Turns out DIY wifi extenders really do work!

Fact or fiction: What affects Wi-Fi speed? | Macworld.

A team of researchers at MIT have been working this year on a system that can track people through walls with impressive accuracy using radio waves. The team showed the system earlier this month. IDG News Service made a video of the demo, which took place at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The system is still in a proof of concept stage but the team spoke with reps from wireless and component companies during an open house recently. The system was developed by Professor and CSAIL Principal Investigator Dina Katabi and PhD student Fadel Adib. The technology uses low-power signals to track human movement and to decipher motions behind walls. Adib said their accuracy is higher than even state of the art Wi-Fi localization.Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-10-mit-team-tracks-people-walls.html#jCp

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-mit-team-tracks-people-walls.html

Avegant has produced this device, a wearable prototype he simply calls the Virtual Retinal Display for now. It could be most closely compared to the Oculus Rift, a full-field wearable display that presents a 3D image to the wearer. However, where the Rift cunningly relies on a single LCD panel and some simple optics to work its magic, Avegant’s product actually projects two discrete images directly onto the retinas of the wearer — as is not-so-subtly implied by the name.

http://reviews.cnet.com/wearable-tech/avegant-virtual-retinal-display/4505-34900_7-35828603.html

Freaky but awesome, based on military tech but supposed to be much more relaxing for the eyes than lcd tech, it has xga resolution.

Direct-to and Nearest buttons that utilize a worldwide airport database
Altimeter with adjustable baro setting and compass
Displays multiple time zones with Zulu/UTC reference
Various timers and vibrating alerts for inflight task reminders
Wirelessly receives flight plan from Garmin Pilot™ and controls VIRB™

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/in-the-air/portable-gps/d2-pilot-watch/prod148289.html#gallery-dialog

So you don’t need a USB dongle, just an SD card in your slot.

This SD Card Is Hiding a Mifi Inside.

This system is like the leap motion, but has a 3d spacial interface, giving you an extra axis and more control. It also follows your whole finger instead of the fingertips. pmd technologies

http://lynxlaboratories.com/aboutLynxA.php

http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/03/12/build-your-own-diy-oculus-rift-guide-3927

It will only cost $60 to digitise your film negatives

gizmodo

It consists of a sensor that sends an audio signal to a dongle in your audio jack. They have an open source sdk so you can take the temp and do what you like with it. Thermodo

It’s a pen that can draw in 3D and make real objects!

The 3Doodler.

The wiring of his new bionic hand will be connected to the patient’s nervous system with the hope that the man will be able to control the movements of the hand as well as receiving touch signals from the hand’s skin sensors.

Dr Micera said that the hand will be attached directly to the patient’s nervous system via electrodes clipped onto two of the arm’s main nerves, the median and the ulnar nerves.

This should allow the man to control the hand by his thoughts, as well as receiving sensory signals to his brain from the hand’s sensors. It will effectively provide a fast, bidirectional flow of information between the man’s nervous system and the prosthetic hand.

A sensational breakthrough: the first bionic hand that can feel – News – Gadgets & Tech – The Independent.

This Satechi mini router is tiny, portable and offers a whole lot of functionalities. The price is $49,99 normally, but it’s being offered for $39,99 now.

youtube film here

Wireless Multifunction Mini Router / Repeater / Access Point / Client / Bridge.

Ghent University’s centre of microsystems technology has developed a spherical curved LCD display which can be embedded in contact lenses and handle projected images using wireless technology.

“Now that we have established the basic technology, we can start working towards real applications, possibly available in only a few years,” said Professor Herbert De Smet.

Unlike previous contact lens displays, which are limited to a few small pixels to make up an image, the new technology allows the whole curved surface of the lens to be used.

Text messages direct to your contact lens – Telegraph.

The plan is to use autonomous airborne drones to fly around carrying physical payloads up to 2kg with a network of base stations upon which drones can land and replace their batteries. It’ll be run on the same principles as TCP/IP and allow for intelligent routing of ‘packets’ (aircraft).

Monitor: An internet of airborne things | The Economist.

Spanish scientists design a revolutionary data storage device.

Deckard Sorenson has found a way to coat a surface with hydrophilic and hydrophobic coatings, and then uses a fan to pass air over the surface. The water condenses on the surface and, eventually, Sorenson has created a self-filling water bottle.

Scientist takes inspiration from natural world to create self-filling water bottle | PRI.ORG.

Triggertrap | Creative ways of triggering your camera.

This consists of a dongle and an app for iphone / android

This article sold me on the Cloth Addiction microfiber cloth. Hopefully they’ll send some to Europe.

The Overhyped, Dumbly Named, Completely Awesome Microfiber Cloth.

LG Chem says it has a cable-type lithium-ion battery that is so flexible it can be tied in knots and worn as a bracelet or woven into textiles. For mobile device designers, the eventual commercial production of such a battery would be a very big deal in reducing design constraints. Flexible batteries have been created before but made in flat sheets and have not stored much energy. The LG Chem flexible battery is thin and very flexible, able to be placed anywhere in any shape. Thin strands of copper wire are coated with nickel-tin. The strands are made into a metal yarn and wrapped around a rod. Once the rod is removed, a strong spring results.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-09-lg-chem-cable-batteries-reshape.html#jCp

LG Chem cable batteries may reshape mobile designs.

This $300,- bit of kit has a touchscreen, adjustable pads, removable bits, is easy to program for macros and is made from metal.

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via Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E. 7 Gaming Keyboard for PC.

A very diverse set of robots doing all kinds of tasks

Inside iRobot's Vault of Failed Experimental Robots.