The Intelligence Toilet II from Toto is the successor to the Intelligent Toilet II that was created in 2005. This technologically advanced poop shoot is geared more towards women with some next level features. This toilet claims it can measure the sugar in your urine, blood pressure, body fat and will even weigh you.
Having central heating is easy and covenant, but what is convenient doesn’t always mean it’s going to be cost effective. This method heats rooms that are not in use; no one really needs every single room to be the same temperature. The Vent-Miser Programmable Energy Saving Vent saves you money by controlling individual room temperature.
We have all watched a football game with close calls that we don’t exactly agree with the referee on, but will new advancements in technology help or hinder the situation? Footballs and gloves with sensors just may be able to help referees with those close calls make more accurate calls.
While solar powered home appliances are still far from reach for many of us, Scientists have been step ahead, cracking codes to improve solar cell’s power efficient and its environmental concern. Current solar-powered home appliances require extra step of energy conversion to generate supply power, about 20% of the energy is wasted during the process despite having a 90% conversion rate. A Japanese research group has figured out an alternate way to spare the extra step.
Unlike the resistive-type touch screen, capacitive touch screen used in you G1, Storm or iPhone registers electricity in your finger, it will not operate properly with a gloved hand, fingernail or with a mechanical stylus; thus handwriting input devices are difficult to implement.
InPlay technologies has unwrapped a new WriteSense digital pen technology to overcome the technique barrier, enabling pen inputs for capacitive touch-screen devices. The coupling active RF pen communicates directly with the capacitive touch sensors, eliminates the need for a separate electromagnetic digitizer; It also provides a much responsive, precise and accurate input.
GE engineers and scientists expressed their Christmas Spirits and affection toward the OLED technology. The GE’s OLED search teams have put up a first-ever OLED Christmas tree lighting, housed at GE’s Global Research Center headquarters in Niskayuna, NY.
While not pursuing criminals and thefts, Face Recognition apps has its niche use in advertising. NEC’s new digital signage system presented Eye Flavor, a masterful 46-inch LCD that can read viewers expression, analyze and display the most effective content then store all measurements for marketing use.
The marketing’s best friend combines face recognition digital camera, content delivery controller and software apps to manage the ad content and judge its effectiveness. By analyzing the viewer’s digital image, the Eye Flavor can effectively determine the viewers’ gender, age and how they react to the ad content.
According to Nikkie, the NEC has already put their new tool to work at a commercial facility in Tokyo. The system was set up at the front entrance to measure customer reaction to the ad content, viewers’ time frame, gender, age group and the distance in between them.
There aren’t many wildlife photographers practicing fill flash with supertele-lens, it requires powerful flash unit capable of continued powering multiple-frame per second workloads. As a Canon user, I prefer the CPE3/CPE4 compact battery pack to power the flash unit; it utilizes the commonly used AA batteries instead of a much cumbersome Quantum nickel-hydride powered Turbo battery. On the field, I frequent two set of 12 x AA batteries for the battery pack and flash unit, all rechargeable units, of course and replace them once a year due to the low battery cycle life and charging capacity that continue to decline in time. That’s quite load to carry and put a dent on my wallet, may be I should try one of these lighter, smaller and more powerful PowerGenix rechargeable Nickel-Zinc battery.
If you’ve paying attention to the HDMI gimmick, you probably heard of HDMI CEC that promises to operate basic controls of your home audio video components connected via HDMI cables with just one remote. Some of those are known as Sony BRAVIA’s Theatre Sync, LG’s SimpLink or EZ Sync from Panasonic; much like some manufacturer advertises the IEEE link with Denon link or Sony’s I.link. Those traditional CEC feature devices require a separate CEC controller for its HDMI transmitter but Analog Devices looks to offer CE makers with much simpler solution and industry’s first on-chip CEC from its ADV7510 HDMI transmitter.
Not your usual solar-power lighting devices that can charge in the day and twinkle at night; Sony mixes tradition with high tech craftsmanship, transforms low cost dye-sensitized solar cells into uniquely floral patterns, embedded on the lamp’s lateral shape panels that can generate energy by itself then power another miniature bulb that projects the beam-pattern depicted by the colors of cells on the panels.
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