Smart Vent that regulates heat automatically based on room temprature

Posted on January 8, 2016 by 41629066

The smart vent regulates a rooms temperature by creating a room-zoned system that proactively balances your home’s temperature. Keen Home Smart Vent uses patent-pending technology to make heating and cooling your home simple, affordable, and smart. With multiple faceplate options designed by Tomorrow Lab, the Smart Vent integrates easily and tastefully into your lifestyle and home decor. Simply swap your existing HVAC vent with a Keen Home design, and your home network connects with the...

Osmo Turns Physical Objects Into iPad Games

Posted on January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 by 41629066

Osmo is a gaming system that interacts with the iPad. Osmo tries to turn the time spent with those devices into a more tactical and educational interaction. The platform is still pretty new but you can see the potential of have developers create awesome games based on a child's needs using this hardware. Osmo’s first games are built purely for kids, but it’s easy to see how the platform could inspire a new wave of games for anyone. Osmo (playosmo.com) is a hardware gaming device for ki...

Adidas created a shoe that is literally made out of Trash.

Posted on December 26, 2015 by

German apparel giant Adidas has created a prototype for a sustainable new shoe made almost entirely from recycled garbage pulled from the ocean, the company announced on Monday. The upper shoe is made entirely of yarns and filaments reclaimed from illegal deep-sea gillnets and other ocean waste, while the base is made from sustainable cushioning material. To call ocean pollution a big problem is an understatement. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,...

PIXELIO Transforms Your Smartphone into a 3D Scanning Planetary Arm

Posted on December 23, 2015 by

A new UK-based startup, Smart 3D Company, Ltd., has come out with an innovative and easy-to-use device that, combined with a smartphone, will allow users to scan small objects in 3D, as well as take pictures or shoot 360° time lapse videos. The device is not only useful for photographers or 3D printer users, but also architects, engineers, graphic designers, bloggers and many more. PIXELIO, in combination with free software installed on your smartphone (eg. Autodesk 123D Catch), will allow us...

Aerion Mouse

Posted on December 21, 2015 by

Aerion Mouse is a gesture-driven computer mouse that’s somewhat smaller than traditional mice. It gets placed between the top of any two of the user’s fingers. The user then points the mouse at the display to operate it and, instead of clicking on any buttons, just leans to the left to achieve what a typical left click on a mouse would and leans to the right for a right click. One main benefits to Aerion is that it allows one to keep fingers close to a typing position without having to grab a se...

Chronos – Make any watch smart

Posted on December 3, 2015 by

San Francisco startup Chronos is aiming its new device for people who prefer pretty analog watches to be the things on their wrists but would really like them to have the most basic features of a fitness tracker and a smart device. “We have developed a small, tiny disc that gives you all the very best of today’s wearable tech, but let’s you keep the watch you already wear,” Chronos founder and CEO Mark Nichol said. The metal Chronos disc is designed to resemble watch casing, so that it largely d...

System automatically converts 2-D video to 3-D.

Posted on December 3, 2015 by

Scientists at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have leveraged videogame technology to generate broadcast quality 3D video of soccer and football matches from a 2D source in real time. The resulting video can reportedly be enjoyed with any 3D TV or virtual reality headset, and could lead to much more 3D content becoming available in the near future. When working to full effect, 3D technology can deliver highly immersive user experiences, but the content on these platforms is...

Moox Bike, the first-of-its kind bike and scooter hybrid.

Posted on November 28, 2015 by

With Moox Bike, you can pedal like a traditional bicycle or use the patented platform design to glide and scoot. The Moox Bike begs to be noticed. Its innovative design and striking colors not only make it fun to ride and glide, but turns heads along the way. Its design, construction and architecture provide an extremely comfortable and fluid ride. The Moox Bike is structurally sound with no-fuss. It will last for years with minimal maintenance. Each Moox Bike is individually tested and adheres ...

Smart Tennis Racket.

Posted on November 21, 2015 by

The Babolat Play Pure Drive racket looks like a regular racket on the outside. However, sensors integrated into the handle allow players to have access to a lot of information on power, impact locator, type and number of strokes (forehand, backhand, serve, overhead smash). Babolat's challenge has been to integrate sensors in the handle of the racket without changing the playability or the feel of the racket. The design seamlessly integrates 2 buttons and a USB port inside the butt cap without ch...

Kolibree – The Fun, Intelligent, Beautiful toothbrush.

Posted on November 21, 2015 by

The first smart sonic toothbrush that turns tooth brushing into a game, educates kids, and empowers parents. The Kolibree can tell you if your brushing sessions tend to be as long and thorough as they should be.The Bluetooth-enabled Kolibree is now being replaced with a new model that’s both better and more affordable. The new Kolibree improves upon the original with better Bluetooth connectivity, more precise motion tracking and is cheaper. According to the Paris-based company behind the too...

Power Claw Gloves allow you to feel heat and cold in virtual reality apps.

Posted on November 17, 2015 by

Can you imagine burning your fingertips or feel that ice freezes your hand as you interact with a program of virtual reality? The Mexican company Vivoxie created Power Claw, a pair of gloves with an interface that stimulates the skin and allows the sense of touch in cyber worlds.The device generate the sensation of heat, cold, vibration and roughness of objects that are part of a virtual reality. The gloves are complemented with Oculus Rift glasses. Designed to work with the Oculus Rift virtu...

Tanvas allows you to feel what you see.

Posted on November 12, 2015 by

Tanvas’ surface haptics technology allows you, for the first time, to feel what you see on a touchscreen, the edges of keys, the snap of a toggle switch, the swipe of a turned page or the direction and magnitude of impacts in a game. The company is poised to change the way people interact with touchscreens across essentially every industry, from automotive to education, from retail to medical, from consumer electronics to industrial applications. The technology sends ultrasonic sound waves th...

‘Hackaball’ turns programming into play.

Posted on October 13, 2015 by

A smart and responsive ball that children can program to invent and play games has been created. A team of industrial designers is aiming to turn "programming into play" with a hackable ball that lets kids invent their own games. "Hackaball is a tough, responsive, programmable ball that pairs with an iPad app," explains William Owen, from innovation consultants Inside it is a gyro, an accelerometer, a vibration motor, nine LEDs, a rechargeable battery, some memory and a speaker. That...

‘Osmo Numbers’ Takes the Fear Out Of Figures

Posted on October 1, 2015 by

iPad Game System Osmo wants to make learning math fun. Osmo, the clever educational gadget for iPads, got a new game. Numbers teaches math with special tiles. Aiming to make math fun and engaging, Osmo Numbers offers multiple ways to solve each puzzle and real time feedback. Numbers is an under-the-sea themed game where players have to come up with equations that equal a given integer using physical tiles. If they are successful, a trapped fish is freed from a bubble. As numbers appear ...

Turn your body into a touchscreen interface

Posted on September 14, 2015 by

Skinput, a new technology, listens to the vibrations of your body and turns it into a touching interface. One of the newest invention ideas in interface devices is Skinput which is the product of a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon's Harrison, Desny Tan and Dan Morris of Microsoft Research. Previous attempts at using projected interfaces used motion-tracking to determine where a person taps. Skinput uses a series of sensors to track where a user taps on his arm. It uses a different and no...

Energy Harvesting Soccer Ball

Posted on September 10, 2015 by

New soccer ball, called the sOccet ball, generates enough energy to light up a home. This invention was developed by four students from Harvard University in partnership with the Laboratory at Harvard Think-Tank; it's a soccer ball which they call the sOccet that generates electricity from normal kicking during game play. The ball has a built-in inductive coil that collects kinetic energy. After about 15 minutes of kicking the ball around it will produce enough electricity to charge LED li...

Next generation gaming – Video games coming LIVE into the living room

Posted on January 4, 2015 by 41629066

Anki DRIVE is a first-of-its-kind racing game that lets players use a mobile app to race real battle-equipped toy cars - alone or against friends. Powered by robotics, each car has the ability to steer and battle for itself. Part toy, part video game and all-out high speed family fun. Anki DRIVE is a battle-racing game your whole family can enjoy. The more you play the more powerful your cars become. To get started, roll out the track, pick your car, and download the free app to take control of ...

Dynamic make your own game

Posted on November 15, 2014 by 41629066

Sifteo's Intelligent cubes are self aware cubes that when brought together with other cubes follow collective function. Let your hands and mind play together with a game system built to challenge your spatial reasoning, logic, and creative problem solving skills! From sequences to strategy to mystifying maze games, you'll love stretching your imaginative and critical thinking powers to play! Be inspired by captivating characters, enchanted worlds, and expandable content on your Sifteo Cubes. Co...