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We’ve featured all manner of time machines here on TFTS but it’s been a while since we’ve posted about one, so let’s resolve that straight away with this multilingual Verbarius Electronic Clock that displays the time with words.
Detailed as being the first clock to tell the time in a humane …

The reality of a robot following us around with view to learning from our daily experiences and actions could soon see the light of day thanks to a new €2.3 million, three year research project known as Feelix Growing.
The project, involving twenty-five roboticists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists from six countries …

The iPod seems to get just about everywhere and soon, thanks to the US aviation company LoPresti SpeedMerchants it could soon be hooked up to a range of light aircraft to serve as a mini blackbox flight data recorder capable of recording over 500 hours of flight time.
The extent to …

The days of clipboards and medical notes at the end of hospital beds could be coming to an end, thanks to the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA), a handheld computer which is capable of retrieving a patients clinical notes, records and even imagery of X-rays and scans via a …

Following on from the Pronto Condom and the Spray On Condom we couldn’t resist posting concerning this Chainmail Condom made from galvanized steel which could be the ultimate accessory for a kinky Knight in (well that’s this week’s hopeless pun taken care of).
Available in either steel or copper the classic …

If you are a smoker who has ever had an elicit cigarette break then be warned. If one of these modified sixty kilogram Ubiko robots is patrolling the area he’ll find you and he’ll take you out without warning with his laser sighted anti-particle device.
Okay, the bit about the anti-particle …

With traffic congestion and carbon emissions becoming increasingly politicised the developing market for green urban vehicles is one that car manufactures simply cannot afford to ignore.
And if evidence were needed then the fact that none other than General Motors are backing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) development of this …

Anyone who is into Wii boxing may be interested to learn that you can now get ‘real’ boxing gloves for use with the game. Quite why you’d want them is another issue entirely though I suppose it adds a (remote) sense of authenticity and if you start loosing you could …