Popgadget: We love this very clever yet simple concept from Gong Huachao and Wang Hui, which adds a numberpad to your laptop with the help of a special sticker and a program. Ideal for those that use numbers a lot day-to-day and miss a dedicated numberpad for quick sums. Add a numberpad to your laptop [Popgadget]
Number Pad Film
If There Is a Technology That Has Lain Dormant Too Long, It is Solar Power
Cool ideas are one thing, but for true innovations in technology, the ones that rapidly spread and find near immediate adoption, there generally needs to be a “tipping point” reached by advances in a host of supportive technologies before ignition really takes place. There are ample stories in books and the press about connections and inter-dependencies that have come together […]
Tap to Order Food
Popgadget: We’ve heard of near field communication or NFC technology being used to make mobile payments (go check out Google Wallet if you haven’t already), but a student from the University of Sydney has integrated this kind of simple, transactional technology into tables at restaurants so that customers can quickly and easily order food. Basically, stickers are placed on a […]
Motion Gesture Window Shopping
Ecoterre: German researchers are putting the “Windows” into after-hours window shopping, an activity that has been strictly “look, but don’t touch”—at least, until the stores reopen in the morning. At the recent IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, representatives from the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute unveiled an interactive “Shop Window” system that allows would-be customers to learn more about the […]
Save Up To 15% on your electricity bills Today
Electricity bills up 15%, gas bills up 19% when will it stop. Electricity Saving Devices are responsible for thousands of companies saving money on their utility bills. The ERD (electricity reduction device) can save customers as much as 15% (+) on their electric bill every month without sacrificing normal energy consumption and the comforts it provides. There are many different […]
Inbox Control
TrendCentral: For those suffering from a constant influx of newsletters, store promotions, and too many daily deals to count, OtherInbox can separate the wheat from the chaff. This browser add-on works with pre-existing Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, or AOL email accounts, analyzing, filtering, labeling, and archiving incoming mail to maximize inbox efficiency. An automated organizer categorizes messages and sends users a […]
Financially & Environmentally “Friendly” FUELmaster
The future of lower heating bills has arrived. Hot water and central heating costs are unavoidable and becoming increasingly expensive but they can easily be managed keeping the size of your bills to the bare minimum. FUELmaster could provide the answer. There are many ways to achieve lower fuel bills which range from changing your fuel supplier to the installation […]
Picking Up Social Cues
Popgadget: A new ‘social x-ray’ glasses concept dreamed up by Rosalind Picard from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can identify human expressions, including whether someone is thinking, agreeing, disagreeing or confused. A tiny camera inside the glasses works by tracking certain points on a person’s face which it then runs through special software. This software compares what’s going on at […]
Feel the Kiss
Gizmodiva: This isn’t February but romance is in the air. The Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications is conducting research into tactile communications, with the aim of creating a device which can successfully pass on the feeling of a kiss. Basically if you take the device in your mouth and turn it with your tongue, then your partner’s device […]
See Through Cam
CNET: Remember those X-ray glasses advertised in the back of comic books? Imagine a handheld camera that can reveal the unseen, inner structures of everything from concrete bridges to body parts. Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology under engineering professor Reza Zoughi have developed a patented device that can show the inner structures of objects in real time […]