Thin Is In
The newspaper business may be going down the tubes but if those ever-emergent thin displays get to market soon enough there might still be hope for those technology-challenged old school publishers. The latest entry in the thin display race comes from Samsung and it’s called the Flapping Display. Revealed at Japan’s recent FPD […]

 Fake Heart
Medical technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, bringing with it futuristic devices that were but dreams until only recently. One such advancement is the fully artificial heart, a fake ticker that can be placed inside the body to replace a damaged or faulty original.

 
Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase  
CynoCast is a breakthrough technology that allows you to communicate more effectively with your audience by delivering targeted web pages to their computer screen while you narrate. CynoCasts are created using a simple, yet robust, software tool called “Live Dashboard”.

UltraPin is a virtual pinball machine, which is to say it’s not really a pinball machine at all: all the action is contained within a standard enough video game, with the cabinet and controls in otherwise authentic shape. The table itself is a big LCD display.
Something vaguely similar this was tried at the end of […]

As Big as your car!  no not really
Researchers at the Carnegie Institution have developed a new technique for improving the properties of diamonds—not only adding sparkle to gemstones, but also simplifying the process of making high-quality diamond for scalpel blades, electronic components, even quantum computers.

 
AHhHHHHhhHHH!!! put those digital clothes back on!!!
Imagine you are a police detective trying to identify a suspect wearing a trench coat, baggy pants and a baseball cap pulled low. Or imagine you are a fashion industry executive who wants to market virtual clothing that customers of all shapes and sizes can try online before they […]

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 New Umbrella Drying Contraption
Department stores don’t want you bringing your wet umbrella inside, accidentally getting their fancy merchandise all wet. That’s why, at least in Japan, many department stores have machines set up at the entrances to either put a plastic bag around your umbrella or dry it off with a hairdryer-like mechanism. The problem? […]

 
Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase
The Fleece Seat is a fleece and nylon slip-cover.

Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase
Envysion is an innovator in web-based video management that is redefining video surveillance. The company is driving the development of Managed Video as a Service (MVaaS), which builds on the concept of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. With the MVaaS platform, Envysion centrally manages software upgrades and […]

 A HOT New Product, Liquid Smoking
A company has created a drink that claims to have the same effect as smoking cigarettes.
The fruit-flavored drink, called “Liquid Smoking”, promises an instant high followed by a ‘euphoric calming feeling’. This product is targeted towards those suffering from the smoking ban.

Say Goodbye To Housekeeping, New Robot Maid
Japan’s rapidly declining population due to low birth rates and a graying majority has the country in a panic, but Toyota plans to save the day with a new category of server robots. Unveiled last week the new robot is the result of their collaboration with Tokyo University’s Information […]

 
Tennis Ball Towel Holder
Are you looking for a clever way to keep your towel off the bathroom floor? Sure, we all are. Mr. Wilson will help. He needs a gig desperately. He was never the same since losing the Pac-Man auditions to that other dude in the 80’s. Who needs a boring towel rack when […]

Electronic Trumpet Powered By Humming
The EZ-TP Electronic Teaching Trumpet from Yamaha is now available in Japan. Sorry rest of the world. You’re going to have to wait to get your lips on this one. It’s a digital way to learn the trumpet and share and save your MIDI-produced songs to your computer. The EZ-TP trumpet […]

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For it’s latest trick, Microsoft’s engineers have given the multi-touch Surface PC table a bartender’s sixth sense. If you set your drink down on top of it, the Surface will be able to detect just how full it is. At least, if it’s in a special glass.

 
Cameras are getting so small, they could be hidden just about anywhere. Case in point: this new spy camera that’s nestled snugly inside a trade show badge. The $174 tinycam shoots video at a low-rez 352×288, and snags stills at a higher-rez 1280×1024. Once you’ve grabbed the shots you need, plug it into a PC […]

 
 Quicktionary TS By Wizcom
This portable hand-held scanning translator can scan a word or a full line of text and give you an immediate translation, even idioms and phrases.

 
 Zon Hearing Aid
There are a few who understand technology and even lesser know something of design. Starkey’s designed ‘zon hearing aid’ is a result of a defined approach from the seekers who know them both. What’s cooking in the design clinic isn’t known before it is out, but competitions that honor designs deserve credit for […]

 IC3 Fork
One of the problems with dieting, is juggling all of those fat, calorie, and portion size numbers. Sure, you could walk around with a calculator strapped to your wrist, but you would still have to measure everything and then enter all of those numbers.

 
Technology isn’t always on the same page with sustainability. Still when green innovation transforms the trajectory, even we find ourselves inclining towards the novelty. Such is the LawnPC, which visions to transform computing in the near future. The concept PC from David Veldkamp is powered by the solar cells attached to the grass like lawn […]

 
 Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase
For snow sledding, the SLICERTM works like any normal sled that is placed on a slope that is covered with snow or ice. But to slide down grass covered slopes, just the opposite is done: instead of putting the SLICERTM on the snow or ice, ice is put […]

 I think they kicked Nissans’ Model’s Butt!
 
It’s the equivalent of taking the Hubble Telescope and aiming it at the atomic level rather than at stars and galaxies, says Gianluigi Botton, director of the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster, site of the world’s most advanced and powerful electron microscope…

POP! It’s Tommorow already.

Perpetual Kid’s 2009 bubble calendar dupes you into paying $30 for a sheet of bubble-wrap glued to a cardboard printout. Nonetheless, it’s a bizarre and intriguing gift for any members of your family involved in the the stock market or the packaging and distribution trade.

 
Create otherworldly images by shooting your photos in infrared
Infrared photography, which blocks visible light and captures only the IR spectrum to produce strange, beautiful images like the one above, has been around for more than a century. (Pics)

FALX Air Hybrid Tilt-Rotor Chopper
An ambitious aircraft concept combines the speed of a plane, the agility of a helicopter and the efficiency of a hybrid car. (Pics)

This ski stretches wide for easy turns and shrinks for downhill speed
The Atomic D2 Vario Cut is like two skis in one: It’s straight and narrow for zooming downhill but expands to be wider at the tip and tail when you turn — creating a curved ski that, like a sharply turned car wheel, carves […]