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Can Vuzix Smart Glasses M100 See The Future?

Vuzix raised more than a few eyebrows at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with a showcase of very innovative video eyewear products — personal display devices that promised wearable displays with virtual and augmented reality capability. With this year’s International CES just two months away, we were beginning to wonder what we might [...]

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Revel -ations In Altered Perception

First, we could recreate images, then sounds and now it has come to the sense of touch.  A project of Disney Research (disneyresearch.com) has presented a system that produces artificial tactile impressions in the user’s physical world.  Called “Revel”, the device allows the wearer to perceive that glass feel like rubber, skin feels like gloves [...]

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Skylanders Giants Takes Big Steps

Just about a year ago on TECHNOGORILLA we introduced a video game for the major consoles that pushed through the “fourth wall” – Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure used real-world figurines to activate virtual characters by placing them on the “Portal of Power”.  Using radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, each individual figurine has it’s own battery-free internal memory [...]

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Sandy Gets The Duracell Rapid Responder

The weak link of the smart device life is often the constant need for more power — in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the widespread blackout through the New York tri-state area made this very evident.  The residents of the lower tip of Manhattan (home of the Architechnologist and TECHNOGORILLA) were visited by the Duracell [...]

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Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy did tremendous damage around the lower Manhattan home of the Architechnologist and TECHNOGORILLA, but we are home and getting back to work.

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Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy did tremendous damage in and around the lower Manhattan home of the Architechnologist and TECHNOGORILLA, just a block from the World Trade Center site.  Amazingly enough, our building never lost power – part of a small enclave below 30th Street that did not.  We arrived home just hours before the trick-or-treaters began showing [...]

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