Gaming Chair with full Motion Mimics

For Gaming psychos:

 Soon you can find yourself flying a helicopter and fight terrorists that too at your own home.
 Multi-million-dollar full-motion flight Simulators give trainee pilots a good approximation of the ups and downs of real flight, but the powerful hydraulic rams they are mounted on make them far too big, expensive and dangerous for the home.
Gamers need not worry from now on: a novel kind of gaming chair called a haptic seat might one day bring them at least some of the sensations of a full-motion simulator.

The idea is predicated on the fact that motion produces certain force effects on your body - you are pressed down into the armrests of your seat as a helicopter, say, moves upwards. So Fabien Danieau of Technicolor in Rennes, France, and colleagues at the nearby INRIA lab reasoned that a chair with armrests and a headrest that can reproduce these effects, in tandem with the strong reinforcing visuals on screen, could mimic complex motion sensations.
To test the idea, they rigged up a chair in which a headrest and two armrests were each moved independently by a commercial game controller called a Novint Falcon which has a strong force-feedback capability. They then wrote simulation software that uses the Novint system to move the armrests up slightly to make you feel you are dropping - and vice versa. Moving one armrest more than the other, meanwhile, makes users feel they are rolling to one side. Push the headrest forward a tad and you'll feel you've slowed down quickly - or pull it back a bit and you'll feel your head is being dragged back by acceleration.
All three units can be moved at once to provide more complex motion sensations like rolling as speed changes, too. In tests, the team let 17 volunteers try out the system: they reported a "realistic sensation of self motion". The plan now is to extend the number of actuators to boost believability: "The prototype could be extended by adding more points of stimulation, for instance, for the legs," the team say in their paper.
The jury-rigged system they put together looks odd, with the force-feedback units mounted on a steel frame surrounding the chair, but the idea is that the tech could one day be built invisibly into a commercial gaming chair "to simulate a sensation of motion in a consumer environment". There are other ideas that could be built into future chairs, too: creepy chair-back vibrators that introduce tingling effects are in development by Disney, for instance. The team presented their work at a conference on virtual reality in Toronto, Canada, last week.

 

Washing on the Go

This time its not into the core of technicalities but the technology still helps to save time and money both. Well not only time and money but this time its a Go green initiative which saves water too.
Techies are usually concerned with the software and hardware paradigm but according to me what ever saves the resources (let it be in any form) is there for techies and should well be considered as a techie itself.

.Lets have a look at the product that i have in for you.

Scrubba:

The Scrubba is an ultra-portable device that can clean clothes with minimal amounts of water.
Considering the long journeys many people in areas with poor access to water have to undergo every day, making the washing process easier could make a world of difference. The Giradora is one recent innovation that has aimed take the pain out of non-electric washing, and now the Scrubba is an ultra-portable device that can clean clothes with minimal amounts of water.

The Scrubba is a wash bag made of lightweight material that can be folded and fitted into a large pocket. Several items of clothes can be washed in one go, using only a couple of liters of water and a small amount of soap. Users place the water, soap and clothes into the bag, seal it and firmly rub the device for around 20 or 30 seconds. The inside of the bag contains small nodules that help the cleaning process. Once the water is decanted, the clothes can be hung up to dry and another wash can be carried out.

The Scrubba has specially been designed for travelers – who could use the bag to avoid having to find and pay for a laundromat, while also lightning their load.

Ear implants for the deaf with no strings attached

This is really going to give a boost to the people who really are in need of it.

Now a tiny microphone implanted in a person's ear will provide them with continuous hearing day and night. The technology is called as COCHLEAR implants.

These implants can't be worn all the time because only a small part of the device is actually inside the cochlea. A fragile external unit containing the power supply, processors and microphone has to be hooked onto the ear and linked magnetically to the implant beneath the skin.

Since it's not Water-Proof so,  Patients can't normally wear them in the shower, the rain or when they swim.

Inspite of the external sounds, a patient wearing this would also be able to hear some internal sounds too. That is also the upcomming challenge for the manufacturers to subtract the internal sounds so as to give the realistic environment for the patient.

Heavy Traffic making a fuss out of you??

Techies you need not worry about the heavy traffic from now onwards.

The Air-show in Bangalore was not just a show of F-16, Tejus, Super Hornet’s, Choppers, Sabb’s which undoubtedly can make our defense systems strong but there was something which temped my eye too.

The emerging technology is not owned by any company but there’s a single genius mind behind that “AK Wishwanath “who’s hard work will make the difference in your lives. From now onwards you need not stand on roads waiting for heavy traffic to pass by but you can just fly off the Traffic.

It is Maruti 800 of what I am talking about.

Yes, you need not shake your head for that as whatever you are reading is true enough.

“MARUTI 800” was a part of air-show, and caught attention of many. It was not a Simple Maruti 800 but was the one which can make you fly over the traffic. Yes you heard that right again, it can make you fly.

The car has rotor blades on its roof and vacuum space besides its wheels. This, allows the car to lift up like an aeroplane. Hats off AKW. Day is not far when people will see us above them that too on road itself.

Searching for a stylish and Multi-featured phone???

Here you are!!!

Are you Looking for an i-Phone or an Android. I suggest a little wait.

Mozilla is about to come up with the launch of the new concept phone. I bet you would love to have one. The first transaparent phone is about to come in market in no more than 8 months.

This beautiful phone is not only stylish but a fully featured phone too.

• 8 megapixel camera
• Two Pico Projector, which allows its user side to display a virtual keyboard
• Wireless charging
• removable built-in Bluetooth adapter
• Mini USB, which will allow direct connection to PC
• Infrared Touchpad Area

Does not that deserve a WOW??

Bluetooth Watch.

A new gadget for the new Techies is over here. Phones have done a number on watches--all too many people have ditched the wristwatch in favor of just whipping out their phones to check the time, which has led to the decline in sale of wrist watches badly, adversly affecting the manufacturers.

Casio has now come up with a new Idea which  uses Bluetooth to work with phones (in particular, Android smartphones), delivering crucial information and offering some pretty sweet new features, including a "find my phone" feature and caller ID.

Now no hustles if u have kept your phone somewhere and forgot, Casio's new Wrist watch is there to help you out finding your phone.

Data Safe Wallets.

That's about a new technology, which has come up with a stylish new line of DataSafe Wallets for both men and women, specifically designed to protect these new smart card credit cards from wireless identity theft.


The DataSafe wallets incorporate radio-frequency (RF) shielding material to protect the data on the growing number of credit cards that feature the new "Contactless Smart Card Technology." The wallets are designed to complement the inherent security and encryption of the newer generation of these cards.


By incorporating shielding material into the wallet, this new technology provides a high-tech solution in a form factor that people understand. The wallet design is based off the Faraday Cage principle which is designed to stop the entry or escape of an electromagnetic (EM) field.


Enjoy the New Era of  Techie.