Archive : Technology

  Genius Mouse DX-BlueEye ECO Genius Mouse DX-BlueEye ECO is the world’s first wireless mouse without batteries for PC & Mac users. No battery? Yes, the secret is the use the of the built-in capacitor (gold capacitor) that replace the battery and can be used up to 100,000 times refill. According to Genius, all we need simply refill it for 3 minutes then the mouse can be used for a full day. With Genius Mouse DX-BlueEye ECO,...

Intel and Micron’s joint venture IMFT has announced that it has produced a 128Gb die. A package combining eight such dies together would be small enough to fit on a fingertip and boast an unprecedented 128GB capacity. Mass production will start in the first half of next year, and devices using the new dies are likely to start shipping in 2013. IMFT also announced that it had started mass production of a 64Gb 20nm die. This part...

A Honduran teenager has an eye tracker : A $300 open-source kit meant for people with disabilities. It’s called the Eyeboard. Recent high school grad Luis Cruz, 18, started out tinkering with video game technology, and says he designed the Eyeboard to help people communicate using eye movements. It is based on electrooculography, which takes advantage of the eyes’ electrical potential. The eye acts as a dipole, with the cornea...

A collaboration of researchers from HRL, CalTech, and UC Irvine have created the new world’s lightest material–some 100 times lighter than styrofoam. It’s even lighter than aerogel, one of our favorite ultralight materials. The material is a micro-lattice in structure, with the 0.01 percent of the material that’s solid consisting of hollow tubes that are only 100 nanometers thick. It’s rated at a density...

A new household servant robot made by the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial ‘bots can help people with disabilities or limited mobility move things around. It’s controlled via Kinect, with the robot aping the Kinect user’s body gestures. Yaskawa Electric wants its SmartPal VII to live in the homes of elderly people, where it can assist with everyday clutter maintenance and a host of other tasks. It has a head-mounted...