Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) unveiled three new consumer products they got by the acquisition of SimpleTech earlier this year. The new Hitachi branded products include the SimpleTOUGH portable USB drive, industry’s only water-resistant and shock-resistant external hard drive from a global hard drive manufacturer; the stylish and colorful SimpleDRIVE Mini portable USB drive;… »
Samsung Electronics America Inc. entered the mini HD camcorders market by introducing a new range of camcorders that make recording and viewing video in HD easy. Led upon the idea of a tiny, cheap fixed-focus HD camcorder, Samsung packed a better sensor into their SMX-U10 while keeping the mid-ranged price. Although they lack of advanced… »
If you are a person who likes to grow plants and you crave for new gadgets, you’ll love this article. We’re going to write about 2 eye catching flower pots. One accumulates solar energy during the day and glows during the night, and the other is a USB gadget flower pot that also acts as… »
We already wrote about potential surveillance micro-aerial vehicles in our previous articles. Small flyers, or micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs), have garnered a great deal of interest due to their potential applications where maneuverability in tight spaces or in stealth requiring conditions. In this article we’re going to write about two researches related to the biomimicry of… »
Simone Giostra & Partners Architects have designed the GreenPix – Zero Energy Media Wall – a project applying a self-sustainable digital media LED display on the curtain wall of Xicui Entertainment Complex in Beijing, near the site of the 2008 Olympics. Featuring one of the largest color LED display worldwide and the first photovoltaic system… »
Imagine visiting a museum which is nothing more than a blank room. Seems pointless, doesn’t it? And yet, people from Canon estimate that half a million people will visit such an exhibit at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. Dinosaur 2009 – Miracles of the Desert is a dinosaur exhibition where you need to wear a… »
The world’s largest robotics competition, Robocup 2009 took place in the southern Austrian city of Graz, from 29th June to 5th July. Robocup is an international competition that started in 1997 in Nagoya, Japan. Its aim is to develop autonomous football robots in order to promote interest and research in the field of artificial intelligence…. »
Modularization is a basic principle of living nature: organisms consist of molecules and cells that use genetic programming in order to group together to form organs. Cell division and modularization are the two mutually opposed aspects of reproduction in living systems. Researchers around the world are trying to make a modular robot that can change… »
