Finding out if your healthy or not usually entails a doctor's visit, or two, but thanks to a grad student at MIT, the process could get a lot easier. Ming-Zher Poh, the grad student, has made it possible for an every-day webcam, with some slight modifications, to tell how healthy you, and your heart are, just by looking at you. There's no need to hook yourself up to any machine, or test your blood. Just look at the webcam, and you'll have your result displayed to you.
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Epic Games VP Says Future of Console Gaming Heading to the Tablet
In a recent interview, Vice President of Epic Games Mark Rein said that he believes, or perhaps envisions, the future of console gaming actually ditching the console, and focusing more on the tablet device. The reason being, is that while getting all your friends over to your house (or vice versa) is fun and all, but the idea of mobile gaming, but with the power of the Xbox 360, is just too enticing. Rein believes portability is where the next generation of console gaming will focus, as putting the power of current generation consoles into a smaller, more mobile-focused package is certainly possible.
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Tag Yachts Shows Off the Tang Catamaran, Features Wind Charged Lithium-Ion Battery
It may not be the only ec-friendly boat on the water, but it's certainly one of the coolest looking ones. This particular catamaran is wind-powered, and features a lithium-ion battery inside as well. Interestingly enough, though, the designers and architects made it possible for the Tang, which is the name of the vessel, to run on wind energy, even when the sails are down.
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Microsoft’s LightSpace Shown Off on Video by Research Team
Microsoft's goals of making Surface an in-home, viable (and cheap) option in the next three years are surely still in place, but their brand new LightSpace isn't going to make that happen any time soon. Using the same "idea" as Surface, Microsoft's LightSpace removes the need for an expensive tablet, and puts all of the work on hanging projectors, and a 3D camera. The result is pretty impressive, even if we are already worried about the price Microsoft might tag onto a project like this.
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Recon Instruments Recon-Zeal Transcend SPPX & SPX GPS Goggles Now Available to Order
There's been plenty of concepts in the past that showcase how GPS can be integrated into our every day life, without having to hold some kind of navigational unit in our hands, or even our phones. And while concepts are all well and good, especially considering many of them include plenty of advanced, almost futuristic technology, we're more exciting to see companies actually release something we can use now. Recon Instruments has just made their Recon-Zeal Transcend goggles available to order, in two variations, featuring GPS-based information in the first head-mounted display.
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Kid Walker Exoskeleton is Built Just for the Kids
When a company creates a working mech, it should come as no surprise that there's twice as many kids than adults out there that would love to get their hands (and feet) into one, and start walking them around. For the Japanese company Sakakibara Kikai, they realized that putting kids in the pilot's seat of a huge walking robot wasn't the best idea, so instead of just telling them all "No," they actually did the right thing, and made a smaller version.
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Commercial Space Station Brings the Hotel Into Space
Space flight is still meant primarily for astronauts at this point, but that's not stopping companies all over the globe from making it something that could be commercially viable. Companies like Virgin Galactic, and others, are working on making aircraft/spacecraft that can transport regular civilians into space, giving them the trip of a lifetime. But, what if you don't necessarily want to come down? You have to pay quite a bit of money to get yourself up to space, so why wouldn't you want to stay and see the sights?
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Namco Bandai and Nissan Team Up to Create Futuristic Yokohama City in Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality (VR) was all the rage several years ago. In arcades all over the world (where you could find them), there were rigs set up to showcase a digital world, where the player was fully submerged. A part of the game, and not just playing it. And while it may have quieted down over the years, it looks like Nissan and Namco Bandai have found a way to make it useful again. Both companies have announced today that they plan on creating a driving simulation that uses advanced VR technology, with a Smart Grid, to provide an in-depth driving experience second to none.
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Panasonic Hair Washing Robot Gets Showcased on Video
Late last week, we told you about a couple of automatic machines that were created to make the lives of medical employees and caregivers easier. In the case of the hair washing robot, idea was great: free some time for employees who would normally be washing a patient's hair, by allowing the robot to do all the work for them. The robot was designed to scan and memorize each patient's skull before starting the wash, and then 16 fingers would begin washing. If you were wondering how that might look, then take a look at the videos after the cut.
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DARPA’s Transformer Project One Step Closer to Reality
Back in April, a project that was originally found in some government documents a year before, broke cover thanks to a PDF document that had been made public. That project was known as the Transformer project, and the idea was to make an amalgamation of the military's Humvee (or any armored truck, for that matter), and a helicopter. Pipe dreams for those at DARPA was the general consensus, but it seems the government agency was very serious about their efforts, and now thanks to an aerospace defense company, the Transformer project is one step closer to becoming a reality.
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Nokia Research Centre Shows Off Stretchable Electronic Skin
The Nokia Morph concept phone has been something that Nokia fans (and even non-Nokia fans) have been aching for. The ability to change your phone into something that you need, whenever you need it, just by molding it to a different form is an exciting idea. And it looks like, while Nokia has been pretty quiet about the Morph for awhile now, the company is still putting quite a bit of effort into getting that idea into the real world.
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Levytator is an Escalator with Curves [Video]
There's plenty of escalators out there. Taking people up and down in a straight line, making it easier on their knees so they don't have to walk up and down those static steps. There are a few escalators out in the wild that can take a gentle curve, but they are few and far between, and usually very, very expensive. But, the Levytator takes it one step further, and has already been patented in several countries.
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