All the stories tagged with: Design
AIRbudz Lets You Listen to Music and Stay Safe at the Same Time
05/10/2012, AIRbudz are alternative earbud attachments that can be used on your earphones while you are listening to music in environments which require you to pay attention to what’s around you. The project made its way to the crowd-funding website Kickstarter [...]
RIM Patents Trapezoidal Physical Keyboard
05/09/2012, RIM has been granted the patent for what seems like a trapezoidal physical keyboard that apparently makes typing easier especially with larger thumbs. We know that RIM is good at making physical keyboards that provide an amazing tactile experience while [...]
Cocorobo; Sharp’s Talking Vacuum Cleaner Has Different Moods
05/08/2012, Sharp has made a vacuum cleaner that roams about a room going about its business and once it is done it settles into its little charging dock to regain its energy. The Cocorobo which looks very much like the Roomba [...]
Microsoft Turns Gestures into Commands Using Audio Waves
05/08/2012, It seems that the success of Microsoft’s Kinect has driven the company to branch out further into the gesture-related sciences given that one of its latest projects offers gesture control with just a computer’s speakers, a microphone and some inaudible [...]
GE Figured Out How to Get 100W of Light from a 27W LED Bulb
05/08/2012, One major setback with LED lighting is that if you want a larger output of wattage, you will also have to deal with a larger chip cooling system. Now however, GE has revealed its new line of Energy Smart LED [...]
MIT Student Builds Awesome Mario Kart called Chibikart
05/08/2012, A student from MIT called Charles Guan decided to build a working version of the Mario Kart. The vehicle that he has dubbed Chibikart is built from scratch and it apparently took him three weeks to build right up until [...]
Liquidmetal Co-Inventor Claims Apple is a Few Years Away from Large Liquidmetal Products
05/03/2012, With all the recent rumors floating around the internet about the next iPhone 5 allegedly coming in a casing made from liquidmetal in addition to all the concept phones various fans have created with the same feature, Atakan Peker who [...]
Google Patent Reveals Android Beam Meant to do More?
05/02/2012, Given the legal battles currently going on between Oracle and Google, many interesting tech-related tit-bits have been released such as the original Android phone with its QWERTY keyboard that was to go on sale with a $19.99 subsidized 2-year contract [...]
Quantum Dots Used to Build RGB Laser
05/01/2012, Lasers produced what can be called almost monochromatic light which means it comes in just one color. By combining 3 single colored lasers, red, green and blue (RGB), it is possible to replicate the whole visible-light spectrum. However, to accomplish [...]
Inexpensive Nanotube Sensor Measures Ripeness of Fruit
05/01/2012, As fruit matures, it releases ethylene which is a gas that initiates the ripening process. Once the ripening process begins, more ethylene is released and the process accelerates. Currently produce warehouses that store and ripen fruit make use of [...]
Samsung Granted Patent for Dual Screen Tablet Device
04/30/2012, Earlier this week, the South Korean technological giant was granted a patent for a “dual screen design for a terminal for portable mobile communication”. The patent which was numbered D658,173, was filed last year on April 7 and lists Kim [...]
Mu Folding Smartphone Charger; Redefines British Plug Shape
04/30/2012, In 2009, a designer by the name of Min-Kyu Choi saw his innovation of a folding British plug go viral on Youtube (the video is embedded above for viewing at your convenience). Now a company called Made in Mind has [...]
Dead Mac Mini Used to Make LED Clock
04/30/2012, After a Mac Mini with its nifty enclosure was certified as dead, the owner of this particular one decided to use the beautiful casing as a base for a colorful LED clock. As you can see from the video above, [...]
