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Posts Tagged ‘ German Company ’
E-passport gets AMOLED screen
Kettquad Pedal-Powered ATV
By Andrew Liszewski
Thanks to a German company called Kettler, kids will never have to endure the inevitable crashes and injuries resulting from learning to ride a two-wheeled bicycle again. Besides having four wheels which means you don’t have to worry about balancing, the Kettquad features pneumatic tires for tackling off-road terrain, a protected enclosed...
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Armatix handgun can only be fired by someone wearing the correct watch
This seems like a really good idea. A German company called Armatix has developed a handgun that can only be fired by someone wearing a biometrically unlocked wrist watch. An LED light on the gun glows green if it’s set to be fired or red if it’s locked.
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Behold The Citron Multitouch, aka DreaMTouch With 32 Simultaneous Touch Points
By David Ponce
German company Citron sure knows how to put the “multi” in multitouch. Where most multitouch systems these days are happy to track 2 points of contact, Citron’s dreaMTouch can track up to 32 simultaneously. It’s neither resistive nor capacitive, but rather uses IR technology which gives it “no special dependency...
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Frog Design’s Hartmut Esslinger On Design in 1979
Hartmut Esslinger's Frog Design made WEGA/Sony's electronics fetish items, and then designed the "Snow White" language the Mac used. He's a design legend and an author. Here he tells us about the challenges of designing, then and now.
How did you shift from entertainment products to personal computers? Did you seek them out or were...
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