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Top 10 Electric Vehicles Available In 2007
Electric vehicles are both sexier and more affordable with every passing day, meaning if you wait long enough you'll be able to get a free solar-powered transport that'll take you to the moon and back in more ways than…
Gigapan Robotic Panoramic Shooting Platform
The Gigapan is an advanced version of the panorama mode that most digital cameras now permit. You mount the camera on a robotic swivel, and it pans the scenery, collecting hundreds of snaps which it then "quilts" together into…
Your robo-valet will park your car now
New Yorkers are the first to confront the robotic parking garage (and considering the quality of human parking guys in NYC, robots are at least, well, predictable). The cars are flipped, slid, and shoved into the most convenient locale,…
Coffee via a donut
Pretty much, the more intimate (er, you know what I mean) your relationship is with your keyboard, the more you like caffeine. But, coffee isn't always an option, so Dr. Robert Bohannon created a way to embed caffeine in…
VOCO Clock wakes you up the Stephen Fry way
For the extraordinarily reasonable price of only £25.95 (plus £3 p+ p) you can have the incarnation of Jeeves, the perfect valet, wake you every morning via the VOCO clock. (You will have to wait until the end of…
Voom-PC2 lets you hack your car
It's actually surprising that it took so long for the Voom-PC2 to come to pass, considering how many weird laptop hacks people have done to their vehicles. The advantage of the Voom is that it's actually designed to be…
Kish Kish Skype lie detector
Even government administered lie detectors aren't too reliable (and I've hung with enough spies to know), so anything the Kish Kish Skype lie detector tells you should be taken with a grain of salt. But the idea is, since…
USB Tardis, complete with 'vworp'
Sporting a flashing red light on top and making strategic dematerialization noises, the Doctor Who Tardis 4-Way USB Hub also has, as you guessed, four USB 2.0 ports and a really long cable allowing you to tuck it away…
Play peek-a-boo with one-way two-way mirror windows
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology has developed glass that can be easily switched between mirrored and transparent, using a thin film of magnesium-titanium. Combined with temperature sensors, judicious flipping on and off could allow significant…
eBay bans sale of virtual stuff from MMORPGs
Expressing concern about "legal complexity", eBay is bouncing auctions of virtual items from World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs in the US and UK. This will probably not make much difference since a) Blizzard already says you're not allowed…
