Archive for June, 2006
Origami Gadgets
1 Comment Published June 9th, 2006 in Inventions, Scientific DevelopmentsDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
Sony appears to be researching and developing a way to make electronic items with selectively flexible joints so that you can fold up the cell phone or PDA when not in use in order to take less space. When you want to use the item, a current passed through the gel inside causes it [...]
Your Personal Supercomputer
0 Comments Published June 8th, 2006 in Computing TechDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
Very soon you will be able to purchase your own personal supercomputer. Taiwan based company Tyan is planning to ship this “deskside personal supercomputer” in August. The Typhoon will “blow you away” according to Tyan CEO Symon Change.
The supercomputer is powered by 8 Intel low voltage ‘Woodcrest’ Xeon processors on four removable motherboard [...]
Buffalo’s 8GB USB underway
0 Comments Published June 8th, 2006 in Computing TechDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
According to the very little information known, Buffalo will be launching an 8GB flash drive by the end of next month – only in Japan. Called the RUF2-R-S, this high storage drive is 19×91×14mm and weighs 20g.
Found on: Gizmowatch
Picture Credit: Akihabara News
Aeroscraft: The Flying Luxury Hotel
0 Comments Published June 7th, 2006 in Way Out ThereDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
This is not a Blimp. It’s a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that could change the way you think about air travel. It’s the Aeroscraft, and when it’s completed, it will ferry pampered passengers across continents and oceans as they stroll leisurely about the one-acre cabin or relax in their well-appointed staterooms.
Unlike its [...]
Car Loft – Apartments With On-Balcony Parking
0 Comments Published June 6th, 2006 in Way Out ThereDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
Now this is my kind of parking! No more worrying about who is breaking into my car in the garage. With this I would just need to look out the window. Very Sweet!
…a German company called Car Loft has designed and is slated to start construction on an apartment building in Berlin that includes a [...]
Thermophotovoltaic generators to replace automobile alternators
0 Comments Published June 6th, 2006 in Scientific DevelopmentsDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
For many years now cars have recharged their batteries using alternators. One day soon this may change, as researchers at MIT are developing an alternate method of converting energy to electricity.
Researchers at MIT are developing new technology for converting heat into light and then into electricity that could eventually save fuel in vehicles by [...]
Build an Enigma Machine
0 Comments Published June 5th, 2006 in GizmosDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
If you are at all familiar with the spying technology and/or encryption techniques of World War II, you will have heard of the Enigma encryption machine. This machine was used as an encryption device by the German army during WWII and was thought to be uncrackable.
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USB Air Darts
0 Comments Published June 4th, 2006 in ToysDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
I would TOTALLY go for one of these on my desk.
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Found at techeblog.
Cruising in Technological Style
0 Comments Published June 3rd, 2006 in Gizmos, Way Out ThereDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
First hybrid cars, now hybrid bikes. This electric powered bike lets you pedal or just cruise to work with ease, at up to 20 miles in an hour with no pedalling. Then, once you’re at work, you can fold it up and stick it by your desk. Pretty sweet, though I’d go [...]
The WheelMan
0 Comments Published June 2nd, 2006 in GizmosDigg This | Email This to a Friend | Comment On This
Too lazy to skate? This thing will do all the work for you! And it kinda looks like fun. Sorta like a squashed pocket-bike ridden like a skate-board.
Found on Wired.
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