From the world of technology comes another mind blowing innovation that simply sweeps you off your feet. The programmable tattoo appears on the skin through nanotubes. The sensory conductors are the size of human hair and displays images on the skin, they are displayed when the power is on and keep appearing even when […]

Want to look like Jennifer Aniston? Always hiding behind push-up bras, but afraid of going under the knife? Imagine if all it took to obtain a cleavage as ample as that of those Victoria’s Secret model was an injection.
Well, the ‘boob job in an injection’ is now a reality, thanks to […]

 
Have you been out on the streets? Have you seen what the hell is going on? It’s like the 1950’s all over again. Damn kids with their souped up Hot Rods. But now the kids with their Hot Rods are like a year old! And with their moms! More pics after the jump.

The set of puppets includes Sigmund Freud, his daughter Anna Freud, Carl Jung, and an analyst’s couch. The box they come in can be used as a puppet theater.

 
From the Times Online comes this article about the next generation Internet with lightning-fast download speed, and a whole new perspective on future capabilities.

 
Politicians now have a new reason to worry - a technology that can determine if they are lying… from a distance.
Our skin may contain millions of tiny “antennas” in the form of microscopic sweat ducts, say researchers in Israel. In experiments, they found evidence that signals produced by bouncing electromagnetic waves off the tiny tubes […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1xm8415UQ

Yes, it’s a bit goofy looking. But for those people who are limited in their mobility and still want to exercise, or joggers who want to seriously increase the distance they are traveling, this might be the solution. For guys, the seat arrangement might be a bit tough on Guss and the twins.
 

Scientists at Hiroshima University have succeeded in breeding see-through frogs — an innovation that could cut down on future dissections.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKm4uZLhG5I

The Sensisphere is a really cool multi-touch display that takes the shape of half a sphere sticking out of the wall. Reminiscent of the fancy displays seen in the movie Minority Report, it lets you rotate and move objects and sort through information using your hands.
 

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond upped the ante for renewable energy today in a lecture to the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. by announcing a $20 million prize for renewable energy that draws from the ocean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qHlH2yhZpE

This video describes the thinking that went into the Penguin House in Tokyo. People in the US have a hard time relating to this, but the architect is brilliant in how he approaches this. (w/pics)
 

A British schoolboy has scooped a top drawer world record by balancing 16 spoons - on his face.
Nine-year-old Joe Allison beat the previous world record of 15 spoons when he hung the silverware from his forehead, nose, cheeks, chin and ears.

Offshore wind-farm developers would love to build in deep water more than 32 kilometers from shore, where stronger and steadier winds prevail and complaints about marred scenery are less likely. But building foundations to support wind turbines in water deeper than 20 meters is prohibitively expensive. Now, technology developers are stepping up work in floating […]

This little door lock looks like great fun… well, unless you have to use the restroom and this little IQ test is standing between you and the facilities.
 

National Geographic’s award-nominated feature on China’s “instant cities” is online. It’s a fascinating feature about the massive coastal manufacturing towns that now house 140 million people who’ve moved from the countryside as part of the largest migration in human history. It’s split across eight screens, and there’s at least one jaw-dropper per screen.

 
It used to be common for people to flash their headlights to warn other motorists of police speed traps ahead.  Now you can now warn fellow drivers with a cell phone or personal digital assistant about speed traps, red-light cameras and other police threats.

 Leonardo Da Vinci’s life and work is well known — but his own face is not. Illustrator and activist Siegfried Woldhek used some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo. Here, he walks viewers through exactly how he did it.
 

The ZZ Plural Z Alpha Douglas Adams fan club raises funds by selling “Beeblebears,” two-headed, three-eyed, three-armed teddy bears fashioned in the likeness of Zaphod Beeblebrox.

 
Imagine the world in 2050 with almost 80% of the planet’s population living in urban centers and our fruit, vegetables and even animals are grown in … skyscrapers.  Some serious work is going into this. More photos and video after the jump.

Treehugger has a short and sweet article about the Belmont Clothes Library in Australia, which loans out business apparel to the unemployed so they can look smart for job interviews!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lIJtFMp2Bo

Yes, this is all in Japanese, but very cool anyway.  Simroid is a 28 year-old powered female robot designed to train dental students and help improve their communication skills. With senors embedded in her, Simroid is able to simulate real life reactions from dental patients, such as raising of hand while the dentist is cleaning […]

Arrow 1 points to the spermatophore groove of the
inserted hectocotylus. Arrow 2 points an oviducal gland
They flirt, hold hands and guard their lovers jealously — yet they don’t even have bones. The love lives of octopuses are far more complex than anyone thought, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, reported.

Whoever said you had to a have a big motor to go fast never shook hands with Jakob Hirzel. His challenge was to design a gravity racer for the Xtreme Gravity Series in Irvine, California, and it’s safe to say he did very very well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwStjAS9xTY

A Swiss company called Rinspeed has recently announced its newest project: an underwater car. Named “sQuba,” the car can both drive on roads, and then - at the push of a button - dive up to 10 meters (33 feet) under the sea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q54VKT_mZfI

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne in England between Gateshead on the south bank, and Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank. The award-winning structure was conceived and designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre and structural engineers Gifford. Second video after the jump.