Automation

A musician has harnessed the power of two Nintendo Wii remotes to become a cyborg percussionist with the robo-band Jazari. His playing of one drum machine can evoke an automated response from another, so that he can go around the drum circle in a beautiful display of human-robot improvisation using solenoids.Read More

Hide your pets - this robotic mousetrap was designed to detect and exterminate everything in sight

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This shoebox-sized powerhouse would make Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor proud. Like cracking a nut with a sledgehammer, the robotic "Better Mousetrap" goes to the extreme to detect and destroy its target.

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"Many people have been trying to develop a 'better mousetrap' for years, so we decided to build one in the literal sense," says its developer Jake Easton.Read More

New X-Bow design contains a 15-shot magazine that automatically fires an arrow every two seconds

A man from the UK has designed a line of electric automatic cross bows that have arrow magazines containing from 5 to 15 shots. The machines are capable of a draw weight of 100 pounds, with a draw length of 12 inches.Read More

We Have A Winner!

It's A Mousetrap!

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The Winner of the Technology Grab Bag is:

Sidney San Martin!

Sidney is a technology consultant from New York, NY (Sidnicious.com). We are gathering some more information from him and will add it as soon as we receive it.

(Left-Right) Warren, Craig, and Sidney San Martin

Sidney not only correctly named the device, he did so in great (and accurate) detail! From his email:
Subject: It's a Mousetrap!
Body: A better mousetrap! The best mousetrap! An electronic, ultrasonic, pneumatic mousetrap.

After announcing he had won, we received an email from Sidney saying:

I had the picture up for a couple of weeks, trying to figure out just what that combination of parts could possibly do and grabbing other people in the office to talk about it. We made a last push and decided that it had to be a mousetrap."

Congratulations Sidney!Read More

The Schlage LiNK™ remote home management system enables homeowners to lock and unlock doors, monitor live camera feeds, control temperature, lighting and other devices from a computer or Web-enabled cell phone.Read More