If you have ever been wheel-chaired by providence or by choice, you will know how useful a brain-controlled and mind-controlled wheelchair can be, almost dream-like. University of Zaragoza in Spain has developed a prototype of such a chair that could make lives a zillion times easier for wheelchair users.

Using a P300 neurophysiological protocol and automated navigation, this wheelchair requires an EEG cap to be worn on the user’s head.

A screen in front of him or her gives the user real-time visualization of the surroundings on the screen and concentrates on the space he wants to navigate to.

This is how it works: The EEG detects your location, transmits it to the automated navigation system, which then propels the chair to the right spot, avoiding any possible hurdles en route. After choosing the location, the user can relax while the chair does all its work.

Details of commercial availability of this wheelchair are not know, but it has got a favourable response from five participants who tested it for visual interface designs, virtual environment driving, and driving sessions with the wheelchair.

Via:  Engadget, Webdiis Unizar

Those who still consider Japan as a hub for electric productions only shall revise their opinion. The rationale is the mobility touch that seems to have influenced Japanese markets thereby inviting prospective consumers. Called the Kenchikukagu, it is the designer range of mobile furniture coming from the house of Atelier OPA based in Japan. The Kenchikukagu series incorporate a mobile work station, a mobile bed and a moible kitchen. Out of all, the mobile bed gathered my attention as it can be pleated when not in-use. It sports a small work space with a lighting touch that can appeal no less than a masterpiece, if installed in an office. Designed to ease your working, sleeping and eating habits, the designer mobile furniture are way beyond those virtual concept designs as are available for sale on Amazon Japan for JPY 800,000(about $7436 US).

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Spend a month in the populated urban vicinity (if you haven’t) and you’ll get to see kids driving hard with mobile sound systems singing loud. Really annoying! But if you have spare amount of dough piling with you then this unusual model of DJ mobile car can be yours. Designed and developed by Dutch artist Olaf Mooij, the creation targets the filthy-rich music lovers. Coming from Western Europe, the Dutch novelty has been abridged by an intelligent mind after taking inspiration from ‘God is a DJ’ and the car of our HOLY-POPE and the result is before your eyes.

Embellishing aerodynamics, the mobile DJ art car nicely accommodate two turn-tables together with number of speakers. On first look, I doubt the functionality of the speakers attached on the face of the car and this arouses my curiosity to meet the Dutch national and ask him to untangle the mystery.

For sure, DJ Mobile car is developed using a drivable PA system that allows you to park and then operate from a DJ platform while hosting it from open sunroof.

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If skiing is what you are looking forward for your next vacation then it’s time to initiate discovering the best of the Skis, enabling you explore the beauty of the most hazardous yet glamorous skiing slopes. The alluring fascination about the high-end sport counts the skills and techniques exercised by the skier. Certainly, no one desires to carry on their adventurous activity with the dull appeal of the Skis irrespective of its technically developed feature. Hence, Anton Gliders Skis has come out with his out-of-the-box offering that flaunts the prefix of being the limited edition one.

Anton Gliders Skis features fashionable autonomous frontage and rear flex adjusters that falls in the kit of limited edition Carbon Series. The skis offer you total contact deferral in the way of affecting unswerving weight on the tip and tail. It is surely a weapon for all those well wishers having a yearning to knob any grade, even the death slope that every hard-core skier talks about. Oopps….before I forget, the limited edition skis are available at athge retailed price of $4,400.

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Via BeSportier / ExoticSkis

The ongoing Japan’s aging society has witnessed a surge in number of funerals with every passing day, which poses a handicap before the restricted space options. This has led to the evolution of creative alternatives; hence generating a god deal of death business here in Japan. Earlier, we introduced you to the multimedia tombstones unveiled in Japan and then considering the dearth of space, the available room costs about $20,000.

It was then Japanese nationals woke up to calculate a way to deal with the problem following a technological twist. Therefore, Nichiryoku identified an interactive family plot that fuses expertise with the customary. It stores the cremated remains of your loved ones in a personal sealed box that is kept in a secretive vault. As per your requirement, you can access the box and scan an RFID card that directs the system to fetch up your box and rest it in the entreaty area.

Jump over to experience the first-hand view of videos, packed with voices beyond the grave. Apologies for not translating the video but for sure visuals would convey the idea. The top one depicts woman visiting her father (speaking from beyond the grave) who is amazed that she came.

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With technology infusing life to every corner of the inhabitable zones, now it is marking its entry to the dilapidated corners of the orb. And credit for this goes to its futuristic feats likewise the Concept Ice Vehicle from Lotus. Against your expectations of facilitating leisure and entertaining activities, the latest ice automobile from Lotus is developed to make a trip to Antarctica during the Moon Regan TransAntarctic Expedition. Aimed at exploring the region, it is made up of tough material to endure the sternness of polar surroundings. The neat walk doesn’t leave the footprints behind as the CIV runs on biofuel. It is an ideal vehicle for the region suffering the worst brunt of global warming.

The Ice Vehicle sports three skids and is 4.5 meters long and 4.5 meters wide with an autonomous suspension. It is also en suite with ice piercing radar that can perceive crevasses. The spear foot beneath the cockpit is thought to aid brake pedal on icy topography. With such potential concepts evolving, there arises a hope for Eskimos to park ice vehicles out side their igloos.

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Tired of hunting for your kind of designer furniture and fittings that add value to your elite interiors? How about implementing your own artistic aspirations and designing one? No, am not kidding! It is lately made possible by Front Design and all it expects out of you is to give shape to your longing design in mid air and view them taking shape of furniture onto a digital screen. It starts with drawing sketchy figures in open air (virtual imaginary), which then gets featured on a digital screen and can be witnessed as your prospective furniture masterworks.

So are you ready to depute Front Design as your interior designer? Their process merges two astounding modus operandi that promotes the artiste within all of us. The vague hand strokes are recorded onto a digital screen via Motion Capture technology, giving you liberty to alter, adjust, and make necessary variation to produce your ideal digital furnishings. And there is a possibility that the customized furniture offering hence unveiled may appeal better than what you expected, enforcing you to give it a realistic form.

Those interested to view how your prototypes of drawings and sketches get a majestic feel of ready-to-be-installed furniture item shall click on the video below:

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The very notion that our lifestyle is getting addicted to desktops, laptops and other random installed in-house mechanism that tend to add weight to our body needs a revision as there is always an alternative available. The question here is about choices! The case in point is the uncompromising nature of folks who have developed a passion for video games at the cost of getting extra layers of fat and compensating on their schedule that starts with a doe of exercise. But bringing an end to their unidentified yet worth focusing upon weird lifestyle, here stands an Exerbike Pro, the Game Bike that enables you stay glued to your video game whilst you pedal. The good part is the faster you pedal, the quicker you budge in the sport and it comes with an option for Playstation2 that unswervingly monitors your preferred video game. The involved commercial viability feature of the Exerbike Pro will certainly get all gamers fretting it out on their consoles while they shoot, aim, battle and save the world.

The flexible and customized ergonomically contoured seating along with handlebars enhances your workout in both vertical and racing pose. The functional Magnatech resistance technology results in its silent behavior without any friction. The on-board 40-games availability would surely enrich your gaming and fitness experience. Easy to be installed, it requires 5X5 feet space and come with a 2 year warranty.

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As a ploy, there is a possibility that these cool applications may have potential to develop an interactive globe (as functional in the running video above), hence putting you across various permutations to device 360-degree videos and panoramas.

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Yes, patients with stroke now can do away with the burden of being glued up to their beds as now they can be hopeful to burn their stress and rejuvenate whilst being at home. Also, those introvert nerds can now join the queue as there cannot be a better way to workout without beating the front door. The dome shaped treadmill here sports an arched VR display ion its face. Designed and developed by University of Tsukuba Japan, the VR treadmill can lodge an 80kg person at an on foot speed of 1m/sec with pace of 80 cms. Offering a viewing angle of 270 degrees horizontally and 60 degrees vertically, the development of VR Treadmill is still under process and may prove to be pricey for hospitals.

Agreed, the suspended VR display may divert you from your workout position but envisage the video game potential.

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Via NewLaunches