September 15, 2006

Toyota i-swing Wearable Car
Insane Equipment

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  Move over Segway, here comes the i-swing… “Sadly, this is a concept car only — meaning you can’t go out and buy one at your local Toyota dealer. Designed by Hideo Miwa from yes, Toyota, it’s named the i-swing and looks like a chair on wheels, or a jetpac. The designer believes that cars will evolve into more of a wearable design. As you can see, it can travel

Drive your Roomba with your cell phone
Crazy Hacks

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  As we all know the Roomba was designed to clean floors, but it can do much more. Tod Kurt has created a phone controlled Roomba. “Ever since Bluetooth adapters for Roombas appeared, I’ve wanted to control my Roomba with a cell phone. All my recent phones have had Bluetooth. But getting a devkit for a phone was expensive and phone-specific. Trying to develop J2ME (aka “JavaME”) applications for cell