This project is not your standard weekend project! Not sure what it is shooting, airsoft pellets perhaps? “The idea of this project was to create a fully-automated sentry gun, capable of picking out a human target and accurately tracking and shooting him or her in the heart. Really, the idea was to find a cool robotics project for the summer while I was working at an advertising agency, and
I thought this was a plazma screen that was displaying an image of a fire. Wrong! The Vertigo – Flueless Fire is a real gas fireplace. “When up and running, the Vertigo gas fire uses advanced technology to literally breathe life into your room. Utilizing a patented catalytic system, the fire has the ability to burn off the odorous and stale air in the room and efficiently return warm and
The effect of the Invisibility Sphere is interesting, looks like there are still some glitches that have to be worked out. I would love to see this using flat panel monitors with very small seams between them. “Artist attempts to build an invisible sphere. 215 monitors are placed directly opposite 215 cameras, allowing the viewer to peer directly through a eight hundred pound mass of steel, glass and electronics.” Via:
LED technology has changed quite dramatically over the past decade. EE Times has an article in their latest edition that might have some drastic process changes that could lead to some significant price reductions. “Shimei Semiconductor Co. has developed a blue LED grown on a silicon wafer that it plans to make available by next April. Using silicon wafers as a substrate for GaN epitaxy could drastically lower the cost,
Nonk has a collection of crazy bike pictures. But the skull bike takes the cake. Update: Looks like the original site turned into a porn site so the link to them has been removed.
If you are a designer, why waste your time working through many steps to create your work. Why not simply build your sketches? “The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined. Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are
These underwater robots are quite interesting, I still think that the swimming snake robot trumps them for the cool factor. ‘The swimming pool at Kobe university Japan was home to the first underwater robot festival. With around 75 % of our planet covered in water these robots will help us uncover secrets what lies in dark world underneath. Of the 21 robots showcased we pick the 3 most interesting
