2 Dollar Multi Touch Pad

What you see above is a multi touch pad built from a plastic bag, dyed water and a camera. The camera looks up from below and the image it sees it converted in to three areas through threshold. Light blue represents the background with dark blue being the fingers which are seen as an overlay on the screen. Pressure points are seen as another colour and when the pressure points show up they are recognised and translated accordingly. More technical details can be found at 37Signals linked after the video demonstration below. On to the practical side of this… I doubt anyone would want to carry a plastic bag of blue dye around with them, but its still cool and well worth checking out.

Via: 37Signals

Biometric Door Lock

Biometrics are very handy as they allow secure access to places by fingerprint, eye scans and other various parts of your body. As long as you do not loose your fingers with this lock then you can get in and out when ever you want. It would seem a little weird swiping your finger over the sensor on your front door. With it being programmable you can deny access to who ever you want while permitting access to all of your family.

Via: ChilliTechnology

UXV Combatant Unmanned Drone Warship

This is the UXV Combatant warship that is being developed by BAE systems. The future according to BAE will be filled with AI and robots which will fight against each other. It sounds rather terminatorish to me. It expected that this ship will go in to service after 2020 which isnt that far away to be honest. It is 8000 tonnes and will have a whole host of features such as a below deck hangar, smart munitions and twin flight decks to name a few.

Full integrated electrical propulsion with twin propeller shafts/motors supplied by gas turbine and diesel alternators. Alternatively, cruising power can be supplied by two shafts/motors and diesel alternators with boost power from one gas turbine driving two water jets.

Completly crazy

Via: Gizmodo

iPhone 3D Model

If you cannot afford to fork out several hundred dollars for an iPhone and put it on contract then you could go for a 3D wireframe model. I know it doesnt have the same effect but still looks the same….. on screen. The iPhone is available for download in a lowpoly format in 3D Studio MAX format at Exchange3D.

Via: Exchange3D

Scratched Halo 3 Discs

Halo 3 was finally launched yesterday, but unfortunately a lot of end users ended up getting a scratched disc like the one above. Microsoft have been good about it and will obviously be replacing any damaged discs, but it will take about 2 weeks to get the new copy back. This is effecting the limited edition versions.

Via: Fosfor

Kam Kam Cell Phone Holder

The Kam Kam is a mobile phone holder shaped like a cat. When a call is received the cat will wag its tail to alert you to the call. It works by detecting the mobile phone signal similar to what you hear when the radio is on and a call arrives. When that is detected the tail wags away. The phone holder will wag its tail even when it is up to 5 feet away. I would imagine it would be kind of freaky for those not know what it does to suddenly see the tail go. It takes 2 AA batteries and costs $29.99.

Product Page Via: TechChee

Elecom fits a ton of Cards inside

The Elecom MR-C12 is a memory card case to put it basically. It also features a USB connection and card reader for most of the popular memory card formats. It is ideal for those who want to safely carry their memory cards around with out the fear of loosing them.

Via: TechTreak

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