Posted on 2008 under Design, Gadget, Miscellaneous |
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The Time Machine Clock is a kinetic display device that eschews the normal conventions of a timepiece - hands, to you and me - and instead replaces them with an altogether more elaborate means of saying ‘ten past two’. A central spindle counts the seconds, releasing a ball every minute. Once five minutes is reached, the five minute ball is released. These balls accumulate until 12 have been released, whereupon the one hour ball is set free and rolls into place. This continues on the hour, every hour. Along the way, a precision movement mechanism ensures complete accuracy.
Army dudes sat down with scientists at University of Michigan and other schools and asked for a simple frickin’ bionic bat with frickin’ stereo cameras, miniaturized radar, ultra-sensitive self-guidance, “energy scavenging” recharging capability and a radio to send data back to troops in urban combat zones. Was that too much to ask? Here’s how it’s working out for them: Read more… »
Rumor Rumor, tell us what have you got this time? The answer is that Nokia is apparently planning to unveil the WiMax capable Nokia N810 at the US-based CITA phone expo on 1st April. Now, here is a reminder that 1st April is co-incidentally April Fool’s Day.Apparently, Nokia’s N810 internet tablet features a large touch screen display with full QWERTY keyboard and WiMax connectivity. This tablet will be the revamped version of the earlier released Read more… »
MacLife.de says Nike’s SportBand, an armband that connects to the Nike+ running device, might be finally coming to retail some time in April 2008. The armband will still be wireless and still require you to shove a Nike+ kit into your shoe in order to track how fast/far you run, but you won’t have to carry an iPod Nano on you, which Read more… »
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