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Category: Tech

  • Here’s A Mother You’ll Always Want At Home

    Here’s A Mother You’ll Always Want At Home

    What do you miss most about living on your own? Perhaps the messy roommates or the dirty dishes in the sink. Maybe it’s the constant nagging of your mother. If you answered the last one, it’s your lucky day.

    Sen.se designed the Mother ($222), a unit that monitors, records and analyzes everyday activities. Users stick little sensor strips, what they call ‘cookies’, onto basically anything, such as toothbrushes, medicine bottles or other household items. These cookies can measure temperature, acceleration and movement. Stick one on a bike and the Mother knows if you’ve taken the bike out for a ride.

    All the data collected from the Mother and her college student care packages with cookies also plug into an ecosystem of apps. Each app optimizes a specific area of your life, e.g. its Walk app measures users’ daily activity, a Presence app knows if anyone’s in the house and adjusts the thermostat automatically.

    Just don’t give this to a paranoid person. It’ll drive them over the edge.

  • Put Willy Wonka Right In Your Own Home

    Put Willy Wonka Right In Your Own Home

    Technology has finally solved one of the world’s most pressing problems. The lack of instant, on-demand candy. No more driving to the store for sweets or something called ‘the candy aisle’.  The ChefJet 3D Printer produces candy at the press of a button.  Create sugary treats in monochrome (single flavor candies) or full-color, multi-flavor (chocolate mint, mixed sour apple, starburst, etc.) varieties. Better yet, stick a mouth up to the spout and skip the middleman. In the future, hopefully the MedicineJet 3D Printer will come out on the market, for instant, on-demand production of diabetes drugs.

  • They Injected Steroids In This Keyboard Controller

    They Injected Steroids In This Keyboard Controller

    Here’s a knob that needs to be held. The Griffin PowerMate ($60) allows for customizable programming of frequently used functions, such as scrolling, volume control, opening files, etc. The scrolling wheel/knob comes in handy for anyone who works within a certain program a lot, such as iTunes, video editing or RSS readers. It’s also Bluetooth compatible, enabling wireless connection to a computer. No ugly wires cluttering up a desk And hey, there’s a pretty blue light underneath. Even that can be customized.

  • You’ll Save So Much Time Cooking With This

    You’ll Save So Much Time Cooking With This

    The smartphone will control all aspects of life in the future. Mark that down. It can start a car, unlock the front door to a house, turn on the lights and monitor sleeping patterns. And food. Glorious food. Control when food starts cooking with it. Exhibit A: Belkin’s partnership with Crock-Pot.

    The Belkin Crock-Pot WeMo Smart Slow Cooker ($99) lets users change cooking temperatures, check meal times and obviously, turn the unit on and off. All this can be done miles away from home using a smartphone. Belkin also has more coming in their automated line, including a Mr. Coffee smart coffee maker and a Holmes smart humidifier. Here’s another prediction. Apple will enter the home automation category and revolutionize it. 

  • Hack Your Sleep With This New Invention

    Hack Your Sleep With This New Invention

    Computers and robots will take over the world. It’s a certainty. Heck, they can even learn from their experiences now. The markers on the path towards robot domination are little inventions like Withings Aura ($299). This device measures and optimizes the users’ sleep patterns. It’ll decide the best time to wake up in a sleep cycle, record heart rates, movements and breathing patterns and feed it back to a smartphone. And then upload it to the great robot overlords in the sky.

    There’s two parts to the Aura, a small pad you slip underneath a pillow and a lamp. The pad measures biological input such as heart rates, breathing, etc., mentioned before. The lamp checks the room for temperature, noise and light. It also emits a red glow to help you sleep, a blue one to help you wake and a green light for when the girlfriend feels frisky tonight. They left out the option where it can broadcast your boss’ monotonous voice. “Time to get up, Worker #2132”. *Attach brain wave connector to slot in neck and begin work day 29,332*

  • The 2015 BMW i8 Will Have Equally Amazing Car Keys

    The 2015 BMW i8 Will Have Equally Amazing Car Keys

    Here are some keys you don’t want to lose on the dance floor. For those lucky enough to afford the new BMW i8, they’ll definitely want to match it with this BMW i8 Key Fob. Of course, the high-resolution screen locks and unlocks doors, yada yada. It’ll also display the range left on the existing charge, when to recharge and likely, other dashboard-type stats. Even better, the unit also features user-programmable functions. It does cost $1,000, so it’s not a drop in the bucket. Someone paying $135k for the i8 though, probably won’t worry too much about another thousand.

  • This Headset Reads Your Dog’s Thoughts

    This Headset Reads Your Dog’s Thoughts

    A group of Scandinavians currently have designs on creating the first device to translate animal thoughts into human language. The Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery call this “non-obtrusive device” No More Woof. Assuming this isn’t a joke, the unit works by taking EEG recorders in the headset and registering voltage fluctuations resulting from ionic current flow in the dog’s brain. A Rapsberry Pi computer then translates these currents into human words. Put this on your dog, take it to the dog park and Fluffy’s first words might be: “You’re not really gonna do this to me, are you?”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CweAeshjObA

  • Samsung Knows What You Want: 105″ TVs

    Samsung Knows What You Want: 105″ TVs

    Another company will show off their entry in the increasingly popular “obscenely large, slightly curved” tv category. LG announced their 105″ earlier last week. Now, Samsung plans to show off their own 105″ curved ultra HD TV at CES 2014. It’ll feature a 5120 x 2160 resolution, 21:9 aspect ratio and throws around fancy terms such as ‘Quadramatic Picture Engine”. Quadrama-what-what? Just know this nifty marketing/technological invention will give provide crisp, clear ultra hi-def content no matter the source. That could be the old HD rabbit ears or those things called ‘Blu-ray’ players. Pricing will be announced at CES 2014, but let’s be like The Price is Right and guess $100k.