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10 tech toys for the Indiana Jones in all of us
dvice.com — The world is about to leap into the fourth Indiana Jones adventure, opening in theaters on May 22nd. Mere talk of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull gets us wishing we were on the road to adventure, digging up fantastic objects, dodging bullets and fists and emerging victorious from the jaws of death.More ( Tech News )
On Fire: 10 Amazing High-Tech Barbecues
dvice.com — Searing animal flesh takes us back to the Dawn of Man, and innovative technology brings the art of grilling way past the discovery of fire and well into the 21st century. The variety of barbecue grills both large and small, cheap and exorbitant, boggles the mind. One things for sure: There's no shortage of super-hot, super-cool grills to get your ...More ( Tools )
Top 5 High-Tech Guns for Next-Gen Infantry
popularmechanics.com — Futuristic military systems get plenty of attentionand funding. Despite all the high-profile warplanes and combat ships, however, the current theater of urban environments and guerrilla enemies makes the development of new weapons for troops on the ground a pressing need. When the Pentagon recently tweaked its Future Combat Systems initiative, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made noise about fielding weapons ...More ( Guns )
Tech Zombies: 6 Technologies That Don't Know They're Dead
cracked.com — Some technologies are like a Tyrannosaurus running down the highway (without the awesome). They made sense once and now they're hideously out of place, carried only by momentum as they stumble toward their inevitable date with the sixteen-wheeler of Progress.More ( Tech News )
$1,000 Spray Makes Electronic Gadgets Completely Waterproof
local6.com — A new $1,000 spray claims to protect notebook computers, iPods, cell phones and other electronic gadgets from liquid, making them completely waterproof. The spray, called Golden Shellback Splash Proof Coating, is one thousandth of an inch thick. Sid Martin of the Northeast Maritime Institute, which created the product, said the spray forces the water to roll off electronic gadgets like ...More ( Tech News )
Invisible Carpet Idea Close to Actual Invisibility
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Invisibility cloaks are cool, but an invisibility carpet is more practical. That's according to scientists from Imperial College London, who recently published a paper detailing the creation of a material that would be the first to hide objects in visible light, something no cloaking device has ever achieved.
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Helios: Changing Barbeques as we know it
coolest-gadgets.com — In an effort to use renewable energy sources and less polluting products, I'm surprised that I never see barbecues being targeted. Everyone always thinks of cars or big industrial factories as the ones that leave the huge carbon footprint, but no one thinks about grilling. I mean, if you're burning something, that smoke has to go somewhere. And I'm certain ...More ( Tools )
Robot Pill goes where the sun don't shine
robotliving.com — If they ever make a sequel to Innerspace, its star may look a lot like Carnegie Mellon University's robotic pill. At first glance, the pill sounds pretty damn creepy: It harmlessly attaches itself to your intestinal walls and then sprouts legs and marches about, taking pictures of your inner workings. It's feet rather than using hooks or drills or some ...More ( Tech News )
Amazing pics of invisibility cloak
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Long the stuff of fantasy, practical invisibility shields have been brought a step closer to reality by researchers who say they have engineered materials that can hide an object by bending ordinary light like balloon animals at a circus.
The researchers, led by Xiang Zhang of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of California, Berkeley, have ...More
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Do these gadgets foretell the end of days?
msnbc.msn.com — Fans of science fiction and luddites alike know that technology will cause the end of everything wholesome. It could be that the Internet becomes self-aware and sends the governor of California back naked through time to kill Sarah Connor. However, smart sci-fi points out that technology is just a tool to magnify our abilities. Sometimes, unfortunately, it magnifies the inconvenient ...More ( Tech News )