The Ray-Ban Shama Shades

Ok, obviously it's sunglasses....sunglasses.....sunglasses...glasses that are exposed to direct sunlight most of the time...hhhmmm.
Why not harness that sun power apparently designer Sayalee Kaluskar thought to himself, so he came up with these.

These cool shades just got cooler, absorbing the suns powerful rays, converting and storing that energy for charging your iphone.

Another example you wearable technology, not only that but it's a "GREEN". Ask me what to I mean by "green" in the comments section, unless you can decode that for yourself.

This is not really the surprise though they are cool and functional. The fact that this was created as providing a means of pure and clean energy creating medium for our devices is. Proof that technology is advancing and fighting to cut down and pollutions.

What I'm now left wondering is that will there be some cable connector so that the shades can be compatible with other smartphones and mini devices as well. For example I own a blackberry.

Plus It will be a very rewarding marketing strategy for Ray-Ban.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND VIDEO

THE LOOXCIE 3 - small, powerful, wearable hd camera

Cute :3

Bluetooth technology enabled the small camera to connect directly to an iphone or android mobile device, I'll assume other bluetooth capable smartphones as well.
Although that was cool and all, this version, the looxcie 3 replaces bluetooth for wifi. I approves bluetooth's old skool for me any ways.
Another amazing feature is that its video-processing power can simultaneously live stream WQVGA-resolution video at 15fps while recording at 720p at 30fps. Awesome!
The camera in easy on the hands, a square body and a max weight is 0.8 pounds (lbs).
Its buttons and other features?, a micro-usb port and a micro sdxc card slot, which supports up to 64GB, the right side has the power and Wi-Fi/shooting mode buttons, and the top has the record/shutter release button. A single charge of its internal battery gets you up to 90 minutes of recording time. Not bad at all expected features and buttons, I'm not hearing about FLASH though.

OPERATIONS.
Power on and press record, it starts capturing video(s) at 720p or you can use it to capture a normal picture at the same resolution.

Other Advance Stuff.
Capability to capture loop recordings and then if you're intrigued by a certain part of the recording, you can (with a single button press) create a clip of the last 30 seconds.
Live streams to your Facebook wall and mobile-to-mobile private streams.

V-Flies is said to be MP4 format at a bit rate of about 15Mbps.

Links
http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-camcorders/looxcie-3/4505-6500_7-35831783.html

OpenROV - The Open Source Underwater Robot

With the up coming christmas season, you might not wanna get your kids clothes again....sigh...why me...uumm, let's get back on track or under the water I should say.

Get your kids a submarine.
Expensive? No
Huge? No
Controllable? Yes
Fun? Yes

The OpenROV
(check it out, links at the bottom of blog)

Site : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-the-open-source-underwater-robot

News : http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/tech/2013/11/05/pkg-baldwin-underwater-drone-with-laptop.cnn.html

YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=OpenROV&sm=3 

CLOAKING

Have you ever wanted to be invisible? or hide stuff in plain sight? I always wanted to be,You and I may soon can, not full invisibility but with cloaking.
The twist here is that this cloaking doesn't refer to making stuff invisible to the human eye but to be fully undetectable by radar.
Researchers are still tampering with the laws of light and physics. They recently developed tiny antennas that prevent the waves from reflecting back to the detector of a radar, basically blinding the radar, thus blinding the persons behind it.
However though, the antennas can be printed flat and contain flexibility, randomly I think of the ultimate ninja suite #STEALTH
The most interesting part is they have the potential to cancel out "LIGHT WAVES".

Lets break it down and it's really simple to.
Based on my knowledge human beings are able to see objects because of reflected light (light bouncing of an object)
The antennas is said to contain the potential to cancel light waves from being reflected from them, So if I were to wear a suite of those tiny antennas.......I would become invisible, right?

As time progresses Cloaking Technology will become a reality in the sense of invisibility and not just undetected (1/4 invisible ).

LINKS:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking_device
• http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/tech/innovation/cloaking-technology/index.html

iCub?

Humanoid Platform?

Will this be the start of the 2004 science fiction movie "I, ROBOT" ?

Have a look at the video below.

Apparently the little robot has been created by the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) with technological components that allows it to learn and act like a 3 year old child. With robotics and human behaviour mixed, this little humanoid is on the raise.
I'm not sure if it is even worth mentioning but this humanoid can actually bridge the gap of couples that are unable to bring forth a child, but where will that leave adoption?, be a companion or a fun experience for the family. 

The components allows for movement, touching, seeing, hearing, speaking, anything a normal toddler would do.

LINKS Below.
1) http://www.icub.org/

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICub

3) http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=icub&oq=icub&gs_l=youtube.3..0l3j0i10j0j0i10l2j0j0i10l2.115380.118611.0.119094.4.4.0.0.0.0.304.1142.2-3j1.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.kq0XYHUE6HQ

Rock-Paper-Scissors

How fast can you rock-paper-scissors and win every single time?
A robot created by Japanese scientist can do it, with the help of high speed recognition and reaction.
It is able to win every time by focusing on the shape the hand is making and quickly making a move that gives it the victory.

The major aspect here is Sensor Fusion.
Using high speed intelligent robots to help improve human senses, hear more, see more, feel more, smell more, being more accurate, sounds like becoming super humans to me.

However it sounds like its still a long way from perfection due to the words from professor Sethu Vijayakumar, robotics at Edinburgh University, "These robots are really fast at reaction, but there are scenarios where even a millisecond's delay is not acceptable".

What do you think about having super senses?

Learn a little bit more about Sensor Fusion
Click here to follow up more on this technological story

Flying Gimball Robot

The flying gimball robot is made up of two things, a gimball and a robot, simple.

How does it work and what makes it so special that I decided to do a blog about it?

The robot works by remote control or automatic, small propellers keeps airborne and moving, while rudders controls the direction. 

Now traditionally robots are not that versatile, if they encounter an obstacle they tend to shut off or just basically can't get pass the said object, which is a big problem though it seems small. The flying gimball used the physics that a gimbal provides, (click here if you do not know what's a gimbal), The robot fitted with a camera for viewing for course, is at the centre of three rings, when the robot crashes into an object it is not thrown off, nor rotates, it ricochets, why?

The three rings actually absorb rotation I'll say, they spin (rotate) from the collision and keeping the robot in the middle still stable as if nothing ever happened. It's a hit and run.

The creator, Mr.Briod, is combating the versatility that robots do not posses in hopes to aid in situations that is too dangerous and contains many obstacles for a human being to get the task done fast. For example, a search and rescue mission or major hazardous gas leaks.

FOR MORE INFO >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24758935