Category: Technology

It Will Suck The Iron Out of Your Blood

BIG Magnet

Ok, it can’t suck the iron out of your blood, but it could kill you in a number of facinating ways.

Scroll down to the bottom of the linked page…

It’s $100. I think just looking at the photo might have demagnetized my credit cards.
-Greg

Computers & monitors will be affected in an entire room. Loose metallic objects and other magnets may become airborne and fly considerable distances – and at great speed – to attach themselves to this magnet. If you get caught in between the two, you can get injured.
We can only ship this magnet by ground UPS – it cannot be shipped via air as it will interfere with the navigational equipment an the aircraft.

United Nuclear – Neodymium magnets

The Speedy Way to Capture a City

City Mapping

Of course the best use of this technology would be to make CounterStrike game map

-Greg

The concept is similar to building a virtual reality model, but the process is very different. To produce a VR model, a programmer manually combines distance measurements and 2D pictures to make a 3D model. The new technique, dubbed “virtualised reality” by creator Avideh Zakhor, is automated and much faster. “Right now, a detailed urban model can take many months to create,” says Bruce Deal, vice-president of the Virginia engineering firm SET Associates, which is helping to adapt the technology for the US military. “With the new model, we’re talking about an hour or so.” Virtualised reality scans the urban landscape using lasers and digital cameras mounted on a truck or plane. A laser measures distances to objects such as lamp posts and building facades, while the digital camera takes 2D photos. Another laser calculates the movement of the truck and checks its position against data collected from the aerial laser aboard the plane.
These measurements and pictures are fed into a computer that combines them to create a photo-realistic virtual 3D model of the area. Zakhor and her team recently created a working model of downtown Berkeley (see graphic) in just 4? hours – 26 minutes of driving plus 4 hours of data processing.

The speedy way to capture a city
3D, maps, virtual

Wearable Church Key

Ring bottle opener

What a clever device. I can see some smart lad having a stone set on the normal ring looking area. Now THAT would make a great university class ring! (ASU students listen up!)
(BTW, ‘church key’ is what some of my relatives used to call bottle openers. It’s things like this that shape a kids future outlook on things I suppose…)
Ring Thing Bottle Opener
gadget, church key, beer, cool

Sharps Zapper

Disintergrator

The little video that is on the page is pretty cool. The syringe is placed into a hole at the top of the device and then the blue button is held down for a few seconds. After the button is released the syringe is removed and the needle is just a little black blob on the end of the syringe. Pretty neat!
I wonder if there is a larger version of one of these avaliable for doctor offices. Not that the sharps containers don’t do a good job right now but this could make it safer and easire to dispose of.
I want one that I can drop a soda can into and get a little button of aluminium when it’s done. That would beat the heck out of hauling big bags of crushed cans to the recyclers…

The DISINTEGRATOR is a portable, easy-to-use device that allows for safe disposal of used insulin syringes by disintegrating the needle. Its small size and affordable price makes the DISINTEGRATOR practical for both the home and office.
Because the DISINTEGRATOR destroys the needle immediately after use, it eliminates the need to transport and store hazardous sharps in separate containers.
The revolutionary DISINTEGRATOR utilizes a unique plasma arc to melt the needle at a temperature of over 2500° Fahrenheit, reducing it to a small “bb” shaped ball. The built-in rechargeable battery will disintegrate over 40 needles between charges.

Disintegrator Plus Needle Disintegrator

medical, cool

WL-16RII Walking Chair

WL-16RII

Now if the Segway guy had come up with this as the next big thing he would have been right.

Waseda University and tmsuk, Japan, are showing off the “WL-16RII” , a new 2 foot robot to assist people in climbing up and down stairways. The robot presented in Fukuoka will go on sale in 2010. In the demonstration “WL-16RII” succeeded in the stairway ascent and descent of height 20 centimeters. Sensors (not on board) inspect the height and width , etc., of the stairway and programs movement beforehand allowing for safe ascent and descent. In the future using RFID chips on stairways, information can be passed to the WL-16RII allowing it to walk freely in town.

Ployer – WL-16RII
Original story here,
Translated via Excite (The images won’t show up, its due to some weird stuff on their server. It loads fater any way…)

Japan, robot, walking, cool

A Real Space Shuttle Concept

CEV

It would be nice to see a reusable space vehicle that is for human use only and leave the heavy lifting to the Delta, Atlas, and Titan rockets. Those will take higher G-loads and carry more mass and into orbit while posing no harm to its crew because there isn’t one.

The Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) is NASA’s proposed series of human spaceflight spacecraft, intended to replace the space shuttle system. The project to develop and test the CEV is Project Constellation

Crew Exploration Vehicle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
space, NASA, exploration, Boeing