Singularity Surplus: Computer Convenience For FDA Data, Paper and Pen, Power Outlets

The Scribble pen can identify and reproduce 16 million colors you might come across in daily life. The pen uses a 16-bit RGB color sensor to identify the colors of objects and reproduces them by mixing cyan, magenta, yellow, white and black inks. A digital version simply stores the color codes. The user can save up to 100,000 colors in the pen’s 1GB memory.

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Here’s another idea in the ongoing effort to make charging our electronic devices less of an ordeal. Japanese researchers have hacked the mainstream robot Roomba and turned it into a mobile charging station. Instead of moving around vacuuming the house, the hacked Roomba looks for charging docks that have been fitted with battery packs. It then charges up the batteries and moves on.

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Nest is great, but most people can't start from scratch with an entirely new system. Enter Sensibo, a Internet of Things hack for any existing air conditioner that has a remote control. Like remote control, the device uses infrared to communicate with the AC unit. But it gets its commands from a mobile app, so the user can tell the AC to start cooling the house more aggressively when he or she is leaving work. Sensibo is taking pre-orders through an Indiegogo campaign.