Momenta Necklace Captures Life’s Exciting Moments
The Momenta PC is a finalist in Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition that you strap to your neck. Momenta necklace isn’t a whole lot more refined, but at least it’s a touch less noticeable. It’s got a camera that’s constantly recording what’s in front of you, but it also measures your pulse rate. When you get excited about something, it automatically saves the previous five minutes’ footage for you to review later.
Contact Lenses with Circuits for Superhuman Vision
Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.
The prototype contact lens does not correct the wearer’s vision, but the technique could be used on a corrective lens. There are a number of possible uses for virtual displays.
Umeda Sky Building the World’s Highest Escalator
Located in the Umeda district of Kita-ku in northern Osaka, the building was designed by Hiroshi Hara and was constructed by Takenaka Corporation. It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center. The escalator ride is an event in itself as it feels like you are floating up into the sky.
January 21, 2008 - Category: Architecture, Tech - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 1
Yogis Are Now Hi-Tech
Designer Hui-Zong Chen has conceived of a yoga mat, made of an electronic paper screen that unfurls from a metal tube that is a stereo with cute little speakers housed at each end. It’s just a concept piece for the moment, but this could be the yoga mat of the future The tube the mat/screen scrolls out of would also house speakers, an MP3 player, and a memory-card reader.
