Sikorsky X2 Sleek Triple Blade Helicopter
Posted by Seamus Byrne at 11:43 PM on June 18, 2007
Here's the Sikorsky X2, a prototype helicopter with three blades that is set to fly at the end of the year at 287mph. That's 240 knots vs the usual 170kt of conventional choppers. We saw the idea a while ago and, after some cancellations of the program by the military, Sikorsky is now building it on their own. To keep the costs down enough for Batman to buy a dozen and paint them black, they are building them using already existing components for the most part.
Sikorsky X2 heralds the DIY helicopter [Flight Global]

For those artists whose desire of a fat pen is accompanied by the need for a two-button scrolling mouse, Salient Tech swoops in with the VM-203, a wireless pen mouse with 1000dpi resolution. It's designed to be easy to use, with its rubberized grip and rounded ergonomic shape, but to us it just looks like it's too big. Couldn't they have slimmed it down a bit? Maybe it's actually not fat enough for its obvious secondary use. Wonder if it vibrates.
A leak or two was sprung about the
Here's a new picture of the
Here's the new iRiver NV in all its glorious smoked Korean shininess. With a 7-inch screen and two SD ports, this thing can do anything except calling: it has an integrated Global Positioning System unit, terrestrial digital TV, FM radio and plays back every format under the sun: MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF, WMV, MPG, Xvid and H.264. I specially like its sexy monochrome display in the thumb control, which will not only show its functions but also show icons indicating what kind of turn you have to do next. And if that wasn't cool enough, check out the beautiful Bang & Olufsenesque remote control in the gallery.
Hopefully, it will be available everywhere soon.
The new PillCam ESO 2, a pill that you have to swallow to take images of your digestive system, has just been approved by the FDA. Now, it will take 14 images per second during 30 minutes, with a 21%-wider view angle and new Automatic Light Control for even more juicy and crispy details. Obligatory gross image samples after the jump.

Thanko's latest wacky invention is an update to one of their old models, a USB Microscope. The new version increases the LED count from 4 to 8, which means that when you're looking at things anywhere from 20x to 200x larger than they usually are, you'll actually be able to see it better than a blind zombie in the dark during an eclipse.
The USB scope hooks up to any Win 2000/XP/Vista machine with a USB 1.1/2.0 port and gives you mindblowing resolutions all the way up to 640x480. It's probably not small enough to
After testing out both Blu-ray and HD DVD rentals in 250 of its 1,450 stores, movie rental chain Blockbuster has gone with Blu-ray as the format its going to widely deploy next month. The decision comes as customers in those 250 stores chose Blu-ray 70% of the time, obviously more than doubling the amount of HD DVDs rented. That's a pretty big margin this early in the format war.
However, HD DVD die hards have a slight bit of hope left. Blockbuster will still continue renting HD DVDs in the original 250 locations, so there could be a possibility in changing the decision if customers start renting a lot more of the HD discs or studios start pumping out a lot more movies on that format. We wouldn't count on it.
It may be its beautiful japanese simplicity or just our
Nokia fans who can't quite afford the extravagance of the N95 or the N75, will appreciate the company's latest mid-range handsets. The three, in from left to right order above: the 6121 Classic, the 3500 Classic (two candybars) and the 6267 (the clamshell).
Sling's just released the Slinglink TURBO 1 and Slinglink TURBO 4, two powerline network adapters so you can connect your Slingboxes through your home network by way of the electrical system. Aptly named, the TURBO 1 has one Ethernet port and the TURBO 4 has four, and will retail for $99 and $149 respectively.
It's a pretty good last-shot method to get your stuff wired up you really hate wiring Ethernet through your house and your home's construction makes wireless networking impossible. 






For those who may have missed it, our friends over at The Consumerist ran a little story called
For those who've been listening to us rant about multitouch, accelerometers and IR sensing, but have completely ignored the brainwashing Apple content, hit the link for Apple's new 3D QuickTours of the iPhone.
Even if you aren't interested in reshingling the House that Jobs Built with solid gold, the demos are exceedingly successful at showing how some of the phone's more widespread technologies work.
Believe it or not, when we say "Jesus Phone", we mean it as a joke.
These GeekPark figures may look like cheap McDonald's toys, but they are actually fully-functional webcams. Capturing resolutions up to 1280x960 at 30fps, each little person has movable appendages and...well that's about where the extra functionality starts/stops.
Coming in four colors, these $22 webcams just tease us with their useless color identities that in no way promote the assembly of a giant robot to fight evil. Oh well.
The Contraforma Imperial Tiles are modular carpeting, perfect for quick fixes after spills (or cat puke, if you live in my home).
Using infrared light to penetrate the skin, the Lima is a blood sugar analyzer that requires no blood for a reading. After placing your hand on the Lima, football style, you hit a power button to take the reading. Then, without tearing up in front of your friend/girlfriend/pitbull, your blood sugar level will appear on the display.
It's an interesting concept, but why not remove the power button completely and allow pressure to activate the device?
The Froggetmee chopsticks may not be electronic, but they are a gadget nonetheless. Combining chopsticks and spoons into one utensil, the culinary world is calling the Froggetmee the biggest breakthrough in efficient eating technologies since the spork.
I've been wanting a pair of reusable chopsticks and these run a reasonable $8. What do you think? Should I lean toward practicality, or a just pick some up with a badass dragon design that I'll then enlarge for my car to match?
As recently published by the German (not BBC) magazine Focus, Apple will be making an in-car system for Mercedes. This mystery unit will tackle "
Over on AVS Forums, a few members are complaining about a problem with copies of The Prestige: disc rot.