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Celltray, First Instrument to Display Living Biological Cells

Nanopoint has come up with a genuine scientific breakthrough that is set to revolutionize research and medical diagnosis in a flash. The hype surrounds Nanopoint’s cellTRAY, IDSA’s 2007 Gold Winner in the medical category, which allows scientists to image living cells on a slide for the very first time. The technology is a standard microscope…

Multiple Speech Recognition To Make Sex Dolls More Fun

Kyoto University and the Honda Research Institute Japan have collaborated to form the Robot Audition Project. They are at present making some very impressive ground; they have developed an advanced speech recognition technology that has the capability to understand multiple, unique speech inputs, whilst computing their meaning independently. The efforts of the team are coming…

Space Walk Gallery Makes Us Burn With Envy

The guys over at Fogonazos have compiled a list of the ‘Top 10 Best Spacewalks in History’ and the images are absolutely stunning. The pictures are so inch perfect we thought they were photo-shopped; amazingly, they are all genuine. If you’ve never looked back on your decision to become a full time gaming-bum instead of…

Armchair Cruisers Get Your Butt In Gear

If the Office Chair Bike seemed just too much effort, but you are still big on mobile seat action, then welcome Armchair Cruisers to the arena. The guys at AC have joined together the motorized vehicle and the sofa in one seamless package, but unwittingly have made drive-in movie watching obsolete. https://gizmodo.com/make-your-own-office-chair-bike-281866 The vehicles are…

What You Missed Last Weekend

You thought, “I will check Giz after the weekend, they’ll have some competent writer condense all that cool stuff in a series of handy links.” Well, you were right on one account at least. Jump for what you missed: • Gang kidnaps top world gamer for an account password. • Rumored 6th gen iPod interface…

No Space For Bed Bugs

If you’re like me, chances are you have a lot of facial hair and sleep in the foetus position. Combine the latter with an unhealthy desire to economise space, and there you have the Foetus Space Economising Bed. Granted, you won’t want to take your date back to your flat, but at least you can…

Tallest Building in The World, Taller Than Most Things

The United Arab Emirates has just stolen the crown from Taiwan in the tallest building stakes. The Burj Dubai, still under construction, reached 141 stories on Saturday 21/07/07. The structure stands an impressive 512.1m (1,680ft) tall. The Taipei 101, in Taiwan, was the previous titleholder standing at 508m high and resided above the rest of…

Researchers Reach 15Gbps Wireless Transfers

The boffins at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working on a realistic solution for high-speed wireless data transfer. The technology, dubbed multi-gigabit wireless, has reached a blazing 15Gbps at 1m. The vision is in creating Personal Area Networks (PAN), and relies upon utilizing unlicensed, 60GHz RF frequencies. The transfer speeds are only limited by…

Angel Speaker Looks Like a Mint

Do you like your portable speaker looking like a large, oddly shaped, Tic-Tac? Well lucky you, because Brando has just released such a device. The Angel speaker boasts nothing out of the ordinary, except making buyers simultaneously appear stupid and cheap. Available in orange or green, the Angel Speakers are powered via USB and come…

Duke Absolves Apple, Fingers Cisco

Duke University has now shifted the blame from the iPhone to Cisco, for causing the reported wireless outage. Duke ‘s chief information officer, Tracey Futhey, detailed; “Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based network issue.” https://gizmodo.com/dukes-wireless-lan-is-being-eaten-alive-by-iphone-mac-a-279127 Though the specifics of the trouble…

Get Rid of Those Vaginal Woes With Bikini Line Genie

Ladies, is your muff hairier than a sheepskin shagpile? Do you want to get rid of all that hairy nonsense in 60 seconds? Then say hello to the Bikini Line Genie. These disposable pads will allow you to wax or shave your Southern regions, quickly, without risk of causing those irritating cuts and scrapes. Hit…

Duke University has officially retracted any iPhone implication in wireless network outage. [CNET] https://gizmodo.com/dukes-wireless-lan-is-being-eaten-alive-by-iphone-mac-a-279127

Megatron Move Over, V-Bot’s on the Scene

The Transformers movie highlighted an important fact; we need more robots. Thankfully RC2 is working on the void with the planned release of V_Bot—a serendipitous, robotic union between RC car/robot and MP3 speakers. Transformation is controlled remotely and the V_Bot puts on quite a show in each form factor. Various lighting features are implemented throughout,…

Microsoft Mobile, There’s a Mouse On My Phone

Microsoft has filed a patent for a device incorporating a cell phone and trackpad based control for your PC, via WiFi. The application reads: 1. A system that facilitates navigating on a display, comprising: a mouse engine component that detects a location; and an interface component that integrates the mouse engine into a handheld communication…

Play Pong, Destroy Your Laptop

Some clever fellow has managed to create a version of Pong, to run on your Mac laptop, utilizing the sudden motion sensors and the microphone. The controls are semi-intuitive. Literal tilting controls the direction of the paddle. Secondly, the size of the paddle is determined via the microphone; greater dB’s equates to a larger size.…

J-Me Cassette, Small on Mix, Big on Tape

When is a cassette not really a cassette? When it is cunningly disguised as a sticky tape dispenser, of course. The clever guys at J-Me have identified the life span of the audio cassette as transient, but rather than let it rest in peace, they have reinvented it to spew sticky tape from its innards.…