…is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas
Fresh from French designers La Tête Au Cube comes this hi-tech doormat which does many things to a person’s crib.
For starters, it says “Beware Of The Nerd” in a fairly charming way.
It will show you to your door no matter how many Flaming Sambucas/microdots/spliffs you’ve had the (mis)fortune to consume on your travels.
Door(mat) tax is €85 and you’ll need a couple of AA batteries to make the little green men strutt their spacey stuff outside your door. – Ad Dugdale
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“CompactAnalogThumbstick”- improved joystick for portable devices. CAThumbstick is a telescopic analog thumbstick and we offer to use it in any of portable game devices, phones and etc. The beginning of work with CAThumbstick can be like this: First, the keyboard is locked; we push the button a little bit turning and CAThumbstick pull out from the surface; second, we unlock the keyboard and using CAThumbstick playing or working. After we finished we lock the keyboards, and in reverse order hide CAThumbstick. As a result in a small improvement we receive compact and comfortable analog thumbstick for portable devices. On phones, in ordinary state, CAThumbstick using like usual button.
yuo can press a botton and send messages to the other drivers………messages like “Your tire is flat”, “Your high beams are on” or even, simply, “Sorry.”
Experience the art of connectivity with this fun, stylish USB & FireWire combination hub for your PC or Mac. Designed exclusively for LaCie by Ora-Ïto, the Huby’s round shape, glossy white polycarbonate finish, and flexible cables give it a distinctive, modern look. Add 4 USB ports and 2 FireWire ports to your computer system and connect up to six devices simultaneously*. Bundled with 8 flexible, twistable cables (5 USB 2.0 & 3 FireWire 400), a USB fan, a USB light, a USB extension cable and a FireWire 400 extension cable, it comes fully equipped for easily making all of your connections.
This a digital marionette. the later model powerbooks are equipped with a motion sensor that can be accessed by software. The digital representation of the marionette reacts to the sensor output and can be controlled by moving the laptop.
On November 6, GS Yuasa and the University of Tokyo unveiled a system that ascertains the “mood” of a room by monitoring a variety of factors — including the feelings and behavior of the people in the room — and relays the mood data to remote terminals where it is expressed as colored LED light.
The system, called SHOJI (Symbiotic Hosting Online Jog Instrument), is similar in concept to KOTOHANA (developed by NEC and SGI), which are pairs of flower-shaped terminals that share data and change color according to emotion detected in voice patterns.
Like KOTOHANA, the SHOJI system consists of a pair of terminals placed at separate locations. Each terminal is equipped with a full-color LED array, a microphone and five sensors (developed at the University of Tokyo) that detect light, temperature, humidity, infrared radiation and ultrasonic waves. In addition to constantly measuring the room’s environmental conditions, SHOJI terminals can detect the presence and movement of people, body temperature, and the nature of the activity in the room.
Each SHOJI terminal constantly sends the room’s mood data over the Internet to the other terminal, where it is expressed as colored light on the LED array. By checking the color of light on the SHOJI terminal, users can easily understand the mood in the other room.
SHOJI’s display consists of 10 rows of LEDs that emit colors corresponding to different emotions — red for anger, blue for sadness, yellow for happiness, and green for peace. The display also provides a clear indication of mood shifts, with the top 5 rows representing the current mood of the room and the bottom 5 representing the recent past.
GS Yuasa will soon put SHOJI to a series of field tests at Tokyo-area companies, allowing head office managers to keep tabs on the mood at branch offices (and vice-versa). Tests are also planned at hospitals and in residential settings.
With the product release scheduled for April 2007, GS Yuasa plans to market SHOJI to companies at a price of between 300,000 to 400,000 yen ($2,500 to $3,300).
Straight off the wrist of a Moon Base Commander from a 1960’s Sci-Fi classic, this watch features all the things that you’d expect. Flat metal panel, cryptic flashing lights, carbon fibre style strap and display that looks like it’s gauging your oxygen level.
For an LED watch it’s not short on features either. It has time with AM & PM modes, Month, date and day-of-the-week. Plus an auto light up function every 15 mins between 6PM & Midnight (Which can be activated/deactivated as required)
There are a range of suitably Sci-fi light patterns using the 3 LED colors.
Telling the time uses the colored LED’s to represent hours & minutes.
By looking at the 4 rows of lights, the Green & Red LED’s at the top indicate the hour simply by counting them. 3 red = 3 o’clock.
The Bottom rows of green & yellow LED’s indicate the minutes. 2 Green + 7 yellow = 27 minutes past.
It’s the same for the date mode to indicate month & date. The day is shown on the very top row of holes where the markings M, T, W show the day (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc)
Pressing the button once shows the time, a second press shows the date. The lights stay active for 8 seconds giving you plenty of time to read the display.
The strap has a leather back & a durable carbon fibre style coating.
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