Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Some very nice photos from the ROBO-ONE event in Japan. The walking robots are amazing, I can’t wait until someone builds one using R/C sailboat servos. That would give the little guy some pretty good power to do something like run an obstacle course.
7th ROBO-ONE opening and the Korean spirit sweeping over higher rank
Cool! Now you can use your Game Boy Advance as a makshift video monitor.
May Flash Gameboy Advance A/V Adapter
This could be handy if you don’t want to lug a laptop around. A little bit more secure too, if your dumping your images off to an iPod or a laptop that would make a better teaget than some CDs in your luggage. Now you might have a problem going through customs in some countries with burned CDs. You might have to prove that its just holiday snaps and not the latest OS and Office suite from Microsoft that you bought in a mall shop for $5US.
DISPY 2 is an interesting solution to record (without using a PC) the contents of memory cards (CF type 1 and 2, SD, MMC, miniSD, smart memory, MemoryStick DUO and MemoryStick) onto a CD-R/RW…
Hummm… Ok, sure… I think it will do a better job of detecting if the desk fan is turned on rather than if there is a specter, spook, or a free form aperation in your room.
in addition to having a capacity of up to 512MB, features a magnetic field sensor, people-detecting sensors, and a biological clock. When the unit detects a ghost, a certain pattern will shine on the LED display.
USB Memory With Ghost Detection
I remember some guys at ASU working on these. I doubt these will be ending up at the army surplus store any time soon, but maybe someone will take some off the shelf parts and build up a nice little toy for under the Christmas tree. It would be a nifty tool for finding a good place to set up the tent or to find someone if they have wondered off.
“The Wasp has two cameras — one forward and one aft — that collect and feed live video or other information. It’s designed to follow a programmed or relayed route using Global Positioning System waypoints or other navigational systems,” C4ISR Journal says.
Defense Tech: ITSY-BITSY DRONE
Ahh, quite the royal throne…
Yamato house industrial corporation in collaboration with TOTO Ltd. corporation will start selling the toilet of the future from April 5th onwards.
Aside from the regular functions, you can also check your health status with 4 parameters:the glucose level in your urine the blood pressure the fat precentage in the body the weight Needless to say that all this information can be transferred to your PC.
Intelligent toilets according to TOTO
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