Posts Tagged ‘Abnormaltech’

Some cool design Toasters

Notepad toaster

Write your note on the message board and it will burn onto the bread. This idea was created by designer Sasha Tseng. It is a good idea for family who like to leave note in the morning for other members. Hopefully they do not finish the bread half way then realize there are note on the bread.

Zuse Toaster

This idea was inspired by a dot matrix printer, it can toasts 12 x 12 pixel images onto the bread. The toaster can be attached to the wall.

Art toaster

This toaster come with 6 interchangeable plates that allow you to toast different images onto your bread.

Dark lord toaster

Last but not least is the Star wars toaster. The toaster will bring an image of Dark Lord onto your bread. Die heart Star Wars fans will not want to miss out on this gadget.

via crookedbrains

Solar bra

Solar Power Bra

Few month back i have posted a unique bra (Konkatsu Bra) also from Triumph, it a a bra with a timer showing how many days are left for the wearer to get married. This time round Triumph has introduce a “Solar Power Bra”, this is a move by then to promote environmental friendly. The built-in solar panel that captures and redistributes the sun’s power and can actually generate enough electric energy to power a cell phone or an iPod! At the moment it is still a concept, moreover lady cannot just wear bra without a clothes over it and start walking on the street right?

via Pigletsnort

Robot with bones that move like you do

Not only is Japan making new improvement in their robot technology, researchers from various European countries have invented a robot with bones that move like you do. Their project, the Eccerobot, has been designed to duplicate the way human bones, muscles and tendons work and are linked together. The plastic bones copy biological shapes and are moved by kite-line that is tough like tendons, while elastic cords mimic the bounce of muscle. As this is only in their early stage of design, they are confident to make the robot to interacts with the  environment in a more human manner.

via newscientist

CRISTAL – Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces

Multiple remote controller for different devices is like a thing of past ever since the release of all in one remote controller. But there since to be another problem to it, is that it is quite complicated to configure. But now there since to be another invention to solve the problem of having multiple remote controller. It is call the Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces (CRISTAL), this machine resemble the one from microsoft surface. CRISTAL is design just like your normal home coffee table, with an LCD screen showing your living room. Take for example if you want to control your house lamp you simply touch the lamp that is show on the LCD screen and you will be able to control it. It is also acting like a media server which you can just drag and drop a movie onto the television and it will auto play the movie. I leave to the video clip to explain more clearly.

Use Lemon as your Battery

Making a battery using a lemon is a common project that can be found in most science textbook. Successfully creating one of these devices is not easy. Batteries consist of two different metals suspended in an acidic solution.  Copper and Zinc work well as the metals and the citric acid content of a lemon will provide the acidic solution. Batteries like this will not be able to run a motor or energize most light bulbs.  It is possible to produce a dim glow from an LED.

Lemon battery label

Insert a 1cent coin into a cut on one side of the lemon. Then push a galvanized nail into the other side of the lemon. The nail and penny must not touch.

4 Lemon battery

Usually a single lemon battery will produce voltage of about 0.906volts so when you connect 4 of them into series circuit it produce roughly 3.5volts. This is more than enough to make a LED glow. If you fail in your first attempt try to experiment with different zinc and copper (The 1 cent coin may not be purely copper so try experiment with different coin).

via hilaroad