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- The world’s fastest ambulance does 205 mph without a patient -
After the British revealed computer-generated imagery of their 1000mph Bloodhound, Supersonic Car, we came across a homemade bio-fuel powered rocket car that does 300mph. And now here is a world’s fastest ambulance that does 205 mph. Speed is a thrilling experience, and certainly at times it can become a messiah, saving lives. Ambulances need to be fast, but not as fast as this one: fitted with a General Electric J-79 turbojet engine from F-4 Phantom, it is an ambulance that was tested to run at 330 km/h. The custom-built truck is an ambulance, but the giant engine occupies all the space and there is no space to fit in the patient.
- GroundBot is a spherical surveillance bot for the other planet -
When we are pushing all limits to build robots for the future, taking robotic technology into a new realm, bots that’ll actually cut costs for us is something we really look for. Surveillance robots with minimum maintenance could be the solution here, and the GroundBot is one robust robotic mobile platform that hosts cameras and sensors with virtually silently maneuverability, and the least maintenance costs. Designed by Swedish physicists, the spherical sentry designed GroundBot, featured in PopSci’s Best of What’s New 2008, is made to explore through other planets.The lightweight sphere boasts impressive off-road performance, at 6mph through mud, sand, snow and even water. All cameras and sensors are protected inside the sealed sphere while the bot can be remote controlled by hand or programmed to navigate by GPS. Weighing just 25 kg, the built-in cameras have a 360-degree viewing angle to zoom in to the minutest of detailing in the spy mission profile. Powered by lithium-ion batteries, the GroundBot can operate for 8-16 hours, rolling simply through shifts its weight depending on the mass suspension from the pendulum within the sphere.
Via: Rotundus
- HP delivers TouchSmart tx2 multitouch convertible notebook -
HP’s line of TouchSmart desktop PCs has been really appreciated. Building further upon the touch innovative technology, the company has revealed the TouchSmart tx2 multitouch notebook for consumers. Touted to be the first consumer-oriented convertible notebook with a multitouch display, the TouchSmart tx2 features a 12.1-inch LED blacklit screen with a 1200×800 resolution display, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi integrated. Guzzled up in a bazel-mounted fingerprint reader, the tx2 works with up to two fingers or a stylus. Preloaded with Windows Vista, the notebook runs on a 2.1GHz AMD Turion X2 dual core processor and 8GB of internal memory. Available for pre-order at $1150, the TouchSmart tx2 also comes with a 500GB hard drive, a SuperMulti DVD burner, built-in web cam, digital pen and an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card. - World's highest resolution tiled display enjoys 307 million pixels -
After the Hyperwall came the HIPerSpace, the world’s highest-resolution display until now. However, the title for the most high-res seems to have fallen to the recently revealed world’s highest resolution tiled display deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Researchers and engineers have been working on and designing massively tiled display walls and high-resolution screens, and the “Stallion” Visualization Cluster by TACC, featuring 75 high-resolution Dell 30-inch displays, arranged in 15 columns of five displays each is a perfectly delivered mechanism. Each built-in display has a resolution of 2560×1600 for a combined total 307 million pixels, enhancing display capabilities significantly, stretching visual data viewing to terascale accuracy in all future discoveries. The display along with 100 processing cores is 34 feet long by 8 feet high and it boasts of 108GB of system memory and more than 36GB of graphics memory. We don’t have much to express over this world’s largest system of its class, but it is evident that researchers can now compute very large data in interactive 3-D modeling with very high-resolution images. - Metal-made mechanical elephant mimics the real -
Metals recycled for superlative sculptures are the result of an artist or a designer’s inventive imagination. It’s beyond us to imagine mechanical designs to be buried beneath dreary metal façades, but somehow, the creative ones dig down deep and manage to churn startling figurines out of scrap metal. These metal elephants by Andrew Chase are a paradigm of true detailed conception thereby. Made out of automobile transmission parts, electrical conduit, pipe, rod and sheet steel in about three and a half months’ time, they measure at 36″ X 36″ X 18″ and weigh in at about 85 lbs. The mechanical elephants are more than sculptures, given their maneuverability – all the joints are movable and they lock in place; the ears can move back and forth, while the trunk can be lowered or raised.
All of Andrew’s works are in metal, and all his makes are finely detailed and flawless. This meticulously made mechanic elephant is from the same league to say the least - the elephant is to be a part of Andrew’s “timmy” book, joining other characters that could be seen in the Trionic Morphatractable Engineer article.
- A wearable robotic arm prevents contraction in needy patients -
Paraplegics and the elderly often face problems with their joints and muscle movements. When stuck to bed owing to their illness, patients tend to develop contraction of muscles that could be irreversible, and regular range of motion exercises through physiotherapy is the only alternative left. There are a few muscle and joint extractors available to assist, but Tail-wrist-II seems to be a novel makeover in the category. Developed by Hideyuki Tsukakoshi, assistant professor of Mechanical Control Systems at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Tail-wrist-II is designed to prevent contraction of muscles and joints.The wearable robotic arm has four actuators located in the forearm area, which are controlled with a joystick used by the unaffected hand. With the joystick air pressure is created inside an attached flat helical tube to induce movement of joints via the actuator, the movement created in the affected area is flexible and does not place undue stress on the wrist.
The helical and flat wearable actuator uses resin tubes, making the device lighter than the other existing ones on the market. The attached Fit-band, made of flat tubes changes from band to cylinder when the pressure in the arm is increased, and thereby the device fixes perfectly onto the patient’s body all in a push of a button.
Via: Techon
- iPod Touch Nano concept with removable game controller -
Adding gaming accessibility to all gadgets has become a fad lately, nothing is spared because gaming is the only industry digging strong in the global credit crunch. Therefore, here is an iPod touch nano concept stuffed with a removable game controller. Apple’s next generation of iPods has been in the pipeline, patents have been filled but nothing has come out on the other side. While iPod touch nano is only a dream for Apple and nothing more than image disclosers have really come about – seeing this iPod touch nano concept, we can take the liberty to state that when touch nano is actually delivered, it could bear a resemblance to this… we don’t mean brains in the Apple refinery are taking a lead from this one.
Designed by Isamu Sanada the iPod concept features a 2.8-inch touchscreen display, a 3.5mm headphone jack, dual dock connectors besides the removable game controller, which actually Apple could add to the real wonder.
Via: TechEBlog
- VIPRO VP7710 touchscreen PC is fanless, rugged and flexible -
In the midst of ever growing public acceptance of touchscreen technology, no maker wants to skip a step. If ruggedness is an addition to sensitivity, there isn’t anything better to call for. The VIA VIPRO VP7710 touchscreen panel PC from VIA Technologies is a mixture of the two aforementioned – it is a fanless panel system for intelligent display applications in all kinds of demanding environs.
The VIPRO VP7710 is rugged, stable and flexible, housing plenty of ports in itself. The 10.4-inch touchscreen is packed in a solid chassis that provides ample shock and vibration protection, yet delivering a wide viewing angle. Highly suited for a human-machine interface, the VIPRO VP7710 has IP65 touch panel that is water and dust resistant. The 1GB of DDR2 memory PC includes S-ATA 2.5″ hard drives, HD audio and is powered by either a 1.6GHz VIA Eden or 1.0GHz C7 processor.Via: TweakTown
- Computing : MP3 Retro Speaker Amp - Retro cool, meet iPod awesome! This mini-version of an old guitar-amp makes a great little iPod speaker!
Your iPod needs more than your headphones if you're thinking of sharing your killer playlist with your friends. Plug in to this retro-styled portable speaker and crank it to eleven! This little speaker puts out big booming sound! Price: $29.99
- Home & Office : Snack-n-Stack Utensils - Soft-handled stackable utensil set looks like those colorful building blocks you had when you were a geekling!
Colorful interlocking bricks were the building-blocks of your childhood. Relive those halcyon days at the dinner-table with this stackable utensil set. Soft silicon rubber locks together - perfect for your lunchbox! Price: $16.99
- Home & Office : Aluminum Hard-Side Wallet - Aluminum hard-side case for your cold hard cash!
Cold hard cash just got a new meaning. Your wallet, soft-sided and boring, needs an upgrade and we've got a new aluminum hard-side wallet right here to fit the bill! Strong enough to take a beating at the bottom of your pocket. Price: $44.99
- Home & Office : LED Menorah - LED Shel Chaunuka! Light your candles the ThinkGeek way, and without burning your office down!
Here's a way for you to celebrate Chaunuka without setting your office, dorm, or other room on fire. A simple circuit with LEDs and a battery bring geeky Chaunuka blessings. Price: $19.99
- Geek Toys : Santa Vader Bobble Head - Ho ho ho. Luke, I am your ghost of holiday bobble head past.
Santa Vader is a little different than regular Santa. He gives you presents if you've been good - but if you've been bad, he gives you even better presents. 'Cause he's evil. Price: $14.99
- Geek Toys : Holiday Boba Fett Statue - And he's got a big present for Jabba the Hutt, too.
Boba Fett is awesome. He's suave, intelligent, and comes bearing presents. Of course, the biggest one is for Jabba, but that's to be expected. This statue makes an awesome centerpiece for any holiday party. Price: $49.99
- Geek Toys : Star Wars Galactic Heroes Stocking Suffers - Stuff your stockings with some Star Wars delights.
Each set of 3 figures has an adorable appeal never seen in action figure history. And these Star Wars cuties have decked their own halls out in full holiday glee. 'Tis the season, ya know. Price: $12.99
- Geek Toys : Homestar Home Planetarium - Bring the stars into your own home (like Star Wars, but inside).
All geeks love space. There's something about zooming amongst the stars that fills one with glee. Bring the stars to you with this professional quality personal planetarium. Price: $159.99
