What is usually abused for factory work and amusing hijinks, a team of researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have turned a KUKA KR 500 robotic arm into a Formula 1 simulator ride, with the help of some force-feedback steering wheel, pedals, video projector, and curved screens. The CyberMotion Simulator lets scientists ride a virtual Ferrari F2007 in a virtual race track, cooler than your home Logitech Momo Steering Wheel. The cockpit is capable to whip out up to 2 Nm of G-Force. Read more…
What we have here, is something that would only appear in Terminator’s movie. This is The Ostoure concept by designer Mohammad Reza Shojaie. He might be working for Skynet, who knows. Read more…
Last week, PC Pro gave out a reader challenge to see whose rig could render a 3D graphics benchmark the quickest. Well what was supposed to be a simpleton challenge for the casual blocks turned out to be some feast.
Well such enthusiastic challenge surely would run very far, as Intel engineers caught wind of it, and took up the challenge themselves. Their entry turned out to be the winner of kush, courtesy of Intel’s overclock nuthead Steve ‘DaFridgie’ Anderson.His rig was overclocked to nearly 5GHz and cooled to -40 degrees Celsius. Read more…
RIM has somehow come in terms with the government of Saudi Arabia regarding the ban on BlackBerry services in the country. Saudi Arabia was about to ban the BlackBerry Service and some other Internet related features of the BlackBerry smartphones due to security reasons, given that they are worried terrorists would coordinate their activities through the means of RIM’s services which wasn’t monitored by the government. Read more…
Ever since the iPhone embrace the world, there have been gazillion of accessories designed uniquely for it. Speakers, bumpers, cases, bags, mics, DSLR lens. You name it, they have it. Here’s Karvt’s latest skins for your iPhone 4, and its theme is obviously wood. Not just ordinary skins, these are real wood panels. They even come with multiple options for you. Pine, cherry, bamboo, maple, walnut. $25 for a wooden iPhone 4. Not bad actually…
The new BlackBerry flammable phone has been put through one of the more important ceremonies of acceptance into the smartphone world: a teardown. Very typical actually, and also seemed to be a ‘MUST’ for all the new smartphones that is about to engrave the world. The CrackBerry crew have disassembled a Torch to see what makes it burn and smoke, and produced some glamor shots of naked hardware for us to gawp and stare at in the process. As you can see by the exploded shot of the phone above, most internals are either integrated or soldered down, but this undressing does afford us an opportunity to take a look at the biggest novelty in this new BlackBerry, namely its slider mechanism. It’s impressively thin, rated for 150,000+ cycles. Head over and watch the video below to see it for yourself.
When your lifetime investment of that ‘oh-so-hopeful-instantly-rich’ weekly lottery didn’t actually harvest any retirement funds for you, you can still sought for optimistic ending in some method, such as this Hummer. But sadly, this Hummer won’t be able to bring you to the beach when you’re in your sixty. In fact, it will burn itself in the next summer, or when the kids come the next round.
Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom from the Rhode Island School of Design gathered together thousands of dollars worth of tickets and created amazing sculptures of what the money could’ve actually been spent on. Instead of hoping to win enough money for a lavish holiday or car, gamblers could’ve bought the real thing with the money invested in their hobbies. So, this is yet another proof that you should ‘eco’ for the real thing, instead of trusting on those ‘scam-licious’ lotteries. Read more…
This would surely be seen coming straight up. Previously we’ve seen FaceTime that might be coming in email. And it seemed that Apple’s upcoming iOS 4.1 will have this feature in it. That means we can expect the upcoming iPod Touch to come with iOS 4.1 as default too, in order to have FaceTime running on the front-camera enabled Touch.
3D videos and movies have been on a raging charge lately, but when fourth dimension (4D) came into play, nobody really knows how it actually looks like, what’s more when we need to comprehend it. Don Whitaker has put his imagination onto the line, and created what he think is the fourth dimensional video. Sadly… my mind can’t compute what I just saw in the video above. Read more…
I thought that back then BB-guns were pretty dangerous stuff already. But this, this really amaze me at how home-made lethal weapons can be so dangerous. Can you actually kill someone with this? Well all I know is, I won’t want this guy to be my housemate! Checkout the things killed for this video: smirnoff, glass bottles, fluorescent lights, computer monitors, and another balloon—but filled with gasoline. Damn, that Heineken got wasted!
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