Official Cool Tech Thread.....

[Alathald]

Now that sucks, I had an idea for a mp3 player that rips cds like that a year or two ago but I didn't pursue it cause I didn't think it would be all that safe for your cds (imagine accidentally letting it rub against something). My solution, something that telescopes around to protect the cd but folds back up when using as a mp3 player...oh well, I've got plenty of other $1000000 ideas...now just to find the financial resources...

nice, though it looks like a 3 wheeled car

It is a 3wheel car and if I remember right, it leans into corners like a motorcycle.

[Dragon_Cooler]

wifi t-shirt that actually lights up with wi-fi signals



http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/991e/

[vicaphit]

That's awesome, I liked the graphic equalizer from thinkgeek.

It even works just like a real equalizer!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/8a5b/

[kappage]

this is what i want.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

[Dragon_Cooler]

So simple yet sooo freaking kewl!!!








http://chipchick.com/2007/11/designer_e ... lamps.html

[bubba]

now that is cool.

[kappage]

What does it do?

[ibleet]

Artsy fartsy stuff.

[bubba]

What does it do?

Its a jigsaw puzzle circuit board with an embedded LED. So when you assembly it and set it on a 9V battery its a lamp. Its a geek desktop conversation starter.

[Dragon_Cooler]

for 30 bucks though..... I was thinking about getting one, till i saw the price tag

[bubba]

How about a disappearing car door...

http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liHkY1_muSo

[Alathald]

Now this is cool, it will trace a 3D model from a video for use in, say, Google Earth or Second Life...

VideoTrace: Rapid interactive scene modelling from video

VideoTrace is a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video—models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation environment, or another video sequence. The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modelled over one or more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a realistic 3D model. Each of the sketching operations in VideoTrace provides an intuitive and powerful means of modelling shape from video, and executes quickly enough to be used interactively. Immediate feedback allows the user to model rapidly those parts of the scene which are of interest and to the level of detail required. The combination of automated and manual reconstruction allows VideoTrace to model parts of the scene not visible, and to succeed in cases where purely automated approaches would fail.

http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/

[Dragon_Cooler]

this is really kewl!!!!

[DMB2000uk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SSu3tJ3ns

Content aware image resizing!

You can do this one yourself, but it's a fair bit of work

Dan

[bubba]

http://gizmodo.com/383144/fat-shark-wir ... rst-person

Fatshark 3d glasses for first person RC car driving.

[vicaphit]

That is awesome bubba! They need those for RC planes, then I might be couragous enough to try that hobby. Though that would probably make you get motion sickness. Can you imagine how bumpy of a ride that would be?

[DMB2000uk]

It's been done

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5215129742

2 years ago in fact.

Dan

[skier]

It's been done

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5215129742

2 years ago in fact.

Dan

just need to be able to sell them mass,rather than just having everybody have to mod and customize to get it

[Dragon_Cooler]

It's been done

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5215129742

2 years ago in fact.

Dan

im so in!!!!!! closest i will probably get to flying helicopters!!

[vicaphit]

That is bad ass... It looks like the guy has some fake instrument panels to make it look like a cockpit.