A brilliant solution for college students is here! You can now highlight ideas and still get a 100% clean books that you can resell at the end of the semester. The fading highlighter works exactly as a normal one, but instead of being permanent causing lower resale prices, it fades out after 5 months of using! Fader is currently in development with crowdsourcing manufacturer extraordinaire Quirky. While there are similar products on the market already, they require some amount of erasing. Read more [...]

Ever wanted to listen to music without sharing it with anyone? Although you could use earphones, the SoundLazer is much more comfortable; it also lets you hear the music without losing the ability to hear surrounding environment's sounds. Parametric speaker technology forces highly-directional sound from the front of its speaker elements, so you only hear the sound if you’re standing in a direct line with the speaker. Up until now, parametric speakers were pretty difficult to come by, and Read more [...]

MM-Space, being developed by a lab at NTT, is a system designed to give the feeling of chatting face to face while in a group video conference! This system records the faces and voices of users from the spaces where they're talking, and transmits them to spaces where the conversation is recreated. A recreation space has several projectors, see-through screens, actuators, and speakers, positioned in accordance with the users. To make users feel as if the conversation is happening seamlessly Read more [...]

Ever had celebrity posters but got fed up of how static they are? Here's the solution, for future posters will be just as interactive as you'd like them to get! While this demonstration is still in its early stages, there are plans to develop it and add smooth animations! Here's a video: Source Read more [...]

You know that very first tickle in the back of your throat that tells you a cold is coming on? What if you could figure it out even sooner – as soon as the first bacteria took hold? A team at Princeton is developing tooth “tattoos” that could detect illness from the bacteria in your breath, starting before you even realize you’re getting sick. The tattoos are wireless and powered by resonant coils so there’s no need for charging or batteries. They work with the wonder Read more [...]

Google posted a YouTube a video of Steve Mahan who said that "95 percent of my vision is gone. I'm well past legally blind." while driving the Google Self Driving Car (Toyota Prius). Mahan said the self-driving Toyota Prius would give him greater independence. Would you test it yourself at this stage? Read more [...]

There’s nothing quite like getting a haircut. First you have some mindless chit-chat with your barber, he snips away, you get a quick powder and your done. It feels good and you look good. It’s a pleasant experience. Unless your barber is a robot. In which case, say goodbye to that lovely head of hair. This guy from Intelligent Automation Inc. got his haircut by a robot for St. Baldrick’s day, which usually involves completely shaving your head and collecting donations to help fund Read more [...]

This is a very cool MIT camera that can take photos of what’s going on around the corner. It’s an impressive technology, and the way the camera is able to do this is by using extremely fast laser pulses bounced off of its subject. MIT announced back in 2010 that it was developing the special camera that would use light echoes to see around corners. It took two years and the researchers are now showing off the camera in action. The camera fires 50 individual femtosecond laser pulses in Read more [...]

Trying clothes while shopping is really painful, especially with people like me (you have to see how sad I am when purchasing clothes :-P). Now here's a brilliant solution from Bloomingdale & Bodymetrics, it's an in-store service that uses Kinect to help women choose the correct size jeans. You  get scanned & classified into one of three groups: Emerald, sapphire, or ruby; then you can match yourself with sizes and styles that fit your classification before you buy. Actually this means Read more [...]

Virtual Machines (VM) have become very popular nowadays, but who could thought that they could be used right from internet browsers?!! "WSX" they call it (name may change in time), it simply allows you to run several virtual operating systems right from your browser... You can run Linux, Windows, etc...! From the site: This means that you can walk into the Apple store, pick up an iPad right off the shelf, and in less than a minute, start using your desktop back home. (Of course, provided Read more [...]

Remember the old days when the coolest kid at school was the one with the smallest phone? Dubbed as: "The smallest smartphone in the world" , the Nokia 700 is a neatly packed tiny, yet powerful, handset. The build quality is as impressive as all phones by Nokia. It feels so lovely to hold, the weight is right & the size is tight! Despite the weight, the phone impresses us with it's specs and features. Thanks to Nokia for sending us a device for a 2-weeks trial 🙂 Hardware: The Read more [...]

Opponents of 3D Technology may now sit back and enjoy 3D movies in 2D Format again, even when they're at a 3D Cinema, thanks to the De-3D Glasses! The glasses work by undoing the 3D effect that is created on movie screens. In the 3D screening of a movie, two slightly overlapping images are shown. One reaches each eye thanks to those lovely 3D glasses everyone in the theater wears, creating an artificial three dimensional effect. The De-3D Glasses grab only the right-side image, Read more [...]