Floppy Legs - Harddrive that is afraid of liquid

This 3.5" harddrive stands up as soon as it comes in contact with water. The way it moves reminds me of a dog or something, it looks really cute and it's a smart way to protect the harddrive. Designed by Chambers Judd.



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Scan book while you flip through it

Masatoshi Ishikawa has invented a scanner that scans the pages while you are flipping the pages of a book. The pages are scanned curved and then processed by the computer to make them flat.

This scanner makes it possible to scan a book with 200 pages in less than a minute.



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PacMan with Vacuum cleaners

Jack Elston, Cory Dixon, and Maciej Stachura. Three computer scientists (and geeks) that has programmed some robotic vacuum cleaners called Roomba to act like PacMan and Ghosts.



More info on the Roomba PacMan site

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Disposable Laptop

We've got disposable cameras and disposable cell phones so it's not that far fetched that there will some day be disposable laptops. Je Sung Park gives he's take on what it might look like:



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