Warwick -- Paper-Thin Speakers

clipped from www.metaefficient.com Incredibly Slim, Versatile Loudspeakers Could Change The Face of Audio clipped from gadgets.softpedia.com New Technology Permits Paper-Thin Speakers clipped from www2.warwick.ac.uk New flat flexible speakers might even help you catch planes & trains clipped from www.warwickaudiotech.com Welcome to Warwick Audio Technologies clipped from www.warwickaudiotech.com FFL technology is a special form of loudspeaker with major groundbreaking benefits for audio products. Re-engineering the leading performance of Electrostatic Loudspeaker [ESL] technology, we have developed a flat, flexible loudspeaker laminate, providing linear performance at low cost. Laminate fabrication is suitable for both custom and volume manufacture. And a host of additional features allow you to benefit from our technology in new and innovative ways. clipped from www.warwickaudiotech.com Overview We have developed a new form of mid-range loudspeaker technology, the Flat Flexible Loudspeaker, FFL. clipped from www.warwickaudiotech.com Features & Benefits clipped from www.warwickaudiotech.com All our FFL products feature the combination of ultra-thin (0.2mm), lightweight and flexible materials used to produce directional high quality audio. clipped from www.warwickaudiotech.com How does it work?

Walk In and Walking Fridge Commercials

clipped from www.youtube.com Heineken - Walk in Fridge clipped from www.youtube.com Walk in Fridge spoof clipped from www.youtube.com Bavaria spoofs Heineken walk-in-fridge clipped from www.youtube.com NEW: Heineken Walking Fridge (follow up)

Tiny Sim Card Spy Ear

clipped from trendsquad.com Sim Card Spy Ear Remote Listening Device Another day another covert gadget designed for spying on friends, family, co-workers and anyone else you just don’t trust. All you have to do is stick your SIM card into the device and call it from another phone. Once you’re connected you can just sit back and listen to what’s going on in the room where you’ve secretly planted it. clipped from gadgets.boingboing.net Calling this little box the "Tiny SIM Card Spy Ear" is confusing literalism the way only crapvendor Brando can do it. Here's what it does: It's basically a cellphone in a box with a microphone, letting you call in to its phone number and listen to whatever it can hear. clipped from gadget.brando.com.hk GADGET.BRANDO.COM.HK Tiny Sim Card Spy Ear Features: You can hear this Tiny Sim Card Spy Ear from anywhere, and just dial in to this Sim Card Built-in Rechargeable Battery Easy to install, and zero configuration Work with bands (800MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz) Weight: 33g

GE's next generation disc technology

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G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc

General Electric says it has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs.

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GE unveils holographic disc breakthrough

The process works by imprinting chemical changes in the form of patterns –- holograms –- within the disc. Those holograms are then read by lasers, similar to the ones in Blu-ray players. In fact, at 500GB, these holographic discs could offer 20 times the capacity of a single-layer Blu-ray disc.

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Another big step forward in GE’s holographic data storage program

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Hologram test: A prototype of GE’s holographic storage disc undergoes testing at GE Global Research, in Niskayuna, NY. The green lasers record a hologram; the red laser monitors its performance. The discs, which could eventually hold one terabyte of data, are the same size as current DVDs and CDs. Future players should be able to play all formats. Credit: GE Global Research

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Google's What’s Popular

clipped from www.rev2.org Google Digg’s at StumbleUpon with What’s Popular It’s called “What’s Popular” and it’s basically a Digg or StumbleUpon clone. It allows you to submit links/pages either publicly or anonymously and rate other people’s submissions up or down in kind. Google says it “uses algorithms to find interesting content from a combination of your submissions and trends in aggregated user activity across a variety of Google services, like YouTube and Google Reader.” clipped from www.google.com What's Popular clipped from googlesystem.blogspot.com The gadget is a part of a service that will be released in Google Labs, where it's already hosted. Right now, the most popular web page has 13 pops (probably a name for upvotes), there are three categories: stories, videos, images and the pages are sorted by relevancy, the algorithm favoring recent content.

Philips OLED interactive lighting concepts

clipped from www.techtickerblog.com Philips showcases OLED based interactive lighting concepts At the Euroluce International Lighting Fair in Milan, Philips is showing world’s first OLED lighting concepts that involves human interaction. The lights are suited for both professional as well as consumer use and feature ultra flat shape and soft light effects. clipped from www.youtube.com Philips OLED based interactive lighting concepts clipped from www.research.philips.com OLEDs are very versatile and can vary incredibly in color and brightness. What’s more, they can create homogeneous light surfaces in almost any shape, pattern, vibrancy and color. Thanks to this versatility, OLEDs can create a spectacular range of new and innovative lighting effects that can enhance the look and feel of almost any environment in fresh and innovative ways. clipped from www.youtube.com A new light on energy efficiency clipped from www.research.philips.com LEDs & OLEDs

Relational Pillow

clipped from trendsupdates.com Relational Pillow: Communicate Your Feelings Through Pillows Pillows are not just those plush things that you use to rest your head on when sleeping, they also have a lot of other uses that are quite important. The serve as communication devices, like when you use it to swat your brother on the head when he is being an idiot. clipped from www.talk2myshirt.com MIT’s Ambient Intelligence Group members Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Amir Mikhak created the Relational Pillow which is adding an interactive, relation enhancing dimension to a pillow. clipped from ambient.media.mit.edu »research » Relational Pillow The pillows are capable of sensing touch information, and displaying incoming touch data as a pattern of lights that show the outline "drawn" upon the remote pillow. Pillows can connect to each other over the network so that this sense of touch can be shared across long distances. clipped from ambient.media.mit.edu

The Blue Space -- A Pedal-Powered Submarine

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BLUE SPACE PEDAL-POWERED SUBMARINE OFFERS AN UNDERWATER SPECTACLE FOR UP TO $70K FOR TWO

The Blue Space is a pedal-powered sub created by the Saint-Petersburg State serviceman Engineering University. The image has been around since 2003, but is ease hunting for investors to invoke real.

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US$70,000 pedal-powered submarine for two

According to MIT, its underwater craft differs from comparable small tourist submarines in overcoming some of the difficulties associated with the use of traditional screw propulsion and accumulator batteries to generate motion. These kinds of submarine tend to be complex to control and service and require specialized training to operate.

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Pedal power: Using revolutionary design, Marine Innovation Technologies' Underwater Vehicle can be powered by just two people pedaling

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The see-through design means there's no fighting for a window seat

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MIT has ensured the UV is simple to operate, with only foot pedals, steering wheel and minimal buttons and indicators to worry about

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Epson's Multitouch X-Desk

clipped from www.t3.com Surface-like X-Desk interactive tabletop launches Microsoft's table gets a larger rival Just a month after Microsoft's Surface got an official launch in the UK, a rival interactive table has hit the market - and the X-Desk has size on its side. clipped from www.t3.com clipped from www.t3.com clipped from blog.gadgetlite.com The Gadget Show Live: UK’s first touchscreen interactive tabletop - Epson X-Desk clipped from www.reghardware.co.uk Epson gets into interactive coffee tables Watch out Microsoft Surface, because there’s a new touch-sensitive interactive coffee table in town: the X-Desk. Much like Surface, X-Desk lets users interact with digital content through a flat 1024 x 768, 52in multi-touch screen that can also communicate with other gadgets, including mobile phones and cameras, placed onto its surface. X-Desk will recognise up to 16,000 objects using “Smart Tags” and gesture recognition allows multiple users to, say, draw out objects on its surface.

Eskil Rønningsbakken an Extreme Artist

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk The 29-year-old with a head for heights describes himself as an 'educated balancing performer', and has been honing his death-defying skills since the age of five, with circus troupes around the globe. Naked save for a skin-coloured thong, Eskil rides a bike - backwards and upside down - 1000m over a Norwegian fjord. Strong, cold winds added to the extreme nature of the stunt clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk 'A stunt is something you see in movies, often done with mattresses safety lines or nets,' says Eskil. 'What I do, is draw a picture with vulnerable human beings and their bodies, in the surrounding of mother earth. Again back in a skin-tight leotard and surrounded by mist, Eskil balances on a chair, on a pole, on a rock wedged between two cliff faces clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.youtube.com Eskil Rønningsbakken takes it to the extreme with his mountainbike, balancing on the edge of Trollveggen in Norway with no support or safety measures, 1400 meters of air between him and certain death.

The ROOM by ODA

clipped from www.unplggd.com The Room by ODA: Perfect Modular Cubbyholes The Room was designed by ODA and it is a modular dwelling system. It's intended use is to be retrofitted into existing spaces, making them great to divide up larger rooms. The Room consists of three elements: the Pod, the Media Station and the Satellite. It's made affordable by the use of simple materials and construction methods, which can be tailored to your budget. The general appearance can also be changed and adjusted, to fit with people of all ages. clipped from mocoloco.com The ROOM by Office for Design & Architecture is a modular dwelling system intended to be retrofitted into existing spaces. Designed as an adjustable yet custom solution for bedrooms, The ROOM consists of three elements: the Pod, the Media Station and the Satellite. "Made affordable by the use of simple materials and construction methods that can be dressed up or down according to budget. The appearance and arrangement can be adjusted to fit within rooms of all sizes and for users of all ages."

Twitter Could Harm Moral Values

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists New evidence shows the digital torrent of information from networking sites could have long-term damaging effects on the emotional development of young people's brains. A study suggests rapid-fire news updates and instant social interaction are too fast for the 'moral compass' of the brain to process. The danger is that heavy Twitters and Facebook users could become 'indifferent to human suffering' because they never get time to reflect and fully experience emotions about other people's feelings. clipped from edition.cnn.com Scientists warn of Twitter dangers Brain scans showed humans can process and respond very quickly to signs of physical pain in others, but took longer to show admiration of compassion. "For some kinds of thought, especially moral decision-making about other people's social and psychological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and refection," said Immordio-Yang. clipped from www.medgadget.com Is Twitter Making You a Cold, Heartless Being? clipped from uscnews.usc.edu Nobler Instincts Take Time

Visa's Credit Card on a Phone

clipped from bits.blogs.nytimes.com Visa Introduces a Credit Card on a Phone Visa is introducing a cellphone payment system that is more than sticker-thin. The service is currently available only in Malaysia, but it will be expanded to other countries in coming years. clipped from corporate.visa.com clipped from www.pcworld.com Visa Makes NFC Payment Commercially Available Visa has launched its first commercial mobile payments service for point-of-sale transactions using NFC (Near Field Communications) technology, it announced on Thursday. The service is available in Malaysia, and allows users to pay for goods by waving their NFC-enabled Nokia 6212 classic handset in front of a contactless reader, according to a statement from Visa. The launch signals the move from pilots to real roll-outs, it said. In December, Visa also launched the first commercial service in the U.S. that, for example, includes owners of the Android-based T-Mobile G1 getting transaction alerts sent to their phone, it said in a statement.

Rolling Spider

clipped from www.neatorama.com Saharan Rolling Spider When travelling down a sand dune, the Saharan rolling spider (Araneus rota) is capable of rolling on its outstretched legs, achieving speeds of over 4 mph. It looks "like a small, unusually fast tumbleweed." clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.spiegel.de SPIEGEL ONLINE This athletic arachnid moves like no other. Two other spider species are known to roll down slopes with the help of gravity. But this one uses handsprings to propel itself along even ground. clipped from www.spiegel.de clipped from www.spiegel.de clipped from www.spiegel.de clipped from bazonline.ch Professor Ingo Rechenberg.

World's First Robot Teacher

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clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Robot teacher that can take the register and get angry School pupils are to be taught by the world's first robot teacher in one of the most radical uses so far of android technology. clipped from www.nydailynews.com Saya, Japan's robot teacher, can smile and scold, but don't fire those substitutes yet TOKYO - Japan's robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. But the developer says it's not about to replace human instructors. Saya, Japan's new robot teacher, looks pretty nice here, but watch out, school children . . . . . . if you're naughty, she can be tough, too. clipped from es.biz.yahoo.com Japan's teacher robot "Saya" is demonstrated by Hiroshi Kobayashi, Tokyo University of Science professor and Saya's developer, at his office in Tokyo,

D-roll Laptop Concept

clipped from dvice.com D-roll laptop concept rolls up into a scroll, wears like a purse The D-roll, or "digital roll," is what designer Hao Hua considers to be a "next generation laptop design," as it does away with the book-like form factor in favor of one mimicking an artist's scroll. Whether or not something like this will even be possible in the near future seems to matter less when you look at how much effort Hua put in the design. Up above you can see the D-roll set up like a regular laptop, and it's easy to imagine how portable it'd be all rolled up. There's an in-between configuration that you could theoretically use to browse email quickly, and the straps double as places to plug in your USB devices. It also has a detachable webcam you could use on the computer or wear on your wrist. clipped from www.coroflot.com Hao Hua D-roll (9 files) clipped from www.coroflot.com clipped from www.coroflot.com clipped from www.coroflot.com

Intelligent Car Doors`

clipped from www.geek.com BMW experiment with intelligent haptic car doors clipped from www.gadgetted.com clipped from www.gadgetted.com Intelligent car door clams up when danger’s about clipped from news.cnet.com Prototype smart car door detects hazards clipped from www.newscientist.com Intelligent car door clams up when danger's about Accidents caused by car doors being opened into the path of oncoming vehicles or cyclists are common in cities. But these incidents could become a thing of the past, if doors that react to potential impacts catch on. The brainchild of Michael Graf at BMW and Michael Strolz's team at the Technical University of Munich, the "haptic" – technology that gives tactile feedback – doors could cut both road injuries and repair bills, they say. The current prototype looks like a normal car door, but an extra metal bar runs through its centre and connects to the car's frame between the hinges. In normal mode, the bar moves freely and doesn't affect the door's movement. clipped from www.lsr.ei.tum.de Dipl.-Ing. Michael Strolz clipped from portal.acm.org Haptic Rendering of Actuated Mechanisms by Active Admittance Control Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 5024

Moixa Multitouch Sphere

clipped from www.fastcompany.com Meet Sphere: Transforming Touchscreen Motion-Sensing Mouse of the Future Despite all of its various reinventions the basic design of the mouse hasn't changed very much--it's still the same old pointing device we know and love. But Moixa's newly patented Sphere is such a radical rethink, melding mouse and touchscreen in one, that it's truly a taste of the future. clipped from www.moixa.com Moixa is awarded a patent on its apple sized multi-touch sphere that can be used to display the world (e.g. Google Earth), browse web pages or control interactive games. In Moixa tradition, Sphere can also be collapsed, used and stored in its second form - a flat ellipsoid. The patents, filed in 2004 also disclose advanced multi-touch surface interaction and gyroscopic control benefits. clipped from v3.espacenet.com European Patent Office Collapsible spherical display and control device Abstract of GB 2414309  (A) clipped from www.touchusability.com Touch Usability News and research on touch interface usability Moixa Multitouch Sphere