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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

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Pledge To Help A Man Create This Steampunk Halloween Decoration
ComfortLite offers a portable and comfortable reading light
Magnets Able To Change The Hand You Write With
Levytator takes escalators to a whole new level
Alarm clock literally starts the ball rolling
Raytheon Sarcos XOS 2 exoskeleton
Gadget Thumbnails for 27-Sep-2010
LED Escape Light shows you exactly where to go, emphasis on exactly
Dave the Funky Monkey Toy

Pledge To Help A Man Create This Steampunk Halloween Decoration

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:19 PM PDT

Halloween is a fun time of the year, you get to see what over the top decorations people will come up with. If you always wished that you could be a part of such creations, then you now have a chance. One man creates these huge Halloween displays and asks for pledges to do his projects. Well this year he’s making a giant steampunk display, but that’s only if he raises the $2200 that he requires.

They only have 15 days to go to meet their goal. They do have 60 backers, and not far to go though. The vehicle is meant to look as if it has drilled through the ground and right out into the creator’s driveway. If this is even slightly as good as his past creations, then it would definitely be worth the money. You can check out his previous works by going here.

Source: Gizmodiva

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ComfortLite offers a portable and comfortable reading light

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:54 PM PDT

I have yet to find a reading lamp that works for the setup in my living room, despite my desperate attempts to find one. Those of you that have a hard time finding proper lighting and comfort for your nightly reads might take a look at this silly looking OttLite LED ComfortLite. It’ll make reading a book a little easier.

That nub on one side is where you’ll get your lighting from. Since it is LED it won’t produce much heat or any glare. The pillow is pretty obvious, it is shaped to give you the optimal amount of comfort in your neck. It’s a very silly looking device, but if it’s comfortable then that really doesn’t matter. You can purchase one for yourself for $29.99 through OttLite.

Source: Bookofjoe

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Magnets Able To Change The Hand You Write With

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:32 PM PDT

Lefties have the predicament of using items always made for right handed people, while righties have the issue that they’re just like everyone else. If you’re wanting to change that there is now a process that can do that for you. It’s done by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation or just some well thought out magnets.

I’ve always been a lefty and despite the occasional setback I’ve always enjoyed that I am left handed. I can’t really say that I’ve ever wanted to switch, but it could be fun to have stronger abilities in my right hand as well. When they tested this on 33 righthanded volunteers, they noticed they began to favor their left hands for smaller tasks. It’s hard telling how many other things could be taken care of with strange little magnets.

Source: Ubergizmo

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Levytator takes escalators to a whole new level

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:29 PM PDT

I’m sure you have noticed that using an escalator can traditionally take you up or down, and in a straight line.

The Levytator (pronounced like levitate-or) is designed to take escalators to all sorts of dimensions. As you can see in this picture, these escalators are very curved.

There is a video of this technology after the jump so you can see it demonstrated. You can see that an escalator can be put along a structure, and how one of these can go up, down, around curves, and even make flat moving sidewalks.

The video doesn’t give me any indication how this works. As far as I know, an escalator is nothing more than a tank tread that can somehow move into a stair-step form. The Levytator can somehow keep its shape throughout.

However, once they get this technology perfected, just think about how cool it would be to have museums with moving walkways and stairs so tourists can simply stand and relax while the movement is being done for them.

Hey, I got a weird idea. Is there any way that the Levytator could somehow branch off? So if you are on a Levytator going around a certain exhibit, you might come to a fork in the road?

Oh, it will be amazing to see what is next for escalators.

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Alarm clock literally starts the ball rolling

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:00 PM PDT

We have reported on many cool alarm clocks here, and many of them involve making the user do some activity in order for them to get up in the morning.

For example, the Flying Alarm Clock, which has a propeller device on it that you are going to have to catch and place back on the clock itself, should you want any Snooze time.

This one is merely a concept, at least for now. I don’t believe it has a name just yet, but for the sake of comparison, let us call it the rolling alarm clock. After all, the concept is similar to the Flying Alarm Clock, but instead of a propeller flying toy, it starts a ball rolling.

This ball, which I assume has a light weight, is flung into the user’s face in the morning, and then rolls all over the place. If you want the alarm to stop going off, then you’re going to have to find that elusive rolling ball and put it in its place.

Okay, this is the time to ask why we need alarm clocks like this. Are we really so wanting sleep so bad that we need things like this to get us up? I guess so.

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Raytheon Sarcos XOS 2 exoskeleton

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:33 PM PDT

I thought I would celebrate the release of Iron Man 2 on DVD and Blu-ray today by reporting on a real-life iron man exoskeleton.

This is the XOS 2 from Raytheon Sarcos, and it is a lot more bulky than the armor from Mr. Tony Stark. It actually reminds me of the power loader suit that Ripley wore in Aliens.

The suit is able to boost the user’s strength. You can see here that the wearer is punching through several layers of wood like a karate master. It is also designed to make a 170 pound weight feel like ten pounds.

Sadly, the power source stems from a very thick cable from the back. So it is going to be a while before there will be one of these on every soldier. I’m guessing that would be a very expensive endeavor, too.

Still, if you were to put them on every soldier, you would definitely increase their endurance as well as strength. Imagine doing a ten mile hike that only feels like one mile.

Yes, the future is looking pretty bright for the future of exoskeletons. I guess all those science-fiction books and shows with armor like this served as inspiration for times such as this.

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Posted: 27 Sep 2010 10:01 PM PDT

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LED Escape Light shows you exactly where to go, emphasis on exactly

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 07:27 PM PDT

Emergency lights are quite necessary in case of a fire or power outage, but it isn’t always clear which way you should run.

This is a concept known as the LED Escape light, and it allows the victim of an emergency to actually see where to run. It has a “portable LED electric torch which will feature an integrated projector to project a map so that you can find your way out accurately”.

I have an idea of how to improve on this. What if there is a way to project images of the green silhouettes that you see in this picture. Maybe they can be moving across the walls with some working projector lights.

Of course, someone has to be the guy who charges the batteries on these guys. I guess emergency lights have to have some sort of program on them to make certain that they are charged.

I have worked at two companies where power outages have occurred, and there was always emergency lighting. I always wondered how the emergency lights could light up if there was a power outage. Why aren’t all the lights powered like the emergency lights so there would be no power outages?

I suppose we’ll be seeing this, should it ever get developed.

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Dave the Funky Monkey Toy

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 07:04 PM PDT

Every Christmas has the one item that will be red hot like the Cabbage Patch Kids or Tickle Me Elmo. This year, it could easily be the Dave the Funky Shoulder Monkey.

You can watch a video of it after the jump of how it works. It can attach to shoulder with a button and a velcro strap, and it is just like having a real monkey on your shoulder, but cleaner!

The user can make it act like a monkey with a remote control. You can go into a conversational mode by having it nod its head. It can then beat some imaginary drums with its arms.

Who can resist something like that? I know I love it, and I hate monkeys. Yes, I will admit it, I hate monkeys. I think Hollywood would like us to think that monkeys are hysterical, but I can only see them as un-evolved filthy creatures. Call me a bigot, I guess.

However, I know that a lot of people think that Jack the monkey from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies is the ideal pet monkey, since he cannot die. I would imagine that Dave the Monkey (that funky monkey) is only limited by his battery life.

You should be able to get him soon at Toys ‘R Us for about $40.

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