Orkin Design’s Rolltop is a flexible OLED display laptop. The “laptop” has a flexible OLED display that is also capable of multitouch. When rolled out it becomes a 17-inch flat screen but can also be folded into a 13-inch tablet of sorts. Unfurl The Rolltop (The Flexible OLED Display Laptop)! [Gizmodo]

Cnet News: The problem with screen keyboards is that you actually have to look at the screen to hit the keys correctly. With real keyboards, touch typists have a physical reference to position their hands. That’s why they type blind. With a flat screen keyboard, however, you lose the physical reference frame. The patent for this screen keyboard, however, uses […]

Yanko Design: E-book readers, emails and other such digital facilities are making paper redundant to an extent. But the one area that I’m not ready to compromise is the Newspaper. My morning ritual of fixing my coffee and curling up with the papers is under threat from the In Newspaper. Yeah, yeah, it does have the perks of an inbuilt […]

Rfid-Ready.com: Dutch active RFID provider Ambient Systems and Information Highway Group (IHG), the Spanish RFID system integrator, have conducted a successful project with Bionest, the largest Spanish organic strawberry producer, and with one of Germany’s largest retailers. The use of Ambient’s third generation active RFID allowed Bionest to monitor the condition of strawberry transport from start to finish. The pilot […]

The Times of India: Considering the need for a substitute to a refrigerator in rural areas, especially when the power supply in the villages is erratic, Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) of CSA University has demonstrated that the chambers – a temporary storage structure – can keep vegetables and milk products fresh for longer periods, without using any electricity. These zero […]

What could possibly replace the ubiquitous barcode? The new Bokode might be able to. Bokode is a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance. The design exploits the bokeh effect of ordinary cameras lenses, which maps rays exiting from an out of focus scene point into a disk […]

Top end mobile phones include a number of specialized (e.g., accelerometer, compass, GPS) and general purpose sensors (e.g., microphone, camera) that enable new people-centric sensing applications. Perhaps the most ubiquitous and unexploited sensor on mobile phones is the microphone — a powerful sensor that is capable of making sophisticated inferences about human activity, location, and social events from sound. SoundSense, […]

Two long-time runners, good friends and entrepreneurs were fed up with stuffing money and ID’s uncomfortably into their running sneakers. When ingenuity and technology took over the duo became the brainchild behind a new product called VITAband, the first in a series of pieces, combines technology and the safety of a personal health network into a convenient, wearable accessory. Launching […]

Mortgage Daily News: A Colorado air conditioning manufacturer is making news with a product line that might revolutionize how Americans cool their homes and businesses. Coolerado Corporation based in Denver has developed air conditioners based on the Maisotsenko Cycle (M-Cycle) which it describes as a “newly developed” thermodynamic process. Two of the advantages Coolerado claims over traditional air conditioning: it […]

Inhabitat: Seeking to expand the horizons of future-forward transportation, Ecotricity founder Dale Vince has set out to create the world’s first zero-emission, wind powered supercar. The vehicle is based upon a heavily modified Lotus Exige that has been retrofitted with an electric engine that will be charged completely by the wind! Dale has been keeping track of his progress on […]