Gadgets and cooking, sounds like the dream team and to be honest it really is, because these gadgets use some sophisticated technology to produce equipment that makes food that we already know of, it’s just that these gadgets make the food faster, cheaper and much more conveniently. With this Top Five, we are looking at some of the coolest gadgets designed for the kitchen, cook or both. Finally, it’s the AppleBoard This is a chopping board that requires no introduction at all, it’s Read more [...]

Google after you search for "Do a barrel roll." Screen shot by ABC News. Got a moment to kill? Try this: Go to Google’s homepage. Type in the words “Do a barrel roll.” Click Enter. Did the Earth move for you? The image in your browser should — well, it should have done a barrel roll. As often happens, the Internet was filled with speculation when people began to notice it on Thursday. Many Twitter posts asked if it was a takeoff on Apple’s iPads, with their built-in accelerometers Read more [...]

The latest version of the Asimo robot can run, find it's way through a crowd and even pour a drink. Honda's demonstration of the revamped "Asimo" at its Tokyo suburban research facility was not only to prove that the bubble-headed childlike machine was more limber and a bit smarter. It was a way to try to answer some critics that Asimo, first shown in 2000, had been of little practical use so far, proving to be nothing more than a glorified toy and cute showcase for the Honda Motor Co. brand. Honda Read more [...]

Above, an aerial photo of flooded factories in Pathum Thani Province outside Bangkok taken last month. The picture appeared in yesterday's New York Times. I was struck by by how much the pattern of buildings resembles that of computer chipsets on motherboards. Source: [Book Of Joe] Read more [...]

The coat that is a TV! Here is a great example of flexible LED displays, it has been built onto a white lab coat, but the effect is stunning as the images appear all around the person the wearing the coat, even the arms. It just goes to flexibility of LED displays and offers some interesting new advertising ideas for the future. These are the details for the TV coat according to Cathode Corner; The Video Coat is a colour TV set built into a lab coat. It is a 160 x 120 pixel colour LED Read more [...]

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