In an era when smokers are subjected to the hostile smoking environment of…fresh air…our friends at Philip Morris are ready to accommodate those looking to expedite the process stepping outside. They’ve packed the same amount of nicotine goodness into a smaller package—think of it as the iPod Nano of the lifespan cigarette world.
Ah, holidays. Spend a couple of weeks on a faraway island, where the words “internet” and “connection” are met with baffled stares, and it’s easy to forget what one’s purpose in life actually is. And then you come across a concept gizmo like the Tok Tak and it all comes flooding back: The Giz! Her readers! Hot Verdommer and Eek-a-poos, I’d better get back to work before the editor realises that I didn’t just nip out to get a packet of fags from the store. Designed by Tae-won Kim, the Tok Tak looks like an audio jack but is actually a basic MP3 player concept that comes with a base station — which, judging by the photo below, looks a bit like Tae-won got his inspiration from gazing at a smoke detector. More »
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a method of arranging cells on a microchip using what they call “optical tweezers.” These optical tweezers consist of a fine tuned beam of laser light, which moves cells around on the chip.
Scientists say this could have may beneficial applications in the fields of biomedical and materials research. In the picture shown, they used said tweezers to arrange the letters “MIT” on the surface of the chip. Now if they could do that with Harvard’s marching band at a football game, I’d really be impressed. [AP via Science Daily] More »
Hitachi has just rolled out a worryingly small RFID chip, measuring an impressively tiny 0.15 mm x 0.15 mm x 0.0075 mm. The chip packs in a 128-bit ROM, which is able to store a 38-digit number. Hitachi previously held the title for world’s smallest RFID, but the now second place tag was comparatively large at 0.4 mm x 0.4 mm. More »
newVideoPlayer("nanoradio_gawker.flv", 475, 376);University of California researcher Chris Rutherglen shows off a radio made of carbon nanotubes, measuring “a few atoms across,” that’s 1,000 times smaller than today’s radio technology.
As you see in the video, the bummer is that the teeny weeny radio still needs what looks like a AAA battery to power up. This doesn’t have Rutherglen and his prof, Peter Burke, too upset. It’s a breakthrough that will spread, as they explain in their research paper: More »
This cellphone projector may not be completely original—weve seen the real thing before—but it does look quite cool. The concept has a Windows Mobile phone projecting your computer’s desktop onto a wall so you can make presentations or show off a cool YouTube video. It’s 10 shades of impractical right now, but an interesting concept nonetheless. Why that Windows Mobile phone is projecting an OS X desktop is beyond us though. [Yanko Design] More »
newVideoPlayer("engineworks_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Someone had the great idea of putting a high-pressure, heat-resistant camera inside the cylinder of a four-stroke engine. Shooting at 1000 fps, the camera recorded just exactly what happens to make engines run. Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow! [LiveLeak] More »
