Vibrating sleeve gives wearer a feel for languages

For the past year or so, a student team from the Eindhoven University of Technology has been working on a wearable that could allow folks to understand what’s being said in another language through vibrations on the arm.Continue ReadingCategory: Wearab… Continue reading Vibrating sleeve gives wearer a feel for languages

Unique Instrument Plucks Out Notes on a Ruler

How does one describe the notes that come from a ruler that is anchored on one end and then plucked? The best word we can come up with is “wubulation”. So would that make this ruler-plucking synthesizer a “wubulator”? Or perhaps a “wubatron”?

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Experimenting with Vibratory Wind Generators

We’ve all got a pretty good mental image of the traditional wind-powered generator: essentially a big propeller on a stick. Some might also be familiar with vertical wind turbines, which can operate no matter which way the wind is blowing. In either case, they use some form of rotating structure …read more

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