A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. credit: courtesy / Zack Anderson According to the MIT report this technology should increase the fuel efficiency of electric vehicles by 10%. I [...]
Some days ago Honda presented it’s new walking assist device. The 6.5kg device – consisting of a saddle, leg-like frames and shoes – can reduce the load on users’ legs while walking or climbing and descending stairs by supporting bodyweight, Honda said. The interessting fields of application especially may be rehabilitation and assembly work. But [...]
… the Napkin PC! This PC design by Avery Holleman has won the 1st Place Judges Award and the Chairman’s Award at the NextGen PC Design Competition. The Napkin PC is a multi-user, multi-interface, modular computer designed for creative professionals to collaborate and bring their greatest ideas to life. Typical usage scenarios should be a [...]
That’s what Rafe Needleman from Webware called the new product of Bug Labs, that is presented at CES 2008. It’s an open source (concerning soft- AND hardware) plattform that starts with a minicomputer [...] onto which you can snap multiple modules, such as a digital camera, an LCD screen or a GPS-module. The device has [...]
The Sillicon Valley company Powerset that is building a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing launched Powerlabs, a community where users can interact with demonstrations of Powerset’s technology, give feedback to help improve our natural language indexing, and suggest ideas for the ideal search engine. To my mind it is really worth [...]
