Here’s a train with only one car, and room for only a dozen or so passengers. It seats folks in a series of individual, side-facing capsules, as well as a small room for four at either end of the train.
 

For people with a clock fetish and lots of CDs
The time of day shouts at you from the edges of this Giant Digital Clock/CD holder. It’s a designer’s nod to the ‘80s when things like digital clocks and CDs were so fresh and new. If this not-really-giant 29×14-inch model is somehow too big for you, […]

 
For when campfires just aren’t good enough
Few things can pump up the romantic mood like a warm flickering fire, and while a real wood fire has that crackling sound you can’t get from gas, cleaning out all of that soot and ash the next day isn’t my idea of fun. Gas fires give you most […]

 
 Winglet by Toyota
Segway has been trying like hell to revolutionize how humans get around and it seems like they are selling more as gas prices go up.
 

 
 
The elusive exercise pill just took a step closer to becoming a reality. Scientists have found that two compounds can boost endurance in mice by changing the metabolic properties of the animals’ muscle. One of the drugs appears to mimic some of the benefits of exercise even in sedentary mice. But the most dramatic benefit […]

 
 
Talking, eating, texting, changing the radio station…all things that we do while we are driving. They take our attention away from the road and significantly increase the likelihood of an accident, especially at intersections. A new system from Ford, called “Smart Intersection” was designed to reduce the number of accidents related to driver distraction.

 
Best all time selling camcorder
Pure Digital is proving that simplicity sells. The company says it has now sold 1 million of its Flip video cameras in less than a year, and the NPD Group has listed the Flip Ultra as the top-selling video camera in June.

 
 E-textile Pants
A pair of pants may help determine if elderly individuals have a high risk of slipping and falling by sensing fluctuations in their walking gait.

The Electric Nomad is a standard sized electric guitar that features all the usual features, usability and playability of a normal electric guitar; however, it is designed so that it collapses in on itself down to an easy to carry size.

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A new product from Microsoft Research. The Sphere comes from the same Microsoft Researchers that developed the Surface, aka “PlayTable”.
 

Arun Ghosh, at right, a Purdue professor of chemistry and medicinal chemistry, and graduate
student Xiaoming Xu discuss the structure of an enzyme inhibitor designed to treat Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists in Britain have developed a drug which could represent a major breakthrough in treatment for people with Alzheimer’s disease, they said on Wednesday.
The drug, Rember, targets the […]

 
 
These basketball sized eyeballs are amazing! They are custom built from scans of your own eyes so that the pattern and colours match exactly your own eye. They are certain to attract conversation when you invite guests around.

 
 Optofluidic Microscope
Researchers have developed a “microscopic microscope” - a microscope that’s small enough to fit inside a cell phone yet that still delivers top-quality magnifying power.

In the beginning, there was the roller skate, then came the skate board and later the Rollerblade. So what’s the next conveyance that we’ll be strapping to our feet to roll around the street? Video after the jump.

 
Having been plagued with slow internet speeds literally all my adult life, the news that scientists from the University of Sydney have found a way to make the World Wide Web 60 times faster than current top speeds only makes me more than happy.

Young men with nuts of steel.

Unicycling - a sport long relegated to clowns and weirdos - have gone hardcore: a small but growing cadre of unicyclists have “ruggidized” (is that a word? It is now!) the whimsical device and created the new sport of Mountain Unicycling or Muni. Video after the jump.

Brilliant idea!
The Waterboard is an interactive installation by Mike Burton giving the user a chance to play with water without getting wet. By drawing lines on the whiteboard, the water will follow a different course. Abstract life forms may appear in basins and where the water is stagnant it will become turbid. Video after […]

 
Can you really put a price tag on a good night’s sleep? I simply can’t. Check out the Cosmovoïde Bed, where you can hover on the brink of falling into a deep healing sleep, before awakening relaxed and refreshed, with optimal physical and psychic potential.
 

Parking assist: This prototype of the San Francisco parking network’s Web interface will let drivers find available parking spots. 
This fall, San Francisco will implement the largest mesh network for monitoring parking to date. Around 6,000 wireless sensors from the San Francisco company Streetline will be fixed alongside as many parking spots, monitoring both parking availability […]

Two researchers at UCLA, Martin Roberts and David B.N. Lee, have designed a peritoneal, wearable kidney that could replace the failing organs of a patient.

 Cowbell Monitoring Device
Nanotechnology is among the most rapidly growing fields of science. It finds application in the most peculiar, yet logical, of places. For instance, dairy farm monitoring may not sound complex enough for nanotechnology application.

 
A new type of contact lens developed in the US could not only correct vision but also save it. The lenses contain antibiotic nanosilver particles and continuously map the pressure in the human eye.
 

 
First we had the closed door. Simple. Beautiful. Impenetrable. We sat comfortably behind it, answering it if we chose, hiding behind it if we didn’t. For centuries we were safe.
 

 
Researchers working on an artificial pancreas believe they are just a few years away from a nearly carefree way for people with diabetes to monitor blood and inject insulin as needed.

 
A new computational language, which can describe biology like a biologist, has been developed by Jeremy Gunawardena, director of the Virtual Cell Program in Harvard Medical School. This would help researchers in studying drug interactions among other things, right on the computer.