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Textecution - an honest attempt to stop kids from texting while driving.

Mobile Technology

Textecution app stops kids from texting while they drive

Textecution is an Android app that parents can install on their kids' phones. It's designed to shut down all texting functions - sending and receiving - if the phone handset is moving at more than 10mph.

The RCA Airnergy harvests ambient WiFi energy to charge your gadgets (Photo: OhGizmo)

Good Thinking

RCA Airnergy claims to charge gadgets using ambient WiFi signals

The RCA Airnergy promises to recharge your gadgets using power harvested from ambient WiFi signals.

Robotics

Robo Cafe: robot waiters make a restaurant a one-man operation

Just in time for the coming labor shortage in Japan, Korean company ITM Technology has designed a restaurant concept in which robot waiters take care of the entire front of house operation. Remarkable stuff.

This guy is laying down a rockin' rhythm guitar track.

Mobile Technology

Video: Voice Band iPhone app - stunning multitrack rock band recordings using only your voice

Voice band is a multitrack recording app that lets you build up the sound of a full band, including guitars, bass, drums, sax, synths and vocals, using only your voice as an input.

Optoma's HD66 720p 3D home theatre projector

Home Entertainment

US$699 Optoma HD66 - 300 inches of 720p 3D projection for the home theatre

Optoma has pulled the covers off its HD66 digital projector at CES - a US$699 home theatre projector capable of showing 720p content in 3D with a max image size around 300".

Automotive

Kia teams with Microsoft to develop the UVO voice controlled in-car infotainment system

Kia has teamed with Microsoft to develop the UVO in-car infotainment system that features touchscreen and voice recognition to manage music, phone calls and text messaging.

Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy - a 3D printer to create unimaginable new foods.

Around The Home

Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy - could 3D printing be the next revolution in cooking?

Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy uses the principles of 3D printing, as well as precisely controlled mixing and cooking of ingredients, to open up a range of creative cuisines that are impossible to create using current technology.

Never have to "hold on" for too long again - the Bumper Dumper

Gear

Portable innovation – the Bumper Dumper

The Bumper Dumper takes a humble steel frame attached to the back of a vehicle and turns it into a ready made toilet on the go.

The pure-electric BYD e6, at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show

Automotive

BYD e6 EV goes 205 miles between charges, coming to the US in 2010

Chinese carmaker BYD has announced plans to start selling its pure-electric e6 in the US this year.

The Orbitsound T12 Soundbar speaker system

Electronics

Orbitsound T12 soundbar and T3 personal speaker hit the sweet spot

Orbotsound's T12 soundbar and T3 mobile personal speaker offer the true spatial sound through airSOUND technology

Motorcycles

Yamaha's 1200cc Super Tenere secrets revealed

The details of Yamaha's Super Tenere 1200 are now becoming clear. The 1200cc parallel twin will have a 270 degree crank for a v-twin feel, ride-by-wire throttle, switchable engine-mapping, traction control, linked anti-lock brakes ...

Playing a maze game designed by a PHD student from Columbia University using the Vizux Wrap 920AR glasses

Photography

Vuzix display Wrap 920AR augmented reality glasses

Vuzix has shown the Wrap 920AR glasses prototype at CES that uses cameras mounted on the lenses to blend real-world and computer generated imagery onto LCD's inside the glasses.

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