This RFID bookshelf looks like it could be used to automate finding books on a large scale. This idea reminds me of the RFID enabled Wine Rack. “Willem and Walter demonstrate what an intelligent bookshelf is capable of. The intelligent bookshelf demo is made as part of Willem and Walter’s graduation assignment at Working Tomorrow (www.workingtomorrow.nl), the graduation program of LogicaCMG (www.logicacmg.nl) in Holland. ” Via: Make
Dr. Beeby from the University of Southampton has developed a vibration powered generator which is 10 times more powerful that similar devices. “Dr Steve Beeby and his team at the University’s School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) have developed a kinetic energy generator which generates electrical energy from the vibrations and movements present within its environment. ‘This is the most successful generator of its kind and generates energy much
Will the farmer be a thing of the past soon? The HortiBot is an interesting idea that could automate many tasks. With larger automation everything from planting to harvesting of crops will be able to be automated. Video after the jump. ” The vision is the Spider mounted with the HortiBot accessory kit, which transforms it into a tool carrier for high-tech plant nursing for e.g. organic grown vegetables. High-tech
Could the technology that MIT’s Michael Bove is working on change computer displays as we know them today? It wasn’t long ago that LCD flat screens took the market over. Are we going to see a similar change when Holographic Video technology matures? “The Media Lab’s video holograms appear to float above a piece of frosted glass. An electronic device behind the glass, called a light moduÂlator, reproduces interference patterns
Working on a command line Linux system and want to watch a YouTube video? Until now you were out of luck. Warren Harding has designed a program that reads in a YouTube video and plays it using ASCII text! “This is a concept video depicting how users can surf and even watch videos from youtube with out the use of a Graphical User Interface. The operating System is linux
Microsoft is not the only player in the Multitouch computer table system. Actually, Alessandro Valli has been working on this concept for many years. Have a look at the latest work out of Natural Interaction. “SensitiveTable’s interface, Skin, is at an advanced stage of development. Last month’s tech demo shows some of the features we are investigating. The multitouch table itself now features zero force sensitivity.”
Learning binary addition would have been more interesting if it were demonstrated using a Binary Marble Adding Machine. Video after the jump. “The core of the invention is a modification of the divide by two flipflop to retain the marble that falls off the right side, and keep it until the flipflop is flipped to the left by the next marble. See small diagram above right. The retention of this
