Gadgets
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A Smart Wooden Stick Is Now A Thing That Exists
Just because you can make something smart—be it microwaves, showerheads, and even mattresses—doesn’t necessarily mean you should. A Japanese company named Mui Lab teamed up with Wacom to create what it’s calling the ‘Pillar Memory’ which appears to be the world’s first smart wooden stick.
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Garmin’s New Dashcam Records Both The Road Ahead And Passengers In The Back
Instead of just recording what’s happening on the road in front of a car, Garmin’s new Dash Cam Tandem has a second rear-facing lens that also records everything happening inside the vehicle at the same time. It won’t make the job of an Uber driver even easier, but it will provide irrefutable proof of unruly…
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Bosch’s LCD Car Visor Only Blocks Your View Of The Road Where The Sun Is In Your Eyes
Fully autonomous vehicles are already being tested on roads across the country, but there’s one feature in every car that feels like it hasn’t been upgraded in a century: the sun visor. So a group of engineers from Bosch set out to update this antiquated feature so that it blocks the sun without also blocking…
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Vector, The Little Robot That Could(n’t Do Much) Is Back From The Dead
Vector, a tiny desktop companion robot that was both surprisingly endearing and unsurprisingly useless, met its demise earlier this year when its creator, Anki, ran out of money and shut down. But despite the robot failing to justify its $US250 ($360) price tag, it apparently has its fans, and Vector is being brought back from…