“The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. The Tracker responds to text message commands, detects motion, and sends you its exact position, ready for Google Maps or your mapping software.”
“Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which, during specific times of the year, transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar.”
Watch the timelapse video on the page.
“Researchers have built the world’s smallest transistor - one atom thick and 10 atoms wide - out of a material that could one day replace silicon.”
“Scientists in the UK have thought differently about touchpad designs: their system peeks at your fingertips to see what you’re touching. It can sense what you’re touching and how hard, so everything —even a 3D uneven surface— could be made into a touchpad. Quite why they chose to demo this with a purring rock we’re not sure. But we like it”
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