Bike Lock Lifts Your Bike Out of Reach
The wildly popular video of this German bike lock prototype blew me away. Clamp your bike to the motorized unit, and it scurries up a lamp post, securing your bike in the sky
Bicycles
News From The Future: Synthetic organ transplants
“Surgeons have performed the first transplant operation using an organ wholly grown in a laboratory to give a man a new windpipe. The 36-year-old is recovering after surgeons implanted the world’s first wholly lab-grown organ into his body.”
Why Every Maker Should Learn Chinese
If you’re a maker you might want to consider learning a new language! In this week’s article I’ll talk about why I think it’s a good idea for any maker to consider picking up some new language skills and specifically what I’m doing. A lot of my articles tend to be about the future (I can’t wait to look back on these 5 years from now). So, yes, I think a lot of us are going to find speaking, reading, and writing the language of the soon-to-be biggest economy in the world and, who makes almost everything, is a good idea. It’s something to consider learning, starting now, particularly for makers, especially the ones who run maker businesses.
News From the Future: Augmented Reality: 3D Video with Kinect and iPad
News From the Future: Augmented Reality: 3D Video with Kinect and iPad via Bruce… We used the String Augmented Reality SDK to display real-time 3d video+audio recorded from the Kinect. A just for fun experiment from the guys at Laan Labs. labs.laan.com/ Follow us on twitter @laanlabs for updates about our projects.
Beer Wheel Drive Vehicle
No longer must those looking for a giant, 14-person bicycle outfitted with beer coolers look across the Atlantic for their machines. My friend, übermaker Casimir Sienkiewicz, (it sounds just like it’s spelled) has produced the first in what I believe will be quite a few of these.
News From The Future – Robot Patient Gags When Visiting the Dentist
News From The Future – Robot Patient Gags When Visiting the Dentist… The robot is designed to help dental students practice, so researchers at Showa University made it as realistic as possible. That means it chokes, coughs, sneezes, moves its tongue and even gets a sore jaw. The builders worked with Japan’s leading maker of […]
News From The Future: States Pass Laws Allowing Driverless Cars
News From The Future: States Pass Laws Allowing Driverless Cars… via CiS. For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed not to be operating a motor vehicle if the motor vehicle is driven autonomously through the use of artificial-intelligence software and the autonomous operation of the motor vehicle is authorized by law. […]