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Yes, DARPA does have a reputation for coming up with some seriously far-fetched gadgets, but their Super-Resolution Vision System (SRVS) is not one of them. This project challenges designers to come up with an optics system that utilizes heat haze to see further and clearer than ever before. Basically, it takes advantage of an atmospheric…
We don’t know how many airports total are being affected, but FAA computers at one of their facilities are having trouble processing data, which means flights everywhere are being delayed. So far CNN says LaGuardia in NY and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta were having problems (among many others), but radar and plane contact is fine everywhere.…
Over on the official Android Developers Blog, Googler Dan Morrill has news of what won’t be making it into Android 1.0-a full featured-Bluetooth stack and data messaging via Google Talk API. Android 1.0 will work with Bluetooth headsets, but won’t do other things like send files or link up to a PoGo printer, just like…
If you are impulsive enough to drop over $100,000 on a whim for a nerdy automobile, here is your chance to score one of the five Batmobiles made for the original Michael Keaton movie. Unfortunately, you only have until 5PM PDT today to put in a bid on this baby, so you had better hurry…
Thanks to LEDs, the boring old streetlight is getting a fresh look from designers all over the world. Agustin Otegui’s “Prisma” concept is among these new designs, and in addition to LEDs and solar power, it features a unique 3-way light system that allows for 30-degree customization in either direction. That means the lights can…
Martin Montesano’s giant “Walking Beast” isn’t the first robot spider ever made, but it is the only one I can recall that is this enormous and has the ability to take on passengers. His 12,000-pound, 23-foot-long creation was built over the course of three years at an expense of $50,000-and it can carry up to…
Android Guys has an as-of-yet unconfirmed spec sheet on the HTC Dream (which they say is called the T1 on T-Mobile), supposedly one of the first Android phones to hit the market later this year. The most notable specs are the 528MHz Qualcomm 7201 CPU, which is a fairly decent processor as long as it’s…
The super Japanese Exilim W63CA cellphone has hit the FCC, which comes with a flip body and an 8-megapixel camera. Casio’s taking the same tactic Sony Ericsson does with their Cyber-shot cellphones and placing a camera brand on a high-end camera phone, hopefully to advance both the phone and the camera brand in the US.…
Just when we’d sort of gotten over Tokyoflash’s watch design, they announce the Rogue, a wristpiece that refreshes their LED-driven sci-fi style while staying true to their confounding time-telling design. The death-green flavor LCD is standard on the Rogue, but the watch comes in silver and gunmetal (otherwise known as the two official best man…
I received a downright insane number of entries for this week’s Photoshop Contest. Apparently, you folks really had an itching to bastardize the precious Olympic Games. Nearly every event got its due, and we have some pretty amazing images. Hit the jump for your top three winners and then marvel at the humungous Gallery of…
The $100 discount on the Kindles may be Amazon’s way of clearing out the first-gen to make room for the now all-but-certain second-gen this fall. Business Week says that Amazon’s hired a guy from frog design for the next version, which will have a better screen, thinner body, fewer UI annoyances and (obviously) be better…
We’re not sure whether this case is for the real upcoming iPod nano or it’s just a speculative fabrication. but its elongated design mimics the same style of the Kevin Rose rendering that we came out last week. I’ll tell you though, if Apple released a short, fat iPod just to go back to the…
The Epson Artisan 700 and 800 are new all-in-one printers featuring, well, enough goodies to make use write about a generally dull topic. In addition to the standard scanners, memory card readers and LCDs, both units feature Wi-Fi and ethernet, fancy touch panel controls, direct to CD/DVD printing, and standard printing up to 38 pages…
Want to build the most complex machine human kind has ever produced? All you’ll need is €6 billion, enough real estate to hold your 17-mile-long ring, a staff of international geniuses, and these plans (free!). The 115MB of documentation just made available by the Journal of Instrumentation has all you need to understand the inner…
We’re not sure where every dollar went in this $15,000 Gran Turismo Prologue Pod, but we can appreciate the integrated PS3, 40″ screen, surround sound, racing seat, Logitech G25 wheel (which includes those fancy pedals) and stylish Plexiglas window. It’s just a shame that the full version of Gran Turismo 5 isn’t actually out yet,…
From the moment Nicholas Negroponte showed off his $100 laptop concept at the Davos world economic summit in January 2005, it was as if the tech world’s supermoguls were glowering down on him in judgment. Over the course of the year, Craig Barrett, Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs weighed in, privately declining support…
Good ol’ Circuit City has jumped the gun on the official D90 announcement and has put it up for pre-order. Release date is listed as September 5, and the price and most of the specs listed on the product page we already knew, but CC’s page confirms that the movie mode will in fact record…
This week at TreeHugger: Sports car maker Lotus built a “Concept Ice Vehicle” for a trans-antarctic scientific expedition. It’s kind of like a cross between a skidoo and an ultralight plane. This one is just kind “What the…?”: A reader sent us photos of a H√§gglunds Bandvagn truck (?!?) with the TreeHugger logo on it.…
The boardroom is tense. Your boss is negotiating with their boss over the Big Merger. Accountants discuss endless piles of financial statements. Somewhere a middle manager is getting grilled over an $800 dinner spotted in the audit. There are tears in his eyes and sweat on his brow. And there you are, feet up on…
Your current cheap options for international data from AT&T are 20MB for $24.99 or 50 MB for $59.99-ream city, though without them there’s no lube at all, as Blam found out when he came back from Brazil, where AT&T’s int’l roaming discounts don’t apply. AT&T now has two iPhone specific plans: 100MB for $120, and…
