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Friday Gadget: Disaster Relief Quadcopter Robot
Earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones — disasters like these make a normally natural environment hard to navigate and dangerous for human search-and-rescue teams. However, there is a growing number of robot...
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Friday Gadget: i-Real Personal Mobility Device
Toyota has been experimenting with Personal Mobility devices for some time (i-unit and i-swing concepts). Their latest prototype is called i-REAL. It is a personal mobility vehicle which uses three...
View ArticleFriday Gadget – Layar’s Mobile Augmented Reality Browser
Layar is an Android-based, augmented reality browser from SPRXMobile based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Check out the following video. The Layar Reality Browser displays real time digital...
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Friday Gadget: City-Sheet e-paper concept
Every once in a while I go check the red dot award site (http://en.red-dot.org/design.html). The red dot awards are given out annually for excellence in design. On my visit today I came across the...
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Friday Gadget: The Spruce Whale – An aircraft we’ll see in 2095?
I’ve been doing these Friday gadget posts for almost three years now. For me, these Friday gadget posts are not only about having fun on a Friday, but have always been about imagining the future....
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Friday Gadget: The Recon Scout Rescue Miniature, Mobile Reconnaissance Device
Here’s a simple looking device with a wireless-transmitting camera that can go where people can’t…or where it is safe to go. The Recon Scout® Rescue is a miniature, mobile reconnaissance device that...
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Friday Gadget: Solar Impulse Plane
I think we all agree that we need to figure out how to harness more of the sun’s energy, but I’m wondering how many of you would get on a plane powered by the sun? Solar power has already been used...
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Friday Gadget: ProDigits – The Partial Hand Solution
It has been estimated that the world's current "partial hand amputee" population is about 1.2 million worldwide. A new device, called ProDigits and developed by Touch Bionics, is perhaps the "world's...
View ArticleHorizonWatching: Top Ten Friday Gadget Posts From 2009
On Fridays I usually publish a post on some type of current gadget or prototype of an innovation. The idea is to have a little fun on Fridays, but also take a time to think about how these innovations...
View ArticleFriday Gadget: Yotaro the baby robot
Yotaro is another interesting robot idea coming out of Japan. This robot is designed to be a baby. It has baby blue eyes and it makes cute baby sounds. It also cries, sneezes, smiles, has runny...
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Friday Gadget: The MAB Automated Cleaning System for your house
In my house, I am the one usually dusting, cleaning, and vacuuming. It’s not that I like doing the cleaning…it’s just that the other family members never seem to do be interested in having a clean...
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Friday Gadget: The BIOSwimmer Fish Robot
The Biomimetic In-Oil Swimmer (BIO-Swimmer) is an robotic fish that has been under development the last 4-5 years by Boston Engineering Corporation’s Advanced Systems Group in Waltham, MA, for the U.S....
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