CES 2009: Logitech Unveils New Gaming Products

If you were excited with all the gaming products exhibited at the CES 2009, Logitech has treated gaming fans with the new G Series Peripherals, which allows gamers to have total control while playing. These G-Series gadgets come with high precision, performance, and customization. The gear includes the G19 keyboard, G35 Surround sound handset, and a G9 laser mouse.
These accessories provide gamers with everything they need, 7.1 channel surround sound, 5000 dpi laser keys, and a sleek design. The keyboard shall cost $199.99, the headset would cost $129.99, and the mouse will be available for $99.99. All these products should be available in the US by March. Looks like the CES 2009 has many goodies in store for gamers.
Keep a watch on this blog, for we shall feature continuously all the products that could be featured and would be exhibited at the CES 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada. Logitech’s gaming gear comes with extreme technology and engineering that has already astonished many people and will continue to amaze all the gamers. I would say, we need more companies like this so that gamers get the real deal and not some pansy looking accessories.
Via: BusinessWire/LikeCool

Motoman SDA10 Cooks its Way to the Kitchen

Robots are among the man’s fascinating creations which have made life easier and simpler for us. After proving their expertise on the industrial front, these amazing machines are now leaping towards the kitchen. Yaskawa Electric Corporation’s new-generation dexterous dual-arm industrial robot Motoman SDA10 was shown off at the latest International Next-Generation Robot Fair in Osaka for its skill in cooking okonomiyaki.

Measuring 4.5ft tall and 220 kg, the futuristic robot was designed to operate neck to neck with man in workplace. SDA10 has 15 joints in entirety, 7 in each arm and one in the torso. The joints enable it with wide range of movement useful for any job. The robot can proficiently assemble a disposable camera from two dozen parts in just 2 minutes. Not only this, it can turn into a chef and based on speech recognition technology, it takes your orders, prepares the okonomiyaki batter using utensils, then pours it on the iron grill, makes it into a pancake-like disc, tosses it like a professional and then applies condiments before serving it hot.
I sense that very soon in the future, we might see robots managing the kitchen not only in homes, but also hotels across the world.

Source: Pink Tentacle

Virtual Games Now A Reality For The Disabled

COGAIN, which is a European Union funded organization recently launched a state of the art software, that would enable users with severe motor disabilities to use the internet and other programs, with just a look of their eyes. This innovative technology that is known as the gaming-with-gaze software open up new avenues for the disabled, previously unperceived. Highly successful games such as, Second Life and World of Warcraft that employ this technology, will now be available to the the disabled users.

Patients suffering from life altering illness like, cerebral palsy, motor neurone disease (MND) or locked-in syndromes will now have an entire world right in front of them explore, with the help of their gaze and eye-tracking technology. This in turn, would be a “truly liberating experience”, according to Howell Istance, who helped develop the gaming-with-gaze software.

ero Blue Robot: A Silly Robot that Can Spoon Feed You!

I wonder where the world is leading these days! There is a robot that can literally feed you by picking up your food and putting it into your mouth. The robot is named “Aero-Blue robot”. It’s a personalized robot specially designed to feed its master. This robot can literally spoon feed you just the way your mother or nanny used to do for you while you were a small baby.
The robot is smart enough to perform certain activities including spoon feeding you. It can handle delicate objects like the eggs and. This is the heights of laziness. This is total nonsense and you do not require it unless you have movement problems. Aero Blue robot will make not only make you lazier but also inactive over a due course of time if you get used to feeding by it.
I wonder why this silly robot was ever designed. Who is anyways interested in getting spoon fed when you are already too old? There is no information announced with regard to it availability date and the cost of it. It might be expensive though considering it’s a robot. I really hope this was not designed at all.

Via: TechChee

MyDeskFriend: A Cool Robot for Your Desk from Arimaz

If you ever wished to have a robot as your companion at your work place right on your desk, then your wish may just come true. Recently, we came across a demo of a prototype of a cute penguin robot that was shown by Pierre Bureau, the founder and CEO of Arimaz in Switzerland. The robot is named as “MyDeskFriend” and it will be sold at $99 beginning from September.
The robot comes with various smart features like a docking station, which is hooked to the PC. The most interesting feature of the robot is that you can interact with it in many ways. It does the job of following your finger and detects the edges of your desk thereby helping it not fall off your desk. With the help of its accelerometer, it can sense when it’s being touched or shaken. Besides the five infrared sensors, the robot also changes its color depending on its mood. For example, if you shake it too much, its eyes turn red suggesting that it is in a bad mood.
Another interesting feature of the robot is that it can get connected to your Facebook profile and there you can see if it’s hungry, tired or needs exercise. If it’s hungry, you can feed a cookie. It can also read the weather forecast, news and messages from your friends. It can also memorize 10-15 words of your choice and also follow voice commands. Surely, this robot will prove to be one amazing companion, and i can’t wait for September to arrive.
Via: Botropolis\Getrobo

A Tiny Mouse That Weighs Less Than 2 Grams

Mouse can never be a joy to use especially when they are heavy and huge to use. If you wanted a mouse that was thin and weightless, and if you had been looking for weird gadgets and landed up at some antique shop, don’t blame us, for we now bring to you the smallest mouse ever, or so they claim. This mouse comes with a wireless dongle and is just 19mm long, 14mm broad and 6mm tall.
The mouse also weighs just 1.8g. This mouse comes with a good resolution of 1600dps and also uses 2.4GHz. You can go ahead and connect it to PC or MAC. In my opinion, this mouse would be best suited for laptop users as it is small, portable, wireless and also weightless.
If you are interested in buying the smallest mouse ever seen, you can do so for $63. I wish it also came with Bluetooth technology and perhaps LED lights? Well, I’m just being greedy. Nevertheless, this mouse has to be one of the coolest computer accessories or hardware I ever saw, online or offline.

Freeloader Solar Charger Helps You Charge Gadgets for Free

So you always thought you are a freeloader and you managed to gatecrash any party? Well, if you are still paying for the electricity bills and also for charging your gadgets, you are not quite a freeloader yet. In order to be the best freeloader ever, you should try getting the FreeLoader Portable Solar Charger.
It has the ability to receive power from the sun and store it so that you can charge your gadgets while on the move. You can charge almost all your portable gadgets with this freeloading device. It can also store battery charges for about 3 months, which means even during the dark and gloomy days of winter you could use this little thing.
It is quite sturdy and is resistant to impact. This awesome gadget can power your PSP for 2.5 hours, a mobile phone for 44 hours and many other gadgets like that. It costs $50 and is compatible with many devices.

All New Energizer Battery Charger Packs For Portable Devices.

One of the leading battery makers in the world, Energizer has collaborated with XPAL Power to take its ‘Energi to Go’ battery packs to an all new level. The new line of battery packs charge a variety of portable devices including laptops.

This all new line includes Apple iPhone 3G/3GS charger, solar chargers and even lithium ion chargers that are capable of charging notebooks and laptop computers.

Almost every Energizer portable battery charger pack comes with a long list of mobile phone tips for various makes and models. This list will constantly be updated on the Energizer and XPAL Power websites, with the launch of new cell phone models.
As of now, most of these portable battery packs are being launched under the XPAL name and logo, but new products are expected to have the more reliable Energizer logo.

Fisk: Breakproof, Nose-Adjust Sun Glasses

The other important feature of these glasses, is that they have a Global Fit adjustable nose bridge. It means they can be adjusted to suit face types from across the world. There is soft low porosity silicon over structural nylon, adjustable to your nose if it is slightly different. It also has Ratchet Hinge, which is made of surgical stainless steel and built with a metal injection molding process to give it that unbreakable quality.
The hinge is integrated into the face frame in the front and screwed directly into the temple into the rear. But the Global Fit adjustable nose rest is what is attractive really. It has two stainless steel pins with unusual heads that are fixed into the frame. As the pins are turned, the angle of the bridge turns in or out for a fit-to-face feel. They have been designed by Jeff Sand.
Via: Yanko Design

3 in 1 Mouse Pad: Daft and handy for numeric needs

The 3 in 1 Mouse Pad may not be much for those who spend all their time on the net or are engrossed in blogging about stuff all the time, but it sure as hell makes sense for those who need nothing more than the numbers to carry on with their business; in other words, here is a great utility gadget for all the number nerds. The 3 in 1 Mouse Pad has a built in numeric keypad, plus a 3 port USB 2.0 hub, a hard pad for the mouse, along with the mouse itself and is priced at nothing beyond $29. This makes it not only a cheap buy, but something that is immensely useful when you are stuck with numbers.

The fact that you have 3 USB hubs ensures that you can connect multiple outlets or inlets making your life a lot easier and its compact size of just 325×210x28 mm makes it ideal for commercial use as well. So, if you need numbers to dance at your fingertips, this might be the easiest way forward!

Freewill Urban by Jinn Wong: Collapsible Trike

inn Wong has been worrying about the transportation rituals of people who are used to commuting long distances but still tend to harm the environment when travelling between two types of public transportation. The absence of a personal eco-friendly vehicle and long distances prompt people who travel by public transport to choose a taxi, etc.
Freewill Urban is a transportation concept designed by Wong as a commuting assistant from the train station to the next station or the final destination. This trike is powered by duo motors that control the two major wheels individually. Charged electronically, the scooter can be recharged between stations and is thus eco-friendly as being run without the use of a gas-emitting fuel. The project upon which the design is based is intends to encourage more people to travel via public transport, thereby reducing the use of non-renewable energy sources and their harmful effects upon the environment.
The use of Freewill Urban in transit would also be easy for the reason that the trike is collapsible and easy to carry. It includes space for a briefcase or laptop bag, something that professional would rarely step out of their homes without.

Via: Coroflot

Monome Lets You Compose Music On The Go

If you thought Yamaha’s Tenori-On was the ultimate in making digital music, well it has a competitor already. The Monome comes with backlit keypads which light up elegantly when you are playing notes. Music lovers and composers would find the gadget amazingly cool for it lets you know which note you are exactly hitting on.
You could connect the Monome through a USB and the gadget comes in three different versions of 256 buttons, 128 buttons, and 64 buttons. Each would cost $1,400, $800 and $450 depending on the number of buttons respectively.
The gadget is small and handy and could be carried wherever you want. In fact when you get the inspiration to compose music while shopping, you could do so! Music lovers will definitely love the Monome and it might set a new stage for gadgets that deal with composing new music.
Via: UberGizmo

Philips Luxe MP3 Player: Answer Your Phone Calls on this

Our cell phones have almost everything we need in it for our daily sustenance and something that every phone should have these days is a cool MP3 player. We cannot live without our daily dosage of cool music, after all.
And yet, now and then, we put our cell phone down to reach towards an MP3 player because of how superbly it is designed and for innovation possibilities it offers us. The new Philips Luxe MP3 player also doubles up as a headset for your cell phone. Working on Bluetooth 2.1, the headset stays connected to your phone so that calls to your phone can be answered on the headset. This allows you the freedom to listen to music on your snazzy player without worrying about missing an important call. It would also ensure that you save the battery on your phone because you wouldn’t be constantly playing music on it.
The Luxe MP3 player has an FM tuner and also lets you view the caller number through a strip of LCD. With 2GB of memory, the player can keep running for 10hrs on a single charge. The Philip Luxe will be available for $94 when in launches in Singapore next month.
Via: PMPToday

Rolling Stone Prefab Capsule: Eco Friendly And Elegant

Competitions are usually a great way to foster the budding talents of creative designers and the entries of any competition would show you the unbelievable talents of a number of individuals. The Andes Sprouts Society held a designing challenge with the theme ‘Small is Beautiful’ and this is one of its entries.
The Rolling Stones travelling capsule was designed by Slovakia based Nice Architects. The aerodynamic capsule is extremely eco friendly, built from environmentally friendly materials. The Rolling Stones capsule takes its inspiration from gypsy wagons though these look aesthetically much better than wooden wagons common amongst gypsies. The capsule is designed to be towed behind a vehicle and houses a compact living structure. The compact structure can be opened up or expanded to create an open air space when it is not in transit. The outer wall of the Rolling Stone is made from recycled aluminium can tiles.
A wind turbine or solar panel on top of the Rolling Stone ensures it produces its own energy. Housed comfortably for two, it allows a maximum capacity of six people. The Rolling Stone is also self-sufficient in terms of water use.

Via: Inhabitat

The Chairman is an Awesome cellphone by Ulysse Nardin

Ulysse Nardin have created a cellphone called The Chairman which works on the basis of hybrid technology. It comes with touchscreen technology and also top of the range watch technology. It comes with a built in battery which in turn is charged by the rotary’s kinetic energy.
The cell phone is extremely luxurious even to look at and the design is quite outlandish. The phone comes with Wi-fi, 5 megapixel camera, 2.8 inch screen, and many other specs which would make you envious of those who have loads of money.

There is no information yet about the release dates or even the price of the phone. Nevertheless, when the phone is released, everyone would shower praises on Ulysse Nardin, as he has designed one of the most chic cell phones ever to have graced geek world. In fact, it is too good for geeks. Nevertheless, when it is released, dont miss the chance to get it.
Via: Reevoo

Water Building Resort Converts Air into Water

With the help of the Teex Micron equipment, Water Building resort will become the world’s first building to ever convert air into water with the help of solar power. This would help future buildings to come to terms with water shortage and magically create water from thin air.

Humid air would be converted into cool and clean drinking water thanks to the latticed design and a facade which is made of photovoltaic glass. The resort would come with Restaurants, gyms, exhibition halls, hotel and conference rooms, and spa services.

The whole of the resort is based on conserving energy and water. It would also come with a salt water or sea water treating facility which would help one to purify saline water for it to be used. There would also be an underwater aquarium for the entertainment purpose of the guests. i am sure you would love to visit the eco-friendly resort.
Via: Inhabitat

Robotic Fish Developed By Brit Scientists

British scientists have decided that they cannot spend time attaching tracking devices and cameras on fish, leaving instruments submerged in water or swimming around trying to collect. They have decided that the best information would be gained by the man-made fish population.
A robotic fish developed by the scientists will be released into the sea off the coast of North Spain. The 1.5 metre (5 feet) robotic fish is set to be left into rivers and lakes to detect hazardous pollutants in the water released from underwater pipelines. The robotic fish, which looks quite life like, can imitate the movements of fish and have chemical sensors which can detect pollutants. The information picked up by the fish would then be sent to the scientists via Wi-Fi technology.
The $29,000 robotic fish is extremely energy efficient, according to the team of scientists, and can travel underwater for hours on end. However, it is not yet know how the fish is being powered. Independently moving and not manipulated by remote, the robotic fish is undergoing testing and, if successful, more of these will be released into the Spanish waters.
Via: Online Breaking News

Paul Hoc: World’s First Robotic Artist

For centuries, humans have prided themselves on being the only species to create art. Even though the most beautiful creations are those offered by nature, humans claim to be the best because artistic creation is not inherent in us.
With the advent of technology, humans have tried hard to hold on to the idea that only they can create art. Every day, though, we hear of technology taking over from us. Simulators and robotics are stepping up to walk in the footsteps of humans. Paul Hoc has a most human name, and the talent that he exhibits is almost as human. This artistic robot was designed by Objetgraphik for the 2008 Saint Etienne International Design Biennial. Paul Hoc moves over the canvas creating geometric designs with the precision only a machine can offer.
Paul Hoc looks like a small truck, quite delicate in appearance. However, his robotic arm holding a felt pen does not falter as he creates design after design. It is best to let the video tell you more about the world’s first robotic artist.
Via: ObjetGraphik

ROBOTIC CHAIR

Robotic technology has come a long way from being something zany found only in science fiction novels to something that has become a part and parcel of everyday life. Now, the technology seems to have entered the sphere of office furniture and combines ergonomic science with good old robotic technology. The Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd has developed the ‘Leopard’ in collaboration with Okamura Corp. The Leopard is a concept chair that works on robotic technology wherein the seat area is analogous to a robot’s lap.
The developer’s claim that the experience of sitting on this chair is akin to being held in someone’s arms. The seating surface moves along with the occupant and makes the occupant believe he is being held comfortably. The Robot Leg technology, which is being used in this chair, has been created based on human hip bones, muscle and other bone structures which would behave as naturally as human bones and muscles would.
The Leopard is mounted on springs and can even jump, if the occupant desires so. The product is still being developed and a commercial launch can be expected in May 2009. However, the present chair can only accommodate a person who weighs between 55 and 60 kilos.
Via: Techon

HAL or Hybrid Assistive limb

A Japanese Company Cyberdyne is coming whit the world latest technology of robot. It is very interested to know that really it is very interesting device because it helps to disable people, we can know it the name of this device, HAL or Hybrid Assistive limb, it is a very unimaginative robotic suit for all robotic fans who are waiting for something special in this robotic field. This unimaginative robotic suit is very helpful for all disable and elderly people because it has the quality of reading brain signal and has far reaching benefits. This technology is the latest technology for the robotic field and it based on the computerized technology which has come with sensors device. In this robotic suit, reads brain signal and directs limb movement always comes through the skin which helps to disable and elderly people for moving around. It is very easy to use for them because it is worn as a belt around the waist and operated by a22 pound battery.
The Japanese company has come with this product of the cost of $1,500 for a monthly rental fee. Why we are saying so much about this interesting product because it really works so well how, first it has a sensor whish help for capture the brain signal and it goes thorough mechanical legs braces strapped to the thighs and knees. Which then provide robotic help to disable people where they want to move any where? Really this product are very useful and it will be very useful and helpful for medical line where a lot of disable people who can not do any thing whit out any help so Japanese are really such a god for them who are bringing this helpful robotic suit.

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