The Folding USB Solar Cell Solution for Mobile Device Power
Every hiker knows that the gear they pack into the backcountry needs to be light and compact and with the Folding USB Solar Cell from Brown Dog Gadgets, they have a portable charging solution to keep their devices powered up. The Folding USB Solar Cell uses a three-panel design on black canvas fabric making it light and small enough to take anywhere. Any device that charges with a USB cable can be attached to the panels for charging while you hike to your camp or bike around town. The Folding USB Solar Cell gives you five volts of [...]
Point and Click in 3D Space with the Wearable Mycestro Mouse
The way we interact with technology is always evolving. Mycestro flips the way we think about using a computer mouse letting users put the mouse on their finger for true point and click finger mouse interactions. Mycestro is a finger mouse designed to clip to your index finger and controls cursor movements using Bluetooth communications with your system. Using Mycestro, users can type on their keyboard and when they need cursor control, simply touch their thumb anywhere on the panel. The panel has a three-button design with left, middle and right buttons and allows users to scroll by [...]
Scan Small Objects for Replication with the Photon 3D Scanner
Three-dimensional printers are great for printing objects but if you want to duplicate an object, you need a way to scan it. The Photon 3D Scanner is a light, portable and affordable solution to personal three-dimensional scanning applications. The Photon 3D Scanner is designed to be a scanner for anyone and can scan objects up to seven and a half inches in diameter and almost ten inches in height. Users simply place the object they want to scan on the platform and start the scan with one click. The Photon rotates the object with dual stepper motors on [...]
Swipe Your Hand and Scan Using the IRIScan Mouse
Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) When you just need to scan something quick, the IRIScan mouse scanner puts a scanner right in the palm of your hand without having to figure out or find a scanner. The IRIScan mouse scanner works like any other mouse with the added benefit of a built-in 300 dpi scanner. It can scan any document, image or even newspaper up to A3 in size and the scan instantly shows up on your monitor. Once you have scanned your material, the software lets you [...]
The MakerBot Replicator 2 and 2X for Prosumer 3D Printing
Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) The 3D printing market offers consumers a growing number of choices for home and office fabrication, and, like any growing market, there is a prosumer line for designers that want more. MakerBot has been meeting that demand since 2009. The MakerBot Replicator 2 and 2X prosumer line of additive printing machines allows designers to take their models to the next level. The Replicator 2 is a single extrusion printer that uses PLA filament to create models in one color. It uses an acrylic [...]
The SOCCKET Ball Generator Turns Gameplay into Power
Real World needs like just having a light at night are getting the boot with a new product from Uncharted Play. The SOCCKET ball is a game-changer giving areas of the world a smart solution to a simple need. SOCCKET is a kinetic energy harvesting and storage system wrapped up in a soccer ball form factor. It works internally by capturing the motion of a pendulum that moves as the ball kicked, rolled and bounced. The energy is stored in a rechargeable battery, and when playtime is over, the SOCCKET can produce a six-watt output; enough to power [...]
Jedi Motion Control with the MYO Armband
Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) The MYO Armband from Thalmic Labs will be released later this year and you can pre-order one now for 149 bucks. So why is this product being marketed as, "unleash your inner Jedi?" Using the MYO Armband might have you believing. The MYO Armband is a gesture control device that you wear on your forearm. Unlike traditional motion control, this device does not use a camera-based feedback system to identify motion. What it reads is the electrical currents being sent to your muscles [...]
The 3Doodler is a Pen Inspired 3D Printer
Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) 3D printers can be a lot of fun, but unless you have a technical understanding of often-complex modeling software, you are restricted to templates you can only load and print. If only it were as easy as picking up a pen and drawing in 3D space with some kind of 3D pen printer. That's the thinking behind the 3Doodler 3D pen printer. It works like any additive printer, material is fed into the device, and it is heated to a melting point and [...]
Your Next NVIDIA GTX Titan Supercomputer Gaming Rig
Gamers like me are always looking to improve the quality of our game-play and a big factor is graphics quality. When we build our rigs, we have visions of our own supercomputer, like the Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. NVIDIA has a new offering that bears the same name, the recently released GeForce GTX Titan GPU. This thing's a beast. It goes to eleven! The PCI Express 3.0 card is based on the fast and efficient high performance computing Kepler architecture that lets you crank the settings on any game to maximum frame rates with 288 GB/s [...]