Yaz

I always look forward to this every year. I read it over the weekend, but didn't get a chance to post it. It's actually a long list, so I'll post just the names for now, and if you want some details on anything, let me know ('cause you'll need to register to view the article).

Some of them I've already heard of or read about somewhere. I'm sure it's probbaly the same with some of you.

The list:

Accredited Bliss
The Anti-Paparazzi Flash

The anti-paparazzi flash: 1. The celebrity prey. 2. The lurking photographer. 3. The offending camera is detected and then bombed with a beam of light. 4. Voila! A blurry image of nothing much.

The Anti-Rape Condom
Branding Nations
Cartoon Empathy
Celebrity Teeth
Cobblestones are Good for You
Collapsing the Distribution Window
Consensual Interruptions

Consensual Interruptions: 1. A call comes in on your cellphone. 2. Others' finger rings vibrate. 3. If someone doesn't want you to answer your phone, he can veto the call by touching the ring, and you won't get to talk.

Conservative Blogs are More Effective
Dialing Under the Influence
Do-It-Yourself Cartography
Dolphin Culture
Econophysics
Embryo Adoption
Ergomorphic Footwear

A Mion sport sandal. Made of a medical-supply grade of polyethylene foam, the sandal breaks in quickly, then retains the memory of the foot that wore it

The Fair Employment Mark
The False-Memory Diet
The Fleeting Relationship

Folksonomy
Forehead Billboards


Gastronomic Reversals

Dsign your dish at the restaurant WD-50 with a squeeze of lemon yogurt that becomes "noodles" in a bowl of hot cocoa dashi.

The Genetic Theory of Harry Potter
The Global Savings Glut
The His-and-Her TV

The controlled-viewing-angle LCD looks like a regular TV screen. From her angle: a steamy French movie. From his angle: a buzzer beater.

The Hollywood-Style Documentary
The Hypomanic American
The Infrared Pet Dry Room

A dry dog emerges


In Vitro Meat
Juvenile Cynics
The Laptop That Will Save the World


Localized Food Aid
Making Global Warming Work for You

Dutch floating house of the future.

Medical Maggots
Microblindness
Monkey Pay-Per-View
National Smiles
Open-Source Reporting
Parking Meters That Don't Give You a Break

The Smart Meter resets after a car leaves, registering the departure through a sensor set in the parking space

The Playoff Paradigm
Pleistocene Rewilding
The Porn Suffix
Preventing Suicide Bombing
The Readable Medicine Bottle
Republican Elitism
Robot Jockeys

A robot races a camel in Qatar.

The Runaway Alarm Clock


Scientific Free-Throw Distraction
Seeing With Your Ears

A camera scans the visual field. The images are converted into a soundscape by the computer. How the sounds might "look": a brightness represented by volume; elevation is represented by pitch.

The Self-Fulfilling Trade Rumor

The Serialized Pop Song

R. Kelly in "Trapped in the Closet."

The Sitcom Loyalty Oath
Solar Sailing
The Sonic Gunman Locator

With Boomerang, microphones pick up shock waves as the bullets fly by. Inside, a recorded voice announces the shooter's position, and an analog device indicates the direction.

Splogs
The Stash Rocket
Stoic Redheads
The Stream-of-Consciousness Newspaper
Subadolescent Queen Bees
The Suburban Loft
The Synesthetic Cookbook
Taxonomy Auctions
"The Crawl" Makes You Stupid
The Toothbrush That Sings

OraWave's reward for good dental hygiene isn't a lollipop but a tune, which is played when the wee one brushes for the requisite two minutes

The Totally Religious, Absolutely Democratic Constitution
Touch Screens That Touch Back
Trial-Transcript Dramaturgy
Trust Spray
Two-Dimensional Food

At Moto in Chicago, dinner might begin with "sushi" made of edible paper printed with images of of amki using food-based inks

The Uneavesdroppable Phone Conversation

Two speakers and a sound generator that attach to your phone. The generator records the phonemes, or building blocks, of your speech. Then when you activate the device, it generates a stream of counteracting sounds.

The Urine-Powered Battery
Video Podcasts
Why Popcorn Doesn't Pop
Worldwide Flat Taxes
Yawn Contagion
The Yoo Presidency
The Zero-Emissions S.U.V.
Zombie Dogs

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audi_rudy

some very amazing new things...i personaly like the urine powred battery. so what do you do open a little trap door and pee into it??

Yaz

Details...

Urine-Powered Battery, The
By JOEL LOVELL
Published: December 11, 2005

In their quest to develop a smaller, cheaper battery for medical test kits - like those used to detect diabetes by analyzing a person's urine - scientists in Singapore had a eureka moment of sorts when they realized that the very urine being tested could also serve as a power source.

In the September issue of The Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Ki Bang Lee described how he and his team of researchers created "the first urine-activated paper battery" by soaking a piece of paper in a solution of copper chloride, sandwiching it between strips of magnesium and copper and then laminating the paper battery between two sheets of plastic. In this setup, the magnesium layer serves as the battery's anode (the negatively charged terminal) and the copper chloride as the cathode (the positively charged terminal). An electricity-producing chemical reaction takes place when a drop of urine, which contains many electrically charged atoms, is introduced to the paper through a small opening in the plastic.

The scientists' largest prototype battery generated a maximum of roughly 1.5 volts, the equivalent of an AA battery, and sustained an average of about 1 volt for about 90 minutes. Lee explains that its uses could extend to any device that consumes a small amount of electricity. "For instance," he says, "we could integrate a small disposable cellphone and our battery on a plastic card, for use in an emergency. And we are continuing to develop batteries that could power regular cellphones, MP3 players and laptop computers." While Lee emphasizes that urine is the biofluid of choice (since "everybody produces large amounts of it"), he notes that other bodily fluids - blood, tears, semen and saliva - will work in a pinch.

Mr. M

Son of a - Singapore and its wierd projects again.



I read about this a few months ago, it was quite an innovative product.