A new website has been launched to emphasize the dangers of exposing too much personal information on social networking sites when you are out and about. The site consists of Tweets that have been pushed through the fast growing location based networking site Foursquare.
Basically telling everyone via the Internet when you leave your home. eg. left home and checked in 4 minutes ago:
With every device seemingly going touch screen at the moment, the way we will interact with our devices is going through a revolution. This demo of the LG Air Sync system which shows the seemless transfer of files to and from a LG mobile phone ( Air Sync is already available on the LG Mini GD880) via touch screens is very impressive.
The bionics from the Six Million Dollar man are becoming ever closer, even if they will probably cost more than £6 Million dollars these days. The UK company RSLSteeper and just released details of it new next generation bionic hand the BeBonic which is a fully articulated myo-electric hand.
Myo-electric is the technology that allows users to control their bionic limbs using electrical impulses from their brain. Check out the video after the break.
Konami has just announced that the first playable version of its new 3D Acrade version of Metal Gear Solid game is ready to play with some unique gaming features.
First shown last year during E3 Konmai has said it will be brining a playable gaming cabinet of the new 3D acrade game to AOU 2010 Expo tomorrow, which will definitely be worth a play if you get a chance.
If you thought all Segway style transportation needed a gyro for stability, think again. Using just standard LEGO NXT2.0 kit pieces this robot uses a light sensor rather than a gyroscope to keep its balance.
As the robot moves forward the light sensor signal increases and backwards the light sensor strength decreases allowing the robot to calculate its position. Check out the video after the break.
This strange concept camera consists of two parts, a main lens section and a display section for viewing your photographs. The two sections are held together using magnets which I hope are not too strong. As your datacard will be wiped before you get a chance to download your photos.
If you spend most of your time outdoors doing outdoor pursuits then this new Solar powered watch from Casio will help you not just tell the time but the weather and a multitude of other outdoor necessities like your altitude and direction.
The Casio Solar PRW-5000 Protek is equipped with everything you could need: temperature sensor, altimeter, barometer, compass and of course the time all powered by solar panels.
If you fancy joining the dark side of the track team, Adidas have added the Star Wars Darth Vader Superstar Track Top to their arrange. This limited edition design inspired by Star Wars features a detachable cape, breastplate and hood.
On the back of the jacket there is a faint image of Darth Vader’s face.
LG the world’s second largest TV manufacturer has just launched a range of new plasma display projection (PDP) televisions in Korea the X Canvas 60” 60PK550 and 50” 50PK550, 2 PDP TVs with a 600Mhz panel with a 25mm thin edge around the screens.
The images on the displays are significantly brighter than twice as clear as that on the older versions say LG Electronics.
If you need to quickly and easily duplicate hard drives for your backup purposes or recovery. Then the Aleratec 1:1 HDD PortaCruiser portable hard drive duplicator could help. It lets you clone 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch hard drives with ease and supports both IDE and SATA I/II HARD disk drives.
You can also set up access your drives via a USB 2.0 connection to your computer with RAID 0, RAID 1, JBOD Spanning or Normal disk configuration. Its compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista & 7 together with the support for Linux and Mac 10.3 or later.
Runcom and IXI have just released its brand-new brand new WiMAX-enabled GSM cellphone. WiMAX is a long range system that can provide connection speeds up to 10mbps over large areas and uses licensed or unlicensed spectrum to deliver a point-to-point connection to the Internet.
The new WiMAX phone as both GSM and WiMAX integrated chipsets for voice calls, VoIP calls and high speed data connection up to 10Mbps on 2.3GHz or 2.5GHz WiMAX spectrum
An new prosthetic foot has been developed and explained in a PLoS-One paper by Steven H. Collins (Department of Bio-mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology) and Arthur D. Kuo (Departments of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan).
The innovative new artificial foot uses a micro controller to operate a device in the foot which stores energy from the down step and then releases it on the up step and mimicking the natural movement of an unmodified human ankle.
