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aero-auto hybrid – soon ready for take off?

Posted by maz on December 27th, 2007

Some former MIT students founded Terrafugia. The company is developing the Transition – a roadable Light-Sport Aircraft that will be able to land at the airport, fold up its wings, and drive on the road. credit: Benjamin Schweighart According to reports of the Technology Review the prototype should be completed in 2008. So let’s see [...]

innovation toy

Posted by maz on August 24th, 2007

About 20 years ago when I was playing with this colorful toy bricks I wouldn’t have imagined that the manufacturer LEGO would once market a special edition for innovation. But now they have a product line called “SERIOUS PLAY“. According to the producer it can be used to: Find out who you are and where [...]

iPhone is watching you

Posted by maz on July 10th, 2007

iPhone – you can’t away from this phenomenon during the last few months. If you google the word you’ll get about 204.000.000 results. So I don’t deem it inevitable to further describe it’s pros and cons at lenght. But one article quickened my interest because it examines the iPhone from a different perspective: The iPhone’s [...]

whiteboard fridge

Posted by maz on July 3rd, 2007

There are hundreds of different versions (and aligned products) of affixing various stuff to your fridge in order to “communicate” with your housemates. Now GE started to market the most simple and (not only but at least therefore) best solution in Brasil: Refrigerador Risque-Rabisque (a fridge whose front serves as a whiteboard) Credit: General Electric

you can touch this

Posted by maz on May 30th, 2007

This week Microsoft announced it’s “Surface Computer Milan”. [youtube zFliDRSaV3k nolink] It’s an acrylic table that’s 22 inches high, with a 30-inch horizontal display. Remember those tabletop arcade games in bars in the 80s? It looks something like that. Inside, there’s a PC running Vista, a projector, and an array of cameras that track objects [...]


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