Category: Technology

I saw this on gizmodo tonight. Make them available to a buck in vending machines and Puck will be king of America. Mark my words, there is nothing better than finding a vending machine that has a hot bevrage ( hot chocolate, coffee, saki ) on a cold wet winter night. I know this for a fact because I experienced it on many February evenings in Japan. The fact that these cans are self heating makes them all that much cooler.

Wolfgang Puck Disposable Instant-hot Latte
cool, coffee, self heating

I remember seeing the Spin 360 (?) guys doing their setup at BattleBots to make 360 VR images of the combat robots. They had all sorts or crap there to get the job done. Computers, high end digital vedeo cameras, lights, white walls, big assed turntable… Now you can do it all with a bunch of Legos and an old digital camera. How cool is that? This is a much better solution than what I did years ago with my CoolPix 100 and some black cloth…
I can see this being a cool way of creating content for a laptop that has been turned into a digital frame. Make a bunch of QT VR slides (frames, clips, what is the correct term?) and run them as a continious loop on the digi-frame to add a little spice to your normal slide show of family photos. I should get on that and build one shouldn’t I…

VR-object turntable [Discovered on MAKE]

MAKE, VR, Lego, cool

I saw this today and thought I’d share:

A Japanese research team has developed a fuel cell that runs on blood without using toxic substances, opening the way for use in artificial hearts and other organs.

The biological fuel cell uses glucose, a sugar in blood, with a non-toxic substance used to draw electrons from glucose, said the team led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, bio-engineering professor at the graduate school of state-run Tohoku University.

Blood Fuel Cell [lifted from Boing-Boing]