While his ability to rotate 360° at the elegant flick of the Segway’s stalk seems to be a bit compromised, what this mod lacks in maneuverability it makes up with pure steamrolling surface area. The guy extended each axle to accommodate six more tires, thus becoming the only dude I know of who’s been able to actually increase a Segway’s macho factor, outside of the Chinese military, of course. [Street View Make]
Plug in this USB doll, set up your Skype, Yahoo or MSN client, and when your friends IM you, he hits himself on the head with a hammer. Feel free to tape a new face on him, so a relevant party receives the pain with each lolcat link that gets passed to you. You can also patch the i-Knock with custom MP3s to play for extra special IM-ers. [Stysen via Slippery Brick]
The facade of China Central Television Headquarters is now complete, just in time to look pretty tomorrow, when the world turns its eyes on Beijing’s Olympic Games. The 6.45 million-square-feet complex looks as amazing as the original renderings, defying gravity with its two leaning towers connected by two massive sections floating in midair. Still, the process of how they got connected is even more impressive:
We’re always on the prowl for the latest iClone, and this RAmos iMovie is looking like an…interesting…replacement for the iPod touch. Featuring a slim 10mm aluminum-magnesium frame, the T8 doesn’t seem to have multitouch, but it will play back RMVB, AVI, FLV, WMV, MPG, MP4, DAT, and 3GP on its 4.3″ WQVGA (480×272) display (or through built-in TV-out). And with the 32GB version costing just US$219, you know you’re tempted to find out how well this thing would actually work. [Zol via PMPToday]
While this image may be doctored, I want to believe it’s real. What really wins this for me is the desperate tone in the review from the guy who actually bought the US$999 I’m Rich iPhone application, saying the application is a scam:
This is a model of Shanghai as projected for 2020 by Chinese authorities. At 1,000 square feet, it’s perhaps the biggest model of a city in the world, and–for sure–the best place ever for two grown men to wear their Gamera and Godzilla latex costumes and fight to death. The gigantic dimensions and the detail shown in the photographs are just mind-blowing.
If you thought those greedy mom-assaulting vampires from the RIAA or the BSA were bad, you haven’t seen their Brazilian cousins yet: they sued a shopping mall and its retailers for selling pirated software to the tune of four billion dollars, winning every single cent of it. Nothing bad with that, until they tell you how they came up with that crazy sum.
The small Dutch town of Hengelo is about to test out a new kind of concrete paving slab that actually grabs onto the car-exhaust pollutant nitrogen oxide (a key smog and acid rain ingredient) sucking it out of the air and rendering it harmless. The special bricks contain a component based on titanium dioxide that acts to “fix” the pollutant with the aid of sunlight. The best bit is that the resulting nitrates just wash away with the next rain. Clever stuff: and if the trial results next summer show improved air quality, I’m sure we’ll see environmentalists dancing along singing “Follow the green concrete road!” Or something. [Physorg]
The shiny brown machine in the photo there is apparently the top-of-the-range Eee PC S101 that was shown in Asus’ leaked presentation last month. It looks just a little bigger than the white 901 model next to it, and it will be about 2.2cm deep, have a 10.1-inch LED-lit LCD, and have an Intel Atom purring away inside. What makes it “ultimate” is presumably in part its SSD: it’ll come with either a 32GB or 64GB solid-state drive, and that’s why the two models will cost around US$699 and US$899 when available in October. And they may not carry the “Eee” label, or so the rumour goes. [PChome.tw]
Sony just updated its T-series of Cybershot digital cameras with the DSC-T700 and DSC-T77 models. Both have a 10.1-megapixels CCD, with Carl Zeiss Barrio Tessa optics, including a 4x optical zoom, the “smile shutter” and Bionz image processing engine. The T77, an update on the earlier T70, is apparently the “worlds thinnest touchscreen point-and-shoot camera” at just 1.4cm deep, has a 3-inch touchscreen, 15MB of internal memory and shoots up to ISO3200. Its bigger brother, the T700, has 4GB of built-in storage and a 3.5-inch touchscreen that has close to a million display pixels. Both will be available at the end of September, in a variety of colours: the T77 will cost you around US$300, the T700 nearly US$400. Press release below.
