Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - Page 2

Akira Bike Replica Will Bring Out The Mini-Rebel In You

The year is 2019. You’re in post-World War III Tokyo. There are some bad guys calling themselves The Clowns. You battle. You win. You leave on your highly-customised bike. You wake up in 2009 and pre-order a replica of that bike.

Online

Google Latitude Gets Creepy With Location History And Alerts

Google already knows too much about me, yet Google Latitude’s Location History and Location Alerts features are still creepy. But they’re useful, because together they learn your usual hangouts and know when you don’t need notifications of who’s nearby.

Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display

There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there’s the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It’s a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer.

Toshiba Offering Bonus Netbooks With Regza Purchase

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You pretty much can’t buy a TV at the moment without getting something for free. Toshiba have joined the giveaway bandwagon by offering a NB200 netbook worth $699 (via redemption) with the purchase of one of their new ZV600A and XV600A series LCD TVs.

Unit 33 Is The World’s Tallest Two-Legged Robot

You would think that a 2m-tall robot would be into basketball, but apparently soccer is his game. He can also walk, turn, twist and take a bow. Hmm… I think I have the perfect application for this technology…

Product Tank Is Like A Booby Trap For Your Toast

This Product Tank concept employs an innovative solution to the problem of toastables that are oversized in either length or width. There are no slots and the walls close in like your bread stumbled into a booby trap.

Entertainment

The MTV-1 Took The Television Portable

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In 1978, Sir Clive Sinclair – inventor of the pocket calculator and the ZX Spectrum computer – released the world’s first portable television, the MTV-1. It was a bit chunky to be called pocketable, although that could have something to do with the fact that it packed a 2-inch CRT inside its body…

Laser T9 Probably Won’t Threaten The iPod

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Aussie company Laser has just launched a new MP3/MP4 player called the T9. Despite its decent enough spec sheet and attractive price point though, I highly doubt Apple is quaking in their booties.

Science

I Wear My Suncontacts At Night

Photochromic lenses that allow you to walk from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses have been around for decades. But the technology is just making its way to contacts.

A.W.E. Robotic Wall Automatically Creates The Workspace You Need

Think about your workspace and imagine if your furniture or your desk or cubicle could automatically reconfigure for different applications with a simple wave of the hand. Now check out the reality of Clemson’s Animated Work Environment (AWE).

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