Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, has invented a device that could potentially save a lot of lives. Dubbed the ‘Slingshot’, the machine is powered by cow-manure and is able to purify absolutely any water source into clean drinking water, while generating enough energy to power 70 energy saving light bulbs to boot. Priced […]
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The Sarcos XOS exoskeleton is a thing of beauty, terror and every little boys dreams. Sarcos have been developing exoskeleton’s for the military for seven years now and since Raytheon bought them up in November things seem to have gone full speed ahead […]
Western Digital, the creators of the slightly dated 3.5″ 10,000rpm Raptor drives have now moved on to produce the VelociRaptor. Based on a 2.5″ hard disk design, with a speed of 10,000rpm and weighing in at 300Gb the VelociRaptor outperforms its predecessor by up to 30% and when it hits the stores will cost […]
The SunView portable media player is the first commercially available ‘pico-projector’ available in the world. Pico-projectors are the next big thing for mobile devices, capable of beaming a display onto areas much larger than a standard mobile lcd display. Currently the SunView, developed by Sunlink International and iView, comes with a 3.5″ lcd display and […]
Engadget have just reportde that Sony have demonstrated a 3.5inch 0.2mm thick OLED display alongside a larger 11inch 0.3mm thick display. Currently the resolutions are lacking slightly with the 11inch coming in at 960 x 540 pixels although both Sony and Samsung demonstrated a 27inch and 31inch display at CES 2008 (video below). […]
Peraves have recently announced a new way to reduce CO2 emissions while looking ‘cool’ in the process. The MonoTracer has been designed by german company Peraves to have extremely low drag which, when equipped with a 130 bhp BMW engine, is capable of 0-60mph in under 5 seconds with carbon emissions of only 85g/km. The […]
Electronics genius Ben Heck has made a few must-have gaming items over the past years, including the Xbox 360 laptop, the Wii laptop and numerous old school consoles in portable form, so it was inevitable he would come up with the sleekest looking mod yet - the PS3 laptop! Taking 14 months for him to […]
BBC News have an article on how IBM are looking to create the next generation of storage devices, by manipulating the magnetic fields generated by the spin of electrons. With the potential to store hundreds of times more data per area compared to existing devices this could mean future handheld devices and computers alike could […]
Ivyskin have just released a hard-top outer shell for the iPhone dubbed the Xylo Touch-Thru. By using Surface Xylo Wave technology the case allows users to operate the iPhone through its toughened plastic cover without any issues. The screen allows the ultrasonic waves, used by the iPhone to detect touch, to pass through […]
Iomega have just released the ScreenPlay HD - a 500Gb USB hard drive that also doubles as a HDMI mediaplayer. Currently supporting most formats (Mpeg 1 & 2, DivX & XviD) the player is capable of upscaling video to either 720p or 1080i resolution, and with a plethora of connection options including HDMI you’ll […]