The Toyota Collaboration Center has developed a wheelchair that works with a Brain Machine Interface (BMI) that can react to a user’s thought in 125 milliseconds. Toyota hopes that this research will eventually lead to helping rehabilitation patients.
Simplistically described as “mind reading” technology, brain wave analysis is a technology that has been in research [...]
The iPhone Dev-team, a group of hackers who have previously created many unlocking and jailbreaking applications for previous iPhone models, says that the iPhone 3GS jailbreak is ready, but they are waiting the 3GS customer base to reach a critical mass before they unleash the new software. According to them, releasing it too soon would [...]
Created by Swedish company Jolife AB, the LUCAS 2 chest compressor has a simple goal: performing the simple task of pumping the chest to let one paramedic do something that requires more… intelligence. In short, it is like having a third paramedic on the scene.
LUCAS 2 runs on battery and doesn’t require an air supply [...]
Chinese design rip-offs are sometime fascinating to look at because it would be simply impossible to build something like and get away with it in most western countries. Despite resembling a PSP-2000, the Venus JXD300 is only capable of playing Nintendo Gameboy Advance (GBA) and NES games. It can also be used to play a [...]
The news that we’re deep in the economic hole has not reached all departments at Sony apparently: the company is coming up with more expensive laptops in its “luxury” Vaio Signature lineup. Some are actually not that expensive like the VAIO CS390 with a “faux croco” skin ($779+), but the Kaleidoscope Z ups the ante [...]
Mythbusters’ Adam Savage recently visited Canada, where he used his mobile data connection for “a few hours”. The roaming charges invoice came in at $11k. Not surprisingly, Adam Savage is stunned as he claims to have simply browsed the web, without downloading any (large) files. To fight AT&T, he decides to take it to Twitter [...]
Palm Pre owners, there’s a new update for your favorite toy. The version 1.0.4 of webOS will be downloaded soon (12MB) to your devices and you will be asked to approve the installation.
Version 1.0.4 only fixes some security issues. [photo source]
Permalink: WebOS 1.0.4 Update Available from Ubergizmo | Hot: Wii, PS3 and Natal Motion [...]
Update: It appears that this would be the 11.1″ Samsung N510. The specifications are under intense speculation, but the word on the street is that this will be a 1366×768 11.1″ display, an Atom N280 1.66Ghz and only 1GB of memory. On the storage side, a 160GB HDD will be there and the connectivity [...]
This ain’t no Spanish Fly, but is the first Android-powered handset to come out from Spain. Dubbed the GeeksPhone One, this Cupcake-powered smartphone will come with the following :-
625MHz PXA310 core processor
Quadband EDGE/HSDPA
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity
AGPS navigation
3.2-megapixel primary camera
microSD memory card slot
Resistive 3.2″ touchscreen display
Interestingly enough, the GeeksPhone One is tipped to retail [...]
Amazon.co.uk is now offering the HTC Hero up for pre-order, where it has been listed to retail for £429.99 a pop. July 15th is the tentative shipping date, but as with life, nothing is certain so the final date might actually change to a later (what are the chances of it being brought forward, anyways?). [...]
