A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Pregnant mothers will soon be able to play their favourite songs to their unborn children with the invention of an MP3 players for babies.
Continue reading… “Blaby: MP3 Player For Your Unborn Baby”
South Korea’s LG Electronics unveiled what it described as the world’s first watch-shaped mobile video phone.
Continue reading… “3G Watch Phone”
The robot masters at KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) have updated their Mahru II robot with the new Mahru Humanoid Robot that is now a dead ringer for Sony’s tiny dancing QRIO robot. Scheduled to make its first major public appearance at Korea’s Robot World conference this week, the main feature of Mahru is its ability to simultaneously move its upper and lower body independently to perform dance moves or human-like actions in the same fashion as Honda’s amazing Asimo robot.
Continue reading… “Mahru II – South Korea’s Humanoid Robot”
It seems that with each passing day man is getting closer and closer to making a humanoid that would pretty much be everything that he is except being organic in nature. Not to say that we are getting close that at a rapid pace, but it might be not too far off from today. In a step forward Hitachi Ltd exhibited its second humanoid robot, “EMIEW2,” at Hitachi uValue Convention 2008, the company’s private show that took place from July 17 to 18, 2008, at Tokyo International Forum.
Continue reading… “Humanoid Robot That Distinguishes 3 Separate Voices Unveiled By Hitachi”
The Sierra Nevada Corporation claimed this week that it is ready to begin production on the MEDUSA, a damned scary ray gun that uses the “microwave audio effect” to implant sounds and perhaps even specific messages inside people’s heads. Short for Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio, MEDUSA creates the audio effect with short microwave pulses.
Continue reading… “Beaming Voices Into Your Head”
