Shipping Container Collection
So, this article has certainly made the rounds, but you know, shipping containers hold a warm place in my heart. These customizations are awesome, all of them of course are built with drastically more resources than the citizens of Rivertown would have, but I’m sure there’s some ideas in here to build on.
via Diana W. on TrueActivist.com
Zoe Quinn Implants Chip in Her Arm
Check this Wetwork hack from game developer Zoe Quinn, she’s 10 steps ahead of the Apple Watch with home automation and interactivity. Check out this video with all the gory details and read more over at GameBreaker.tv
Folding Origami Robot
“On either side of the composite and inside is stiff paper. In the very middle there is a flexible printed circuit,” Felton added. “When electricity is applied, it heats up like when you turn on a light bulb and the heat warms up the polymer and causes it to contract. Because the polymer is bonded to the paper it pulls on the paper causing the paper to fold over on itself.”
Imagine a ream of dozens of robotic satellites sandwiched together so that they could be sent up to space and then assemble themselves remotely
Motorola’s Digital Tattoos
It seems everyday I can say, “the future is here.” I know this one is from last year, but it’s awesome. What I love about tech is how people reverse engineer it and turn it into something new. This one has a lot of potential. Motorola has created a digital tattoo for unlocking your phone.
Read more over here at SlashGear.
IMAGES: Dr Todd Coleman; mc10
FDA Approved Bionic Arm
via The Verge
early eight years ago, DARPA, the US Defense Department’s advanced research agency, set out to find a better solution for amputees than the metal hooks still widely used today. Now, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its approval to one of the projects that came from that effort: a mind-controlled prosthetic limb called the DEKA Arm. A number of other scientists and engineers around the world are working on similar devices, but this is the first such prosthetic to get FDA approval. The prosthetic device comes from a company founded by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, and it is roughly the size and weight of an adult arm.
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