Cool Gadgets

Windoro - Robotic Window Cleaning

Are you on the 50th floor and hate hanging out your window to clean the outside of your windows? Have a look at the Windoro from Ilshim Global. It comes in two halves, one goes on the outside and one on the inside. Pads on the robot spin to clean the glass. This works in a similar way to the Roomba to automatically clean the entire surface of the glass. 

AR Drone Technical Overview - CES 2011

We have seen the AR Drone here before. This is the quadcopter that can be flown around using the WiFi from your iPhone, iPad or an iPod Touch. The accelerometers in the Apple product are used to fly the device around, you simply tip it in the direction you would like the AR Drone to fly. The quadcopter has a sophisticated onboard processor which allows the AR Drone to maintain

Cool D-Link mydlink Contest Booth

There were quite a few cool looking contest booths at CES. The challenge in the D-Link booth was to use a small fishing rod to cast a small plastic fish into the plastic pool. They were promoting a device called mydlink, this is a wireless camera that you can place anywhere and monitor it on the internet. The technology is a good idea for people that want something plug and

Voltaic Solar Charging

Voltaic had a booth at CES 2011 with all of their cool gear on display.  If you are always on the go keeping your devices charged is always a challenge. Voltaic has a number of solutions to this issue. Regardless if you need to keep your laptop going in the middle of nowhere or your iPhone battery is always getting sucked dry before the end of the day. The panels

Power your Gadgets with a Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Plugging your iPod into the wall to charge is so last year. These days all the cool kids are using Hydrogen fuel cells to keep their beats pumping or their cell phones texting. Where do you get the hydrogen to power your gadgets you ask? Simple, it’s already around us, you may know it better as water! Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies has developed a desktop system for extracting the hydrogen

Bodymedia - Intelligent Calorie Calculator

The Bodymedia is an interesting small device that keeps track of your activities and helps you get fit easier and quicker using technology. The small device connects using Bluetooth so the device is sure to be compatible with all current and future mobile devices. The device might even find other uses since I am sure the data would be simple to extract and use for any purpose desired. “Using our

512 LED Cube

This is one crazy 8*8*8 LED Cube Build. We have seen other LED Cubes here before but I have never seen one documented as well as this one, if you are looking for some pointers when you build your own this project would make for a great resource. Latches are used to provide the large number of outputs needed to interface to the cube. Check out the video below for