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WiiNerf and Vibrating Shoes
Feb. 15th, 2007 06:43 amSource: MedGadget Kodak has developed a type of RFID that can be safely ingested. Coated in a soft gelatin, they stop working after a predefined period of time when they become exposed to gastric juices. While active, the person who ingested them sits next to a transmitter/receiver to determine where the RFID is in the gastric tract. |
Source: American Inventor Spot  When you think of vibrators, shoes are the last thing that come to mind. Enter the Good Vibrations Therapeutic Vibrating Shoes that can buzz away sore feet by vibrating at high frequency for up to five hours. The $60(US) shoes are rechargeable and made flexible enough to fit men or women with a wide variety of foot shapes. |
Source: Coolest Gadgets  I previously reported on this interesting (yet creepy) video camera clock, but what I missed on my previous read is that the device uses the household power lines to transmit video back to the PC. |
Source: Engadget  Tired of wrecking furniture with your Wii-toys? Nerf is offering soft, foamy versions of those hard, plastic Wii attachments, rendering the safe for energetic Wii-athletes. |
Source: Engadget  This notepad serves double-duty as a good, old-fashioned pen-and-paper notepad, but what you write can be stored in the pen's onboard memory. This $160(US) device can store up to 100 pages and is USB compatible. |
These $22(US) gloves have a place to slip your Wii controller into the back. They're also padded to protect 
Two McMaster students have developed a glove to assist in providing CPR. The glove detects the depth and frequency of compressions, and emits audio tones to guide the user in their technique. The glove can also detect a pulse, probably the most important thing the lifesaver should be made aware of.
Stick a marker into this little Remote Control bug and kids (or adults) can draw from a distance.
If you are a photographer, you may be among those that use metadata stored in your photo to keep track of it. Windows Vista may make this difficult because it ALSO wants to use that metadata. Specifically, the photo tag feature overwrites previous metadata which, in the case of RAW images, can render them unreadable. Microsoft's response was to request camera manufacturers provide them with plugins to gloss over the problem. They're response was to recommend that anyone who uses image metadata avoid purchasing Vista until the problem has been resolved. Have I mentioned the Mac is great for image processing....
After 5 years of study involving 1,650 people from 11 countries, the UN has released a new symbol to represent radiation risk. They wanted something that intuitively says "Bad mojo! Run away!". Seems to say that to me.
