Get Zapped With Yer Gadgets Fer Sure!

The latest gadgets and innovations are known to surprise techies and the media, but they just might be more shocking than usual.

Helix Wind is an elegant solution for home and small business owners. Powerful enough to supply your needs yet harmonious with the environment, the strength of the wind is captured by our unique and highly efficient vertical blade design. Video after the jump.

Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, top, and Biz Stone pose on the roof of their San Francisco offices.
USA Today has a great article on the Twitter phenomenon. Micro-blogging at its finest, it is indeed much more than that.
Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a […]

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 The iPhone Band
The weekend after the new iPhone’s release, more than 10 million applications were downloaded through the App Store. Some are free, some carry a fee, and most also work on the Wi-Fi-compatible iPod Touch.
Here are ten of the more notable music apps available. All are free, unless otherwise noted.

Whack it, Just Whack it!

 
Online store GeekStuff4U is selling a USB powered version of a carnival classic, whack-a-mole. For roughly $42(the listed price is 21.00€) you get this little tabletop game where you “whack” little ghosts by pressing them with your fingers when they light up.

New Land in the Ocean

Deborah of Life in the Fast Lane wrote a neat mega-post about 45 of the world’s most amazing artificial islands (both real islands and those in planning stages). Take for example, the Federation Island modeled above…

 
Keeping up with our fondness for interactive tables, here’s a collection of four white tables with various special interfaces switches, dials, turn-tables and sliding boards that a player can touch. Dubbed as Composition on the Table, Toshio Iwai is the brain behind this series of art work. Intended to allow players and audiences to share […]

 
Humanity has accomplished some amazing things by combining virtual reality with plain ole reality. This is not one of those things. This is something designed to give randy nerds a few cheap thrills. The idea is that if you can’t find a girlfriend, Alice will take a shot at being the object of your affections.

 
 Humanoid Robot - EMIEW2
It seems that with each passing day man is getting closer and closer to making a humanoid that would pretty much be everything that he is except being organic in nature. Not to say that we are getting close that at a rapid pace, but it might be not too far off […]

 
Add this to my “Things to hyperventilate over” list: British police are on the lookout for something called a WASP Knife, a weapon that injects a ball of compressed gas into its victim that then expands to the size of a basketball, instantly freezing and exploding their internal organs.
 

 
The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.
On 23 July, the unmanned craft will swoop to within just 97 kilometres of Phobos, using a battery […]