Bionic Contact Lenses

Bionic Contact Lenses Posted by: Roman June 27, 2013 in Robotics, Science, Technology Comments Off These are the inevitable goal for products like the Google glasses, moving from bulky spectacles to imperceptible contact lens to read text, check emails, and augment your vision with Terminator-style info or augmented sculptures and artworks. You could also wear them to play video games. The lenses require...

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Honda Develops New Robot to Survey Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Late last year, electronics company Hitachi unveiled a large, 2.5-ton robot to help clean up the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was damaged in the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Now Honda has developed a robot of its own to aid in the cleanup effort. Using technologies which were originally developed for the ASIMO humanoid robot, Honda and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) jointly developed a new high-access...

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Will.i.am planning to make singing and dancing robotic dogs

Will.i.am planning to make singing and dancing robotic dogs Posted by: Stella 19 days ago in Robotics, Technology Comments Off The 38-year-old hip hop and R&B musician, Will.i.am, plans to create robotic dogs that can sing and dance as well as he can to help him on stage and to sell in stores by Christmas. The Voice coach said: “Last November I was walking through Harrods and I picked up a little stuffed...

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3D printer almost entirely made out of Lego

3D printer almost entirely made out of Lego Posted by: Stella 18 days ago in Robotics, Technology Comments Off 3D printers have been steadily crawling into the market and the prices have been gradually decreasing, with the least expensive 3D printer just reaching its funding goal on Kickstarter last month at an asking price of $397 USD. An engineering student, Matthew Krueger, has been eyeing the Makerbot...

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NASA’s New Robot that Mimics the Movements of Monkeys

From giant mechanical jellyfish and manta rays to birds, the field of robotics is quickly moving up the evolutionary chain. In response to DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has produced a bot that mimics the motions of monkeys. The RoboSimian has been designed for search and rescue missions, and like its living counterparts, it can swing and climb through its environment with ease. While other competitors for the Robotics Challenge have chosen to fabricate more humanoid machines,...

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Recycling Robot Of The Future “Erases” Entire Concrete Buildings

Demolition is a messy business—not only does the process require heavy machinery and produce clouds of dust, but it also results in giant piles of rubble that often head straight for the landfill. Omer Haciomeroglu, a student at Sweden’s Umeå Institute of Design has designed Ero – a robot that recycles concrete in an energy-efficient manner and separates it from rebar and other debris on the spot. The project...

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Solar Electric Scooter

Solar Electric Scooter Posted by: Roman June 27, 2013 in Gadgets, Mobile Comments Off Electric scooters are being positioned as eco-friendly alternatives to traveling everywhere in your car. What could make an electric scooter even more green? How about a built-in solar panel? The Solar Electric Scooter does just what its name suggests: gives you a lift with an assist from the sun. The Solar Electric...

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Top 10 Expensive Cell Phones

Top 10 Expensive Cell Phones Posted by: Chetan 5 days ago in Gadgets, Mobile Comments Off Here we have listed down the top 10 most expensive cell phones on the planet earth. 10. Nokia Lamborghini 8800 Sirocco On number ten the most exclusive cell phone is filled by Nokia Lamborghini 8800 Sirocco. This is the latest edition of the Nokia 8800 shiny slider phone. This time it comes in special edition Lamborghini...

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iCloud Made Easier with Cloud Mate

Cloud Mate provides a new way to manage your synced Apple data and documents, providing the user with some innovative and efficient methods of handling their iCloud items. "Cloud Mate is designed to keep it simple," states the product description over on the company's website, "There's a list of Apps, click on one and start working with the files is has placed in iCloud. It's as simple as that." The $7 product has gotten some rave reviews...

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The Galaxy S4 Active: How Durable is It?

A couple of months ago, rumors started spreading about a waterproof Galaxy S4. Now that the Galaxy S4 Active is out, users are trying to figure out just how durable this phone actually is. The Galaxy S4 line has received its "whatever proof" version called the S4 Active. This phone is advertised as being waterproof, dust proof, and even childproof. However, users (especially parents) are wondering just how "childproof" anything...

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HTC One May Result in Future Losses

Analysts are estimating that the production costs for the high-end HTC One may cause the company some significant Q3 losses. Could HTCs flagship smartphone, the HTC One, actually hurt the company? If things continue the way they are going, it's very possible. HTC CEO Peter Chou stated that there was "a lot of overhead" with regards to the phone's production, and that "The HTC One cost structure is high, we have expected it to improve...

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Genetically – Engineered Mosquitoes Lose Nose for Humans

It has long been believed that detecting carbon dioxide was one of the ways that mosquitoes target their human prey. But the fact that mosquitoes tend to favor certain people over others indicates that some other odor also plays a part in the attraction. Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have genetically engineered mosquitoes to alter their sense of smell, which could provide the understanding required to block the pesky...

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Wearable ViSi Mobile System lets doctors wirelessly monitor patients

Dr. McCoy’s tricoder isn’t looking too futuristic these days. Not only are real life versions of the Star Trek device under development, but some new medical devices are making it look a bit old fashioned. Take, for example, the ViSi Mobile vital signs monitor built by Sotera Wireless of San Diego, California. This wearable sensor pack uses Wi-Fi technology and is claimed to allow doctors using a tablet or smartphone to remotely...

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Now You Don’t Have To Breathe With New Injectable Oxygen

We all know that breathing an oxygen rich liquid is an old idea which does have some advantages but it has more detriments than benefits. For example the removal of carbon dioxide from bloodstream becomes a big problem, which ultimately leads to many other problems. So the Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital came up with a new idea! They created micro-particles that can be injected in your bloodstream and oxygenate it. These particles...

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