Emotiv’s EPOC neurosensor headset offers the ability to convert brainwave signals to keystrokes on a PC. Tron of Illuminated Sounds recently acquired an EPOC and posted this quick demo of the interface triggering beats in Ableton Live – It should be interesting to see how much the response time can be improved given a bit […]
I love how our pals over at iFixit are always the first in line to buy new gadgets as they come to market, so they can race them back to the shop to take them apart and find out what makes them tick. Their excitement and curiosity is almost palpable, and of course, we all […]
Let’s be perfectly clear. We love gadgets here at MAKE. We like technology that works. Technology that expands ones reach and abilities. Technology that’s fun, challenging, and rewarding to fiddle with, improve. And technology that’s just darn cool. But there are gadget freaks like us, and then there’s the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the annual […]
One of the CES hardware announcements that looks interesting to us is D-Link’s Boxee Box, a media player built around the open/closed source Boxee application (Boxee is a “fork” of the open source XBMC media center software, with some closed, proprietary code bolted on). The Boxee Box will play Adobe Flash 10.1, H.264 (MKV, MOV), […]
One of the products released at this year’s CES is iWave‘s Grass Roots Collection of personal electronics accessories — iPhone cases, earbuds, and earphones, all cased in recycled wood. They’re due out Q2 of 2010 with a MSRP of $10-40. iWave’s press release explains: The design-forward electronic accessory company is offering its loyal customers […]
One of the offerings at this year’s CES that caught my eye was Oregon Scientific‘s Advanced Wireless Appliance Manager. This basically works the same as an Energy Logger, but without the disadvantages of only one plug in and having to lean down to your outlet to see your totals (a problem the tweet-a-watt doesn’t have, […]
iLove this lamp! On January 7, 2002 Steve Jobs introduced a beautifully redesigned iMac loaded with an 800 MHz PowerPC 7445 (G4) processor and 15″ Flat Panel LCD screen. The new iMac was nicknamed the “iLamp, since Apple advertised it as having the flexibility of a desk lamp. Almost eight years since the official launch, […]
