Innovation

• Google Glass gains facial recognition with sneaky hack

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  By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
  05.14.13 | No Comments
  Google Glass is exciting. It’s the first real step towards hands-free computing and one day, Star Trek-style interaction. Recently though, one user's gone and squeezed facial recognition into Google Glass, with fairly accurate results. His project is called MedRef for Google Glass and it adds extra cards (same as Google Now) to the Glass timeline. Or as Lance Nanek, the developer of MedRef, calls it “cool medical stuff and facial recognition.” Users would need to first install the Glassware. The MedRef cards pop ...

  Topics: apps, facial recognition, Google, google glass

• Scentee is the very real smell add-on for iPhone

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  By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
  05.13.13 | No Comments
  Here’s a list of tech innovations coming out this year. Only one is real: A bluetooth fork that buzzes if you eat too quickly An eye-controlled TV A massager that plugs into your iPhone for social “happiness” A Blackberry-like keyboard that slides over your iPhone A scent add-on for the iPhone So which one is the odd one out? Try none of them. Every gadget is real, and coming very soon. But today we’re talking about the Scentee, a plug-in for the iPhone 4S that wirelessly ...

  Topics: iPhone, scentee, smells for phone

• Sony caption-display glasses rolling out to 6000 Regal Cinemas

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  By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
  05.13.13 | No Comments
  Good news for hearing-impared film fans: Regal Cinemas will ready closed-caption glasses to well over 6 000 cinemas by month end, says NPR.org. Think of the glasses as 3D lenses for the ears -- captions are displayed on the glasses and will look as if they are floating ten feet away from the user. The video below neatly demonstrates the power of the Sony-powered caption glasses. The lightweight (but very large) glasses produce “private” closed caption text for both 3D and ...

• Half Life 2 ages gracefully, gains Oculus Rift VR support

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  By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
  05.10.13 | 2 Comments
  Half Life 2, undoubtedly the finest first person shooter of all time, is the latest game to receive support from the Oculus Rift VR headset. The Oculus Rift developer forums posted this update Thursday evening. We just shipped a beta for Half-Life 2 that includes Oculus Rift support. To get it, open the properties for HL2 in Steam, set your command line to "-vr", and opt-in to the SteamPipe beta. This should ship to everybody in a few weeks. This port is ...

  Topics: Games, half life 2, Oculus Rift, pc, VR

• Nokia Portable USB Charger is a beautifully designed curio

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  By Staff Reporter
  05.10.13 | No Comments
  Some gadgets sometimes slip through the cracks, but not hopefully Nokia’s Universal Portable USB Charger. For roughly US$15-20 (based on the price of Nokia’s other external chargers), we’ll soon be able to pickup this enticingly cute portable 1720mAh charger from Nokia. It weighs 65g, measures 57x57mm and looks like a real life charging icon, made into a very attractive charger. Nokia’s new charger, the DC-18 has a battery icon on the front that mimics the power status of most smartphones. Tug ...

  Topics: Asha 501, charger, DC-18, nokia, portable, USB

• CryEngine 3 pushes the limits in this almost photorealistic demo

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  By Staff Reporter
  04.24.13 | No Comments
  French firm ENODO designed this incredible video of urban life by using CryEngine 3, software used to create games such as Crysis 3. ENODO doesn’t seem to keen on actually creating a workable game from this demo, judging by its YouTube description: "Enodo bridges two worlds, with only one purpose: to level up our client's business by questioning cutting edge Real Time 3D technologies, to show that the mechanisms governing the world of video games are powerful and will revolutionize ...

  Topics: cryengine 3, DEMO, Games, realtime

• Fundawear: a wireless experiment in modern foreplay

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  By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
  04.22.13 | No Comments
  Has you ever sat on your mobile phone while it's ringing and thought, “I’m turned on. I want more of this”? Here’s your solution: Fundawear. It’s magical Wi-Fi underwear sponsored by Durex, made in Australia and lovingly designed to “transfer touch across vast distances.” Watch this video and ignore the shameful faces made by the Fundawear models. Durex is calling this “the future of foreplay” and if you head on over to its Facebook page, you can see more of the ...

  Topics: durex, fundawear, iPhone, sex toys, wifi gadgets

• The Twitter-powered cuckoo clock ‘#Flock’ is a real thing

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  By Bianca Budricks
  04.19.13 | No Comments
  Twitter seems to be catching some limelight this week. Following the launch of its range of #Music apps yesterday, and to put the cherry on the cake, enter the Twitter cuckoo clock #Flock. This neat little contraption is a clock like no other, entirely Twitter driven, the clock chirps at replies, retweets or new followers gained. An initiative by the social network's UK division, the clock was built in partnership with BERG, which is a London design consultancy that specialises in ...

  Topics: cuckoo clock, flock, Twitter

• Sony’s dog-mounted camera harness is a Japan-only oddity

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  By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
  04.18.13 | No Comments
  Here’s the deal: Sony’s gone and released a dog-mounted camera harness, affectionally known as the AKA-DM1. For US$50, users can now order this harness that’ll fit onto any dog heavier than 15kg and between 50-80cm in size. Also, dogs get to look like this now: Behold, the end of human suffering A dogs eye-view The harness (which fits snugly around the belly of the dog) works in tandem with Sony’s new line of action cameras. Sony’s sold the action cameras for a while now and ...

• Is HAPIFork a dumb fad or smart new eating tool?

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  By Bianca Budricks
  04.18.13 | No Comments
  A new generation of weight and meal control has arrived. Enter the Kickstater funded HAPIfork, a fork that vibrates if you eat too fast, checking the pace at which you eat. It is a well-known fact that slowing down and paying attention to your eating habits is important to maintaining weight control and living a healthy lifestyle. This is where the HAPIfork comes in: as a mealtime analytics tool that helps you keep track of how you eat. With each “fork ...

  Topics: digital eating, hapifork, news

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