Sunday, June 14, 2009

Interactive Data Eyeglasses


The data eyeglasses can read from the engineer’s eyes which details he needs to see on the building plans. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes this possible. The eyeglasses are connected to a PDA, display information and respond to commands.

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Flying motorcycle to soar in 2010


Samson Motorworks designs flying motorcycles, and now the company has modified its approach, rolling out the airworthy Switchblade. It's a three-wheeled multimode vehicle (MMV) with a scissors-like wing for flying and a torsion bar lean system for its role as a road rocket.

Samson Motor Works

NTT -- cellphones in 2015


If Japan's number one telecommunications company NTT has its way, there could be a modular cellphone in your future, with various attachments that give the phone magical new powers. The star of the company's soothsaying is the flexible scroll attachment pictured here, giving you a big color screen to read the newspapers and magazines (and blogs) of 2015.

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Lithium-sulfur batteries -- triple the power of lithium-ion


A research team from the University of Waterloo has synthesized a prototype of a lithium-sulphur rechargeable battery that, thanks to its peculiar nanoscale structure, can store three times the power of a conventional lithium-ion battery in the same volume while being significantly lighter and potentially cheaper to manufacture.

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Maker Bots

MakerBot Industries creates open source robot kits that transform your digital designs into physical objects automatically.

Makerbot

World's smallest VGA display


Display maker Kopin has managed to pack a liquid-crystal display (LCD) with VGA resolution (600 x 480 pixels) onto a screen that measures just over a quarter-inch diagonally. That means individual color dots are 2.9 x 8.7 micrometers. For those scoring at home, a typical piece for paper is about 100 micrometers thick.

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Navy/Raytheon's 100kW weaponized laser

The 100 kilowatt experimental Free Electron Laser (FEL) uses superconducting electron accelerators to produce high-power laser beams that could target cruise missiles, airplanes or boats.

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