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The Dustball robotic vacuum cleaner would roll around public spaces, like airports and train stations

Around The Home

Vac 'n' Roll : The Dustball robot cleaning concept

Dutch designer Dave Hakkens believes that flat, disc-shaped robotic vacuum cleaners are just too boring, and suggests a rolling ball with vents in the surface to help keep public spaces clean.

Sony's PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter Attachment

Games

Sony's Sharp Shooter machine gun for PlayStation Move

Sony’s new PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter Attachment houses both the Move motion controller and navigation controller and is designed specifically for first person shooters such as Killzone 3 and SOCOM 4.

Holographic ZScape Prints enable natural (no glasses!) 3D viewing and collaboration (Image: Zebra Imaging & Parsons Brinckerhoff)

Electronics

Take rambling to the next level with holographic digital maps

Zebra Imaging creates lifelike 3D holographic visualizations in a format that can be rolled up and annotated, and transported around.

Marine

Feadship Breathe concept yacht takes inspiration from zebras

Feadship Breathe - biomimicry yields green SuperYacht

Robotics

The pi4-workerbot – more adaptable than the average industrial robot

The pi4-workerbot is similar in size to a human being and features two arms, three cameras and fingertip sensitivity, giving it greater flexibility than conventional industrial robots.

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the development of a new mobile web applications standard that will help developers create smarter apps that will work across various mobile platforms

Mobile Technology

W3C releases Mobile Web Application Best Practices guidelines

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the development of a new mobile web applications standard that will help developers create smarter apps that will work across various mobile platforms.

Jeffrey Kaffee is the first customer in the U.S. to take delivery of a Chevrolet Volt (Image: Emile Wamsteker for Chevrolet)

Automotive

First Chevrolet Volt delivered to customer

A retired airline pilot has become the first customer in the U.S. to take delivery of a Chevrolet Volt, while the first available Volt for sale will be going to the winner of an online charity auction, which closed at US$225,000.

The World Wide Fund for Nature has teamed up with German advertising agency Jung von Matt to develop a digital document format that prevents users sending docs to the printer

Environment

WWF introduces new PDF-like file format to stop you from printing

The World Wide Fund for Nature has teamed up with German advertising agency Jung von Matt to develop a digital document format that prevents users from sending docs to the printer.

The Beer Bike is a custom-built cargo bicycle that features two beer kegs, a wooden bar with two serving taps, space for pizza boxes, and a solar-powered boom box

Bicycles

Bicycle builders combine a bike and a beer bar - what's not to like?

The Beer Bike is a custom-built cargo bicycle that features two beer kegs, a wooden bar with two serving taps, space for pizza boxes, and a solar-powered boom box.

The solar-powered public EV charging station

Automotive

Honda's gas station V2.0 – solar-powered public EV charging station part of Japanese trial

Honda has revealed plans to trial a solar-powered public EV charging station as part of a program to test a range of EVs and technologies in real-world urban transportation environments.

Molten salt technology was demonstrated at the Solar Two project

Environment

California approves its first molten salt solar power plant

SolarReserve has received approval for the first solar power plant in California that uses molten salt technology to store the sun’s thermal energy as heat so it can generate electricity when needed.

Mobile Technology

dzdock One: iPhone and iPad stand designed by an 11-year-old and made in the USA

dzdock One: the iPhone and iPad stand designed by an 11-year-old and made in the USA

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