorporation is now worth more than the dreaded Microsoft. But don’t get too excited: Bill Gates’ gang has a few ideas to get back in the game, and some bloggers claim that Google, whose Android is outselling the iPhone, “has leapfrogged” Apple in terms of innovation. (Steve Jobs responds to that accusation w...

Published on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by admin Researchers at Cambridge University believe metal fibres, known as dendrites, are one of the main reasons why lithium batteries in phones, laptops and other devices overheat and catch fire. There have been several high-profile stories in recent years of iPods, laptop computers and phones spontaneously combusting, sometimes when they're in the owner's pocket or ha...

Published on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by admin A couple of times a year, Japan's Triumph International unveils a themed undergarment based on a current trend or issue. Bringing women closer to agriculture is the company's latest inspiration for crazy conceptual underwear, which takes form in the shape of the Rice Bra. [ad#300x250_image_ads] Last year Triumph highlighted the plight of lonely women hunting f...

Published on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by admin For the first time, microscopic robots made from DNA molecules can walk, follow instructions and work together to assemble simple products on an atomic-scale assembly line, mimicking the machinery of living cells, two independent research teams announced Wednesday. These experimental devices, described in the journal Nature, are advances in DNA nanotechnology, ...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin Fujitsu is very proud of their newest Teddy Bears, and these are certainly not like any Teddy Bears I know. Man, even Teddy Ruxpin would kill himself if he were still alive today. Teddy Ruxpin was this bear that was able to talk when you put cassette tapes in his back, for those who don’t remember the eighties. The Fujitsu Teddy Bear Robot has much more than th...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin It could be a new addition to the Wretched Excess department. Conde Naste Traveller has already awarded it one of their 2010 Innovation & Design Awards for Sustainable Design. It's a green super yacht called Soliloquy, which uses a combination of solar, wind and hybrid marine power to move through water. It's just a concept at this point but clients from Mona...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin London to Timbuktu- In Sky Car British adventurer and pilot Neil Laughton poses in his Parajet Skycar in London on Tuesday. Laughton and his Parajet Skycar Expedition team on Wednesday are kicking off a 3,600-mile journey from London to Timbuktu in the vehicle, which is essentially a dune buggy with a fan motor and paragliding wing attached. Creators call it the "w...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin The newest product to be thrusted into Intel's server arsenal will be called Westmere-EX, and is set to directly compete with AMD's Mangy-Cours server chip which features 12 cores, and AMD's future Bulldozer architecture. In a webcast speech, Stephen Smith, vice president/director of PC client operations and enabling at Intel, announced the upcoming Nehalem-EX refr...

Published on Thursday, January 14, 2010 by admin In what's sure to be viewed as a wrong-way direction in social change, "Roxxxy" the robot lifesized girlfriend was introduced at AEE 2010, the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. Roxxxy robot lifesized girlfriend is a anatomically correct facsimile of a woman dressed for sex, and with "servos" and other electronics to make it seem, well, real. It's maker calls it t...