Archive | May, 2009

Electronic Golf Caddy Carries Your Clubs

Posted on 21 May 2009

Introducing the Shadow Caddy, a fully autonomous golf club carrying cart that trails behind you automatically. The three-wheeled cart works by following a signal from a transmitter worn on the golfer’s body. Switching the caddy’s setting from “Follow-Me” to “Park” makes sure it never accidentally follows you into a bunker or onto the green. As [...]

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Glove Converts Sign Language Into Sound

Posted on 14 May 2009

It knows only 32 words, but someday, it may get a grip on the entire human vocabulary. A group of engineering students at Carnegie Mellon University gave this term a twist and created a hand that talks. The students Bhargav Bhat, Hemant Sikaria, Jorge L. Meza and Wesley Jin demonstrated their project ‘HandTalk‘ a sensor [...]

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