Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Smartwatch with laser projected Skin Buttons

Future Interfaces Group present Skin Buttons, tiny laser projectors integrated into the smartwatch to render icons on the user’s skin. These icons can be made touch sensitive, significantly expanding the interactive region without increasing device size. This video show a proof-of-concept device and demonstrate example applications. These “skin buttons” can have high touch accuracy and recognizability, while being low cost and power-efficient.

http://www.figlab.com

Monday, October 20, 2014

LinkIt ONE

The LinkIt ONE development board is an open source, high performance board for prototyping Wearables and IoT devices. It's based on the world’s leading SoC for Wearables, MediaTek Aster (MT2502) combined with high performance Wi-Fi (MT5931) and GPS (MT3332) chipsets to provide you with access to all the features of MediaTek LinkIt. It also provides similar pin-out features to Arduino boards, making it easy for you to connect to various sensors, peripherals, and Arduino shields.

LinkIt ONE is a co-design product by Seeed Studio and MediaTek. It brings together the parties’ knowledge in open hardware and industry leading reference designs for Wearables and IoT devices to create this powerful development board.

know more: http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/LinkIt_ONE

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Hong Kong Mini Maker Faire 2014

Hong Kong Mini Maker Faire 2014
The Hong Kong Maker Club
Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, October 19, 2014 at 6:00 PM (HKT)

http://www.eventbrite.hk/e/hong-kong-mini-maker-faire-2014-tickets-13221863951