TrendOriginal: They may be less responsive, but virtual women can definitely enhance your sleeping experience. The “INBED”, created by Drew Burrows, is an infrared, light sensitive, virtual girlfriend. The 2D female is not as active as you might expect-try giving her a kiss on the cheek and she’ll shove her head into the pillow. Nevertheless, she will move into a […]

Inhabitat: The higher up in the air you go, the faster wind travels – so naturally the further from the ground a wind-turbines gets, the more efficient it can be. Thats why the idea of a flying wind-turbine is a such a win-win (or win-wind) proposition. Combining wind power with floating blimps, Selsam has been hard at work expanding the […]

Inhabitat: Energy company Sunrgi recently announced an astounding new solar system that will break our grids free from the fossil fuel lockdown. Their Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics promise a low-cost, high-efficiency system with an incredible projected energy pricing of 5 cents per kilowatt. This breakthrough puts solar on par with the cost of coal, natural gas, and other non-renewable energy sources. […]

Springwise: Who hasn’t checked their coat at a restaurant or other venue and worried about losing the claim ticket? London-based Idscan aims to put those worries to rest with a biometric cloakroom system that it claims is a world’s first. Cloakscan records a customer’s thumbprint via a small scanner, while a digital camera records the transaction. When customers return and […]

The Audeo is being developed to create a human-computer interface for communication without the need of physical motor control or speech production. Using signal processing, unpronounced speech representing the thought of the mind can be translated from intercepted neurological signals. By interfacing near the source of vocal production, The Audeo has the potential to restore communication to people who are […]

The pillow uses an LED fabric substrate below the surface to wake the user using light. This substrate also functions as a display, showing the time on the pillows surface using the grid of LEDs below. 40 minutes before the pre-set alarm time the pillow begins to glow and gently brings the user out of sleep. This natural waking process […]

ZD Net Asia: Remember the days before mobile phones made their way into our pockets, when beeping pagers were the toast of the town? During blogger Eileen Yu’s Vegas trip last week, she chanced upon a food outlet that used radio paging technology in its ordering system. Rather than make its customers stand around the store waiting aimlessly for their […]

Italian car designer Leonardo Fioravanti (who worked for Pininfarina for a number of years) has developed car prototype without windshield wipers. This amazing technological feat is made possible thanks to the use of 4 layers of glass modified using nanotechnology. The first layer filters the sun and repels the water. The second layer, using ‘nano-dust’ is able to push dirt […]

MEDIVista from Lincor Solutions is an intergrated solution for delivery of digital entertainment and communication services to the patient bedside. MEDIVista has been developed with increasing demand from healthcare providers and hospital admins worldwide for entertainment & communication solutions in enhancing patience experience, rduce staff workload and deliver operational efficiencies. MEDIVista represents a compelling business opportunity and proposition for system […]

Earlier we read about Data transfer through handshake. Now, Telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) is planning a commercial launch of a system to enter rooms that frees users from the trouble of rummaging in their pockets or handbags for ID cards or keys. It uses technology to turn the surface of the human body itself into a […]