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Main Page. The Webby Awards. The Google Glass feature no one is talking about — Creative Good. (Also: en français, en español, 简体中文, 繁體中文, На русском, in het nederlands, em Português) Google Glass might change your life, but not in the way you think. There’s something else Google Glass makes possible that no one – no one – has talked about yet, and so today I’m writing this blog post to describe it. To read the raving accounts of tech journalists who Google commissioned for demos, you’d think Glass was something between a jetpack and a magic wand: something so cool, so sleek, so irresistible that it must inevitably replace that fading, pitifully out-of-date device called the smartphone. Sergey Brin himself said as much yesterday, observing that it is “emasculating” to use a smartphone, “rubbing this featureless piece of glass.”

His solution to that piece of glass, of course, is called Glass. Like every other shiny innovation these days, Google Glass will live or die solely on the experience it creates for people. The life bitstream will raise new and important issues. Circuit Board Table. My First Brainfuck computer | Johan von Konow. My First Brainfuck is an educational computer built to be as minimalistic as possible. I’m sorry for the use of the offensive f-word, but it is the actual name of the program language the computer uses. Description The My First Brainfuck has the same basic features as a normal computer, but at an extremely low level. The impressive part is that you can still run, write and edit programs on it.

Programming My First Brainfuck is challenging, but rewarding, making it an ideal device to learn how computers work (both software and hardware). It is easy to build, fun to play with and has an extremely low price. Watch in HD Features A “normal” computer (like a PC or a Raspberry Pi): My First Brainfuck:Processor 32/64 bit CPU 4 bit CPUInput USB keyboard 4 keysDisplay Monitor or TV 10 LEDsAudio Soundcard Play tones on a buzzerCost 50-500+ $ ~7$ Development Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the idea that you can learn how a computer works by building one yourself. Ook.Ook! Future. T3's top 10 hot gadgets of 2013 - and not an Apple in sight. Apple has been excluded from a list of the top 10 gadgets for 2013. The Hot 100 list highlights gadgets rated the most wanted in the world by tech magazine T3,.

Apple - which has previously topped the list on three separate occasions – fails to make the top 10 for the first time since 2009. Its highest-ranking product is the iPad mini in 15th place. 3D printers top the list for their “life-changing potential” with food printing already taking place and clothes, drugs and even mobile phones expected to be printable in the next 10 years. Samsung leads the way for smartphones, with the Samsung Galaxy S4 coming in at number two.

T3 experts are predicting it to be the top selling Android device for 2013. This year’s list also sees a number of projects from Kickstarter - the world’s largest funding platform for creative ideas - getting recognition. Here are the top 10 gadgets of 2013, as chosen by T3. 10. This portable gaming device claims to redefine gaming on the go. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. Myo Armband. 4 World-Changing Products Dreamed Up by Bill Gates | Wired Design. This holiday season, Bill Gates wants stuff that doesn’t exist. Not for himself, mind you, but for the developing world. Gates has tons of ideas for products that would improve lives there, if only someone would build them. So WIRED decided to bring his wish list to life: We asked four premier product design firms to turn some of his notions into full-blown prototypes. The results are a bit fanciful—but every lifesaving innovation starts with a great idea. Juice Box By Artefact The Challenge: Create a portable, all-purpose power source.

The Solution: You can transform lives with just 10 watts if you can provide it at any time—that’s enough to power a tablet, a refrigerator, and lights for studying at night. People living off the grid? Why It Doesn’t Exist Yet: Manufacturers of similar devices focus on a single region or energy source instead of widespread applicability. — Cory Perkins Easy charging A handheld dynamo converts any type of mechanical energy into a battery charge.

Yield By Frog. Build your own Google TV Using RaspberryPi, NodeJS and Socket.io | Donald's Blog. Hardware Components: The RaspberryPi (Tested on Raspberry Pi model I-B, I-B+ and II-B)A USB WiFi dongle or Ethernet cable (Tested on Edimax WiFi Dongle)SD/MicroSD card (8 GB+) (check out NOOBS) Software Stack: Raspbian – a fork of Debian designed for the Raspberry Pi Node.js Socket.io – Web-sockets moduleExpress – Web-framework moduleOmxcontrol – OMX-player controller moduleChromium BrowserOMX-playerYoutube-dl – Youtube video downloaderQuo.js – Cross-platform swipe gestures libraryHTML5, CSS3 transitions, Javascript, and Moustache as a template engineYoutube API End-result: Outline Installing software and packages.Basic shellcodeServer-side scripting: Node.js, Express.js, and Socket.ioClient-side scripting: Dashboard and remote mobile-app 1.

Installing Raspbian and Node.js Follow this tutorial to install Raspbian and Node.js on your Raspberry Pi Installing Chromium browser and Youtube-dl Build from source or use apt-get sudo apt-get install chromium-browser Install and update Youtube-dl script 2. What wizardry is this?! | Bilgidrom- Where Knowledge Is Power. 19Google + 28StumbleUpon Xion Protective Gear: Silly Putty that Protects Xion PG was originally founded by a stunt performer and a military police officer from the Netherlands. After reading an article in a science magazine about a new developed polymer called “D3O™”, they travelled to the UK to discuss the need for low profile, flexible, high impact reductive products within the industries they are still both actively involved in.

After years of prototyping, testing and developing, the Xion PG brand (formerly known as Xion Stuntpadding) became known within the underground scenes of various early adaptors. In the past year, Xion PG has grown towards a strong brand and its users praise the growing product line in such an amazing way that Xion PG feels extremely confident it has designed and developed the “next generation” protective undergarments. For user reviews, visit our review page. Featured by Bilgidrom Featured by user 19googleplus 28stumbleupon. Bento Laptop Tablet Hybrid by René Woo-Ram Lee. Bento is quite an exceptional and forward thinking concept by René Woo-Ram Lee. It’s quite a plausible scenario that most of use/own a tablet, a PC, external hard drives and a smartphone. Now combine the power of these to have fully customizable Bento Laptop! The Box accommodates all the gear to work as one whole unit or individually; as you see fit.

Features Laptop with 15″ OLED screen11″ tablet and 4″ phone sit in shallow depressionsSolar powered lithium-ion battery1TB SSD drive Designer: René Woo-Ram Lee The Fujitsu branding is evident and rightly so, the concept is a part of the Fujitsu Design Award that is organized by Designboom.