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Senior Mobile Phone actually <i>is</i> your grandma's phone

Senior Mobile Phone actually is your grandma's phone

Big buttons. A simple display. Rounded corners. Yep, with a design like that, it's definitely for grandma. It's even named...
 
R1 radio has a control method you've never seen before

R1 radio has a control method you've never seen before

Here's a new way to control a radio: by rolling it. The design is simple, with the direction you roll...
 
Plastic surgery iPhone app: medical aid or just plain creepy?

Plastic surgery iPhone app: medical aid or just plain creepy?

Tons of iPhone apps come out every day. Most are helpful, cool, and fun, but there is a new one...
 
Bonkers $900 motorized keyboard disinfects itself

Bonkers $900 motorized keyboard disinfects itself

A company called Vioguard has created a motorized keyboard that lives in its own little sterilizing-UV-light-shinin' box that kills germs...
 
Automatic stilts make walking more complicated

Automatic stilts make walking more complicated

Nissan's new concept design for a personal mobility device sure is, well, interesting. It looks like a pair of roller...
 
Anti-Gravity Treadmill, almost like exercising on Mars

Anti-Gravity Treadmill, almost like exercising on Mars

Want to get some exercise done in microgravity? Unless you travel to the International Space Station, exercise in a pool,...
 
This is no phone; it's an ultrasound machine

This is no phone; it's an ultrasound machine

This is the GE VScan portable ultrasound machine. Yes, it looks almost exactly like a flip phone, but you can't...
 
Keep track of wanderers with the Ekahau Wi-Fi wristband

Keep track of wanderers with the Ekahau Wi-Fi wristband

Do you have a wanderer in your family, be it a little kid, a rebelling teenager or a fading grandparent?...
 
'Happy U' USB-powered massager makes some bold claims

'Happy U' USB-powered massager makes some bold claims

So, here's a USB-powered massager. That's nice, right? I mean, you pay $15 for it, plug it into your machine...
 
Self-stabilizing gyrowheel makes training wheels obsolete

Self-stabilizing gyrowheel makes training wheels obsolete

The gyrowheel would make it so that anyone learning to ride a bike — or just keep any ol' bike...
 
One man's vintage SPARCstation computer is another's coffin

One man's vintage SPARCstation computer is another's coffin

What's to be done with our bodies after we cash out is a grim thought, sure, but one brother, Sam,...
 
'Roll Charge Light Protect' project keeps wheelchairs safe at night

'Roll Charge Light Protect' project keeps wheelchairs safe at night

While it may look like it belongs on the lesser-known reality TV show, Pimp My Wheelchair, Min-Goo Kim's "Roll Charge...
 
RAPUD robot arm empowers the disabled with metallic muscles

RAPUD robot arm empowers the disabled with metallic muscles

Before we get our wish of fully automated humanoid robots, we're much more likely to see the first wave of...
 
Sniff the bionic dog hunts gadgets with an RFID nose

Sniff the bionic dog hunts gadgets with an RFID nose

Not just gadgets, either — Sniff can identify and react to anything that's appropriately labeled with an RFID tag. It's...
 
Brain scans reveal what's in your mind's eye

Brain scans reveal what's in your mind's eye

Scientists are getting closer to being able to create an image of whatever you're picturing your mind. This is either...
 

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