Murata Wireless Power Transmission, the future of charging.

This would surely be something that we will all look forward to in 2011, the new wireless power transferring technology from Murata. Using field-coupled wireless power transmission, this new tech is able to supply power to devices wirelessly. By simply placing them on the digital charger without any need for power cords or physical connections, electronic devices can be rejoiced wirelessly. How this will affect most lithium batteries is still a mystery to be unfolded. This will surely be the future of all electronic devices if researched well.

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Power Lace, an auto-lacing sneaker that’s ready for lazy geeks.

This is actually something for fun. Made by someone named Blake Bevin, it was to honor the movie ‘Back to the Future 2.’ He equipped the Nike shoe with a force sensor which reads the pressure of your foot when you put it in the shoe, and activates the two servos which then tightens the lances. There’s also a switch which will release the pressure and thus reverse the servo and loosen the lace with a touch of a button.

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“Beer Me” robot yet another prove of how lazy a man can be.

Like I always say, technology has vastly helped us puny humans to cope up and achieve great things that used to be unthinkable. But technology has also made us lazier by the day. This is a sound proof of the latter. Willow Garage, some drunken group that must be nerdy with a beer belly, had come up with a robot, PR2, which can serve four pints of beers at a time.

Navigated with accurate waypoint of the fridge to the living room, the robot is ‘armed’ with a four-holed foam block placed behind the robot’s navigation laser, so that it can serve its master while the master sob at its team for losing the world cup. What’s great is that the robot can even restock the refrigerator with a tilted ‘self-stocking’ shelf. Too bad the robot can’t make the beers come out ‘magically’. But I don’t mind having this robot if it can serve me some Haagen-Dazs while I watch some cartoons during a hot afternoon.

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