Leveraging the cloud computing trend, these $100 PCs are poised for greatness

A husband and wife team from the Sunshine Coast are preparing for all out war with the likes of Dell and HP in the burgeoning market for low-cost PCs.

Maybe the adult model will come out next year?

I. So. WANT. This! Behold Kota the Triceratop, a 3-foot-tall plush robot that your kid can ride. How awesome is that? Video after the jump.

Child Robot Amazing Video
She looks so lifelike other than the eyelids when she starts blinking.
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 Paralyzed monkeys regained the ability to move their wrists when their nervous systems were rewired.
Rerouting electrical signals around damaged nerves may one day help treat paralysis.  A pair of partially paralyzed monkeys regained the ability to move their wrists when researchers wired individual neurons directly to the monkey’s arm muscles, according to a study published [...]

 
 Blow Me is an onsite breathalyzer service for your event.
Despite the overtly sexual connotation of the brand’s name Blow Me, it’s not what you think.  Blow Me is a company that has found a way to make a profit from one of the other major vices on the planet; excessive alcohol consumption.  Blow Me charges [...]

 
Tired of your iPod running out of power? A Japanese company says it has found a way to charge portable gadgets just by walking.
Telecoms giant NTT is developing shoes that generate electricity as you walk.

 
Microsoft Phyotosynth 
Popular Mechanics announced its picks for the 2008 Breakthrough Awards awards in what the publication called The 10 Most Brilliant Gadets of the Year. Here’s the list of international winners; you may be surprised at the gadgets on the list.

More Stimulation Than Anticipated

For middle-aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests.
A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulated centres in the brain that controlled decision-making and complex reasoning.

 
There aren’t many robot shows that make it really big around the world. However, Robo Japan, a yearly robotic fiesta, is one that has a marked identity – and Robo Japan 2008 has seen some exquisite robots revealed, from a dancing ASIMO to a square shaped magic carpet.

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Shark’s Blood May Cure Cancer
Here’s an unorthodox way to help slow down the effects of cancer: a nice tall glass of shark’s blood. Sound gross? It is! But it also might just be effective.
 

Behind every great building boom lies an army of unsung heroes doing the toughest jobs
Migrant workers on a building construction site in Dubai. No country is as dependent on migrants as the United Arab Emirates, where foreigners make up about 85 percent of the population and 99 percent of the private work force. (Pics)