“Miruko,” a wearable eyeball-shaped robot with a built-in camera and wi-fi capabilities, is designed to augment human perception by sensing and reacting to objects that cannot be seen with the naked eye. (Video)

My eBay – selling: one jetpack. One careful owner. Easy to control. Ejector-seat-equipped Aston Martin and secret underground lair sold separately. Serious bids only.  The Martin Jetpack – technically a ducted fan pack, rather than a true jetpack – is the brainchild of New Zealand engineer Glenn Martin.
 

You can’t go anywhere these days without stepping on a robot.
Japan certainly hasn’t let the recession damp its enthusiasm for all things robot, even if much of the robotic workforce still suffers from unemployment idleness. The robot tiles emerged as the brainchild of Hiroo Iwata, a virtual reality researcher at the University of Tsukuba in [...]

There are several stand-alone augmented reality apps that have been developed for our mobiles, but similar to our cellphone being Internet-enabled, when will technology advance our smartphones to become totally integrated with augmented reality? (Videos)

Does your dog know how to shoot pool?
There are apparently some rare skills that only a few elite dogs can master. This is one of them. Are dogs truly smarter than what we give the credit for? Second fun video after the jump.

 
Vu1’s conceptual design for its R-30 bulb.
While compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) are currently the primary alternative to incandescent light bulbs, a company from Seattle predicts that its own novel light bulbs will eventually replace CFLs and LEDs. Vu1 (”view one”) Corporation has been working on its electron stimulated luminescence (ESL) bulbs, and has recently released [...]

Timelapse – Los Angeles Wildfire
When a brush fire started near a ranger station in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles on August 26, no one would have guessed that over a week later, smoke would still be spewing over the city. The Station Fire has claimed 148,000 acres in Angeles National Forest, as well as [...]

Students at the Istituto Europeo Di Design (IED) Turin have designed concepts for an Aston Martin supercar for 2025. The idea was to create a car that would be fit for the roads of the future, and also live up to the sporty design, performance and elegance that is expected from an Aston supercar. (Pics [...]

Now thats one heck of a crotch rocket
Green? Fuel-efficient? Environmentally-friendly? Pish-posh, we want to have as much roaring horsepower as possible to propel us down the road at speeds unfathomable by the average man. If that’s more your kind of thing, you’ll want to check out the monumentally incredible Millyard Viper V10 motorcycle.

Ukraine’s Antonov An-225 has emerged from an overhaul in Kiev to claim a record airlift at Frankfurt Hahn Airport.  Antonov Airlines’ An-225 is the sole example of the heavy-lift freighter, the world’s largest operational aircraft.
 

Best Actor for the Buck
In today’s recessionary Hollywood, studio executives are no longer looking to cast actors who will demand upward of $15 million just to appear in a movie and then a hefty portion of the film’s revenue. Instead, the ideal package is a big concept with low-paid stars.
Transformers is the ultimate example. The [...]

The EniCycle is an a prototype self-stabilizing unicycle from Slovenian inventor Aleksander Polutnik. Featuring a three-hour battery, gyroscope and a spring damper, Polutnik claims a 30 minute learning curve. The video shows UK “The Gadget Show” Ortiz Deley learning to ride the device. Within a few minutes he’s not falling off and actually steering.
 

There are many people confused about how the Big Bang Theory works but after reading about how it happened in the middle of nothing even more people are scratching their heads.
If you’re having a hard time visualizing the Big Bang, let astronomy and physics professor Janna Levin show you how it all started. In this [...]

According to a Sanswire-TAO announcement issued yesterday, “the first flight of the full scale STS-111 is expected to take place at the end of August”. The test video above shows a smaller prototype.
 

When United Airlines workers destroyed Dave Carroll’s guitar in 2008, he tried everything to get fair compensation. After being denied, he promised that he would write three songs and post them onto YouTube.
 

Behold! A time lapse vid of Baby Lex’s first trip around the sun set to the White Stripes. Prepare for 365 days of awww in about 2 1/2 minutes. Note the occasional costume and other fun days of the year. 

Watch out Apple!  Microsoft is moving in on your turf
Yes, there are other highly capable audio and video players other than iPods. Case in point: Microsoft Zune HD, which you can see in action for the first time in the spy video above. Since we showed you the product shots of the gorgeous 720p player [...]

Playing Wii this way is crazy to say the least
Who needs a Wii when you can play Half-Life with real guns?

Forget the Genius Bar, one of the Internet’s favorite tweeters, Ice T, shows you how to fix a broken Macbook in his own special way.
 
 Make sure you check out the YouTube comments — which are a charming mix of racism and the infinite class between PC and Mac users.
(Non-violent Macbook repair video after jump…)

James May gets the opportunity to fly to the edge of space on board a U2 spy plane in this amazing video.
 

Now thats mad science baby
Boing Boing Video teamed up with Theo Gray and Popsci.com to produce this video that demonstrates how you can mold steel with electrochemical machining, using a soft, cheap piece of tin — without any physical contact. Theo is the author of the book Mad Science, in which many other experiments like [...]

Now we know why Michael Phelps is such a great swimmer. He’s a direct descendant
Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea — and her theory on why mainstream science doesn’t take [...]

A young diver in China owes her life to a Beluga Whale, like the one pictured above. Belugas have an affinity for humans, but Mila the whale took the relationship to a new level at the Polar Land Aquarium in Harbin, North East China. Yang Yun was competing in a free-dive competition there, hoping to [...]