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We know that mosquitoes can carry evil viruses, and that many think of them as a plague upon the planet, but some of us just don’t want to spray or zap them and eliminate them from whatever life they enjoy. We prefer this chemical-free yet odorous shield that just keeps them up to 15 feet away. The Discovery Mosquito Shield works on a dual cartridge system that can last up to 240 hours. Let’s put a couple of AA batteries (not included) into it, clip it to our belts as the Discovery Store suggests, and see if it will keep away bill collectors. If it does, we call that a bargain for $19.95.
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| Discovery Channel Store
Gallery: Repel Mosquitoes By Odor
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Abduction Lamp Prototype for Both Aliens and Humans
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Smart Home, Misc. Tech, Science,
Designer Lasse Klein has created a prototype Abduction Lamp made of metal and glass. The light source inside the lamp lights up the windows and cone-shaped beam. Lasse originally got the idea when he drove past a lamp shop and saw how light fell from one in the window, resembling a UFO. After returning to the scene of the sighting the next day, he realized it was just a common lighting device that made the image. Now a 3-D model, the designer is hoping to create enough hype to make his idea a workable reality. GE, bring this good thing to light!
Read More | Lasse Klein
Gallery: Abduction Lamp Prototype for Both Aliens and Humans
Re-Mission Aids Young Cancer Victims
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Handhelds, Science, Video Games,
Not-for-profit game developers HopeLab have teamed with Cigna Healthcare to create a video game for cancer patients. Players control Roxxi, a nanobot who travels into the body of one who is stricken with the disease and shoots the bad cells out. Pat Christen, President of the company, says that “Re-Mission” will give young victims a “sense of power and control over their cancer.” The 20 level 3-D shooter is available as a free download or you can order a CD or DVD at no charge. HopeLab’s next project will be to tackle the problem of child obesity.
Read More | HopeLab via Information Week
Gallery: Re-Mission Aids Young Cancer Victims
Hanuri Mini-Bot To the Rescue
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Misc. Tech, Science, Wireless / WiFi,
Hanool Robotics’ latest venture is its Hanuri-RT Rescue Robot, designed to assist in nabbing injured people or explosive devices from the clutches of our enemies or battlefields. Similar to ASI’s Chaos, the robot is remote controlled and can go up and down inclines such as hills or stairs to do its dirty work. Contact Hanool for the robot’s price and future availability. We were just wondering what the reception would be if the bot was caught in the act of playing superhero.
Read More | Aving
Gallery: Hanuri Mini-Bot To the Rescue
Researchers at Osaka University have developed the CB-2 which moves, responds, and even feels like a small child between the ages of 1 and 2. Approximately 130 cm long (~51-inches) and weighing about 33 kg (~ 73 lbs.,), it moves by pneumatics in 56 areas, has 197 tactual sensors, and a skin made of silicone. Eventually they are hoping to teach the bot the ability to walk and talk. We found this demo of it that we must admit slightly creeped us out. Remember The Dancing Baby?
Read More | Pink Tentacle
Gallery: CB-2 Almost Too Lifelike
Stop The Building, We Want to Get Off
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Misc. Tech, Science,
Several buildings are going to be constructed based on the style of Dynamic Architecture. First created by Florentine architect David Fisher, each one is to be built around a central core, with each rotating floor pre-built with pie-wedged sections which are then hoisted upon it. The first edifice is to be built in Dubai. Wind turbines between floors provide electricity with additional green efficiency coming from solar power on the top of each level. Because of the way the building is constructed, it takes less workers on the site. We are thinking that it’s difficult enough to sit in a rotating restaurant on top of a skyscraper, much less having to spin around for the rest of our workday.
Read More | Live Science
Gallery: Stop The Building, We Want to Get Off
Dualis Power Suit Descends on Tokyo
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Misc. Tech, Science, Transportation,
Nissan has created a Dualis Power Suit based on its SUV car of the same name. Dreamed up by anime creator/designer Shoji Kawamori, the 11 foot-plus bot has already been featured on talk shows in Japan. It will be hanging out at various locations in Tokyo through mid-June and at the Sony building in Ginza towards the end of July. Here it is at a gas station. Tell me, why aren’t these people paying attention?
Read More | Pink Tentacle
Gallery: Dualis Power Suit Descends on Tokyo
The New Zealand dairy industry is working on a plan to produce skim milk without processing. Scientists have discovered some rogue cows with genes that give them the natural ability to produce the low-fat milk and intend on breeding herds of the animals.
Researchers from the biotech company ViaLactia also discovered a cow whose butter is spreadable right from the fridge and plan to isolate genes and develop a herd by the year 2011. While we appreciate how wonderful it might for our bodies to have milk that may contain less fat for us, we pity the poor creatures that may have to go through some poking and prodding in the years to come.
Read More | gizmag
Gallery: New Zealand Cattle Produce Skim Milk
Sony Unveils Bendable Screens
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smartphones, Corporate News, Design, Misc. Tech, Portable Audio / Video, Science,
Sony is once again the forerunner of innovative technology. This time they have come up with a 2.5-inch display for cell phones and other handheld gadgets that is only .01-inch thick and bendable. Still in development, researchers are trying to make it larger. The screen is a combination of the company’s organic thin film transistor, which creates the flexible display, and an organic electroluminescent display. Other companies, such as LG Phillips and Seiko Epson are also working on “electronic Paper” technology.
“In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person’s wrist, even worn as clothing,” said Sony spokesperson Chisato Kitsukawa. “Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper.”
Perhaps, but most of us would rather have our current products work from Sony than worry about wearing a TV screen on our elbow.
Read More | CNN
Gallery: Sony Unveils Bendable Screens
Former Smithsonian Official Says Exhibition Soft Soaped
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Editorial, Internet, Science,
A former official at The Smithsonian claims that the Institution has toned down a climate change exhibition of the Arctic so that they will not irritate the Bush administration and Congress. Robert Sullivan, a former associate director of the Natural History Museum, claims that the script of “Arctic: A Friend Acting Strangely,” has been rewritten to interject more uncertainty of the effect that global warming may have on humans.
Also included in the alteration were scientists’ interpretations of some research and graphs that now “show that global warming could go either way,” Sullivan said. Although the exhibition closed in November, you can still see it online. We had a bit of a problem in trying to navigate to the site in question, but managed to find a last line of a report that may back up Mr. Sullivan’s statement.
“The climate system represents a complex network of linked processes that help to both moderate and accelerate large-scale change, so it is difficult to predict the effect on living systems and particularly the rates of change that may occur over the near future.”
Current officials at the Smithsonian deny Sullivan’s allegations.
Read More | ABC News
