It seems that more and more steps are being taken to have that car of the future. Its really amazing that this car thinks for itself. Hopefully more advancements can be taken so that cars will be safer and that less people will be hurt in reckless accidents.
Category: Past Student Work
Dynamic Architecture
Architect David Fisher has designed an 80 story wind turbine powered tower. Located in Dubai, the rotating tower will cost an estimated $700 million and be finished in 2010. Fisher explains that the plan for a dynamic building arose from his idea that architecture should incorporate a 4th dimension, time. The building in motion will…
Wrist Camera
The Wrist camera is one of the useful invention. Sometimes we forget our camera in parties, but wrist camera is giving us the opportunity to not forget our camera. It is a waterporrof camera, and can be used 30 feet deep. and it weights like less than 30 onces. It will help you to take…
Build Your Own Laser Pointer
This site shows you how to build your own laser pointer from a 16x DVD player. You must dismantle the DVD player to acquire the laser diode. Then get a laser housing unit and remove the original laser. Solder pins onto the end of the DVD laser diode and put it in the laser housing….
Geocatching
In May of 2000, the good news of 24 new satellites used for Global Positioning System’s around the world meant increased accuracy. With this news, ideas began swirling around and before long the idea similar to a treasure hunt was developed. The goal of Geocaching is to locate the hidden containers, and the fun behind…
Talking Mirrors
Everyone knows that the talking mirror comes from Snow White’s evil step mother, but what they do not know is that it now exist. Craig Barr is the creator of the mirror, but the mirror does not tell you who the fairest of the all is, instead it lets you know what is going on…
TWo sisters!
Holography has not always been accepted in the art world. But will continue to be impressioning views of many people. An artist that goes by the name of Fred Unterseher has caught my attention and is well known, and has done many art pieces that are amazing. This ony perticular piece is called Two Sisters….
Humanistic Cars
This is an advertisement from Toyota. Ifeel interested about the humanistic equipments, such as chairs, horns and lamps. It is so funny when I see the artificial person holding the lamps or whistling when the driver turns on the music. This commercial drive people’s attention and emphasize that car design can really touch human’s heart….
Taylor Hokanson’s Sledgehammer Keyboard
Taylor Hokanson‘s Sledgehammer Keyboard functions like a regular computer keyboard (it uses a hacked USB keyboard) , but the keys need a great deal of force to be pressed. To type, users must hit the keys with a sledgehammer.The thought behind Hokanson’s work is that maybe writing is perhaps becoming too easy. Hokanson asks, “If…
BLOW MARILYN MONROE- ON THE RREAALLL!!!
Just an awesome arduino project that this Chinese graduate student did. (Sorry can’t read Chinese so I don’t know his name and other details.) All I know is that he used arduino, sensors, and flash animation to form the interaction. This eventually led to his graduate show, as seen below. The sensors convert the air pressure/ frequency…
half man/ half robot?
This new prototype from Honda shows that robotics does not have to function by itself. You can incorporate robotics into a person. Just look at all the science fiction movie or the latest Honda Assimo robot prototype. The world is full of hybrid cars. Why not a hybrid robot? That way it won’t be as…