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It’s 2010 – finally my jet pack is here!
Monday, March 8th, 2010It’s been a long time coming.
While Arthur C. Clarke’s satellites have taken to space, and James Bond’s futuristic mobile technology has become common place, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us. But the future is here! Finally we can all take flight as Martin Aircraft in New Zealand [...]
Microsoft’s Project Natal Is Hot. Like Pong Hot
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Image via Wikipedia
Around 1976, when I was a very young lad, I somehow convinced my parents to spring for a home version of the most cutting edge consumer video game available at the time – Pong. I fondly remember sitting in the living room and playing that game for tens of hours. [...]
New Zealand’s home-made ‘hoverwing’ flies 5 feet above water
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Look! Down on the lake
… is it a boat, a plane … it’s neither. It’s the “hoverwing”, a hovercraft that flies. New Zealand mechanic Rudy Heeman spent more than 11 years of his spare time (and tens of thousands of dollars) building the hoverwing, a wing-in-ground-effect vehicle that flies on a [...]
Energy-generating sOccket soccer ball scores a goal in off-grid villages
Thursday, February 11th, 2010What kid doesn’t like kicking around a soccer ball? Imagine if this fun activity could also provide enough energy to power something useful in a modest off-grid African village, like a reliable light to cook by or an emergency mobile phone.
The sOccket is a prototype soccer ball that captures kinetic energy [...]
Video: Voice Band iPhone app – stunning multitrack rock band recordings using only your voice
Monday, January 18th, 2010Image via CrunchBase
The iPhone’s application capabilities continue to astound us. We’ve seen on-the-fly multitrack recording already in our a cappella review of Sonoma’s 4Track app, but this one takes it to a whole new level. Voice band is a multitrack recording app that lets you build up the sound of a full band, including guitars, [...]
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