Google Voice vintage phone booths

Google introduce old style phone booths across America in locations such as busy college campuses and airports, to advertise the Google Voice calling feature which can be accessed through your Gmail account.  These Google voice phone boxes are completely free to use, and aim to get people to use Google Voice, and see how the quality compares to alternatives.

Paper iPhone TV

by Ricky Trickartt

see it working:

Dorm Window Light Show

Students from Wroclaw University in Poland created this amazing light show from 

their dorm windows.

Sensors turn skin into gadget control pad with 'SKINPUT'

Imagine if your iPhone was the size of a small watch?  It would be impossible to navigate without decent sized keys and icons.  But what if you could project the screen onto your hand, and then type directly onto it?  The size of our fingers is limiting how small devices can become.  But with a new system called 'Skinput', a sensor around your arm teamed with a minute projector can literally turn your hand into a touch sensitive screen.  At the moment the sensor is a bit bulky and unattractive but we are not far away from playing music and making phone calls on our hands.  Watch this video and read accompanying article to see how it works.

Scientists Use 3D Printer to Create First “Printed” Human Vein

Scientists working on the Organovo NovoGen printer recently created the first "printed" human vein.  This technology could replace other toxic and carbon-heavy medicinal practices like using artificial body parts in the human body.

The printer is meant to be used in regenerative medicine.  Instead of borrowing body parts from someone else - or yourself - the printer will just make a new part for you.  The printer is loaded with cartridges of "bio-ink" a substance that acts as a kind of scaffolding for the cells to retain their shape.  A sophisticated computer is linked to the printed that is pre-programmed with the 3D blueprint of whatever is being made. The computer instructs the printer to lay down two dimensional layers of bio ink and cells that eventually form into the 3D body part. article taken from www.inhabitat.com

Click here to listen to a conversation about how the device works with the man who developed the prototype, Gabor Forgacs.

Turn your desk into a touch screen

Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology.  Interesting?  Read more.