Collaborate Disseminate
Ordinarily, medical ultrasound imaging systems are big and bulky enough that they have to be pushed along on wheeled carts. The new Vave probe, however, can be carried in a pocket and paired with a smartphone.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceT… Continue reading Portable ultrasound probe links with a smartphone
Micro-mobility startup WheelKinetic has launched a squat little electric scooter called the BooZter which folds down to a portable package that can be carried by hand or thrown in a backpack.Continue ReadingCategory: Urban Transport, TransportTags: Sco… Continue reading Folding electric scooter can be carried in the hand or in a backpack
Last year, Philips Projection took to Indiegogo to open a conversation with potential buyers on the development of a compact projector named the PicoPix Max. Now the company is adding two more models to the lineup.Continue ReadingCategory: Home Enterta… Continue reading Philips aims for mobile movie lovers with new PicoPix projector models
Yamaha mixed up the guitar amplifier space in 2013 when it released three portable modeling amps to the US market, which sat somewhere between performance and practice models. These desktop amps went wireless last year thanks to a built-in Line 6 recei… Continue reading Yamaha makes a desktop amp specifically for acoustic pickers
Ultraviolet (UV) curing lamps are crucial if you have a resin 3D printer or work with UV adhesives. Some folks line an old Amazon shipping box with foil and drop a spotlight somewhere inside. Other folks toss their work under the all-natural light source, Sol. Both options have portability and …read more
Guitar effects titan Boss has unveiled a personal amp/effects modeling interface for guitar that works with a mobile app to offer powerful tone shaping while learning or jamming with YouTube videos.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, TechnologyTags: BOSS,… Continue reading Portable guitar interface puts tone-tweaking tools in your pocket
Western Digital has announced its second generation My Passport SSD line, which is aimed at content creators on the move. There’s up to 2 TB of solid state storage on offer, blazing fast read and write speeds, and the drive can survive a drop of up to … Continue reading Western Digital gives portable SSD a serious speed boost
The mobile phone revolution has delivered us attractively packaged and convenient computing in our pockets, but without the easy hackability we like in our community. Meanwhile the advent of single board computers has given us affordable super-powerful hardware that can run a very capable GNU/Linux operating system and fulfill all …read more
Continue reading The Zero Terminal 3: A Pop-Out Keyboard Linux Computer in Your Pocket
In people with liver disease or other metabolic disorders, blood ammonia levels can quickly climb to dangerous levels. And unfortunately, checking those levels is not a fast and easy process. A newly developed device, however, could change that.Continu… Continue reading Portable blood ammonia detector could be “life-changing”
Whether they’re adventure travellers or people living in developing nations, many folks may find themselves near the ocean and in need of drinking water. That’s where the QuenchSea is designed to come in, as it’s a portable, relatively inexpensive desa… Continue reading QuenchSea offers desalination on-the-go