Category Archive: gadget

Aug
30

Inkling by Wacom

This looks very, very cool. The biggest problem with this kind of tech before was that you needed special paper (with small grids, or dots) to have it work with your computer. This doesn’t. It lets you import your drawing as vectors, with layers, using regular paper.

Jul
28

A Robot That Flies Like a Bird

Apr
12

Flip Camera: RIP

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Cisco has axed the Flip camera, and is laying off 550 employees.

Dec
03

Metropolis 2

Oct
27

Universal Robot Gripper – Made with Coffee and a Balloon

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Sometimes the simplest things work the best. Researchers at Cornell, University of Chicago and iRobot (the Roomba folks) have created a robot gripper that is made with ground coffee and a latex balloon. Basically, they vacuum air out of the coffee filled balloon and the structure inside becomes rigid. Let air in, and the structure …

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Aug
27

Flexible e-paper in production

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LG is putting 9.7-inch color and 19-inch flexible e-paper displays into production. Could this be what the future of digital books really is? It seems a little odd to me that it would be in a multi-page format, rather than a single page that changes. I thought at first it might be interesting to have …

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Apr
29

Steve Jobs Talks about Flash

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If you’d like to read why Apple is not supporting Flash on iPhone, iPod and iPad, you should read Steve Jobs himself has to say about it. He’s posted a note on Apple’s website, “Thoughts on Flash”.

Mar
04

America’s Test Kitchen – Let’s Get Cooking For Nintendo DS

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Now, what I first hear about America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking, I thought that it was just another one of those cooking games like Cooking Mama which frankly would have been crazy. I mean, can you see a little Christopher Kimball running around taste testing things, or explaining beef cuts in a video game? …

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Feb
17

Deep Fried Foods – Without the Fryer

A Purdue University researcher is working on an oven that can deep fry foods without an oil fryer.

Feb
15

Damaged iFrog iPhone Case

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That chip in the case of my iFrog case I bought at the AT&T store appeared not to long after getting the case. The same thing happened to my wife’s case. I’m very disappointed in the quality. I brought a Casecrown case, same color, and so far I’ve been happy with it. I won’t be …

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