New Contact Lenses With LED Displays is Must-See TV, Literally - Technology News by ExtremeTech. We recently profiled a new crop of Augmented Reality video games designed for your mobile phone. How adorably 2010. The whole concept of mobile AR is already behind the curve, the real future will be in Augmented Vision—a virtual layer on reality, no smart phone necessary. And “AV” may have just taken one giant step closer to feasibility. A research team at the University of Washington has designed a contact lens that has the ability to project LED displays directly into the irises. The concept originated in 2008 when the UoW team developed a proof-of-concept contact lens embedded with electronics that gave diabetes patients the ability to monitor glucose levels in their tear fluid.
The prototype contained a single red LED that would project feedback to the lens bearer. As for what can be done with this technology, the possibilities are nearly limitless. Via NewScientist, image via Sensimed. "Semi-Circle" Headphones by Seohyun Baek. Headphones Meant Not to Filter out Background Noise As oil reaches recording break highs, more and more people are turning to bikes to get them around and of course nobody wants to leave behind creature comforts like music while driving. Problem is most of today’s headphones are designed to filter out background noise. That’s not very safe for a bicyclists since hearing what’s coming is important. The Semicircle headphones are designed to fit in your ear without blocking background noise.
The unit is wireless with a bluetooth module that connects to a standard headphone jack. Riding your bike, saving the Earth, saving money, and enjoying music while doing it shouldn’t be a hazard. Nice concept. Designer: Seohyun Baek. Waterfall House. New awsome Tec. Hidden Door. The brick-road-laying Tiger Stone - Image 1 of 6. Laying down paving bricks is back-breaking, time-consuming work... or at least, it is if you do it the usual way. Henk van Kuijk, director of Dutch industrial company Vanku, evidently decided that squatting/kneeling and shoving the bricks into place on the ground was just a little too slow, so he invented the Tiger Stone paving machine.
The road-wide device is fed loose bricks, and lays them out onto the road as it slowly moves along. A quick going-over with a tamper, and you’ve got an instant brick road. View all One to three human operators stand on the platform of the Tiger Stone, and move loose bricks by hand from its hopper to its sloping “pusher” slot – the bricks do have to be fed into the pusher in the desired finished pattern.
From there, gravity causes them to slide together, in one road-wide sheet, down onto the sand. The tread-tracked machine is electrically-powered, and has few moving parts, so noise and maintenance are kept to a minimum. Via Gizmodo. About the Author. Would high gasoline prices spur innovation and change? When it comes to the price of gasoline, Christopher Steiner may be the ultimate contrarian. While other Americans bemoan prices of $3 a gallon or more, he says $3 a gallon is far too cheap.
Mr. Steiner believes that the United States will not beat its oft-cited "addiction to oil" until our most visible use of oil becomes a lot more expensive. He is so convinced that in 2008 he wrote a book to convince others, provocatively titled, "$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better. " "I have always been interested in the price of oil and how it affects life, or didn't affect life, as the case may be," Mr. When gasoline reached $2 a gallon several years ago, he expected a paradigm shift that would bring major changes in consumer behavior.
"I really thought it was going to be a harbinger," he said. Then gas went to $3 a gallon and, again, there was no noticeable effect. And Americans began driving less. The book, which Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. In the future you will live in a tiny little house. Blob VB3 by dmvA | HipBip. [Photos by Mick Couwenbergh / Rini Van Beek] Designed by dmvA, blob VB3 is a mobile office unit for xfactoragencies. It is made primarily of polyester. The egg-shaped house consists of a bathroom, kitchen, lighting, a bed and several niches for storage. Project info: blob VB3 Design: dmvA Principal: Rini Van Beek/ xfactoragencies Team: David Driesen, Tom Verschueren, Thomas Denturck Location: anywhere/ mobile General contractor: AD&S Thomas Denturck Constructional engineer: AD&S Built area: 20 sqm Completion: 2009 [Photos by Vercruysse Frederik] via Design Boom.