Gadgets

Your eyes blink roughly 14 to 20 times a minute, and every one of those movements is wasted energy. Engineers at Northwestern University have found a way to put that motion energy to work, powering a pair of battery-free health-sensing glasses.

https://youtu.be/6dLm7rZzeMA The birdwatching boom of 2020 was, genuinely, one of the nicer things to come out of a rough couple of years. Millions of people discovered that birds are interesting, feeders are meditative, and there is something quietly satisfying about identifying the bird that keeps eating everything before anything else gets a turn. Technology followed…

Most of us don't carry a caliper around, even when a ruler isn't quite up to the job. Try checking the width of a replacement part at a store, and a quick guess can become another trip. CLPR-01 brings the sliding jaws of a measuring tool into a smooth, pocketable shape, so taking a more…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKAhcj56Mnk A robot dog usually arrives with a trick and a lot of wiring. Q8botOne takes the opposite approach, putting its core electronics onto a central circuit board that also serves as its backbone. It fits on desks, but its exposed workings make it feel less like a miniature pet and more like a machine…

I know you will relate to one of these telltale moments. A meeting ends, someone gives you three useful details, and by the time you reach your desk, only one remains. The same thing happens after an interview, a doctor's appointment, a lecture, or when someone rattles off directions while you're already trying to keep…

Your phone focuses by firing an invisible laser pulse at whatever you're aiming it at, timing the bounce, and telling a tiny motor to move some glass. The whole loop finishes in a few hundredths of a second and nobody has thought about it since roughly 2017. VIVIFoCAL has taken that identical hardware recipe, a…

The promotional video for CircuitMess’s new MAKERphone 2.0 kit notes that today, smartphone users depend on their mobile telephones while simultaneously feeling alienated from them. According to CircuitMess, that’s because we don’t understand how smartphones work, given that most of us can’t repair……

Earlier this year, people were buying Mac minis by the cartload just to give their OpenClaw agents somewhere to live, and Apple Store staff reportedly started calling it the "OpenClaw machine." Pamir's Lapis One looked at that trend and asked a very reasonable question: what if the agent's computer was actually designed for the agent?

Before humanoid robots fully integrate into our societies and inhabit our homes, factory floors, and workspaces, a Japanese firm is thinking one step ahead. GMO has just unveiled a "Humanoid Ambulance" that it will roll out this month to handle maintenance tasks on-site.

With technology advancing by the day, protecting our privacy is getting harder. Hidden cameras are one of the biggest public concerns. There have been far too many cases of people finding cameras in places they didn’t belong: hotel rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms in Airbnb rentals. The problem……

Touchscreens are one of the most deceptively simple-looking technologies. A simple tap on a piece of glass can make countless things happen. In reality, touchscreens involve various complex electronics and manufacturing processes. Scientists have created a new touch technology using only PVC, laser……

Most of us have two or more gadgets that need constant charging, plus several chargers and cables to keep them all juiced up. That's probably fine if you have an entire outlet strip at home or in the office, but when you're working with a small space, or you're traveling and on the go, it…