Robert Weir, head coach of men’s track and field, gets ready for his strength-training regime by loading hundreds of pounds of weights onto both ends of a bar that rests in brackets at shoulder height. Weir moves under the bar, hoists it across his shoulders and does squats. With each repetition, his knees and hips ...
OmniTouch is a wearable depth-sensing and projection system that enables interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces. Beyond the shoulder-worn system, there is no instrumentation of the user or environment. Foremost, the system allows the wearer to use their hands, arms and legs as graphical, interactive surfaces. Users can also transiently appropriate surfaces from the environment ...
Motorola Announces the MotoACTV Smart Watch, which is an ‘Android-based nano’ watch, weighs in at just 35 grams, a 1.6 inch touchscreen display and has a 600MHz processor. It is a GPS-enabled watch with a smart music player, featuring 8GB or 16GB of internal storage for music, a wireless bluetooth headphone. And you can pair ...
CNET UK Presents: History of the iPhone, dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs from Drew Stearne on Vimeo.
Researchers at the University of Miyazaki in Japan are developing an electric wheelchair control system that takes commands from the facial muscles of the wheelchair user (see a video of the wheelchair by Diginfo TV). It is intended for use by people who are paralyzed from the neck down or otherwise have extremely limited use ...
Jotly is a new app for iPhone and Android that lets users rate everything and share their ratings with everyone using every social service. It is currently available in San Francisco and New York City as a closed beta. If the hilarious “launch video” is not a tip-off, Jotly is a spot on parody of ...
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Notice that the headline mentions a smartphone, rather than “your” smartphone. That’s because Mobisante’s recently released, smartphone-based MobiUS SP1 ultrasound device doesn’t work with just any phone, but the now very dated (already two year-old) Windows Mobile 6.5-based Toshiba TG01 smartphone. Of course that doesn’t make this device any less awesome, since it means that ...
These Orange Juice Makers($25) and Flash Chill Lemonade Makers($30) from takeya. Cool design! Features: – Makes fresh squeezed juice – Airtight twist top lid locks in freshness – Stores in fridge door or on its side PRODUCT PAGE
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Late Pass..But some of you might not have seen this yet. For you mothers out there…….it was like that moment where time stands still as your baby slips into this world…….I just started crying, then crying more because I could hear myself crying. Then laughing, then freaking out over my laugh. That lead to the ...
“The AlphaDog Proto is a lab prototype for the Legged Squad Support System, a robot being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. When fully developed the system will carry 400 lbs of payload on 20-mile missions in rough terrain. Using GPS navigation and computer vision, AlphaDog can traverse ...