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Multi-Touch iTable
PQLabs Multi-Touch G2 - is a touch screen overlay that can be easily mounted onto any LCD or Plasma TV monitors. This simple, lightweight and low cost solution let you deploy Multi-Touch technology instantly to existing monitors without the need of any configuration. Multi-Touch G² is connected to ...
Scratch Turntable for Gamers
Who says that the turntable has to be for music DJs alone. Found this cool video on GamingBits. Scratch deck as explained is the first DJ Turntable for Video gamers. Here points are earned by performing varied scratching techniques. Very cool indeed.
From Numark, the controller for Scratch: ...
LED Bling
LED scrolling screen as a fashion accessory? Found two cool products that has incorporated led scrolling lights as part of the design. The first item is an LED belt bling over at my Hip Hop Bling It's small and compact and will look hot on any belt. It has mad crazy bling around the LED screen and ...
Cell Phones For The Blind
Everyone with their sight intact has for long enjoyed the magic on any cell phone screen. Even if it was just the orange digits appearing on a device huge as a brick. As the evolution has progressed things have gone from cool to awesome and from awesome to iPhone when it comes cell phone technology. ...
Tech 2 iPhone Stand – Simply Rockin’!
Was looking after something completely different when I stumbled over this little invention. Not yet in production this new second generation iPhone stand is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. I can't imagine why no one has yet put this to good use and included it in their product cat ...
Smart Navigation
Street View has been a topic for quiet some time, for those who would like to check it out, we dug up a video illustrating how it works. Street View is a great way to see panoramas of streets from all over the world. They launched some great improvements to this tool, including most recently overlay ...
Keyboard Heaven – The LED In Look
Chances are pretty much 1/1 that you probably have one in front of you right now when reading this. We all need one in order to add content to our screen. Yes, I am talking about the only hardware that's connected to your computer that has never had a makeover technologically until now. With the new ...
Project Natal for XBOX 360
No Strings (or Controllers) Attached.
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the only experie ...
NASA Confused About Moving Objects
Some people believe that we are being visited by other life forms. Some "want" to believe they are real. Some don't believe at all. However, when even the NASA guys themselves get confused about some Unidentified Flying Object's (UFO) even I start to wonder what's going on.
It's not so much the f ...
Siftables – Block Interactivity
We are going through a high tide of technological evolutions right now. Some more exciting then others. One invention that has a truly bright future is the newly unveiled "Siftables". Interactive learning blocks that can detect any other blocks around it and by doing that creating a unique kind of i ...
Photosynth – Photo Networking
With so much content shared on the Internet, especially pictures, it is sometimes really hard to put them all into context. Usually if you search for something you really never get EXACTLY what you are looking for. It's frustrating and it's time consuming. On the horizon there is a new way to browse ...
Next Gen Inlines Design
First it was Roller Skates then it was Roller Blades and after that came Inlines. So what's next? Well, Bit Rebels have been doing some research and found some rather interesting approaches. Some of them are only prototypes but none the less, they are awesomeness defined.
New ideas are always exc ...
Interactive Urban Mapping – Monsters in Design
Came across this video from Digital Slaves and Charlie Mars when they went to Nuit Blanche Amiens and showed
a nightly interactive urban mapping called Mortelle Banane. The theme of this year edition was dedicated to monsters and other freaks.
The video may be in French, but one can truly apprecia ...
“Kitten” 1968 computer animation
Here is a cool computer animation generated in 1968 on Russian computer BESM-4.
Almost 40 years ago, 1968… Group under the management ^[Nikolaya] of Nikolayevich Constantinov creates the mathematical model of the motion of animal (cat). Machine BESM-4, running the written program of the soluti ...
When Mouse Design Goes Hi-Tech
Apple has a way of designing things that look very pleasing for the eye. Things are perfect on the outside but not always on the inside. For example, Apple's "Mighty Mouse". It's a pleasure to work with and the tracking is flawless and pristine. However, the trackball is one of the worst ever put on ...