All tag results for 'invention'

Have you ever dreamed of playing NES classic Tetris on a pumpkin?

Neither have we, but after seeing this crazy cool video (above), we're definitely more inclined!

Check out the world's first (as far as we know) version of Pumpktris — a playable version of Tetris displayed on an actual pumpkin instead of a television screen and controlled via stem joystick.

Unnecessary? Yes. Impressive? YES! YES! YES!

Click here to get the full story on how someone actually made this technological wonder at home. Maybe U can too!

Happy Halloween!!!

Tags: amazing, cool, decoration, halloween, halloween 2012, invention, neat, pumpkin, pumpktris, technology, tetris

The Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan has come up with a working prototype of a wheelchair with a special talent…

It can climb stairs!

Tags: chiba institute of technology, invention, japan, robot, robotic, robotic wheelchair, wheelchair

What a bird brain! LOLz!

A incredibly intelligent budgerigar has constructed a very intricate and complex Rube Goldberg machine.

What's it purpose??? To tell you, "The End!" LOLz!

And so what if this bird didn't really "build" the machine! It's still CUTEz!!!

Move over Pee-Wee Herman! You too, Rube!

Tags: bird, budgerigar, intelligent, invention, pets, rube goldberg, silly, smart

Leave it to Japan to invent a phone that you can hug while talking to people.

"I can technically do that with any phone," you say?

Well does your phone vibrate to match the characteristics of the callers voice?

We didn't think so.

It seems kinda crazy and we totally don't want one for Christmas… hint hint.

Check out the video (above) for a close up look at the awesome piece of huggable technology you never knew you wanted (to get us for Christmas).

Tags: cell phone, christmas, crazy, funny, hug, huggable, invention, japan, pillow, talk, talking, voice

Instead of choosing a low fat brand cookie, the Japanese have created a virtual reality to modify the taste of a bland, healthier cookie.

While wearing a giant plastic helmet, cookie munchers chow down on a bland wafer which is virtually simulated to appear as a more appetizing cookie, like chocolate chip.

The virtual image, along with the added scent of the selected cookie spraying out of the head device, tricks user's taste buds into thinking they are eating the real deal!

Called the "Meta Cookie", the contraption boasts:

"By changing the combination of scent and texture to overlay on the marked cookie, "Meta Cookie" can chance its taste which the user perceives from it."

Now thats hardcore! Check out the demonstration of the contraption in action above to see how this incredibly useless inneresting invention works for yourself!

Tags: bland, chocolate chip, healthy, invention, japan, meta cookie, simulation, useless, virtual reality, wafer

This is cool!

Two NYU grad students designed shirts that change color when the air quality is bad.

If pollution from cars, factories, or even second-hand smoke is detected by the carbon monoxide sensor, the micro-controller will send electrical currents through the shirt. The wires then heat up, which change the pink heart or lungs to blue.

Nien Lam explains: "The organs in your body are invisible to you, just like pollution and the other silent killers out there".

Sue Ngo adds: "We wanted to bring up that visualization, bring the inside out. This is a stark reminder for yourself and others around you."

The designing duo hope to wind a way to get their invention mass produced so they can "organize mobs to wear them around the city".

But unlike then, they're moving on to their next project: an alcohol detector.

Wouldn't you like to spend a Friday night with these two?

Check out the shirt in action (and maybe on mute) in the clip (above)!

Tags: air pollution, air quality detector, carbon monoxide, grad students, invention, nien lam, nyu, sue ngo