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The MakerBot Digitizer Desktop Scanner Copies Your World

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) To get a jump on your next professional design or to make a copy of a physical object, scanning the object is much easier and quicker than redesigning a CAD file. The MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner and software package will save time, scanning small objects in about twelve minutes. The MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner is a compact 3D tool you can use to create digital design files of existing physical objects. The device uses a turntable that will allow users to scan objects that fit in the eight-inch diameter and eight inch tall [...]

Shockingly Alert Gameplay with the Foc.us Headset

If you enjoy gaming like twitch shooters that require you to be focused and on your game all the time, the Foc.us gaming headset might be your shocking scientific alternative to energy drinks. The Foc.us headset uses transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to send electricity into your frontal lobe making your synapses fire faster. It is like over-clocking your brain. Gamers place the headset so that the electrodes are positioned above the prefrontal cortex and then set the stimulation level. The device has a default setting of one milliamp for ten minutes with a startup crescendo to ease you into your session. Gamers can adjust the amount of juice through the [...]

Muscle Memory Basketball Training with the EVO ONE

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Improving your game takes practice and even if you are out there every day, you might be reinforcing bad habits. EVO ONE is a sensorized basketball training tool that uses technology to redefine your shooting skills and eventually improve your game. EVO ONE is a personal trainer and coaching basketball training tool you can take anywhere that provides immediate audible feedback to the player when shooting the ball. Using a sensor unit inserted into the ball behind a rubber cap, every shot is analyzed for proper release and when optimal rotation is achieved, a tone [...]

iDoorCam is a Door Peephole for This Century

If you have ever wondered who is at your house or office door when you are not around, the iDoorCam is a smart doorbell that turns your smart phone into an intercom system. iDoorCam is a combination doorbell, camera and intercom system that uses a smartphone app to see who is at your door. Installing is as easy as hooking up a new doorbell using your existing doorbell wiring to power the device and then connecting it to your home Wi-Fi network. When someone comes to the door and presses the button, a video and audio feed is activated and a push notification is sent to the mobile app allowing [...]

SAMS Shark Attack Mitigation Suits are Camo for the Ocean

To understand why a shark attacks, you first have to understand what a shark sees. Shark Attack Mitigation technology or, "SAMS" Technology, uses cryptic and disruptive coloring on a wetsuit to make swimmers, surfers, divers or anyone enjoying the ocean virtually invisible to a shark. SAMS Technology was developed by Shark Mitigation Systems of Perth, Australia to protect people in two ways: cryptic and warning coloration. The cryptic pattern uses color to conceal, disguise and to disrupt the shape of the wearer making them less visible to a shark. By studying the eye of a shark, the warning wetsuit is designed to optimize the spacing and contrast of stripes making [...]

HOLHO Holographic Projection Systems for Smart Devices

The ability to turn your smart phone or tablet into a holographic projector for just thirty bucks may sound like science fiction. Imagination Farm is going to make it a fact later this year with holographs from your device with their HOLHO holographic pyramid. HOLHO is a holographic pyramid for smartphones and tablets that create an optical illusion hologram from photos and videos. The full pyramid systems are design to either place on top or under a device where the projected image is reflected off the sides of the pyramid creating the holographic illusion in the center. The naked model, designed for tablets also doubles a case and projects the [...]

KeyMe Turns Your Smart Phone into a Key Locker

Suddenly finding yourself locked out because of a misplaced key is not a good feeling. With the KeyMe mobile app on your smart phone, you might never be locked out again. KeyMe is free downloadable key locker app for iOS that stores a scanned copy of the physical keys you need to access your secure areas. To get started, take a key off your keychain, place it on a white sheet of paper and scan the key to create a digital key signature. If you find yourself locked out and need a new key, you can take the key scan to a nearby locksmith and from the scan create a, [...]

Stream Media to Any HDMI TV with Google Chromecast

Check It Out or Buy on Google.com A smart television will let you see internet content without being at a computer, which is fantastic if you have a smart television. For those of us who own a high definition television before internet connectivity, Google Chromecast is a small device you can use to connect to see that content. Google Chromecast is essentially an HDMI dongle for televisions without streaming capabilities. With the device, viewers can watch web content available through their Chrome Browser, YouTube, Netflix and any purchased music, movies or television shows from Google Play. To set up the device, just plug the [...]

Improved Phone and Tablet Photos and Video with iBlazr

Check It Out or Buy on Amazon (Paid Link) Smart phones and tablets have put a photo and video camera in just about every pocket and are great at capturing, "you gotta see this" pics. If you want to take better, professional shots, you need a real light source that works with your device. iBlazr is a small light source that uses your device's audio jack to get the lighting you need for better photos and video. Just because the device is small, the lighting it provides with the four LEDs is real, giving shooters a 200 lux flash through 60-degree optics to put [...]