All the stories tagged with project
Motorola Droid Bionic project in the works, update appears to be imminent
11/15/2011, Motorola owners, if you have registered yourself in the Motorola Owners’ Forum, you may or may not have received an email regarding the Droid Bionic. It seems that Motorola is looking for users to take part in a “project” for [...]
Google’s self-driving car has its first accident
08/05/2011, Uh oh. Google’s driverless car, the self-driving Prius has encountered its first ever accident – according to a photograph sent in to Jalopnik by a tipster who spotted the accident somewhere nearby Google’s Mountain View California headquarters. The photograph shows [...]
EasySMS allows illiterates to text
06/21/2011, One of the problems illiterate people have with phones is their inability to read text messages. All they can do with their phones is pretty much just make and receive calls. Well, thanks to the mobile interaction design students at [...]
Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town Project could be the start of a greener world
05/26/2011, In today’s dying world, everybody is pushing to go green by using renewable energy sources (i.e. solar, wind, water) and using fuel that isn’t harmful to the environment (i.e. electricity, hydrogen). Now, nine companies have decided to band together to [...]
Google News Archive project abandoned
05/20/2011, Now we all know that Google has had its fair share of failure and successes, and not everything that it touches turns to gold. Sometimes projects just don’t work out like how they intended. The latest one to get the [...]
Real life Super Mario coin blocks let you knock money out of blocks
03/23/2011, Hardcore fans of Super Mario are going to love this project – a real life Super Mario Bros. coin block that spits out coins when it is hit – just like in the game! If you were thinking about how [...]
Kinect used to create artsy music video
03/23/2011, In one of the more creative ways we’ve seen a Kinect being used, is in this video project by the folks over at 1024 Architecture. They used the Kinect sensor to track the skeletal movements of a person moving, the [...]
Robotic octopus arm mimics the real one
03/22/2011, Some researchers from Reading University are working together to create a robotic octopus that they hope will be used for underwater operations such as maintenance, marine salvage, and retrieval of objects like black-box recorders from crashed air craft. Right now [...]
Project issue 4 is free
03/18/2011, The latest issue of Richard Branson’s iPad magazine, Project, issue 4 is now available for free on the iTunes App Store. Apparently the folks at American Express have decided to sponsor this month’s issue so folks looking for reading material [...]
Microsoft Kinect works well with the Source engine
03/10/2011, The Microsoft Kinect is probably one of the most exciting game controllers ever invented and we see a new way to use it almost every week. One of the latest ways to make use of the Kinect controller is to [...]
DIY 4-axis camera mount that runs along a wire
02/09/2011, A team has come up with a rather cool camera mount project for college. The mount is a 4-axis gimbal mount for a camera, designed in CAD, with its parts cut using a laser and milled down to specifications. A [...]
A radar made from coffee cans
02/03/2011, A lecturer at MIT taught his students how to build their own Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for one of their projects at the institute this semester. The SAR is a high-resolution radar that is usually used in moving vehicles like [...]
Singaporean schools to utilize iPads in the classroom
01/20/2011, A high school in Singapore has recently spent a buttload of cash ($103,430 to be approximate) for 150 iPads from Apple. Part of a pilot project to determine how useful iPads can be in the classroom, the iPads have been [...]
