Nanogenerators

I was perusing through engadget as usual and there is a recently posted article about nanogenerators. Nanogenerators are extremely small fibers that when flexed or strained will emit an electrical charge. If these fibers are woven into your clothing, you could charge your phone in your pocket! How convenient would that be? They took a bunch of the fibers and placed them into a stamp size chip and found that flexing and straining the fibers within this small chip emitted the power of two AA batteries. I think nanogenerators will lead to some definite good in the future... until we find out they cause cancer or some sort of bodily damage.
Info here: Nanogenerators

Interact with Advertisements

I found an article on engadget.com discussing augmented reality advertising in London. Basically, travelers in a train station would be walking through and reach the advertisement area where there were on camera with a large screen up above. Those walking into the advertising square would look up to see themselves accompanied by a fallen angel featured in the advertisement of their product. I think this is definitely a great marketing strategy because not only are consumers paying attention to their advertising, they are interacting with it as you can see in the video I have included. The original post is located here: Augmented Reality Advertisement

Creepy Phone

Alright, so this was not necessarily interesting but it definitely caught my eye. The article I found discusses the Elfoid which is a lot like the Telenoid R1, if anyone knows what that is. Elfoid is basically a small, human-shaped cell phone meant to be carried around in your pocket just as the average cell phone. Not only is the human-like design creepy, but this phone is designed to tickle you when it rings. You talk into the devices "belly" and Elfoid streams the voice of the person you are talking to through its face, which seems normal but wait, it only gets weirder... The device is also designed to make similar gestures as the person to whom you are speaking with. It is supposed to resemble an in-person conversation, I suppose, but I find this to be weird and a bit creepy. The idea is pretty nifty but I am not sure how I would handle sitting face to face with a devices like these.

I found a video of the Telenoid R1 just to demonstrate the gesturing of these devices. Let me know how you feel about it. Information received from: Elfoid .