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Self-destruct options from the Mission: Impossible movies could become a reality for even the most common smartphones and laptops used by government officials or corporate employees. A new self-destruct mechanism can destroy electronics within 10 seconds through wireless commands or the triggering of certain sensors. Just don't leave your computer sitting in the sun for long...

impressive helicopters ... flying slightly better than our gadgets ...

Microsoft gadget

New gadget from the apple

our next gadget? fully open source it seems

Quote: "This is exactly what we are pursuing - self-assembling materials that organize at smaller sizes, say, less than 20 or even 10 nanometers"

Direct Self-Assembly (DSA) is one of the competitors for the next-generation 'lithography' together with direct-write via electron beam and the more traditional extreme UV (EUV) lithography. Although there are huge benefits to use DSA, the technology does have some drawbacks when it comes to line edge roughness. It seems however particularly good for repetitive structures that are used in memory chips. As long as EUV is struggling to get it working, DSA definitely has a fighting chance to enter the market one day.

nice if you wondered whats hidden inside your laptop or itouch

Surprisingly cool initiative from Microsoft...

Nintendo did the same a few years ago with the Gameboy Advance and a FPGA module ... very easy to use, very instructive, and a lot of fun (i was a geek!)

very nice indeed!

marek's new gadget after the ha-wi-fi t-shirt

what can we do with it ? any ideas? a memo?

New gadget for Leopold

A personal interest of mine that I want to explore a bit more in the future. I just bought a ZigBee electricity monitor and I am wondering whether from the signal of the mains one could detect (reliably) the oven turning on, lights, etc. Probably requires Neural Network training. The idea would be to make a simple device which basically saves you money by telling you how much electricity you are wasting. Then again, its probably already done by Google...

Randomly I found this: http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/consumer-electronics/gadgets/curb-startup-home-electricity-tracking Isn't it a similar kind of stuff Thijs?

haha, yep, that's it... but we can do better than that right! :)

5.8 GHz wireless power transmission for mainstream gadgets ...

Proximity to the transmitter impacts power delivery as follows: 4W delivered to 4 devices simultaneously within 0-5 feet 2W delivered to 4 devices simultaneously within 5-10 feet 1W delivered to 4 devices simultaneously within 10-15 feet How to make a piecewise approximation of one inverse square law for commercial purposes

:-) - which also tells us that these are not measured values but estimations it seems to me ...

According to their Nature article, they can detect "a tunnel less than 1m across, buried 2m underground" just from its gravitational difference. Using a device that they predict could cost ~100 € in mass production. UK researchers have built a small device that measures tiny fluctuations in gravity, and could be used to monitor volcanoes or search for oil. Such gravimeters already exist but compared to this postage stamp-sized gadget, they are bulky and pricy.

Definite solution for our work space!!!!!

Absolutely :-) according to picture http://www.ufunk.net/gadgets/helmfon-casque-open-space/attachment/helmfon-casque-open-space-5/ we could squeeze three times as many researchers then :-)

enjoy

excalibur style

Guido and Paul's app is out - and here is the "promotion" video ...

very impressive!

Very cool - I like also like the little tumble that the copter does after it launches the pole. It look like it is happy of what it just did :-D