Tag: Window
TV System Provides A Realistic Breathtaking View Outside Your Window
If you look outside your window right now, what do you see? If you are like many people, it might be your front yard or the parking lot of your office building. Wouldn't it be great to look out the window and see a realistic, breathtaking view? Maybe you'd like to see the beach on a sunny day or som ...
Window Socket: Plug Your Devices Into Your Window For A Solar Charge
We've written about so many solar powered device chargers over the years that it's hard to remember them all. Even after all the creativity put into the idea of charging our gadgets with sunlight, it still isn't mainstream. Of course, the best case scenario would be if we could just plug all our cor ...
New Breed Of Light Controlling Glass Heading For Sci-Fi Homes
Controlling the amount of light that is allowed to come through a window or a glass pane has become an environmental issue in the last couple of years. Allowing warmth to enter a house during the winter and shutting it out during the summer is one of the most energy efficient ways to stay environmen ...
Break The Ice With The Severed Wampa Arm Ice Scraper
Every Jedi likes to stay warm in the winter, and if you're one of them, you'll like this severed Wampa arm ice scraper. Instead of putting your whole body in the Wampa to stay toasty, you can just put your arm in the glove to keep it warm while you scrape the ice off your car windshield. The combina ...
Winbot: The Window Washing Robot That Does All The Work For You
Wouldn't it be great to have a window washing robot in your life? Cleaning windows is a chore I could definitely do without. It's one of those things I dread doing, and I wait until I can barely see out of them before I bust out the bucket and sponge. If it were up to me, we'd all have those windows ...
Real Superheroes: Spider-Man Window Washers Surprise Sick Children
I was in the hospital a few times when I was a child, and I can tell you from experience, it's no fun at all. The last thing a kid wants to do is sit still, and in the hospital, that's pretty much all you can do. When I read about these stories, they warmed my heart. Spider-Man, or Spider-Men I shou ...
Smart Window From Samsung Will Reinvent Your World View
If you are used to looking out through your window and seeing the gorgeous landscape, cityscape or whatever scape you see, you might consider doing a little bit more of it because soon it will probably all change. What I mean is that soon I am pretty sure all of our windows are going to be switched ...
Work Alongside Nature: An Inspiring Office Building In The Woods
If you are like me, you spend the majority of your day and night in front of your computer. It's very common for me to sit down at my computer when it's dark outside, and not stop working until it's dark outside again. Then I take a quick bike ride or walk, and before I know it, I'm sitting in my be ...
12 Post-It Note Window Designs From Around The World
Have you noticed that Post-It notes have become really popular over the past few years, but not for taking notes? It seems those colorful little sheets of sticky paper make a great material for artists, and we've featured a lot of fun art installations made from or inspired by Post-It notes. I think ...
A Window That Closes Automatically When Train Approaches
I know it sounds kinda strange, but I've always thought innovative windows and curtains were interesting. When you add a techno-geek flavor to them, it makes it all even better. When I stayed in a suite at the Ritz Carlton in Shanghai, the floor to ceiling drapes opened and closed with a switch on t ...
Augmented Reality Is Coming To Your Car Window
Growing up these days can be tough. Things were so much simpler back when I was a kid. The best part back then was that we were allowed to be kids. These days, children have to grow up so fast just to be able to cope with the world around them. I'm glad when I see new technologies being developed th ...
Real Life 2.0 Windows Sticker
The virtual reality that we are immersing ourselves into more and more each day tends to get so captivating for us that sometimes we do not even look out the window on a sunny day anymore. It's a shame really because all that the world, the REAL world that is, has to offer is slowly coming to an end ...
iPad 2 Window: Put An Outside View Wherever You Want
It's not an understatement to say that the iPad 2 had quite a successful demo launch. First we saw Steve Jobs demo it, which in itself is a huge plus considering all the horrible reports about his health, but it also features so many cool new things that will make it one of those must-have products ...
For Geeks & Workaholics: An Inflatable Window With A View
It is so funny to me that someone even invented this little gag. What a sign of the times! Everyone works so hard these days, and we often wish we could get out of that cubicle (or jail cell) to see the light of day. But with many of us working from sunrise to sunset, unless we make a specific ef ...
Creative Inspiration: The Toy Army Men With A Message
I've played with toy army men for as long as I can remember. The army men they sell these days are a lot different from when I was young. Now you can get fancy army men that snap together into a team, kind of like Lego blocks. But, my favorite ones will always be the old-fashioned, 2-inch tall gr ...