instead of a selfie booth, bring SelfieBot to your next party! This Raspberry Pi project has a mind of its own: SelfieBot giggles, snoozes, and prints selfies on its thermal printer. Animated facial expressions and sounds are triggered by movement-based interactions. SelfieBot is contained in a customizable laser-cut acrylic and 3D-printed case. (read more)
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Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
World’s First Braille Smartwatch Lets Blind People Feel Messages on Screen
There are over 285 million visually impaired people in the world, and some of these lives are about to get a lot better. South Korean developer Dot has produced the world’s first Braille smartwatch, and its features are just what you’d expect from a 21st century device.
The Dot displays information using 4 active dynamic Braille cells, and its users can select the speed at which the characters update. The Dot connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth (just like any other smartwatch) and can receive any text from any app or service (think Messenger, directions from Google Maps, etc.). Users can also send simple messages using its buttons on the side. The Dot also supports Open API, which means that anyone can develop or adapt apps for it.
Various digital devices for the blind have been around for some time now, but the vast majority of them use sound. This creates problems, because either a user has to plug in headphones and detach from surrounding sounds (that are vital to blind people), or make their information public. Also, existing digital Braille reading devices are mostly bulky and expensive – only about 5% of visually impaired people own one.
The Dot smartwatch has been in development for 3 years, and the company will finally start delivering its devices to some 140,000 backers (they also claim that Stevie Wonder is one of them). They plan to ship 100,000 watches in 2017, starting March, and the rest 40,000 next year. 1,000 units will be sold on retail in London for $320 too.
More info: dotincorp.com | Facebook (h/t: mmm)
NASA NEW HIGH-SPEED, HDR CAMERA RECORDS ROCKET TEST
This is footage of Orbital ATK’s QM-2 solid rocket booster test taken by NASA’s High Dynamic Range Stereo X (HiDyRS-X) camera.
HiDyRS-X records high speed, high dynamic range footage in multiple exposures simultaneously for use in analyzing rocket engine tests.
Traditional high speed video cameras are limited to shooting in one exposure at a time, but HiDyRS-X can record multiple high speed video exposures at once, combining them into a high dynamic range video that adequately exposes all areas of the video image for comprehensive analysis.
The footage is so sharp it doesn’t even look real.
A Kinetic Sculpture of 15 Moving LEDs Mimics a Walking Person
With spindly legs that look like an upturned spider, this experimental kinetic artwork by Random Internationalrelies on the viewer to watch from just the right perspective to reveal a hidden secret. Each of the 15 ‘arms’ is tipped with white LEDs that collectively move to mimic the motions of a walking human figure. Titled Study for Fifteen Points, the piece was created to examine the “minimal amount of information that is actually necessary for the animated form to be recognised as human.”
Random International are an artist collective known for their ambitious interactive installations and sculptures that incorporate robotics and data, most notably the wildly popular Rain Room. Study for Fifteen Points is the first foray into a new body of work by the group and we’re excited to see what follows. (via The Creator’s Project)
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot Does a Bit of House Cleaning Demonstrating Its Whole-Body Coordinated Motion
The Atlas Robot built by Boston Dynamics does a bit of house cleaning in a new video demonstrating its whole-body coordinated motion using a control algorithm by the Robotics Lab at the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC). The robot picks up, sweeps, and even vacuums its lab to clean up its mess.
via IEEE Spectrum
via IEEE Spectrum
BOX THAT SHOWS WEATHER ON YOUR TABLE WITH REAL RAIN AND CLOUDS
Ken Kawamoto, a software engineer by day and gadget inventor by night, likes to “break the barrier between the digital world and the real world ,” and he has done just that with his latest invention – the Tempescope. This little box can create real raindrops and clouds and simulate lightning and sunlight to show you the weather forecast or real-time weather display. Unfortunately, the box doesn’t create snow!
The device interfaces with internet forecasts and weather programs, meaning that you can use it to tell you what the weather will be like tomorrow.
The Ecocapsule, An Amenity-Filled Tiny House Powered by a Built-In Wind Turbine and Solar Cells
Ecocapsule by Nice Visions is a tiny house offering shelter, electricity, a hot shower, and a running toilet while weighing only 1500 kg and standing only 4.45 meters tall. It is powered by a built-in wind turbine along with solar cells on its roof and a high-capacity battery for periods of low sun or wind. It fits into a standard shipping container, making transportability relatively simple. This opens up its potential for use to include not only a small home, but also a shelter for researchers in the field or vacations in exotic locales.
Ecocapsule is a portable house offering an unmatched dwelling experience. With its immense off-grid life span, worldwide portability and flexibility it is suitable for a wide range of applications: from an independent research station or a tourist lodge to an emergency housing or a humanitarian-action unit.
http://www.ecocapsule.sk/
Birdly
A Full-Body Simulator That Uses the Oculus Rift to Recreate the Flight of a Large Bird
Birdly - Teaser from maxR on Vimeo
Mars Science Laboratory Mission Animation
I've favourited a YouTube video: Although NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will not leave Earth until late this year nor land on Mars until August 2012, anyone can watch those dramatic events now in a new animation of the mission.
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