BlueTooth headsets are so last year. Go for the tacti-cool look throat mike for your cell phone
• www.thinkgeek.comAd says: "Perfect for Motorcycles or Armed Combat". Hey, isn't riding a motorcycle armed combat on 2 wheels?
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IBM Expects to See Holographic Phone Calls, Air-Powered Batteries by 2015
• www.bloomberg.com/newsBy 2015, your mobile phone will project a 3-D image of anyone who calls and your laptop will be powered by kinetic energy. At least that’s what International Business Machines Corp. sees in its crystal ball.
Holiday Video: Cute Quadrocopter Hovers Above Piano, Picks Out 'Jingle Bells'
• popsci.comMerry Christmas from the flying robots of Switzerland. Watch as a Swiss quadrocopter named “Echo” plays a little something for the holidays.
Human-Sized German Workerbot Is Programmed to Be Happiest When It Stays Busy
• popsci.comThe machine can fit into existing assembly line positions and work all day and all night
Most Emailed Photos
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Shorts-Wearing Japanese Sprinter-Bot Runs Like a Human on Robotic Legs
• popsci.comThe Japanese robot, named "Athlete," does not quite have the balance of a human yet
The Most Amazing Science Images of 2010
• popsci.comGallery: 1 of 71
Navy Railgun Sets New Record, Launching A Metal Bullet To Mach 7 Speeds
• popsci.comThe Navy just broke its own record for an awesomely powerful railgun, which can hurl a projectile hundreds of miles at superfast speeds without using explosives.
The Mobile Device Is Becoming Humankind's Primary Tool (Infographics Feature)
• Evan I. Schwartz via TechnologyReview.comPeople everywhere are consuming more and more wireless bandwidth to manage a wider variety of tasks. Evidence shows that the mobile phone is becoming indispensable to us.
Scientists reveal material for 'invisibility cloak'
• STVA new material that could be used to create a real-life Harry Potter-style "invisibility cloak" has been designed by Scottish scientists. The material, called "Metaflex" could in future provide a way of manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light.
Scientists unveil moving 3D holograms
• Financial TimesMore than 30 years after the famous Star Wars movie scene in which a hologram of Princess Leia appealed for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi, US researchers have unveiled holographic technology to transmit and view moving three-dimensional images.
Intercepted device likely a cell phone, photo analysis shows.
• CNNThe electronic component visible in a law enforcement image of an intercepted suspicious shipment from Yemen appears to be a printed circuit board from a disassembled cell phone, an engineer told CNN Friday. "This size and the shape of the PCB (p
Ballmer: 'No question we're early' on mobile
• money.cnn.comMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer told software developers on Thursday that his company will prove doubters wrong and succeed in the mobile field, because the smartphone market is still in its infancy.
Leaked Photo: Is This the Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone?
• wired.comEngadget has photos of what it says is a prototype Sony Ericsson slide-out phone with PlayStation-PSP–style gaming controls. The phone has a multitouch trackpad and purportedly will appear sometime next year running Android 3.0, aka Gingerbread.
Mercedes Dreams of Rickshaws and Cars Knit by Robots
• wired.comThis year’s Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge tackles a heavy question: How do you build a lightweight car that doesn’t compromise safety, styling or performance?
Get Rid of Your CDs and DVDs
• wired.comIf you've ever considered ditching those stacks of DVDs and CDs cluttering up your home, there's never been a better time to get started. We're slowly but surely moving towards a world where CDs, DVDs and most forms of portable optical media are obso
Windows Phone 7 Review: Once More, With Feeling
• John Mahoney via PopSci.comWe've been using the HTC Surround, one of the first class of phones to launch running Microsoft's fully revamped mobile OS. Is it good enough to forgive years of Windows Mobile misery?
A Cell-Phone Network without a License
• technologyreview.comA trial system offers calling, texting, and data by weaving signals around the chatter of baby monitors and cordless phones.
Whatever Happened to ... Virtual Reality?
• technologyreview.comRemember the movie Lawnmower Man? Here's why we're not even close.
Video: Beautiful 3-D Light Paintings, Extruded From an iPad
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comDentsu London and Berg teamed up to create this stop-motion film, entitled "Making Future Magic." It's driven by a 3D light-painting technique, one I've never seen before: It's extruded from an iPad, like Play-Doh through a press.
Video: Beautiful 3-D Light Paintings, Extruded From an iPad
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comDentsu London and Berg teamed up to create this stop-motion film, entitled "Making Future Magic." It's driven by a 3D light-painting technique, one I've never seen before: It's extruded from an iPad, like Play-Doh through a press.
New Software Conveniently Integrates Your Heart Implant With Your Android Phone
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comThe new Human++ system adds one very powerful new peripheral to Android smartphones: your own body. It interprets electrocardiogram (ECG) readings, and can be used for medicinal or recreational purposes
Callaway, Lamborghini Team Up for Carbon Research
• wired.comWhen you think golf clubs, you think Lamborghini, right? Wait, wait! When you think super cars, you think Callaway Golf. OK, hold on a sec.
HYDRO LANCE CORPORATION
• www.hydrolance.netThe 'H.A.R.T.H.' TECHNOLOGY
FutureCar: The Skateboard
• youtube.comWhat if the next car you buy will be the only car you ever have to buy again? What if you could have every model, every new improvement added to the car you own in a blink of an eye? What if you could sit where ever you wanted when you drove? What if
3 Secret Apple TV Features Steve Jobs Hasn’t Told You About
• wired.comThe new Apple TV could be Steve Jobs’ best sleight-of-hand trick yet.
Jaguar Builds A Twin-Turbine Electric Supercar You Can’t Have
• wired.comOne of the joys of the modern auto show is the flight of fancy known as the concept car. In the interest of generating buzz and flexing muscles, automakers trot out impossibly beautiful design and engineering studies that have no hope of production,
Google's Boss Envisions a Utopian Future
• technologyreview.comThe firm's CEO discusses phones that translate speech and "autonomous" search engines.
Swiss Researchers Test Largest-Ever Swarm of Aerial Robots
• popsci.comVideo
A Robotic Mannequin Mimics Your Shape, So You Can See Online How Clothes Will Fit You
• popsci.comVideo
