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Who knew pacemakers were so versatile, I thought they only had one purpose. This Pacemaker Camera Flash Project sure proved me wrong. “I took this photograph by feeding the output of an infrared barrier to the atrium input of an old DDD pacemaker, setting an appropriate AV delay, and using the ventricular output to trigger a camera flash”
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Check out this interesting project which uses some remote controlled Hex Bugs. By adding a computer, an IR Toy from our friend Ian and an Arduino Jim Choate has created a way to add voice control to these cool little bug toys. The voice commands are deciphered by custom software running on the computer which was written in C#. If you are interested in having a look at the code Jim has it available here.
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The prize this week is a jet lighter, just what you need when you are starting that campfire with damp wood. This contest will run for the rest of the year (January 15 – 20, 2012). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest” as the subject, and the message body consisting of:
The winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries. Below is a picture of the prize.
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Phil and Limore from Adafruit took a trip to the Arduino manufacturing facility in Italy, it turns out that there are many facilities that perform the various functions needed to produce the boards. They were nice enough to share their pictures for everyone to enjoy. As big as Arduino is I was surprised at how modest the facilities are. To see a ton more pictures of the facility have a look at the photo set here.
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Get ready for a Smell-o-Vision system called SMELLIT. A company in Paris, Olf Action will be taking a stab at this technology that seems to have been around the corner for ever. The styling of the device is great, it looks like you could fly it around the room when it isn’t being used to make your room smell like a bathroom. You can see a list of the possible smells below, some sound very interesting and other might not be as pleasant to smell. Via: Technabob and Tech Digest
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Marc de Vinck from Make is at CES and is hunting down all of the stuff that we think is cool. Check out this neat Phone Robot called Romo. It works out to be quite an expensive robot considering it holds your smart phone, as long as it doesn’t take a tumble down the stairs I think your phone is quite safe though. There is a developer section for this robot so you can make your own iOS or Android apps (Android is coming soon). Via: Make “Romotive was started by Phu, Peter, and Keller, three childhood friends with a lifelong passion for building cool things. One day, Phu had an idea to build a robot that used a smartphone as its brain. Peter built that robot, and then Keller helped them figure out how to market the robot. Today, Romotive is building a flexible and open robotic platform will allow people to create their own fun and useful robots.”
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So this year Hacked Gadgets will not be at CES but we are following the coverage and will be featuring some crazy gems that we see. This Tamaggo 360 Camera is sure to inspire some new photo taking. There have been devices out there that have taken 360 pictures before but none of them look and operate as simply as this one does. Have a look at the demo image on this page for an example of what the images will look like (be sure to look to the rear of the the initial image and up at the tall buildings). Darren from Hak5 stopped by their booth and took a quick look at the device. “o 14MP sensor with wide dynamic range
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