Friday, April 1, 2011

Gadget Lab Notes: Surgery Robot Folds Miniscule Paper Airplane

The da Vinci Surgical Robot Makes Paper Planes the Size of a Penny
The da Vinci surgical drudge is routinely used to perform precise, ethereal incisions in the working room. Dr. James Porter motionless it'd be best for a few other applications as well, namely, creation idiotically minuscule paper airplanes. I'm conversing paper airplanes not as big than a penny. The drudge is moreover repurposed to paint someone's nails for St. Patrick's Day. Not as well many people can say they've had a mani pedi completed by a robot.

Surgery Robot Builds Penny-Sized Paper Airplane [Tested]

ThinkGeek Has a Treat is to Apple Fanboy Family: The Apple Store Playset
If you instruct you could outlay all your time in The Apple Store, right away you can, with ThinkGeek's April Fools Day Apple Store Playset. It's only similar to the actual thing, but tiny: minuscule Macbooks, minuscule iPads, mini Genius Bar... it even includes a miniscule Woz on Segway. For Apple eventuality fun, you can use your actual iPhone 4 as the shade at the back Steve Jobs in its Keynote Theater. A "line pack" of people watchful outward the store is extra.

The Apple Store Playset [ThinkGeek]

The Nintendo 3DS UK Launch Was The Company's Best Ever
The new launch of the Nintendo 3DS in the UK was even more successful than that of the Wii. 113,000 of the handheld consoles were sole its gap weekend, violence out the 105,000 Nintendo Wiis that were sole when it debuted. The initial Nintendo DS sole 87,000 its gap weekend.

Nintendo 3DS UK Launch Most Successful Ever is to Gaming Company [Slashgear]

Apple 3-D Camera Patent Describes a Hardware Based System
Handheld Apple gadgets could encouragement 3-D photography in the future, if a not long ago unearthed obvious is any indicator. The obvious describes a way that uses twin rear-facing cameras on a mobile device similar to the iPhone and definite hardware to perform a "deterministic computation for stereo mismatch compensation." The obvious claims that when program is used to perform that work a lot of guesswork is involved. Apple's network would use multi-part imaging systems, inclusive well-defined luma, chroma, and height and stretch sensors to renovate an picture from 2-D to 3-D, and it would moreover enable for 3-D video recording.

Apple Exploring Multi Camera Systems for 3-D Picture Taking [Apple Insider]

Europeans Can Get a Retro Looking Sony DAB Radio
The Sony XDR-S16DBP looks similar to it would make a great add-on to any midcentury styled office space. Its two .8 W stereo speakers can fool around DAB, DAB+, and FM broadcasts and a 16 x 2 disposition LCD displays program and duct information. It's existing right away in Europe for 79 quid (about $127).

XDR-S16DBP [Sony via Crunchgear ]

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