Developed by Toshio Iwai and NHK Science & Technical Research and Laboratories, Morphovision is basically “a system that distorts/modifies what you see with your naked eyes.” Clip after the jump.

In front of a physical 3D miniature house (placed in a glass box) is a touch screen that allows a user to select different visual effects. According to the user’s selection, the house may become soft or even break apart. This all happens between your naked eyes and the miniature house – no special goggles or screens needed

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There’s nothing worse than taking a breath of fresh air, and finding that it isn’t actually so fresh. You look around the room to find the person with that guilty look on their face, hoping to find the one who, yep, farted.

The Fart Detector won’t tell you who farted, but it will give you a warning so that you can hold your breath or leave the room.

It actually works. The Fart Detector will give off a “Warning! Fart detected!” Whooop! Whooop! when methane gas is detected in the air.

Get this for a prankster friend, or yourself, it’s only $35 and the batteries are included! Available from Cornells.

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Sony’s announced the release of the GPS-CS1, a 3.5 inch long GPS device that will add geographic data to pictures taken with your Sony digicam. It will use the timestamp on your pictures, along with it’s own log of location recordings to apply latitude and longitude information to your pictures, once they’re offloaded to your PC and processed through the bundled GPS Image Tracker software. We imagine it to be important then for both internal clocks to be syncronised properly, less some potential hilarity ensue.

This is not the first instance of digital picture geotagging we’ve come across, though previous solutions were a little more ’spensive. The GPS CS1 will cost about $150, and be available next month.

via : ohgizmo 

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By David Ponce

If you’ve got $39,000 lying around, the ZScanner 700 might just make a fun little toy to play around with for a while. Using lasers and dual cameras, the handlheld unit is able to digitize any object into a three-dimensional polygon mesh within minutes. Simply attach the included reflective markers to the object, connect the device to laptop via Firewire, and start scanning. The image is displayed on your laptop as it is being created, so you can presumably rotate the object and get a thorough scan, in a very interactive manner. It’s even possible to increase the scanning resolution on the fly to get to those intricate details.

Now, if you ask us, the fun really begins if you plop down another $10,000, and get yourself the Versalaser object printer. That way, you can start cloning your stuff, and get yourself into a whole new world of geeky fun.

Although, in all seriousness, we can see the ZScanner 700 having more useful applications in the field of computer animation.

ZCorp’s ZScanner 700

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Unlike other foldable bikes available in the market the A-bike offers a number of advantages with the main being portability. The A-Bike can be hand-carried anywhere – on public transport, taken into stores or stored in school lockers. Targetted at the urban consumer it weighs only 5.5kg (12 lbs) and can folds to a compact volume of less than 0.03 cubic meters (1.1 cubic feet) in a mere 10 seconds. Importantly, the design of the A-Bike is such that it adjusts to fits all riders. It also has very small pneumatic tires which, based on recent valve developments, offer an extremely comfortable ride. The tire’s inner tubes can be removed and repaired in the same way as a larger bicycle tire.

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Mixed Reality is the merging of real world and virtual worlds to produce a new environment where physical and digital objects can co-exist and interact. Probably a specialisation of augmented reality and interactive media

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These nifty VW vans come in five different colors and drive around your vinyl discs in circles — playing music through its built-in speaker. One negative, they cost $103.03 each. Video demonstration after the jump

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DigiWall puts a new twist on climbing walls by adding an interactive element. This system is composed of three parts: 1) Sensor-equipped climbing holds; 2) 7-channel sound system located on all four sides of the wall; 3) Computer system that stores numerous interaction models (competitions, games, etc.). Short video demonstration from SIGGRAPH 2006 after the jump.

The sensors in the climbing holds are the inputs to the computer system. The computer keeps a map of the DigiWall® and knows where the individual holds are located. The light in the climbing hold is used to mark holds for certain purposes or to act as very low resolution graphics

digiwall page

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Isn’t it interesting to know that there is actually a worryingly number of people who doesn’t know how to boil an egg? According to the British Egg Information Service, tons of Britons are in fact clueless as to how to boil an egg.

And so, a special kind of egg was created. It is a self-timing egg that bears invisible heat-sensitive ink. The moment the egg boils into perfection, the ink turns black to signify that it’s ready. And all you have to do on your part, is select how you want your eggs done: soft, medium or hard-boiled.

A spokesperson for Lion Quality Eggs, the service’s quality assurance scheme, said: “We had a lot of inquiries. We said OK, this is a big issue – people can’t even boil an egg.”

Of course, if you got yourself some hard-boiled edition (sounds cool eh?) eggs but want it soft, feel free to ignore the ink.

The self-timing eggs will go on sale this autumn in Britain.

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Warning: Please don’t touch the Cigarette Ligher after heated

what else can i say i wish i had one of those

product page (tnx roman)

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