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Most of us like to look and smell our best whenever we go out, and that includes our hygiene. While normally we’re really aware of our body odor and breath, sometimes it’s a bit harder to tell how we smell, which is where CrazyLabo comes in. This lab has created two different robots that will tell you if you have either bad breath or stinky feet.Continue Reading
Pinckney Community High School junior Nick Torrance operates an automated locker door opener.
All Torrance needs to do to get his locker to open is move his hand over a sensor, with another move of his hand, the locker automatically closes again and it gives him a greater feeling of independence. Continue Reading
Check out this totally creepy rubber robosnake created by Cagdas Onal and his colleagues at MIT. Their robosnake is one of the first examples of a soft-bodied robot that is able to slither around powered by air.
The “muscles” in the robosnake are tiny tubes made from soft polymers called elastomers that line the snake’s segments. To imitate the way a real life snake moves, an onboard computer in robosnake’s tail controls a compressor that changes the air pressure in the elastomer tubing. The air that passes through the body creates a wave that increases in amplitude with higher pressure and the valves in the joints move for it to undulate like a real slithering reptile. Continue Reading
The U.S. Navy has started testing two new aerial tools that have previously been used in the wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, to help them tackle drug smuggling across Caribbean waters.
Officials believe that the deployment of these aerial tools will make it easier for Coast Guard and Navy personnel to detect, track and videotape drug smugglers in action.
One of the devices being tested by the Navy is a balloon-like, helium-filled craft called an aerostat. The aerostat is tethered up to 2,000 feet (600 meters) above a ship’s stern and has numerous cameras and sensors that take the ship’s radar capabilities from about 5 miles to about 50 miles! Data provided by the aerostat can help teams in an on-board control center to identify larger ships and monitor their movements. Continue Reading
Going shopping is a popular pastime for many people and we all enjoy coming home with bags full of shiny new items to wear, however for those of us who aren’t lucky enough to be able to pick stuff off the rail and know with a simple glance that it’s going to fit, there is the horrible chore of having to try stuff on.
All that queuing for fitting rooms and kerfuffling about with your chosen items can be a real pain in the ass, so those kind folks at Osaka’s Digital Fashion Co., have figured out a much easier way! Continue Reading
Have you ever been on a treadmill and found yourself bored out of your tiny mind? I have, the only way I manage to complete any significant amount of time on an exercise machine like a treadmill or a cross trainer is by watching one of my favorite TV shows on my laptop whilst I’m at it.
For the more active gamers out there who really want to immerse themselves in the realms of their favorite video games, or those of you looking for a fun way to get a bit more exercise into your daily routines, the Omni from Virtuix might be just the thing. Continue Reading
These adorable little robots are called BlabDroids and they were created by artist and roboticist Alex Reben for his MIT master’s thesis. They are voiced by a 7-year old boy known as Rowan and are set up to rove around finding people to interview. The interviewee simply pushes a button once they have answered a question and then the BlabDroid asks them another!
Working with filmmaker Brent Hoff, Reben let loose his flock of BlabDroids at Tribeca’s Film Festival this week as part of the festival’s transmedia Storyscapes program. 20 of Reben’s BlabDroids will travel around the festival on their motorized wheels, seeking out their subjects with heat sensors and then ask them some very personal questions! Continue Reading
Check out this U.S. Navy demonstration video of a high-energy laser on a moving ship blasting a drone out of the sky. Just a few seconds under the intense beam and that little drone is KABOOYOW, catching alight and burning up, before hurtling out of the skies and crashing to a watery grave.
An announcement from the Office of Naval Research states that this type of laser beam is scheduled for deployment next year, so it might not be long before this high tech futuristic weapon is patrolling the seas and skies!Continue Reading
Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles has implemented a groundbreaking new program called BabyTime which helps mom’s with babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) bond with their newborns.
For a new mom, being able to hold their newborn baby is an essential part of the bonding process, however it is not always possible, like if the mother has had a cesarean section, when the baby needs treatment in the NICU or if there have been other complications during the birth. Continue Reading
Yesterday we reported that China’s Baidu had confirmed rumors that they were working on a new augmented reality device that was internally dubbed the “Baidu Eye”. With LCD display, voice control, imagine recognition and the fact that it is worn like glasses, the comparisons between the “Baidu Eye” and Google Glass were quick to fly in. Continue Reading
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