Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Wall Climbing and Airport Security

Clear security lanes reopen in Orlando, coming soon to Denver
  This is pretty cool, it allows you to skip the airport scanners and pretty much get right on your plane. There are a couple of things that should be altered before more global use, like the fingerprint scanner. You can easily fool a fingerprint scanner in many ways and there are videos out there to show you how.

SRI's electroadhesion tech enables new army of wall-climbing robots
  These types of robots aren't that new. I just wanted to show what kind of technology there is out there, and how easy it is to assemble. Eventually these robots will become a very common sight probably doing dangerous jobs like window cleaning and painting high up and others jobs.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Printed Car

The Ubree Hybrid is the first car to come out of a printer, presumably a big one
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/03/the-urbee-hybrid-is-the-first-car-to-come-out-of-a-printer-pres/
  3D printers are a fairly new technology and can be bought for personal use (they are very expensive). It is pretty awesome to think of a car being printed, and in theory could be printed in your home. If you want to see how 3D printing works or see some printers in action, head over to Youtube.

Augmented Reality
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/02/cnn-uses-augmented-reality-ipads-to-cover-midterm-election-resu/
  Here is a good example of augmented reality; this technology is not new but it is definitely getting popular very quickly. Most people have a smartphone with an augmented reality feature/app, you should check to see if your phone does.