Matt Richardson’s “Descriptive Camera” doesn’t take pictures, not even blurry ones. But it works just fine. Rather than capturing an image on film, Richardson’s invention — a prototype built for a Computational Cameras class at New York University‘s Interactive Telecommunications Program — prints out a descriptive bit of text about the photo.
Twitter is calling for an industry-wide armistice in the intellectual property wars. Today it announced the Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA), a pact that it will not use employees’ patents for offensive measures, but rather to protect itself when it is necessary.
Certainly you’ve assembled a piece of IKEA furniture and experienced that special kind of frustration that comes with realising the screw holes don’t line up and you have to take everything apart and put it together it again. Now imagine this problem at 230m in the air with massive steel girders instead of particle board. When those holes don’t line up, it’s a whole different kind of frustration.
Stoolies, rats, and snitches might one day have Bahram Azizollah Ganji to thank for not getting killed. Because he just created the world’s smallest capacitor microphone, measuring in at just half a millimetre on each side.
Mind Reading. Power harvesting. No more passwords. The Death of spam. Technology for everyone. These are five thing IBM believes are the future. Not 50 years in the future, but more like five years in the future.
It’s been a good year for Aussie ingenuity if the winners of the Australian’s Innovation Challenge are any indication. Taking out top gong was Jeremy Woodhill with his Smart GPO, an intelligent power point that can save households up to $5 a week with no effort whatsoever.
We’ve all been there: tired and possibly inebriated while searching for a light switch, bumping into ghostly walls and making a general mess of things in the dead of the night. Now comes a handy all-in-one switch that has the potential to make those 4am stumbles a thing of the past.
