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This Movie Theater Seat has its own built-in surround-sound system for a truly immersive experience

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The FLEXSOUND Pulse generates its own immersive ‘bubble’ of full-range audio around the person sitting in it. Its makers designed it to be the cinema seat of the future, but they see it being used in gaming, live performances, and even at home.

The terms ‘immersive’ and ‘loud’ aren’t necessarily interchangeable… that’s a distinction that the FLEXSOUND Pulse focuses on. It replaces the need for those loud 5.1 surround sound systems by putting the speakers right into their futuristic movie-theater seats, so you don’t just listen to the audio, you FEEL it too.

Flexsound Pulse - The first fully loudspeaker-free cinema sound system

The FLEXSOUND Pulse is an almost cabin-esque seat that envelops you in your personal “soundsphere.” The Pulse comes with carefully-positioned full-range audio systems built right into the seat, giving you an experience that blurs the lines between auditory and tactile. Just how your heart thumps to music at a concert, the chair’s audio systems immerse your ears and body in sound and vibrations without necessarily being loud. Moreover, the chair’s felt-lined walls along the side help contain the sound within the space inside the seat, resulting in minimal sound leakage. This means your audio experience exists within the confines of your chair, so your family and neighbors don’t get disturbed while you’re watching a Michael Bay film or an exceptionally rowdy football match. Sadly though, it also means you can’t really talk to people beside you or efficiently pass the popcorn around (although that might just be a good thing).

Flexsound Pulse - The first fully loudspeaker-free cinema sound system

The chairs are designed to wirelessly receive sound, and can be arranged in a variety of numbers and orientations for smaller private cinemas as well as larger public movie theaters… and just in case you’re wondering, yes, they could potentially be used at home too, along with your TV or your gaming rig. Or better still, just pop on a VR headset and enter perhaps the most immersive movie-watching experience known to humankind.

Designer: FLEXSOUND

Flexsound Pulse - The first fully loudspeaker-free cinema sound system

Flexsound Pulse - The first fully loudspeaker-free cinema sound system

The most minimal iPhone 12 case also gives it the most amount of character

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Think of the Arc Pulse as a helmet and elbow + shin guards for your phone. Nobody wears a suit of armor as they’re skateboarding. Instead, they wear gear to protect just vulnerable, high-impact areas like the joints and the head, right? Well, the Arc Pulse applies that logic to the smartphone by targetting and shielding just the areas that are more likely to experience damage… the corners, and the camera bump.

Isn’t it funny that we buy a phone partially based on its aesthetics, meticulously choose a color that appeals to us, and then cover everything up with a boring looking case? The Arc Pulse makes the argument that protecting a smartphone shouldn’t mean shrouding its very character. The Arc Pulse’s bumper-inspired design sits on just the top and bottom, with its minimalist two-part case covering the phone from all angles. The bumpers come with a lip that extends on the front, protecting the screen, while its inherent design guards the corners, sides, and even the back. Available in titanium and aluminum variants, the Arc Pulse gives the iPhone a unique character with the way it sits on the top and bottom. This minimalist, almost ornamental aesthetic not only helps show off your smartphone, but it also exposes the phone’s antenna bands, ensuring perfect 5G coverage, and even allows you to use the wireless charger unencumbered. The Arc Pulse, which is available for all iPhone 12 models, comes with a unique and proprietary slide-on fit™ system that bonds the case to the phone in a way that gives you both impact resistance as well as shock-absorption… all while showing off your smartphone’s design the way it was intended to be seen!

Designer: Arc

3D print this NASA wearable that prevents you from touching your face!

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The pandemic COVID-19 is still plaguing our world and that means we still need to make sure we don’t touch our faces, wear masks, wash our hands. We don’t even realize that we touch our face up to 2000 times a day which is a fundamental behavior of our species to self-soothe according to psychologists. Changing habits is hard enough already, and changing inherent habits while we adjust to bigger life changes might sound near impossible. So NASA has designed Pulse, a DIY wearable necklace that warns you when you are about to touch your face.

NASA isn’t selling these directly, but Jet Propulsion Laboratory has made the 3D-printed concept available as an open-source project so anyone can make this smart wearable for their own health and safety. It works on a simple mechanism – the necklace has a sensor that detects when the user lifts their hands towards their face and it will vibrate to warn them using power from a common button battery. This vibration is a reminder for the user to not touch their face and soon establishes the muscle memory required to turn this into a new behavioral pattern. All the necessary STL files, the list of the parts you’ll need, and the assembly instructions have been made freely available for anyone to make these. Apart from the 3D printer and having the knowledge of basic electrical DIY skills, all the components are easy to source and if you want to learn then YouTube is always there as a resource.

This isn’t a 100% prevention but an aid that goes along with masks, sanitizers, regular hand-washing, and staying home to minimize your chance of contracting the virus to as low as you possibly can. Please wear masks when you go out in public for essential errands or even a stroll, and try to use reusable cloth masks so that health professionals and workers on the frontline can get the priority for disposable PPE which is still in short supply. As Batman said, “I don’t wear a mask to protect myself, I wear it to protect those around me.”

Designers: NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The world’s smallest masseuse can fit in your wallet!

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Smaller than a stress ball, but a hundred times more useful, the Cardlax seems like the ultimate stress-relief tool. Be it after a strenuous workout, after a stressful day, or just when you want to relax at home and unwind, the Cardlax is a small, pocket-sized, card-shaped gizmo that simulates getting a massage. It adheres to your skin via a gel pad, and delivers short electric pulses to your muscles, causing them to contract and relax, as if a masseuse’s hands were working against your skin.

Its pocket-sized nature makes it virtually an EDC, allowing you to carry a virtual masseuse with you wherever you go, and its ability to adhere to any part of your body lets you have the comfort of getting a relaxing massage without any of the expenses, paraphernalia, or skilled technician. Its four-button interface allows you to power it on/off, change modes, and increase or decrease intensity, and that’s all it takes to get the spa experience without shelling out big bucks and heading to the parlor. Light a few scented candles and you have the aromatherapy experience too!

Designer: Cardlax

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Taser’s smallest weapon ever is for civilians, not cops

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Although Taser is mostly known for supplying weapons to law enforcement officers, the company also focuses on people who are interested in self-defense products. With this in mind, Taser's introduced the Pulse, a small and lightweight weapon designed...

Pulse Puts All of Your dSLR’s Controls at Your Fingertips

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Just in case your dSLR camera doesn’t have a touchscreen and all of the important functions seem to be buried in the menus, Pulse gives you instant access to what you need, when you need it.

Most moderns dSLR cameras work with remote controls, and in the case of mirrorless cameras that really goes without saying, so what’s the buzz surrounding this Pulse device? Well, first of all, dSLR and mirrorless camera remote controls offer way too few options compared to what photographers might need or want. Enter Alpine Laboratories’ Pulse, a device that connects to your camera via USB and communicates to your smartphone over Bluetooth LE, whilst providing you extended control over many of the camera’s functions.

First of all, it should be mentioned that the Pulse gets installed in the hot-shoe of your camera, where external flashes would normally go. After placing it there and connecting it to the USB port of the camera, fire up the companion app on your smartphone and start taking control over your interchangeable lens snapper. In terms of supported platforms, there will be versions of the companion app made available for both Android and iOS. As far as camera compatibility is concerned, Alpine Laboratories claim that only Canon and Nikon are supported, for the time being, with other brands to be added soon, in case the manufacturers decide to modify the way their cameras work when connected over USB. More precisely, Sony, the maker of some of the best mirrorless cameras available on the market today, doesn’t allow storing photos on the internal memory so long as the USB port

As seen in the above image, the shutter speed, aperture and ISO values can be modified on the go. That’s particularly useful if your camera doesn’t have a touchscreen, as getting to all those settings by pressing the camera’s buttons definitely takes more time than swiping left or right on a touchscreen.

The app also enables you to see thumbnails of the photograph prior to taking it.

Shooting time-lapse photography gets incredibly easy with the Pulse, as users have the option of setting the total duration and the intervals at which photos are taken. Alpine Labs have spent four years developing some of the smartest timelapse products on the market, and all that experience was combined into Pulse.

As seen below, recording videos using the dSLR or mirrorless camera is equally easy, as the start/stop button is one tap away.

Alpine Labs were looking to raise $50,000 on Kickstarter, but that funding goal has long been reached, with pledges currently exceeding 900% that. Some 1,700 backers had the chance to secure a Pulse for themselves by pledging $69, and those spots are long gone, so if you want this device, you will have to support the project with at least $74. Assuming that everything goes as planned, expect to receive the Pulse in April 2016.

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[via Kickstarter]