The Tongue Drive System

The Tongue Drive system was made at Georgia Tech. It allows people who are unable to use their hands to use a computer or a wheelchair. The user has to get their tongue pierced than it will be able to track what your tongue does through magnetic sensors in a retainer so it can replace the computer mouse or a joystick on a wheelchair. It used to have head mounted magnetic sensors but the headgear was uncomfortable and had to be recalibrated whenever it slipped.

IPAD

A few months ago I showed the Cisco Iphone and now I found another product with the same name as one of apple's products. It's called the I.P.A.D. (Internet Personal Access Device). It was made by a Chinese company called Proview. Just like Apple's ipad it can go on the internet and download different apps. But unlike Apple's ipad it can play dvds and it's not portable. Proview produced 20,000 of these between 1998 and 2009. Proview is now bankrupt and is trying to get $2 billion from Apple over the rights of the ipad trademark.

Kisai Optical Illusion LCD Watch

Once again I've found another strange watch. This is called the Kisai Optical Illusion LCD watch. It shows a whole bunch of wavy lines so you have to unfocus your eyes so you can see the hidden picture (aka what time it is). If you are unable to figure out what time it is, either look at a clock or another watch or touch the screen and they wavy lines will disappear revealing the image. You can buy one here:
http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/kisai/optical_illusion/

Google HUD

For a few months now I've been having trouble finding stuff for this site. Most of the stuff I thought would be good to put up I found out was fake or didn't even exist yet. Today I finally found something that was good enough for this site. This is a prototype Google is working on called Google HUD. It's just a prototype, so I don't know if these will look different when it's finished or if it'll ever be released to the public. HUD stands for Heads Up Display. There are some buttons on the arms for different things. It might have it's own version of Android as an OS on the glasses. It won't be able to work with the Android phones. It'll be able to connect to the internet through bluetooth, wifi, or a phone's internet connection according to the site. It will have a camera for different apps or to take pictures. It has a microphone for voice input and output. To scroll and click on different websites and other lists it is said you will have to tilt your head. And it will only be able to display the screen in one eye.

Update: Google now says they will start selling these by the end of 2012.

SNES original designs

For those of you that don't know, I collect Nintendo Power magazines. The issue for this month just came out and it showed some old designs for the SNES. I can't find anything on why these were rejected but I think it might be because they weren't top loaders. The only information the picture gives me is that they were designed by somebody named Lance and they wanted to make it easy to use.

FireText Smoke Alarm

Today everybody except me is text messaging eachother. Now that smoke alarm that hardly ever gets used is doing it too. This is called the FireText Smoke Alarm. It can text up to 4 numbers at once. You can buy one here:

http://www.firebox.com/product/3946/FireText-Smoke-Alarm?aff=512&awc=550_1310487849_2d7b5d531a6a5854f5891762de3aaa1a

Aspire Ethos 8951G and 5951G

Later this month Acer is releasing two new laptops called the Aspire Ethos 8951G and the Aspire Ethos 5951G. Unlike any other laptop you will be able to remove the touch pad from these and use it as a media remote.