Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Tech Tuesday

http://gizmodo.com/these-beautiful-solar-orbs-are-so-efficient-they-even-h-1500329295
high efficiency cheap solar panels. We'll see if they actually work remotely as well as they claim, but the design definitely looks to solve some old problems. Last I checked, photovoltaic panels have a threshold, below which they do nothing but take up space, and concentrating light with an orb (cheap) onto a small, high efficiency receptor (cheap-ish), is much more cost effective than trying to build a full size panel of the same stuff.

http://gizmodo.com/hands-on-the-3doodler-3d-printing-pen-patience-is-a-vi-1496463299
3d printer pen. Sounds like it's kind of hard to work with without a lot of time and practice, but seriously; 3d printer pen. Cheaper than a full 3D printer, and doesn't require any modelling software, which can get pretty darn spendy. Actual retailer's site is here http://www.the3doodler.com/

http://gizmodo.com/flir-just-turned-your-iphone-5-into-a-predator-like-the-1496554213 
Heatvision in your phone case. If they can make it that small, they can make NVGs or equivalent that aren't obnoxiously massive. If they make one for a phone I get/have, I might take a look at it.

http://gizmodo.com/i-wore-the-new-oculus-rift-and-i-never-want-to-look-at-1496569598
Day by day, we get closer to virtual reality that isn't obnoxious. Next step will be implant/neural stuff

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-flying-drone-helicopter-truck-is-a-real-life-trans-1499062924
Last but not least, this drone/truck/copter is ugly and probably won't work and I want one anyway.

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