TOSHIBA LIBRETTO W100 DUALSCREEN LAPTOP

Toshiba has announced a dualscreen laptop, the Toshiba Libretto W100. This new Toshiba Libretto W100 has dual 7" 1024 x 600 touch screen, along with a virtual keyboard. You can use one screen as the dispaly and one for the keyboard. It powerd by a 1.2GHz Intel Pentium U5400 processor, 2GB of RAM, and Windows 7 Home Premium. And features include 1 megapixel web camera, a microSD card reader and a battery that will give you up to five hours of usage. It is planning to bring it to market for $1,099 within the next few months. Watch it in action.

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AA JETPACKS

AA Rocketmen is the latest launch of the breakdown rescue service and is a rapid response to take you out of the difficult situation. The Rocketmen will use lightweight jet-packs to hover over traffic jams and will reach out to the stranded motorist in need of help.

Made of lightweight carbon fiber tools, AA jetpack, have a top speed of 100km/h and weight 113kg. It will use Satellite services of Trafficmaster for better navigation and requires no license to fly it. This jetpack with hand controls has a £42,000 each. A parachute is packed for emergencies

The AA jetpack specification:
Top speed 100kph (60mph)
Weight 113kg (250lb)
No pilot's licence required due to light weight
Hand controls
Satellite Navigation provided by Trafficmaster
Parachute
Lightweight carbon fibre tools
£42,000 cost per unit

SLEEPBOX

SLEEPBOX is a small mobile space (box) 2mx1.4mx2.3m (h). The main functional element in it is a bed 2x0.6 m., which is equipped with automatic system of change of bed linen. Bed is soft, flexible strip of foamed polymer with the surface of the pulp tissue. Tape is rewound from one shaft to another, changing the bed. If a client wants to sleep in maximum comfort, he can take the normal set of bed linen for an extra fee. SLEEPBOX is equipped with a ventilation system, sound alerts, built-in LCD TV, WiFi, sockets for a laptop, charging phones. Also under the lounges is a place for luggage. After the clients exit, automatic change of bed linen starts and quartz lamps turns on. Payment can be made on a shared terminal, which provides the client with an electronic key. It is possible to buy from 15 minutes to several hours.

WORLD'S LARGEST SOLAR BOAT

The world's largest solar boat has been unveiled. Called PlanetSolar, which is a 31m long and 15m wide white catamaran, has been designed to reach a top speed of around 15 knots, and can hold up to 50 passengers. Power entirely by up to 500 square metres of photovoltaic solar panels. The boat’s 38,000 photovoltaic cells have been provided by SunPower, their new cells have an efficiency of at least 22%. The boat has been designed for a global circumnavigation planned for 2011. The 60 ton catamaran has been built at the cost of 18 million euro(about $24.4 million) at the Knierim Yacht Club in Kiel in northern Germany.

Via likecool

G-POINT MOUSE

Look at this mouse image from top! The G Point Mouse looks like a real vagina, the scroll button and the quick access button combine to take the place of the... well you know. Currently only a concept piece. The G-Spot Mouse designed by Andy Kurovets.

NOTEPUT

Noteput – Interactive music table from Jonas Heuer on Vimeo.

Noteput is an interactive music table with Cool tangible notes, that combines all three senses of hearing, sight and touch to make learning the classical notation of music for children and pupils more easy and interesting. By Jürgen Graef & Jonas Heuer.

THE APPLE iPAD

Apple has officially revealed the new Apple gadget, The iPad Tablet. It features a 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology, 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi), Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive, 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip and Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video or listening to music.

THE MISA DIGITAL GUITAR

This Cool Misa Digital Guitar with a touchpad that plays digital guitar, watch the video. Cool! By Sydney-based designer Michael. If you are interested in purchasing, you can contact it via mail.
"DIGITAL GUITAR VS ELECTRIC GUITAR - THE DIFFERENCE?

I am obsessed with digital guitar. But I also love electric guitar, and I have learned what it's good at and what it's capable of. Some of its most important qualities and characteristics stem from the very fact that the electric guitar is made out of wood and strings. A guitar string is "beautiful" - because the sound generated comes from the very vibration of the string, interfering with a magnetic flux and inducing an electric voltage, which is then amplified. Why would you want to emulate that? It is perfection. It is pure nature. It is in the analog domain. I did not intend the Misa digital guitar to replicate a traditional guitar.

THE REASON FOR THE MISA DIGITAL GUITAR

Guitars by their very nature have limitations. To create sound you need to hit a string, so that the sound at its most intense point is always the beginning of the pluck. The left hand controls what notes to play, and the right hand controls when to play these notes and the intensity of the notes. Effects can be inserted into the signal chain, but they are usually foot pedals which makes the experience of controlling effects disjointed from what your hands are doing. Plus, you can only really make use of one pedal at a time. Even in the (rare) case that controls are mounted on the guitar, the hand needs to switch between strings and controls. This may be okay if you only use effects occasionally, but when every note you play needs the controls set differently - good luck with that.
There are no strings on this instrument. The right hand doesn't pluck strings, it controls sound."


Via Core77

BIRTH OF AN AVATAR

Birth of an AVATAR from Peter Ammentorp Lund on Vimeo.

Copenhagen decided to make his own Avatar after watching James Cameron’s epic film.
"After watching James Cameron's AVATAR, I really wanted to have an avatar of my own. :o) Here is the result, after fooling around in photoshop for a couple of hours."

LIGHT TOUCH

Light Touch($TBA) is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. Its Holographic Laser Projection(HLP) technology inside which creates a bright, high-quality video images in WVGA resolution - 10.1″ virtual touch screen, so the user can use projected image as a touchscreen with virtual keyboards and touching the image. Cool tech!

PARKOUR MOTION REEL VIDEO

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

This short animated video was done with technical pen,frame by frame.

MAG+ CONCEPT BY BONNIER

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

DOPE-ERY!!

VOID STEEL V02 RETROGRADE

The circular style of traditional analog displays are thrown out the window with this cool new watch from Void. The design draws heavily on the simple geometries and materials found in architecture. The solid stainless steel case comes in four different colors/surfaces. Via flylyf

VFX REEL: DAN SCHICK

Dan Schick Demo Reel 2009 from Dan Schick on Vimeo.

Dan Schick VFX Shot Breakdowns from Dan Schick on Vimeo.

MARTIANS, Y'ALL NEED TO PEEP THESE.

DISPOSABLE PAPER LAPTOPS....CREATIVITY FOR YA ASS!!

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INPULSE BLACKBERRY SMARTWATCH

The inPulse Smartwatch for BlackBerry($150 Pre-order) by Allerta, now it is official. It communicates with your Blackberry via Bluetooth to display the emails, text messages. It features include a 1.3-inch OLED color display, glass lens, full metal body, vibrating motor, microUSB port and a rechargeable battery.

MERCEDES BENZ - CLK GTR

Back in the late 90s the cream of the crop of Mercedes Benz was the CLK GTR which was virtually street legal race car. These street versions you see here are replica versions of the GT1 class machines that competed and took the championship in 1997. Each vehicle was equipped with a 6.9 liter V12 pumping out 612 horsepower mated with sequential six speed transmission with paddle shifters and carbon fibre brakes. Only 25 vehicles were made with only 5 roadster versions, which pretty much means that these CLK GTRs are the most exclusive supercars on the planet.

Unfortunately for most of us, we would never own these, but for some lucky few these two examples in roadster version and coupe version is going to auction at RM Auctions on October 28th. Both of these vehicles are brand new and have not been driven except for delivery which means that these are as original as it gets. RM Auctions estimates that these will go under the hammer for the third of its brand new price that can only be good news for couple of car collectors with deep pockets. Via Autoblog

NOKIA BOOKLET 3G

Nokia has unveiled their first laptop, called the Booklet 3G. It is powered by an Intel Atom processor and with a 10.1-inch display, and featuring an impressive 12 hours battery life. It is 2cm (0.78 inch), and only weighs 1.25 kg. Other features include built in 3G/ HSPA, integrated A-GPS and Wi-Fi. It also comes with an HDMI port for HD video out, a front facing camera, Bluetooth and a SD card reader. Via likecool

CHRIS BOARDMAN'S THEFT-PROOF & PUNCTURE-FREE BICYCLE

Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman was today unveiling a design that he believes will be an everyday product within 20 years. The 40-year-old said the technology was already available, it just needed the will to put it all together.


The new bike includes an inbuilt computer system incorporating an 'unbreakable' locking device that allows only the owner to open it via fingerprint recognition
A mini computer on the handlebars counts the calories the cyclist is burning by monitoring each turn of the pedals.

Chris Boardman in action. The Olympic cyclist has designed a bike of the future
Spoke-less wheels make the bike more aerodynamic while the tyres will be puncture-proof with self-inflating tyres.

Owners of the bike, which is still being designed, won't even always have to pedal - a battery-assisted motor run by solar panels takes over if they get tired.

Plus the frame is made of carbon fibre, making the bike strong and lightweight.
Boardman, who led a research team for British Cycling in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, said the bike would not be 'financially feasible' for 20 years.

However, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist for the four-kilometre pursuit added: 'It could be built now if there was a will. All the technologies are already there, it's just that nobody's put them all together before.'
Tom Bogdanowicz, campaign manager at London Cycling Campaign, said: 'Some of the ideas behind this bike are clearly things cyclists want. But it really needs to be affordable.'

Via dailymail