Cynergy Labs is working on some cool technology! Using the concepts that Johnny Chung Lee introduced as a building block. This system uses the Wiimote as a camera looking at the users fingers to determine what the user wants to do. I can see this technology being built into laptops and other computer system in the near future to be used at an additional input device. “Maestro brings together Microsoft
Happy New Year! Some people celebrate with fire works, here at Hacked Gadgets I think a cool Oscilloscope Audio Show would be more appropriate. 🙂 Albert from DIMA Audio Visual sure knows how to put on a show. Unfortunately for me he’s in Spain. Albert is a DJ who enhances his shows by capturing the image from an oscilloscope using a camcorder, he then projects the image on screens for
Want your very own robot to learn to do your job? Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard from the Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have made great strides to make that dream happen. Additional information. Read a paper on their research. (PDF) “This video shows how a humanoid robot can learn incrementally new skills by interacting with a human instructor. By using active teaching methods that
Looking for a cool science fair project? Forget the exploding volcano, check out this Articulated Hand project! “My niece Sydney needed help for a 7th grade Science Fair project. I helped another friend’s daughter (Kaitlin) build an articulated hand for a project in the past and suggested we resurrect the project. The build is fun for the kids and I wanted to try some enhancements on the original idea. Materials:
I don’t know about you but sometimes you just need to take a note or a quick sketch. Rite in the Rain was always done it for me. Just add a pencil or a write everywhere pen. There are a bunch of sizes and types from spiral bound to stapled. 8.5 by 11 down to the 3 by 5 ones you can slip into a pocket. Where else can you
How to make your own scratchpad out of nothing but a pizza box and an optical mouse. I’m sure everyone has a spare optical mouse–and if you’re anything like me–an abundance of pizza boxes lying around. Check out a video of it in action. I love to see these sorts of ultra low budget hacks. Keep up the good work out there. For some more cool stuff, check out
All of you music lovers, from the extremely musically inclined, to the beginners loath having to tune your guitar over and over again, it gets rather repetitive. Gibson, one of the leading guitar manufacturers who has been raising the bar since they first arrived into the scene, has just launched the bar into the upper troposphere. They have done this with their newest guitar, aptly named The Gibson Robot Guitar.
