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This is a $60,- addition you can put onto a table saw. It detects electrical conductivity and stops the saw as soon as it gets into range – from 5000 RPM to 0 in a millisecond. This means you can shove your finger into the spinning saw without it being harmed at all. Of course, you destroy the device and the saw, but especially at that price it’s  going to save a lot of fingers.

The Tinbasher Sheet Metal Blog.

Fully charged it provides 4 hours of light. You hang it in the sun by day and use it (duh) at night. Cost? $15,- per piece and it will last between 5 – 10 years.

Solar light bulb to shine on developing world | Crave – CNET.

At 80 microns thin, it’s flexible and can be wrapped around a pencil. It’s 432 X 240 resolution and 4.1″ display looks crisp!

Sony’s Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair.

This shows pretty conclusively that the iphone has the best touchscreen followed by the Palm Pre. The Androids don’t do too well at all.

labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » Robot Touchscreen Analysis.

The system beams a keyboard or menu onto the user's forearm and hand from a projector housed in an armband. An acoustic detector, also in the armband, then calculates which part of the display you want to activate.

via Body acoustics can turn your arm into a touchscreen – tech – 01 March 2010 – New Scientist.

The Zeal Optics Transcend googles feature a head mounted display with GPS, speed, altitude, vertical odometer, stopwatch / countdown timer, temp, time, anti fog and a whole lot more and have 3 buttons on the side  to switch between the modes and functions in a coverflow type of fashion. Unfortunately either $350,- or $450,-.

Zeal Optics :: Transcend.

This thing splits apart and allows you to use your RC aircraft as a bomber for only $16.95

HobbyKing Online R/C Hobby Store : Quanum RTR Bomb System 1/6 scale Plug-n-Drop $16.95.

This foot switch can be programmed for a unique key or multiple key combination.

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These speakers screw into light bulb sockets, make light and use wireless connections to play music. No more hassly speaker wiring over the house.

Klipsch LightSpeakers Screw Into Light Bulb Sockets, Play Music Wirelessly – klipsch lightspeaker – Gizmodo.

YouTube – How to improve the reception of a mobile modem.

Basically – just put it in a pot!

These goggles will have a heads up display in them where you can see call info, speed, hight, timing information, rate of descent, a moving map and be able to find friends. Hopefully out in 2010 and they’re going for reasonable prices too!

Should be awesome for the gadget conscious snowboarder or skier!

Recon Instruments :: Company.

This connects a number of USB drives to your network, basically turning them into a NAS.

SHARKOON Technologies GmbH.

Looking through this thing allows you to find camera lenses pointed at you. It detects signals in the 1 – 6500MHz band which means you can detect the wireless signals the camera is sending.

For this big brother age, nice to see who’s spying on you.

Spy Wi-Fi Signal and Camera Lens Detector.

8 graphics outputs on one card? That’s insane!

Matrox Graphics, the leading manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, today announced the launch of the Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 Octal graphics card, capable of supporting eight DisplayPort or DVI Single-Link outputs from a single workstation. The Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 offers 2GB of memory, resolutions up to 2560×1600 per output, and advanced desktop management features—such as independent or stretched desktop modes

via Matrox Announces World’s First Single-Slot Octal Graphics Card – HotHardware.

The Audeo captures electronic signals between the brain and vocal cords and synthesizes clear, spoken words

This has obvious implications for people who can’t speak, but also military, civil and commercial applications: be able to converse over long distances silently without using your mouth.

It still has teething problems, such as it takes a few days to learn to use and it’s about 5 times slower than normal speech, but still…

via Invention Awards: A Real-Life Babel Fish For the Speaking Impaired | Popular Science.

Not only can you move this hand, you can feel pressure in the fingertips too!

Swedish cyborg gets haptic hand • The Register.

Apparently these batteries last around twice as long as other rechargeable batteries and aren’t as insanely expensive.

PowerGenix NiZn rechargeable AA batteries: finally, some cells worth buying.