World’s smallest video camera

Video camera can be small as a grain of salt which measures only 1 cubic millimeter. Such a super tiny video camera was developed by engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration. Despite the super tiny size, this super tiny video cam is able to record video at a resolution of 62,500 pixels.

The super tiny video cam is attached with an electrical cable, which allows high-res images and videos to be transmitted through it, while it’s recording video.

This tiny camera is not expensive to create. It’s perfect for use in medicine and the inexpensive cost lets it be disposable which saves doctors time from having to sterilize a video camera each time after use.

The camera can be used for automotive designs, such as to replace the sideview mirrors, making cars even more aerodynamic. Frauhofer Institute plans to roll out the super tiny cam to the market next year. Its super tiny size also imposes a worry, while it’s used as a spy cam that is too tiny to be detectable.

JBL’s On Air Wireless AirPlay speaker dock, gets official

When we first peeked this AirPlay-enabled speaker dock, we were admittedly excited to see how things would turn out after it made rounds through the FCC. JBL just tossed up the splash page for the On Air Wireless speaker and we’ve gotta say — it looks to be a promising means of streaming your jams. The system connects wirelessly to your AirPlay-enabled Mac and iOS device on 4.2 or later and packs a screen that’ll display the track info of the song you’re rocking out to. What’s more, the rounded grill sports a dual alarm clock, FM radio, and a USB port for future firmware updates. As you might have surmised by now, the dock is not yet available for purchase and there’s no word on price. If you’re interested, though, be sure to hit the source link, sign up for more info and get ready to headbang this spring.

Keyport Slide Gets a LED Insert

Okay, so maybe it’s just the natural evolution of things, but it seems as if the purveyors of the Keyport Slide have finally given owners of the $80 key vault a LED-tipped insert so they can more easily unlock poorly lit keyholes everywhere. For those wishing to obtain such convenient luminescence, its up for preorder on the company’s website for $9.99 (for the LED only of course), and if all goes well, it’ll ship on March 18th. Ten bucks is steep for a couple of measly LEDs, but it sure beats the flashlight-in-mouth method (on a number of fronts).

The flying house

Inspired by some cartoon show, the people from National Geographic have built a house which seems really incredible! This flying house is tied to gas balloons that actually flies. I’m so stunned and excited that now I myself dream to take one cool ride of this new development.Though, this 16 by 16 feet house is not a full house, but I don’t care.

It flies for real, thanks to three hundred weather balloons full of helium. The Up! house—which will be part of a new National Geographic TV series called How Hard Can It Be?—reached 10,000 feet and flew for about one hour.

Robotic fish to save marine life

They might look like a child’s toys, but these robotic fish could one day save the lives of thousands of undersea creatures because the researchers asserts that in future these robots could be deployed in water affected by a toxic spill to lead marine life away from danger.

The robotic fish were developed by Dr Maurizio Porfiri, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. According to him, nature has always inspired mankind in its all round development and now the time has come to provide protection to our inspiration. He voiced that this special robot was designed after painstaking research of the types of behavior exhibited by flocks of birds, animals and deep water shoals.

Though, extensive marine exploration for the benefit of mankind has led the marine fauna on the verge of upsetting the marine ecology. Since prevention is always better than cure, it is more important to limit the exploitation of nature than devising protective techniques.