Sit back, and relax. For the rest of your life. Quite possibly the coolest Kinect hack yet has come from Microsoft itself – in the form of this Kinect-powered motorized armchair, built using the soon-to-be-released Kinect PC SDK. With a flick of the wrist, the chair reclines, adjusts, and even becomes mobile, all while you laze about. If this blatant incarnation of slothdom isn’t the reason technology made it to this point, nothing is. Behold! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewJHNkjog0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-ZJWqmaes Alright, so the operation of this thing is still a little…

The concept of flavour just got turned on its ear as engineering students in Japan have developed TagCandy, a device which augments the flavour of whatever candy is inserted into it. Stick a regular lollipop into the handset, choose a flavour (Crunchy apple? Fizzy soda? …Fireworks?), and suck away. The vibrating speaker on the device sends pulses that conduct through your teeth as you eat the candy, emulating the vibration patterns that the chosen flavour would emit. How they discovered what it’s like to bite down on fireworks, you probably don’t want to know. Either way, it’s a totally wicked…

I don’t know exactly how far this Augmented Reality (AR) thing is really going to go, but I do know that it is getting more technically impressive each and every day. String, a company focused on creating AR applications for mobile devices, has created Scrawl, an application that empowers users to draw in three-dimensional space, looks to usher in a new dimension of artistry. Scrawl is currently a tech demo, but the company has garnered so much interest that they have decided to continue developing the application and intend on releasing it on the Apple App Store in the near future. Until then, all…

Augmented Reality has been gaining popularity with the growth of smart phones throughout the world, and it appears that Coke Zero and Sausalitos, a german magazine, are willing to take advantage. They have, with the help of Junaio, an AR browser for Android and iPhone, created an intriguing way to create advertising for the 21st century. This is an interesting move when considering how downright depressing things have been for the print industry; age-old publications are dropping like flies on what seems to be a daily basis. What they need are new ways to generate interest from users and advertisers….