Don’t know how long to cook that roast beef? Get a new oven. In fact, get the Electrolux Inspiro oven. Not only is it elegant looking, but the Inspiro is the first oven to automatically select the correct “cooking style” to cook whatever you put into it. Simply select what type of food and style of cooking you intend on doing, e.g. “roasting”, via the Inspiro’s display and the oven handles the rest. The oven uses its high tech sensors to calculate the exact amount of energy required to bring to food to temperature. Once the sensors detect that the food has reached the optimal temperature…voila! Dinner is served!
The Inspiro is different than other “similar” ovens in that it does not use conventional thermometer to determine the exact temperature. The Inspiro is also equipped with a database of cooking styles to determine the proper technique to cook the food - whether it should deliver the heat to the top, bottom, or side; it’ll even “grill” or simply deliver hot air to the food.
Watch the video below for more information. You’ll even learn how the oven is made.
The Lumix DMC-FX500 point-and-shoot camera is Panasonic’s first camera to get fitted with a touchscreen display. Speaking of displays, the FX500 gets a 3-inch (230,000 dots) LCD display. Finger inputs or a stylus can be used to make menu navigation a breeze. Basic setting changes can also be done via the built-in joystick, located along side the LCD. Together, both should make the UI experience easier. The Lumix DMC-FX500 is powered by the Venus Engine IV processor, which allows a shutter speed response time lag of 0.005s and a capture rate of 2.5 fps at full resolution in burst shooting mode. In High-Speed Burst shooting mode, it jumps to 6 fps. Of course, that’s not all, the FX500 sports a 10.1 megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom, image stabilization, auto focus, intelligent auto, red-eye correction, face detection, and 720p (1,280 x 720) video recording at 30 fps.
The Pansonic Lumix DMC-FX500 ships in May for $399. Available in either black of silver.
The Tetris Mirror, designed by Soner Ozenc, is made from mirrored acrylic pieces that if put together would form a large rectangle. But, why would you hang them all connected? It’s much more “artsy” if you mount them somewhat apart, as shown in the images. The Tetris Mirror appears to consist of 13 pieces.
I don’t know about you, but looking at this made me want to play some Tetris. Wanna play tetris? After the jump.
Do people still use PDAs these days? Apparently, Getac thinks so. Getac has announced its rugged PS535 PDA that is PS535 MIL-STD-801F compliant, so it can withstand vibrations and shock abuse. In fact, it can withstand 2,000 1.6-foot drops. On top of that, the PDA meets IEC-529 standards for water and dust resistance. Probably aimed at the government/military users, the PS535 features:
* 400 MHz Samsung S3C2440A processor
* 3.5″ TFT QVGA touchscreen LCD display
* Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0
* 2GB Flash memory
* 64MB of RAM
* Bluetooth
* Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
* SD card slot
* GPS
* Mic-in and Line-out
* Battery life: 2400mAh lithium-ion; 8 hours before recharging
The Getac PS535E measures 5.7 x 3.3 x 1.2 inches and weighs 10.6 ounces. So, it’s no heftier than your average PDA. Getac has not announced pricing or availability details.
Engineered by Boston Dynamics, with funding from DARPA, this four-legged robotic mule can carry 340 pounds of weight through snow, concrete, ice, rubble, and dirt. Dubbed “BigDog”, the monster-looking robot is equipped with super high tech gyroscopes to help maintain its balance, as seen in the video.
With $10 million in funding, I hope they can fix the noise it makes. I think the culprit is the gas-powered motor. Watching the video made me mute the damn volume.
Using a Philips 8155 flatbed plotter printer, Oleksiy Pikalo modified the printer to use an edible brown ink to print out logos (or whatever he wants) onto his morning cup of joe. He even has a little starter guide to help you build one for yourselves should be feel inclined to do so.
Check out this digital hour glass concept that modernizes the tried and tested 11th century invention. Designed by Pavel Balykins, the “Sand + Time Watch” is a digital watch that is shaped like hour glass. It has a sand hour glass screensaver, however, instead of using sand, the watch uses pixels that flows from one chamber to the next. The Sand + Time Watch even has a motion sensor, so you can flip it over to reset the “hour glass”. To exit the screen saver and display the time, in numbers, a simple press of a button will do it.
