If you?re a web worker, mobile computing is either a necessity of the job or something you choose to do to get away from the monotonous confines of your office work station. Here?s a round-up of 10 cool gadgets that can supplement your remote workspace.
A new solar panel designed for commercial roofs can be installed in just a few minutes.
Technological advances like the LCD monitor and the 'small form factor' motherboard are allowing PC vendors to innovate with all-in-one computers or 'cube' or 'lunch box' style PCs. Here's a look at some desktops that are already at the leading edge. Will all desktop PCs look like these soon?
The scientists of Southern Federal University won a $750,000 award for the development of the systems of the mental computer control.
The 3rd annual Maker Faire here this weekend had all the key ingredients: tools, geeks, BBQ. Equally celebrating creativity, innovation and the future of science education, this backyard on steroids deployed hundreds of the country?s top tinkerers?including this handful of genius minds whose creations could someday upstage the corporate competition
If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on it
First up, we have this double-barrel cigarette holder. Makes perfect sense, right? You?ve got two lungs, gotta have two cigarettes. Of course if you used this I don?t think you?d have two lungs for very long?
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From a solar pool heater to photovoltaic purse that can charge batteries, there's some neat stuff on this list I'd yet to see.
Sony prototyped a fuel-cell system small enough to fit in one hand (50x30mm). It works by combining a fuel cell, a Li-polymer secondary battery, a control circuit and so forth together to output up to 3W of power. Its use efficiency of energy is high enough that 14 hours of 1seg movie can be continuously played by general mobile phones.
A German syndicate announced this week that it has patented a chip for sending scents via text and multimedia messages.
They must be expensive, but what's cooler than RFID post-its?
Invented in 1975 by Steven J. Sasson. It weighed eight pounds, was the size of a toaster, and produced a 0.01 megapixel image that took 23 seconds to record onto a digital cassette tape.
The finished table runs OS X and displays xkcd comics. Created by a 17 year old for science fair too. Learn how to create your own Microsoft Surface.
"We knew that there was a motorized, fully-articulated R2-D2 projector with built-in DVD, iPod dock, all kinds of digital media inputs, and Millennium Falcon remote control, but we never?EVER?imagined it would be so amazingly drooltastic as this video shows." I can't believe this. *must*resist*buying*impulse*
Time Warner Inc's AOL unit, RealNetworks and Yahoo Inc could stand to pay up to $100 million in royalties owed to thousands of songwriters and publishers, after a federal judge established a formula for determining the payments.
We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level--Google Ocean.The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex. There, they discussed
Lam threw open the door to his room and plugged his SLR into his MacBook Pro, with photos of scoops shots of CES. While he waited for the photos to upload, he logged on to Engadget to keep tabs on his nemesis. And that's when he saw it. Photos.Of the same 150-inch television.Posted 15 min earlier.
FixYa, a user-generated Web site for product care support, is set to announce a co-branded effort that brings Best Buy customers and the Geek Squad together to swap real-world solutions to common technical problems.
Flickr user Lockwasher collected a bunch of junk to make rayguns out of, and then decided to use the leftover junk to make a stunning collection of junk robots.
One technology resurfaces every few years and makes it to market, only to disappear into the morass of nostalgia soon after. These are 3-D displays, attempts to turn boring old flat telly into a depth-charged experience. Some products failed because they were junk, others just fade from view and resurface years later. Here are the most notable....
Some U.S. soldiers in Iraq are already equipped with wearable computer systems. But the lack of efficient input devices restricts their use to safer environments, such as the interior of a Humvee or a base station, where the soldier can set down his weapon and use the keyboard or mouse tethered to his body. Now RallyPoint, a startup based in Cambri
Here's the 1:5 scale A-10 Warthog remote control model in some video action at Top Gun 2008, in Lakeland, FL.?the biggest remote controlled airplane competition in the world. And to match it, a real A-10 appeared in the scene, taking off from a parallel runway. We interviewed Mike Selby, one of the model creators, and got all the technical details
Once the exclusive domain of e-mail-obsessed professionals, smartphones are now prized by consumers who want easy access to the Web, digital music and video.
Brilliant scientists and tiny overseas hands work eighteen-hour days to produce 5 devices that can make you even lazier than a stereotypical American!
Ater spending $150 million on an empty aircraft, the client has to get into Boeing's Dreamliner showroom, like in a car dealership. There you have to pick the seats, including their their A/V equipment (like whooping 23" LCD monitors in first class,) and even the coffee pot.
The Garmin Forerunner line of GPS-enabled watches just took a giant leap in techno-goodness. If you?re a runner or walker, you're going to like the way this new Forerunner 405 ($300) measures and records your speed, distance, elevation and even heart rate.
"The forest fire prevention robot by Jordan Guelde is an advanced robot designed to clear large areas of foliage from around a forest fire to help stop the flames from spreading."
"The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. The Tracker responds to text message commands, detects motion, and sends you its exact position, ready for Google Maps or your mapping software."
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