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• Fire Information Rescue Equipment

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  “After 9/11, the city of Chicago started requiring owners of commercial buildings to register digital floor plans. Now the Chicago Fire Department is working with Moteiv and UC Berkeley engineers to layer live data atop those plans.” Fire Information Rescue Equipment, FIRE, is a result of those efforts which delivers electronic maps and critical information to firefighters via wirelessly networked sensors during an emergency. It can display a variety of critical information on the firefighters [...]

   

• Solar-Powered Braille Wrist Watch

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  There really isn’t that much information available on this watch unfortunately. What I can tell you, is that the Solar-powered wrist watch for the blind was designed by a sophomore at Kyungki University, Korea by the name of Jeonjun Cho. It comes in 2 styles, necklace or wrist watch and the braille is “composed of simple ‘dot’, ‘line’and ‘plane”. [via UberGizmo]

   

• Cool Concept: SMS Controlled Spy Mirror

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  Leaving notes on scape pieces of paper would be a thing of the past if Robert Stadler has anything to do with it. His +336+ mirror would allow you to receive SMS sent from a mobile phone and having them magically appear when you approach the mirror. Very Cool.

   

• Open Area Telephone Privacy Manager

  In Gadgets, Phones, Technology

  

  If you work at an office where your co-workers are all within arm’s reach and you want to stop the spread of water cooler talk about your discreet phone calls. You may want to look into the Open Area Telephone Privacy Manager, which keeps your private phone calls private. It does this by rearranging basic elements of your speech into incoherent syllables and partial words. Once you have recorded your voice using an included script, [...]

   

• Comfort Sphere

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  The Comfort Sphere would like to change the way you absorb all that corporate propaganda at conferences. The Comfort Sphere is conceived as a solitary, holistic sensory space for use at trade fairs and exhibitions. It offers visitors a space for individual experiences, for taking in information and for entertainment. Inspired by Eero Aarnio’s “Ball Chair” from 1963, the Comfort Sphere creates an intimate presentation space reduced to the essentials. The design employs two archetypal [...]

   

• The World’s First Solar-Powered Scooter

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  The World’s First Solar-Powered Scooter will be released next May. The scooter comes with a helmet, fitted with the ‘hands-free’ technology and can hit speeds up to a speed of 55mph. The scooter will be rechargeable by sunlight, ultraviolet rays, thermal heat or electrical charge. Price: less than US$820 [via Treehugger]

   

• Shaving Monitor

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  I guess if you live in a house where getting access to a mirror is an issue, this geeky setup would work just find. Using water is optional. [Neatorama via Vivek's Blog]

   

• Interactive Tabletops

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  Interactive tabletops, called Human Locators are now being used in Las Vegas lounges. The tables have a projector that shines a video image down onto the table, when motion is detected by the sensor in the projector, it alters the image in psychedelic ways. To get a better idea of how it works you can check out the site and see it in action. I want one. [via Sci Fi Tech]

   

• The Book Radio

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  This is as unique and cool as it gets. The Book Radio is designed by Vinay Venkatraman & Pei Yu from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Milan. As the name Book Radio implies, it’s a book that doubles as a radio. How you control the radio is just plain old bizarro. To change stations, you turn the page and to adjust the volume, you slide the bookmark in or out. Here is how it [...]

   

• Wash and Dry RFID Tags

  In Clothing, Technology

  

  Your dry clean clothes will be much safer if Fujitsu has their way. Fujitsu has developed an RFID tag that can be attached to any clothing item,washed, ironed and pressed at least 100 times and still survive. The tags can be read at distances of up to 1.2m.

   

• The Intelligent Crib

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  Intellicot, a final year design project by four men from Britain’s Coventry University is due to go on sale some time this year. The Intellicot Crib from Cencio is feature rich and will easily be one of the most high tech cribs on the market. Here is a list of some of the features: *automatic rocking to help develop a regular sleeping pattern by simulating the natural rocking motion of a baby in a mother’s [...]

   

• Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard

  In Computers, Technology

  

  The Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard besides looking uber-cool has one feature in particular that I find interesting. The designers of the virtual keyboard felt it was important to have the keyboard actually make a clicking noise when you type away. OK, maybe I’m the only one that finds that unique,I digress. Here is some information from the ThinkGeek site. This tiny device laser-projects a keyboard on any flat surface… you can then type away accompanied [...]