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MiniC.A.T Air Car runs on compressed air
Step over, hydrogen, there's a new chemical superpower in town: compressed air. The MiniC.A.T Air Car runs on a combination of compressed air and fuel (such as gasoline, gas oil, bio diesel, gas, liquidized gas, ecological fuel, alcohol, etc),…
Toyota Hybrid X Concept hits the showroom
The latest green concept car from Toyota is the Hybrid X, sporting curvy lines that reminded one commenter of Back to the Future. The seats are created with injected foam instead of the usual rubber, providing more comfort and…
Weta handmade antique-style… Goliathon 83 Infinity Beam Projector
The closest thing to a Agatha Heterodyne death ray could be the Weta Goliathon 83 Infinity Beam Projector – and at $621 each you may feel like it should be a real death ray. Available in a limited edition…
Dr. Who mobile charms make your mobile more charmingly annoying
These glass-encased TARDIS and Dalek charms for your mobile flash and spin inside their enclosures when you have an incoming call, though personally I'd be tempted to put them on my Christmas tree because they're oddly pretty looking. (Actually,…
Gun-Operated Alarm Clock
I hate to get up in the morning (so I don't) and nothing would give me more pleasure than shooting the alarm. Fortunately for all of us haters, Roger Ibars has designed a solution to my problem. The Gun-Operated…
Memjet spec prints 60 pages per minute
That inkjet ink is more expensive than vintage champagne isn't the only objectionable quality: even bubblejets are on the slow side when it comes to full colour pages. At least, until Memjet takes hold. Capable of completing 30 4×6…
Pussy Cat PC: computer, robot pet… air purifier?
Putting a new spin on the "mobile PC" concept, the Pussy Cat PC concept has a regular PC built into the core, but also has the mind of a cat (and face recognition enough to know who theoretically, ah,…
Raytheon MONARCH is world's first polymorphic computer
While us peons at the consumer level won't see the world's first polymorphic chip, the MONARCH (Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture) any time soon since it's intended for military GPS, radar, video processing systems and space gear – anything that needs…
Do this spit take – for science
Scientists at UCLA, led by Dr. David Wong, have decoded the "alphabet" of saliva in a way that allows it to replace invasive bloodwork to test for conditions ranging from cancer to osteoporosis. They have catalogued the entire proteome,…
Unotron washable keyboards and mice
Keyboards and mice get pretty disgusting. That is, we know they get disgusting, but because they don't look all that bad, we tend to let it slide to the point where they're literally laden with more bacteria than the…
