Japanese company Konami will issue this summer a curious LCD-based portable game in which the player “raises” virtual […]
Category Archive: gadgets
Bubo is a toy owl that can cast spells and take control over innocent devices or other toys […]
This retro decorative tablecloth contains a textile keyboard. The electronic is woven into a fabric, which finds itself […]
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Developed by Dutch design studio Solar, the stamps use twelve successive original television fragments of the winning races […]
Toy manufacturer Bandai Co. will start selling from March replica belts identical to the one ’70s superhero Masked […]
I wouldn’t say i’m a fan of piercings but given my obsession with tooth health, i might reconsider […]
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Distributed families face many challenges trying to maintain a sense of intimacy: different time zones, limited knowledge of […]
Australian digital artist Pierre Proske is working with researchers at the Viktoria Institute in Sweden to develop intelligent […]
Alison Lewis has launched a brilliant website: SWITCH, an online DIY show where she and her friends focus […]
PlayPals are wireless figurines with their electronic accessories that allow children aged 5-8 to communicate between remote locations. […]
Philips has developed a common language for describing eperiences within an Ambient Intelligence environment: the Physical Markup Language […]
Something to add to my list of “I want one of those.” VistaCrafts RFIQin, available in Japan, comes […]
Medtronic has released in the U.S. the Personal Therapy Manager (PTM), a retooled Palm that allows you to […]
Ford will unveil his new inflatable safety belt at the 2006 North American International Auto Show. The tubular-shaped […]
Two strange but interesting applications for games. Both from Japan. Of course. dwango has released a fishing game […]
The Polite Umbrella, by Joo Paek, respects people’s personal space in a public area. This shrinkable umbrella enables […]
Meat Helmet looks at the absurd attempt of fast food chains to market to the health conscious. SWAMP‘s […]
The indispensable RFID in Japan informs that the Ubiquitous ID Center has presented some cool stuff at the […]
Cuckoo IP is a voice messaging system. The clock’s answer phone can be dialled from mobile or landline. […]
The Interactive Institute has unveiled new STATIC! prototypes that explore how everyday products might be designed to better […]
Kuwakubo Ryota‘s fluid (first spotted by Jan) reformats live electronic jamming into a hand-held device. The device allow […]
Keio University has engineered the prototype of an electronic bookshelf. Called BiblioRoll, the device consists of three LCD […]
Researchers at the Takao Someya Group–Organic Transistor Lab in Tokyo have developed a bendable braille display that can […]
Moore goodies from NEXT. I saw this one just after having read an article about people who don´t […]
Another crazy gadget seen at NEXT today. It´s by Christopher Bauder whose music with ladders performance amazed me […]
Coeno is a computer enhanced presentation environment designed for presenting a storyboard using tabletop technology in combination with […]
Fascinating news… Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council are working on a create […]
Playing the Virtual Air Guitar is like playing rock guitar, only without an actual instrument, or musical skills. […]
Owen Gibson at The Guardian has tested The Eye Contact, a pair of spectacles developed by ID magasin. […]
Vintage alarm clocks (some models have radio). No more numbers, just pictures. Possibility to customise the devices with […]
The CCTVme prototype works like an analog ï¬?rewall. It protects people’s privacy from outside attacks through the internal […]
Sony is starting to ship samples of their new tactile input device called Touch Engine Module, which can […]
The war in Iraq has suffered enormous casualties, the toll on civilian lives is vague and many times […]
Fostex has prototyped a vibration speaker system that uses, instead of diaphragms, a tabletop or any material, on […]
Digitall, by Ana Camilla Amorin and Tristam Sparks, is a kind of “always on” home telephone repurposed as […]
Turntroller is a universal remote controller to control any appliances and the settings around you (lights, speakers, air-conditioners, […]
The desert of Southern California is a wasteland of military bombing ranges and toxic waste, beautiful vistas and […]
//MUKANA is wearable piece for the visually impaired. //MUKANA includes a mobile phone, a wireless headset, a GPS […]
Szu-Chen Stan Jou, at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a throat-whisperer device that can translate sentences in a […]
Blitze Gidsen is an audio tour for museumgoers. Seven seperate audiotours offer different perspectives on artworks. The visitor, […]