More than meets the Eye-Fi

In a market saturated by indistinguishable flash memory competitors, Eye-Fi has managed time and time again to smartly separate itself from its memory card doppelgangers… first, simply by slapping a Wi-Fi transmitter and built-in geotracking into an SD card, and now – even neater – with built-in Flickr and Twitter support.

 
Activation of the left cerebral hemisphere during sensory stimulation of the transplanted right palm.  
Four months after a successful hand transplant — 35 years after amputation in an industrial accident at age 19 — a 54-year-old man’s emerging sense of touch is registered in the former “hand area” of the his brain, says a University of [...]

 
Now you can network your water faucets together. The Elettronico Faucet by Carlo Frattini lets you control the water’s temperature and flow rate on its touchscreen, which can also control other faucets you hook up together in a special plumbing network. Whoa!

 
 Stem cells from adult human testes normally produce only sperm, but when cultured in the lab with special growth factors, they begin to resemble embryonic stem cells and can differentiate into many adult cell types.
Stem cells from human testes could be used for personalized medicine.  Adult stem cells that behave much like embryonic ones [...]

 
 Caballero’s Bullet Proof Polo Shirt
Tantalizingly made for security-seeking wealthy folks, this anti-ballistic polo shirt takes safety to an altogether new level! With many wealthy people normally on the hit-lists of gruesome militias, this polo shirt from Caballero is something which just ups the security factor.

Let’s face it: spies are cool. And what kid (or adult, for that matter) hasn’t fantasized about fast cars, exotic locations, and nifty gadgets that are the trademarks of the spy-trade?
Well, Wild Planet Toys and Games has come up with a way to make us all spies-of a sort. While they don’t provide an Aston [...]

 
  Hydropolis
No I’m not talking about a boring trip to the Aquarium or an episode of the Sopranos. No what I am referring to … is literally “sleeping with the fishes”. When one thinks about the future of travel, one might conjure up gaining passage on a rocket ship into space, the final frontier. Or [...]

Frozen Sculptures
He is often asked his process of creating these liquid sculptures and says, “What you see on this site are high-resolution photographs of liquids in motion, captured with high-speed flash photography. I use Photoshop to clean up the background, balance the color and tidy up a bit. I don’t alter the shapes or composition. [...]

In celebration of Halloween I have found some innovative last minute fashionable Halloween costumes for those of you still in need of a costume. The best part about it is that you can make these yourself with regular household items.

Umbrella Bat
Make an umbrella bat costume out of an old umbrella. For step-by-step instructions on how [...]

You have to see this, disappearing pool table
 
 Let’s say you wanna buy yourself a round Pool Table. Problem is you don’t have the room to keep a a pool table in your game room. Or do you? Here’s a unique way to have the table you desire and then make it conveniently disappear when you’re [...]

 2-B-2 Architecture Designs Award Winning Toilet
So some Russians had a bathroom design contest and they came up with this toilet, named “Mrs. Hudson” for some reason. I have no idea why. Maybe Mrs. Hudson is known for huge steaming BMs and affectionately called the pisser behind closed doors. It’s as good a guess as any.