Facial recognition, fingerprint scanner and eye scan are commonly used when it comes to securing passwords that can not be faked. But, forget these as the researchers are devising ways to use brain waves and heartbeats to recognize people. Strange, but its true.
A new medical breakthrough by British scientists in collaboration with German engineers might lead to treatment of patients with severely injured limbs suffering devastating loss of sensation. Computer generated implants have been designed that rewires the nerve themselves that could improve the chances of restoring feelings and movement in damaged legs and arms, also those which have been dislocated.
Although solar paneled clothes and apparels for charging has been developed before, but designers at CSU (Colorado State University) are developing solar powered clothing from natural fibers by which GPS units, tablets and phones could be charged. Professor at the CSU’s Department of Design and Merchandising, Eulanda Sanders and an associate professor Ajoy Sarkar (Indian origin), with a group of their four students are making prototypes for charging clothes that can be worn while skiing, snowboarding, biking or hiking.
Dreaming is not bad but to transform one’s dream into reality is a great achievement. This is what can be seen from an enthusiast in Pleasanton, California. James Price, 52 has built his own DIY flight simulator out of a nose of a Lufthansa Boeing 737-100. Price is a private pilot and works at Oakland Air Traffic Control Center as an air traffic controller. He began dreaming of building his own flight simulator 20 years ago when he joined an online group of people who build fake cockpits at home or use computer flight simulator programs.
Although Google has grabbed our attention with its google glasses prototype but there is another contender which is fast catching up with Google to compete in the Augmented Reality glasses segment. Oakley Inc. revealed that it too had been working with the Augmented Reality glasses for the past 15 years and has 600 patents. In an interview with Bloomberg, Oakley CEO Colin Baden said, “As an organization, we’ve been chasing this beast since 1997”.
Famous French designer Philipe Starck created a hum over the internet last week announcing that he is working on a “revolutionary” new project with Apple that will launch in the next eight months, but Apple denied of any alliance though. This project is being worked with Palo Alto-based consumer Electronics Company. It is a personal project especially designed for Steve Jobs family and isn’t a next generation product from Apple.
BrainDeadLock Labs came out with a very interesting hack, which resulted in a fully functional tablet made from a Macbook. The “MessagePad” project was inspired by other projects such as DIY MacBook Tablet and iTab, where tablet projects on the laptops were all the fury before the tablet and iPhone/iPad boom. The project’s name is pulled from Newton MessagePad, as Apple hasn’t released any handheld based system since then.
Heizer Defense, an USA based firearms firm producing a new range of pistols will unveil the “Hedy Jane” titanium tactical pocket pistol during the 2012 NRA (National Rifle Association) meetings. The DoubleTap “Hedy Jane” pistol has 7 patents pending and is built on the lightest and slimmest aluminum or titanium frame on the market today measuring 5.5 inches in length, 3.9 inches in height, 0.665 inches in width and weighing a modest 14 ounces.
Braven has released a new range of SIX series Bluetooth speakers in the form of 600, 625s and 650 with a battery life of 14, 16 and 20 hours respectively. With Braven SIX series you can even daisy-chain multiple speakers together for better sound by connecting to your tablet or smartphone via Bluetooth.The Braven 600 is high definition audio speaker, speakerphone & mobile phone charger encased in aircraft grade aluminum. Braven 625s is shock resistant high fidelity audio speaker, speakerphone & mobile phone charger built for the outdoors.The 625s comes with LED flashlight, lanyard and water resistant bag.
Personal sound systems are really comfortable when required to take music anywhere. JVC stands out among many other fields in this class of devices that incorporate high-performance speakers and a great capacity to play music. The firm recently announced a new entertainment to its line of Boomboxes, the new RV-NB90-B, which includes a dock for iPhone / iPod that holds the Apple player in a safe place while reproduce multimedia content of your flash memory.
