Gizmo Watch

We were thrilled by the news that Microsoft was doing a Wii-like device. And when the news became official at the E3 there wasn’t a limit to our excitement for the fact that we saw a competition for the Wii, that’s singlehandedly dominated the...

We haven’t seen aliens, but if we had the liberty to guess how they would look, we wouldn’t have gone any further beyond Bjoern Schuelke’s interactive sculptures. We took a while to actually work out what this bizarre outcome of intellect was....

Developed for people with Cerebral Palsy and restrictive upper body movement, the motion sensor technology is aimed at helping these people “relearn simple tasks.” Medics can monitor a patient’s response to physiotherapy with the help of 12...

Taking motion sensing to all new heights, we now have a glove that can help deaf people communicate. The HandTalk has to be worn by the deaf person on his/her palm. The different palm positions viz. a fist, extended fingers, etc will be sensed by the...

A couple of weeks ago, we had an interesting robot project and now, for all you people who want to veto boredom, here is one more robot project that promoses to keep you engaged and engrossed. This one is called the Single-RCX Biped II robot and like.

It has been witnessed many times that certain inventions have done more harm than good. Though the inventors may never have though the way these things would be misused. Now, I am not talking about an eggbeater or a rolling pin but the things that have.

Throw off all your gizmos, iPods and Zunes! This new age interactive tabletop system has got it all. An exalted fabrication by MIT graduates, this system fundamentally locates the position and exact co-ordinates of objects and translates their...