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Here is one from few unique robotic applications in life where people use robot in musical orchestra. It said to be world’s first and only fully robotic gamelan orchestra. Gamelan is a set traditional music instrument from Indonesia; specifically it is Balinese and Javanese traditional music instruments. As it was written in its site that there is no impossibility that human could take advantage of robotic in everyday aspect of life including in music. This robotic orchestra is a great transformation that tells joyful of music. This Gamelatron Robotic Orchestra is a collaboration project of The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) and Zemi17: A. Taylor Kuffner.

This robot soon will be the rescue robot to safe people from the danger of earthquake. This robot will be introduced soon as one of the rescue robot in Yokohama fire department. This rescue robot comes in crawler design with a container on its body to locate and carry people during operation. Yokohama Fire Department Robot Rescue works by carrying people from dangerous disaster zone to safety place. The Yokohama Fire Department Robot Rescue designed with belt wheels to get easily passing terrain or unfriendly environment in disaster zone. This robot will be helpful for rescue worker with its capabilities of carrying people with weight up to 110kg. Completed with infrared cameras Yokohama Fire Department Robot Rescue could be used during night rescue operation or in harsh weather condition.

Touch Bionics Virtu-Limb is an innovation from Touch Bionics for those who need to train and simulate product for upper limp prostheses. The straining and simulation with Touch Bionics Virtu-Limb could be used with or without any i-limb ultra prosthetic hand. The i-limb ultra prosthetic hand will be replaced with virtual representation of i-limb ultra on a display screen. The wireless system of Virtu-Limb is connected with PC via Bluetooth and electrodes or touchpad will be used to control the virtual representation of i-limb ultra on the display screen. Touch Bionics Virtu-Limb could be used for different kinds of purpose like measuring signal of myoeletric from patient to determine the prosthesis that will be used by patient later on,

Living Skin is one of the products from Touch Bionics which categorized into passive functional prostheses. Touch Bionics Living Skin is designed to provide an aesthetic appearance for those who think that the appearance of their prosthesis is very important. This product is an optional for those who use prosthesis. Touch Bionics Living Skin is a hand crafted artificial skin made of definition silicone. The hand painting techniques is used to create a real or match appearance level with skin tone and appearance. All of these techniques create Touch Bionics Living Skin looks like a real human skin. It’s getting remarkable more where Touch Bionics could create incredible detail to their product like freckles, hairs, and even tattoos.

This record breaking is something else! This Mount Everest webcam is different from others. This Mount Everest webcam translates high-definition as something new. The solar-powered Mobotix camera is installed at 5675m above the sea level. This camera allows people to monitor or watch the peak of Everest live from their laptop. The camera gives new definition of how to reach the earth’s highest place, not by climbing but via camera through the internet. This new Mount Everest webcam is set more than a kilometer higher than the previous one which installed at 4389m above the sea level in Mount Aconcagua. It takes a durable and strong camera to do this monitoring job and the solar-powered Mobotix camera is able to operate in low temperature as low as minus 30C.

Today people will not only find fun from their iPhone or iPad or any other gadgets. Even a toothbrush could create fun with some innovation. Like what we have in Philips Sonicare Flexcare+. “Philips Sonicare Flexcare+ uses unexpected technology,” reported by news.com.au. Philips Sonicare Flexcare+ is a supersonic toothbrush. It’s not an airplane or jewelry cleaning machine that uses supersonic sound waves. Supersonic Philips Sonicare Flexcare+ uses sound waves to create vibration. This kind of technique used to be found on jewelry cleaner, machinery, lenses or watches parts. This technique allows Supersonic Philips Sonicare Flexcare+ to create 30,000 brush strokes per minute, a real unexpected ability from a small toothbrush.

It seems that not only extended worker in the office that could survive by drinking coffee while doing their works. A British car team is taking the advantages of coffee beans to power their cars and break the world speed record. There are two cars used on this experiment. The Rover SD1 broke the Guinness World Record for a car that is powered by organic waste. The coffee powered car Rover SD1 broke the world record by reaching almost 60km at the Elvington Race Track. This 226kg coffee powered car designed to fit with filter and “gasification system”. The man behinds this running coffee machine is Martin Bacon (an engineer and inventor). The “gasification system” attached on this coffee powered car works by burning coffee at more than 700C to create synthetic gas like carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane.