Finally, just what I’ve been waiting for my whole life…..a robot that will iron my pants with minimal effort from me. This would’ve been priceless while I was still in the military. The robot works quite simply:Place pants in robot.Select temperatureTurn onWait 2.5 minutes and put on your pants. At a cool $599, this product…

So Japan receives a good amount of rainy days, so to spice up their gloomy climate the internet umbrella was introduced to do just that. One of the many focuses around the umbrella idea was to create hardware that would be workable in such limited space. Just like a cellphone, but with a more useful…

After hearing about it a bunch of times in this class, I finally decided to check out what jodi.org is all about. I was first introduced to an interesting page of… well… flashing green symbols which appeared to be absolutely meaningless (so the <blink> tag is a form of art now, huh?). But, being the…

Myron W. Krueger using a computer that interprets human siluettes has put together a virtual reality space where a persons body, unencumbered by annoying attatchments, is a tool for interacting with the program. This seems to be quite a liberating interface design which enables people to freely move about as they interact with the program…

Going through Gizmodo I ran upon this nifty little invention. A chair that can be stretch to just about any length. After, reading some of the comments most assume is was made out of paper. Connecting this with another class (Industrial Design) paper could be use to make a lot of interesting things, and this…

Uh, these are all very very real and very vary serious…..

So, last week in class discussion we were talking about copyright (the big C) and how artists could share their work allowing other people to use it, but still keeping their authorship and some saying in the way it is used. Well, it looks like Creative Commons (cc) have come up with a pretty good…

Not much to say about this except be careful…

Mmmm… UMPCs are nice… But a gamer’s UMPC? Hell, that’s my kind of computer! As of now, this is only an idea from Dell, and I doubt it would have as much power as the screenshot above suggests (that game is pretty hardware intensive). However, if UMPCs today were able to attain this kind of…

This is so awesome. I think this will become the new Military state of the art defense system or an awesome VR game addition. I saw this type of work in a game called “Ghost Recon” but i didnt actually think that an actual Augmented Reality device was in the makeing. I find this to…

Few years ago, I got introduced to Sound/Experimental Music – that is music created mostly through the use of computers and other electronic devices. Lampo, a non for profit organization based in Chicago, organizes periodic events and performances of this type of music. In one of these events last year I was able to attend…

I dislike tanning for the most part but this neat-o UV bikini seems somewhat reasonable to have for those freaks who go everyday of their life. The device detects the strength of the UV being taken in by the body while tanning. It’s a pretty sweet way to keep those religious tanners out there from…