After accidentally sawing off his own four fingers of his right hand, the life of a carpenter changed drastically. In more than one way. He pretty much knew the surgeons weren't going to be able to save his fingers, so, the man named Richard Van As, was already putting his mind to work on how he could fix his own hand. With the help of mechanical effects artist, Ivan Owen, a 3D printed prosthetic hand, the Robohand, was soon created for Van As. They use a process called additive manufacturing, and Once the body part is printed, stainless steel and aluminum are added to form a tailored prosthetic for the customer to assemble by themselves. Because the company is open sourced, over 143 thousand downloads of the software have been counted, and the company is currently on a 8 month waiting list for customers who want the prosthetic made for them.
A USB stick called LogmeOnce lets you stop the headache revolving around identity theft, and remembering all your passwords. LogmeOnce is a multipurpose password manager with a military-grade encryption service made to not only store and keep your data, but also act as a password vault, and a phone charger! By consolidating hardware and software, it essentially unites all your passwords, User IDs, Web account, and USB drives. Additionally, the USB stick gives you access to the LogmeOnce website, an online dashboard for managing your privacy and passwords. This way, you take out the worry of mentally memorizing all of your personal passwords to each website. The USB interface has a generous 16GB of secure space. And the Kickstarter website is currently asking for $135 dollars for the gadget.
Amazon is close to showing off its very first smartphone, one we've been hearing about for a couple years now. We know it’s going to have limited 3D effects, with head tracking. Think of a Nintendo 3Ds, but tilting your head around to use the 3 Dimensional functionality. The phone’s apparent 5 front facing cameras are the secret to this. One is for video chatting while the other four are placed on all corners of the smartphone to detect your heads movements.
Eyefi is a company known for providing Wi-Fi enabled photo storage cards for virtually any digital camera. They start at about $45 dollars on Amazon, and make it super freakin easy for users to transfer their videos and photos simply by wifi, rather than pluggin in, uploading them, and then importing into your computer. Now, Eyefi has created the Eyefi Cloud storage service. With Eyefi Cloud, photos are automatically uploaded to the Web, then sync to the user’s smart devices. Its so easy! You know that moment when you capture such a beautiful family photo and you want to show it off immediately? Now you can as it imports itself into the cloud, then all you do is log on, and it displays on the device of your choice!