Exergaming - Get Fit by Playing Your Favorite Video Games
XR STATION is a video game console that burns calories and builds muscle with isometric resistance.
Dance Dance Revolution® (DDR) a popular arcade game, is now available at home. This game features a platform with four arrows: up, down, left, and right. Players move their feet to the instructions they receive on the machine.
EyeToy® technology (for PlayStation 2), features motion tracking, light-sensing technology and a built-in microphone to record and detect audio. It can function as a photo and video camera, snapping photos, recording video and placing players on the TV.
Guitar Hero® - Strap on your custom guitar shaped controller and find out how much energy it takes to be a rock star. This game is totally awesome, but I am not sure it qualifies as exergaming.
Wii® - Wii is a gaming system by Nintendo that can definitely keep you moving.
Robotic Pets
Robotic pets have the potential to be useful in many ways. Some robot pets are used to remind the elderly to take their medication. In Japan, robot pets are being used as companions for humans and for real pets.
Robotic pets
Printable Power
Solar cells convert light to electricity. Until now, solar cells have been developed mainly on glass, making them easily breakable and expensive.
Konarka Technologies, Inc. has developed organic photovoltaic cells on lower cost, lightweight, flexible plastic substrates rather than on glass.
Power Plastic®
Meet Nobel Prize Winners
This web site presents original video interviews of Nobel Laureates in physics and chemistry. Learn first hand of their achievements and what they could mean for the future. The site could be an inspiration to any student interested in physics or chemistry and the one minute video section was perfect for my limited knowledge and short attention span.
Honeywell Nobel Interactive Studio
Inspired by Nature - Biomimetics
Nature is the ultimate engineer. Billions of years of
“natural R&D” have resulted in effective, optimized
biological solutions that really work. By studying and mimicking nature’s processes and structures, scientists and engineers can develop nature inspired
solutions that are far more effective than solutions conceived and developed exclusively by man.
This field of study is called biomimetics, which falls
into two distinct areas:
1) mimicking of natural creation of chemical compounds
2) imitating mechanisms found in nature.
Other examples of biomimetics:
Velcro® – inspired by seeds' clingy burrs
Low-friction ship hulls – inspired by shark skin
Morphing aircraft wings – inspired by bird wings
Temperature-adapting fabric – inspired by pinecone
Dirt and water-resistant paint – inspired by the lotus flower
Neuromorphic computer chips – inspired by neural networks
Source: Qualcomm
Time to Invade Your Privacy
Designed with a built in voice recorder, an innocent looking wrist watch can secretly capture hours of conversation.
XR STATION is a video game console that burns calories and builds muscle with isometric resistance.
Dance Dance Revolution® (DDR) a popular arcade game, is now available at home. This game features a platform with four arrows: up, down, left, and right. Players move their feet to the instructions they receive on the machine.
EyeToy® technology (for PlayStation 2), features motion tracking, light-sensing technology and a built-in microphone to record and detect audio. It can function as a photo and video camera, snapping photos, recording video and placing players on the TV.
Guitar Hero® - Strap on your custom guitar shaped controller and find out how much energy it takes to be a rock star. This game is totally awesome, but I am not sure it qualifies as exergaming.
Wii® - Wii is a gaming system by Nintendo that can definitely keep you moving.
Robotic Pets
Robotic pets have the potential to be useful in many ways. Some robot pets are used to remind the elderly to take their medication. In Japan, robot pets are being used as companions for humans and for real pets.
Robotic pets
Printable Power
Solar cells convert light to electricity. Until now, solar cells have been developed mainly on glass, making them easily breakable and expensive.
Konarka Technologies, Inc. has developed organic photovoltaic cells on lower cost, lightweight, flexible plastic substrates rather than on glass.
Power Plastic®
Meet Nobel Prize Winners
This web site presents original video interviews of Nobel Laureates in physics and chemistry. Learn first hand of their achievements and what they could mean for the future. The site could be an inspiration to any student interested in physics or chemistry and the one minute video section was perfect for my limited knowledge and short attention span.
Honeywell Nobel Interactive Studio
Inspired by Nature - Biomimetics
Nature is the ultimate engineer. Billions of years of
“natural R&D” have resulted in effective, optimized
biological solutions that really work. By studying and mimicking nature’s processes and structures, scientists and engineers can develop nature inspired
solutions that are far more effective than solutions conceived and developed exclusively by man.
This field of study is called biomimetics, which falls
into two distinct areas:
1) mimicking of natural creation of chemical compounds
2) imitating mechanisms found in nature.
Other examples of biomimetics:
Velcro® – inspired by seeds' clingy burrs
Low-friction ship hulls – inspired by shark skin
Morphing aircraft wings – inspired by bird wings
Temperature-adapting fabric – inspired by pinecone
Dirt and water-resistant paint – inspired by the lotus flower
Neuromorphic computer chips – inspired by neural networks
Source: Qualcomm
Time to Invade Your Privacy
Designed with a built in voice recorder, an innocent looking wrist watch can secretly capture hours of conversation.
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