Water from Thin Air

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk The £800 invention which makes water straight out of thin air and 'could help millions' Safe: The gadget which uses the same technology as a de-humidifier will go on sale next year clipped from www.guardian.co.uk The eco machine that can magic water out of thin air clipped from blogs.discovermagazine.com So Simple It’s Brilliant: A Machine that Makes Drinking Water from Air clipped from www.elementfour.com Tapping an unlimited source of fresh water The Element Four WaterMill provides fresh, potable water from an unlimited source: the air. It's the sustainable, elegantly designed solution to providing fresh water for your family, and the world. clipped from www.elementfour.com Pure water for a healthy family and a healthy environment. The WaterMill provides you with: clean, fresh water for drinking and cooking up to 12 liters of water per day a sustainable, elegant appliance for your home View Demo Buy Now clipped from www.elementfour.com

HomeDock Pro -- Your iPod on TV

clipped from dlo.com The all-new HomeDock HD Professional lets custom installers easily add the functionality of the popular iPod into any home integration network. clipped from www.dlo.com High definition is coming to the industry-acclaimed DLO HomeDock with the all new HomeDock HD - the ultimate on-TV entertainment dock that connects your iPod to your TV. Finally, you can surf and enjoy the music and digital video content of your iPod over your home entertainment system! Intuitive on-screen navigation Multiple connection options clipped from machinesthatgobing.com DLO Home Dock HD Pro — an iPod dock that can upscale your movies to HD! clipped from www.engadgethd.com DLO starts shipping HomeDock HD Pro upscaling iPod dock clipped from www.slashgear.com DLO Home Dock HD Pro can upscale iPod movies clipped from www.avrev.com DLO HomeDock HD Pro for iPod

Fujifilm 3D Camera

clipped from www.photokina-show.com Fujifilm 3D digital camera clipped from www.fujifilm.co.uk United Kingdom I&I – Imaging & Information PHOTOKINA 2008, COLOGNE, GERMANY, September 23, 2008 Corporation today announces a radical departure from current imaging systems with the development of a completely new, real image system (3D digital camera, 3D digital photo frame, 3D print) that marks a complete break from previous attempts to introduce this technology. The Technology behind the 3D Camera The 3D camera depends heavily on a newly developed chip called the 'RP (Real Photo) Processor 3D' which synchronises the data passed to it by both CCD sensors, and instantaneously blends the information into a single high quality image, for both stills and movies. Special identical high quality compact Fujinon lenses have been developed for the 3D system to ensure complete conformity between the left and right images. The LCD monitor system has also been completely revised. Viewing with the FinePix Real 3D System clipped from www.youtube.com

Sony XEL-1 OLED TV

clipped from www.sonystyle.com OLED Digital TV Available now. clipped from futureofgadgets.com OLED Is Now Where LCD Was 10 Years Ago: Tiny, Expensive, Awesome clipped from www.sony.net * Main Features of "XEL-1" Thinness: Proposes new TV form factor measuring approximately 3mm thinness (at its thinnest point) High contrast: Reproduces realistic images using exquisite shades of black, and flexible control of color tone and gradation High peak brightness: Faithfully reproduces picture glow Excellent color reproduction: Delivers pure and vivid colors in both dark and bright images Rapid response time: Smoothly reproduces fast-moving images such as sports scenes Low power consumption clipped from www.pcmag.com REVIEW DATE:11.07.08 Read the Sony XEL-1 OLED Digital TV full review clipped from www.youtube.com

SUPERSTAR iPod Music Centre

clipped from uk.cinenow.com Artcoustic Launches The SUPERSTAR iPod Music Centre Danish speaker manufacture Artcoustic have added a new concept to their range with the SUPERSTAR iPod Music Centre. This is a all in one high-end amplified speaker system which offers two channel stereo sound from one speaker. clipped from www.artcoustic.com 09 November 2008 - Introduction of the SUPERSTAR iPod® Music Centre that is sleek in design, powerful in sound – The Artcoustic Stereo Speaker System Sensation Design – Form flows with Function Technology – Sound Acoustic Principles clipped from www.artcoustic.com -Amplifier 2 x 150watt into 8ohm -Optional cooling fan -Bass Eq. @ 45Hz flat, +3dB, +6dB -Crossover, full range, 80Hz. 120Hz -Bridged, mono and stereo switch -RCA left and right input terminals -DIN input (Bang & Olufsen ready) -Auto turn on/turn off -Input sensitivity volume control -iPod USB charger

Scotsman's Upside Down Beer Dispenser

clipped from www.scot-bev.com Innovative Trufill turns dispense world upside down clipped from foodbev.com Scotsman turns the beverage world upside down Putting a whole new twist on the traditional “bottoms up” toast, Scotsman Beverage Systems literally turned the beverage world upside down at the Brau Beviale exhibition in Nuremberg this November. clipped from www.uberreview.com The Scotsman Trufill beer dispenser takes a different approach to filling pints, by filling from the bottom up. In doing so, it is able to serve beer at the alarmingly fast rate of ten pints in ten seconds clipped from foodbev.com

Real-time composition, improvisation and variation

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com Real-time Beethoven ScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2008) — Now, you can compose and perform in the same few milliseconds. And the variations you can make on a single theme are infinite. clipped from www.alphagalileo.org clipped from www.alphagalileo.org Now, you can compose and perform in the same few milliseconds. And the variations you can make on a single theme are infinite. Brandtsegg has created a new link between composition and improvisation with his new instrument. In a way, he’s rediscovered the energy of a piece in a new and much better form. What he’s doing is something that jazz musicians have always done – they have a composition as the foundation, and then they go up on the podium and play variations on the basic theme. Work that previously required paper, pencil (and an eraser!) and many hours, can be done in the blink of an eye, with an instrument on stage, says the composer. This allows for new ways of thinking about music composition. clipped from matchmaking.no Real time composition by computer based instruments .

The HP TouchSmart Multi-Touch Tablet PC

clipped from www.informationweek.com HP Unveils Tablet PC With Multi-Touch Screen The screen makes it possible to use a variety of gestures, including swipes, pinches, double-taps, and finger rotations, to manipulate content similar to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. clipped from www.informationweek.com clipped from www.hp.com News release HP Redefines Home Computing, Putting the Digital Lifestyle at People’s Fingertips with New TouchSmart PCs TouchSmart PC clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from reviews.cnet.com More on this product review user reviews specifications compare The good: Takes advantage of Windows Vista's touch screen capability with useful, easy-to-use software; combines with HP printers to become an at-home photo kiosk; contains all of the features you've come to expect from a modern digital media-oriented home PC. The bad: Pokey performance for systems in its price range; fixed configuration; no HD optical drive option. Specifications: Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology TL-52 (1.6 GHz); RAM installed: 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM; Hard drive: 320 GB Standard; See full specs

g-speak Spatial Operating Environment.

A platform -- hardware and software -- for building and using applications that combine:

* finely calibrated, free-hand gestural input and output
* multi-core, multi-screen and multi-machine application programming libraries and patterns
* real-space representation of all input objects and on-screen constructs

clipped from www.youtube.com g-speak - minority report os demo If youve been waiting for that Minority Report-style interface to really come to fruition, you can finally exhale. One of the science advisors from the Steven Spielberg film has created a real-world implementation of the computer systems seen in the film. Dubbed g-speak, the mind bending OS combines gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels, to deliver what the creators call the first major step in [a] computer interface since 1984. The G-Speak system basically "consists of an off-the-shelf DLP projector and special gloves embedded with reflective beads." clipped from oblong.com Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment. Some of the SOE's core ideas are already familiar from the film Minority Report, whose characters performed forensic analysis using massive, gesturally driven displays. clipped from www.youtube.com Minority Report - Theatrical Film Trailer #1

Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters

clipped from www.physorg.com Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. The result is an autonomous helicopter than can perform a complete airshow of complex tricks on its own. clipped from heli.stanford.edu clipped from heli.stanford.edu clipped from heli.stanford.edu clipped from www.youtube.com Videos from the Stanford Autonomous Helicopter project at Stanford University. Visit http://heli.stanford.edu for more information. clipped from heli.stanford.edu clipped from news-service.stanford.edu "I think the range of maneuvers they can do is by far the largest" in the autonomous helicopter field, said Eric Feron, a Georgia Tech aeronautics and astronautics professor who worked on autonomous helicopters while at MIT. "But what's more impressive is the technology that underlies this work. In a way, the machine teaches itself how to do this by watching an expert pilot fly. This is amazing."

Pelamis Wave Power

Pelamis Wave Power Ltd is the manufacturer of a unique system to generate renewable electricity from ocean waves. Its first wave farm, located off the coast of Portugal, was opened in September of 2008.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Pelamis Wave Energy Converter The Pelamis Wave Energy Converter is a technology that uses the motion of ocean surface waves to create electricity. The machine is made up of connected sections which flex and bend as waves pass, it is this motion which is used to generate electricity. Developed by the Scottish company Pelamis Wave Power (formally Ocean Power Delivery), it was the world’s first commercial scale machine to generate electricity into the grid from offshore wave energy and the first to be used in commercial wave farm project.[1] The first full scale prototype was successfully installed and generated electricity to the UK grid at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland in August 2004.[2] The first wave farm, located off the coast of Portugal, was officially opened in September of 2008.[3] clipped from www.worldculturepictorial.com Pelamis in Portugal - world’s first, most ambitious, working wave farm, now generating electricity for 1,500 homes clipped from www.pelamiswave.com Pelamis Wave Power clipped from www.youtube.com

iRobot's Underwater Robots

clipped from www.irobot.com iRobot to Acquire Nekton Research, LLC Acquisition Accelerates iRobot’s Strategic Push into Maritime Systems Bedford, Mass., September 8, 2008 – iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nekton Research, LLC, an unmanned underwater robot and technology company based in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. The transaction is expected to close by September 12, 2008. clipped from www.irobot.com iRobot Protect submarines and ships in port and at sea... Quickly identify and neutralize waterborne threats... Keep personnel away from danger zones... Developed for platform defense of submarines and surface ships at sea and in port, the iRobot High Speed UUV enables rapid transit with respect to a threat, such as a diver advancing toward a ship. clipped from www.youtube.com

Re-Cycle Washing Machine

clipped from www.youtube.com Re-Cycle Laundry Center Laundry Center for the Whirlpool Design Award 2008, VLab Award Winner. Designed by Fernanda Villanueva and Arturo Ariño. Special help of Rodrigo Segura and Edwin Garcia. clipped from www.productdesignforums.com Re-Cycle has three identical pieces in the outside but with different functions, one of them is a washing machine, the other one is a dryer and the last one is filter and water tank. The Laundry Center, balanced in all it´s system, spins clockwise, impelling the water by gravity from the washing machine to the tank and Vice Versa, saving space, weight and energy. The water used for washing, falls to the deposit after the washing cycle has finished and there, it starts to clean for the next cycle, beginning with the process of water purification, meanwhile the user can use the dryer because although the three volumes form a single piece, each tank acts independently according to its function. clipped from trendsupdates.com Trends Updates Laundry Centre ‘Re-Cycle’ to Save the “Future of Water”

Ncomputing x550 turns 1 PC Into 11 Workstations

clipped from www.pcworld.com New NComputing Device Slashes Computing Costs NComputing on Wednesday announced a new version of its virtualization device and software that reduces the cost of computing to around US$100 per user by turning a single desktop PC into 11 workstations. The X550 desktop virtualization kits cost US$449 each, and two kits are needed to enable a PC to serve 11 people at once. The kits come with five NComputing XD2 access devices, a PCI plug-in card and vSpace virtualization software. Users still need their own mouse, keyboard and screen. The idea behind the X550 kit is that the average PC today is so powerful that its excess capacity can be shared with no slip in performance, the company says. NComputing created the software and access devices to turn that excess capacity into an ultra-low cost computing system for schools, businesses and other organizations. clipped from www.youtube.com Ncomputing x550

Mgestyk -- Gesture Control

clipped from www.engadget.com Mgestyk system promises gesture control on the cheap clipped from www.mgestyk.com What is Mgestyk? Mgestyk is a new touch-free way to interact with your computer. It lets you control games and other applications just by moving your hands, allowing for more natural and immersive interaction. You can learn more about Mgestyk on our technology page and see it in action on the videos page. clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.mgestyk.com Technology Mgestyk combines powerful software for hand-gesture language processing with an affordable 3D camera by 3DV Systems. By using the Deep Media SDK, our patent-pending technology makes it possible to capture small hand movements and translate them into useful commands for controlling practically any Windows application. Whether it's a simple cursor for browsing the web or a complex set of two-handed gestures for Flight Simulator, our desktop software makes it easy to map gestures to custom actions. Best of all, there are no special gloves to wear or brightly-colored objects to hold.

Sony Wireless Speakers

clipped from www.mobilewhack.com Sony MBS-900 Wireless Stereo Speakers Sony has recently announced the release of the MBS-900 Wireless Stereo Speakers, perfect for those looking for some good sound minus the clutter. What’s cool about these speakers is that you could use it to wirelessly play the songs on your mobile phone. Don’t worry iPod users, this product works for you too, featuring a 3.5 mm port which allows for use with an iPod or even a PC. clipped from www.sonyericsson.com Let your music take shape Get a state of the art wireless home audio system to play the music you’ve got on your phone. Pair outstanding audio performance with outstanding design. Hi-fi sound in a unique design The phone you store your music on is also your remote control.. Play your music without wires and enjoy it in hi-fi sound. It has a built-in FM radio also. Full hi-fi experience Touch controls and a stunning OLED display complete the full hi-fi system experience. A 3.5 mm line in allows you to play the music on your PC or iPod too. clipped from www.sonyericsson.com clipped from www.sonyericsson.com clipped from www.sonyericsson.com

Ear Pressure Equalizer

clipped from gizmodo.com Ear Pressure Equalizer Sucks On Your Eardrum to Un-Pop It in Planes Now that's a headline you won't see often, and yet that's exactly what this gizmo does. You pop it in your ear, and squeeze it to create negative pressure outside your eardrum, thus compensating for the sometimes painful inward-flex caused as the aircraft you're flying in descends from altitude. clipped from www.proidee.co.uk clipped from www.proidee.co.uk clipped from www.proidee.co.uk clipped from www.proidee.co.uk Ingenious device which prevents painful ear pressure when flying, mountain climbing, after diving, etc. Simple, fast and safe. As small as a mobile phone and 45g (1.6oz) light. Using the equalizer is child’s play. Developed by Prof. Burkhard Franz, founder of the renowned Tinnitus Research and Balance Clinic, Melbourne.

Panasonic's Notebook Fuel Cells

clipped from gadgetsblog.org Panasonic Launches Tiny Fuel Cells For Laptops And Mobile Devices The company has unveiled two models of which one can be loaded inside a notebook and the other model can be used to charge mobile devices externally. The models run on Li-ion secondary battery and run on 200ml of methanol. The device reduces volume, as the joints of the cell stacks are not required to generate power and the uses a fuel cell. clipped from techon.nikkeibp.co.jp Panasonic Develops Smaller Internal Fuel Cell for Notebook PCs The prototype external charger powers a portable 1seg TV. clipped from www.itworld.com Additionally Panasonic has also developed a stand-alone DMFC charger that has a couple of USB power outlets and can be used to recharge dead gadgets such as iPods and cell phones when away from a power socket. The recharger is slightly larger at 360cc and weighs 350 grams. Neither is likely to go on sale soon. Panasonic doesn't have any firm plans for commercialization but said it hopes to have them on the market by the end of 2012.

Philips Aurea II LCD TV

clipped from www.techradar.com Home Philips unveils Aurea II LCD TV New LCD panel comes with the big boast of being "world's fastest" clipped from www.techradar.com clipped from www.techradar.com Instead of giving its colourful flatscreens a complete overhaul, Philips has decided to add a few tweaks here and there. These include: a slightly new design, with a thinner frame and curved corners. By all accounts, the frame (Active Frame to give it its official title) has been made even more impressive. Its been reduced in size, giving the TVs a "slim-line silhouette" and has been made near transparent for, what Philips calls, "a better, seamless transition from the on-screen colours to the frame and on to the surrounding wall." clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from hdtvorg.co.uk Philips pushes LCD technology to the limit clipped from www.engadgethd.com Philips 42PFL9903D Aurea II HDTV reviewed, dubbed pretty amazing clipped from www.techfresh.net Philips Aurea II - Enhanced FHD 1080p LCD Flat TV

Touchless SDK -- Multi-Touch Without Touching

clipped from smart-machines.blogspot.com Open source Touchless SDK Recently, Microsoft developer Mike Wasserman released the Touchless SDK for Microsoft .Net which enables the creation of applications that can receive input via gestures tracked and recognized using input from a cheap web camera. The following video explains the capabilities of the SDK which is available as open source and can be downloaded from CodePlex here. clipped from www.officelabs.com Project: Touchless Touchless Demo is an open source application that anyone with a webcam can use to experience multi-touch, no geekiness required. There are 4 fun demos: Snake - where you control a snake with a marker, Defender - up to 4 player version of a pong-like game, Map - where you can rotate, zoom, and move a map using 2 markers, and Draw - the marker is used to guess what....  draw! Touchless SDK is an open source SDK that enables developers to create multi-touch based applications using a webcam for input, geekiness recommended. clipped from video.google.com

E Ink shows e-newspaper display

clipped from www.futurenerd.net E-ink May Be Spreading To a Newspaper Near You New prototypes have been released that will show how the Eink technology can be brought to the markteplace at a reasonable cost thanks to the ability for effective advertising on the site. The prototypes shows a video of an interactive ad on the front page of the New York Times, similar to what you may see on many websites currently. clipped from www.wickedlocal.com Video: Cambridge-based E Ink shows off its new product clipped from www.eink.com clipped from www.wickedlocal.com In this Wickedlocal Cambridge exclusive, Cambridge-based E Ink, which develops low power electronic paper displays, shows off its new display. It features animation and could clear the way for e-newspapers to integrate "Harry Potter"-like animation with text and photos.

A Hard Days Night -- Math

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com Science News Mathematician Cracks Mystery Beatles Chord ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2008) — It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. It evokes a Pavlovian response from music fans as they sing along to the refrain that follows: Math prof Jason Brown and his Ibanez guitar. (Credit: Photo by Danny Abriel) It’s been a hard day’s night And I’ve been working like a dog The opening chord to A Hard Day’s Night is also famous because for 40 years, no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing. Musicians, scholars and amateur guitar players alike had all come up with their own theories, but it took a Dalhousie mathematician to figure out the exact formula. clipped from uk.youtube.com

Bioprinting Synthetic Human Organs

clipped from blogs.discovermagazine.com Can Scientists Use a Printer to Create a Human Heart? By packing a printer full of cells instead of ink, Japanese scientist Makoto Nakamura wants to construct a human heart. But don’t skip a beat just yet: Nakamura needs another 20 years to make what sounds like a science fiction dream into a reality. The secret, he thinks, is bioprinting, a process that is used to create 3-D structures in the same way a printer uses ink to create words and images on a page. The process works like this: First the cells clump together and flow like liquid, then a printer drops the cells down onto a surface, layering the cells on top of each other until the desired object is created. clipped from devicedaily.com Bio-Printing Technology To Produce Functional Human Organs clipped from www.newkast.or.jp Creation of living biological tissues by bioprinting technology Proiect Leader : Makoto Nakamura Fig. 1 Characteristics of biological tissues Fig. 2 Resolution of inkjet printer Fig. 3 On-demand Bioprinting clipped from www.nanotechbuzz.com Bioprinting to create synthetic organs clipped from uk.youtube.com Bioprinting clipped from uk.youtube.com

AirPod Air Powered Cars

clipped from finance.yahoo.com Air Cars: A New Wind for America's Roads? An air-powered car? It may be available sooner than you think at a price tag that will hardly be a budget buster. The vehicle may not run like a speed racer on back road highways, but developer Zero Pollution Motors is betting consumers will be willing to fork over $20,000 for a vehicle that can motor around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline. clipped from www.geekologie.com Nov 4 2008 Coming Soon: The Air Car Pod clipped from gizmodo.com AirPod is Like a Smart Car Full of Hot Air, and That's the Idea clipped from uk.youtube.com clipped from uk.youtube.com

Sneakey Teleduplication of Keys from Photos

clipped from news.digitaltrends.com Researchers Dupe Keys Using Photos Teleduplication allows researchers to reproduce working key copies just by snapping photos of them - even from afar. If you thought your house key was safe from duplication just because you never loaned it out long enough for anyone to make a copy, you may want to invest in a few more deadbolts for the front door - and a pitbull, while you're at it. A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, has figured out how to duplicate keys merely by taking pictures of them from afar. clipped from vision.ucsd.edu Reconsidering Physical Key Secrecy: Teleduplication via Optical Decoding clipped from news.digitaltrends.com clipped from www.coolest-gadgets.com Believe it or not, they were able to duplicate all the keys on the ring. They have even claimed to get duplicates from pictures of keys taken with an ordinary cell phone camera. So, what does this mean? It means you should probably be wary of displaying your keys in public.

Experience soccer through your cell phone

clipped from www.quicklybored.com Vibration alerts improve soccer games on mobile video clipped from www.quicklybored.com Soccer is a huge driver of mobile video. Soccer fans want to keep in touch with their favorite team and be able to watch the game wherever they are. Sports in general are driving this business. One of the benefits of mobile video is that the device is much more closely connected to your life. clipped from www.physorg.com Experience soccer games through your cell phone vibration The cell phone is synchronized with a soccer ball in the field, so that the phone vibrates whenever the ball is kicked. Different kinds of vibrations let users know the ball’s location in the field and which team has possession. Image credit: Shafiq ur Réhman, et al. ©2008 IEEE.