TRANSFORMING FURNITURE

“Ron Barth, President of Resource Furniture, demonstrates and explains their amazing line of Italian-designed space-savers.” LINK, Via: Youtube

Highly Hackable TI Watch Used To Wirelessly Unlock Doors

The watch itself features integrated pressure and temperature sensors, a 3-axis accelerometer and 128-bit AES encrypted wireless. In this demo, the watch syncs with the receiver box mounted on the deadbolt. A sequence is tapped on the face of the watch—activating a servo inside the box that opens the door. Personally, I would prefer to open the door with my cellphone, but this looks to be a relatively secure and inexpensive solution comparably. If you want to try something like this yourself, the watch should be restocked on the Texas Instruments website soon. [Hack a Day, Via: Slashgear] Via: Gizmodo, Via: Youtube

MP3 Inventor Demonstrates First Working Laser Mic

Anyone who's ever attended a Styx concert can tell you that lasers and smoke are both integral components to any musical act. But now compressed audio pioneer David Schwartz is squeezing the tech into microphones to achieve higher fidelity recording. LINK



The first clip explains how things work. Essentially, smoke rises through a tube, you talk or sing into the smoke and as the vapor moves with your voice, the laser can measure these particles without affecting them (interfering) in any way. LINK: Youtube



The second clip will show you how a laser mic actually sounds. In one word, that's "horrendous." But given that we're witnessing a demonstration of the very first prototype by a guy who knows a thing or two about audio, we'll shrug off the quality and expect things to get better. Plus, when have lasers ever failed us in the past? [via DVICE], Via: Youtube