Tag Archive for 'future-tech'
Well, you all saw the recent fall of Honda’s ASIMO robot and you thought it was over; not so. I came across an older video of ASIMO and this time he made it up the stairs but didn’t quite make it downstairs in one piece. Honda’s Humanoid Robot is currently an overprice piece [...]
It’s huge, pricey, but it’s saving daily fuel costs by up to $1,000. After years of testing the SkySail, a 160-square-meter kite, will be installed on German vessels to cute the cost of fuel. The SkySail should come as no surprise. Kites were often utilized in maritime travel to harness wind power [...]
CrunchGear links to a Reuters article that discusses the RAZR (or, given the time frame, more likely KRZR v.3) competitor that Sony Ericsson have likely got hovering around either drawing-board or prototype stage. The people at Terminal.hu seem to think it’s the latter, offering these hellishly fuzzy cameraphone shots as possible proof. Preliminarily called Ai, [...]
This is one of those situations where I’d be quite happy to be proved wrong, but don’t think I will be. Terminal.hu today present us with this, what they’re calling the Nokia N97, and suggesting that as the replacement to the N95 it will have a 3-inch display, 5-megapixel digital camera with 20x zoom (digital, of [...]
I’m all for convergence. Phone and GPS? Yes please. Watch with built-in TV and hairdryer? Gimme gimme gimme. Table and refrigerator? Um, okay? Smart-furniture designers Gorenje have obviously decided that warm drinks are the scourge of dinnertimes, hence a table that has a cooled centre compartment that rises at the touch of a (remote control) button.
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Apple boss Steve Jobs is just about guaranteed to get the gadget hounds baying when he says something along the lines of “2007 will be the most exciting year ever for new products”, and the rumours, speculation and unadulterated, desperate lust is slopping around the internet like cheap rum on a hen-night. The scent of [...]
Optimus keeps trickling out even more impressive photos of the Upravlator keyboard, a grown-up version of the Optimus Mini Three with a four by three key matrix that are larger to boot. This time using LCD rather than OLED screens, running at a far greater resolution, Upravlator is aimed at macro-using graphic designers, computer musicians [...]
A lady I work with uses a Tablet PC to interview and assess clients; it means has all the forms she might possibly need on-hand, without carrying a massive file around. I’m not sure what she’d say to me if I suggested she store her keys and make-up in it - probably ask me if [...]
Having got my hands on a 3G cellphone the other week (the Nokia N80, actually), I excitedly prepared to make my first video call… only to remember that I’m the only person amongst my friends, as far as I know, to have a 3G phone. So I’m very pleased to hear that the GSM Association [...]
Sounds like HP has been doing some “outside the box” thinking lately, if the prototypes in its Concept & Design Innovation Tour are anything to go by. Charged with designing the shape and ethos of the gadgets we’ll be playing with in 2016, HP’s futurologists have decided that less is definitely more - both in [...]
