The Toradex Robin Modules for Intel Atom are tiny and cheap: around $129,- and up.

Kinetic Energy Recovery System, stores the energy created by regenerative breaking and stores it in a battery. When the driver presses a button, he gets a turbo boost as the energy store is emptied onto the drivetrain. This system gives him up to 6.5s of turbo boost per lap.

Only $40,000

This external HD, in 500 GB, 1TB or 1.5TB, is fireproof for 30 minutes at 1550o F and can stand submerged in 10′ water for 3 days. It comes with a 3 year disaster recovery plan, and is priced fairly reasonably.

Not being a fan of taking the control panel off your radio every time you leave the car, I used to have a Sony with a blank face, which swivelled when you wanted to use the controls. This JVC is fully touch screen, allowing the same functionality.

This thing is totally awesome: a UPMP the size of a phone with a touchscreen, sliding qwerty keyboard with 3G in it. At $1500 the price isn’t too bad either.

This machine will take a 3D object on a turntable and scan it in 3D

It’s a full size keyboard. With a touchscreen. And a whole PC inside it. With loads of ports on it. Now you just need a roll up screen to carry it in and you’re superportable!

This causes vibration which in turn leads to quite measurable latency.

Mcor Technologies has a 3D printer which is remarkable in that it uses paper and glue to make the models. This makes the models themselves a whole load cheaper to produce, so you can print MOAR! The printers themselves are going to be sold for a “reasonable” price, whatever that is… They do have the Read more about Mcor 3D printer[…]

Previously lasers weren’t used for projection as they had a speckle effect. The Chinese Academy of Science has found that fusing three lasers (RGB) into a single white laser and then using traditional DLP technology to break the beam up into RGB again and the mirrors to put the picture onto the wall cancels this Read more about Laser Cinema Projectors[…]

CADSpan has released a plugin that translates Google Sketchups to an STL file.

Fied Emission Display is the new OLED killing tech Sony is running with. It’s apparently easier to produce and has CRT like qualities (pure blacks and colours, no motion blur) but is as thin as OLED.

More and more of these things are coming out! And they work as well!

reflective interferometric modulation Qualcomm announces working displays which are an OLED / LCD / Plasma competitor: reflective interferometric modulation (IMOD). They offer: low power consumption, visibility in outdoor lighting, and no backlighting requirement

These things are based on DLP technology – ie. there’s a little mirror on each chip reflecting the RGB lasers to the required pixel. The mirror tilts and turns at insane speed in order to get the exact right colour mix to the place the light is projected to. Apparently the colours on this thing Read more about Mitsubishi Laser TV’s[…]

Tablet PC’s come in all shapes and sizes. This is a quick look at tablet PCs on the market without keyboards and without potentially breakable hinges. Electrovaya Inc. has the Scribbler SC-3100 Ace Asia Co., Ltd. has the T201 Fujitsu has the Stylistic ST5100 Itronix offerts the rugged Gobook Series Motion Computing offers 3 different Read more about Tablet PCs[…]

It looks like ASUS is onto a winner here: it has all the hype on its side, it has weight and formfactor on its side and most of all it has price on its side. Running from around $300 – $ 400 this is a very cheap laptop with a 7″ screen and a Linux Read more about ASUS Eee PC[…]

USBmicro is a USB electrical device interface. It comes in two flavours: the U401 and the U421. The main difference is the form factor. There’s quite a lot of documentation on the site how to program and install them Kadtronix sells the unit with interface software, making the programming quite a bit easier They also Read more about USBmicro Controller[…]

The little hypnotic dancing robot comes from here.

That’s nanoscale – offset printers go to around 1,500 dpi. Free licence to start printing bank bills?

These 5 tools are the kind you probably didn’t know existed, but once you know about them you’ll want them added to your aresenal immediately. They aren’t particularly expensive, but very very useful.

This is the latest in bionic hand technology: it’s controlled using the mind and existing musculature, you can manipulate the fingers independently and you have precision control over the power the fingers exert, meaning you don’t inadvertently crush things you’re trying to hold.

Yes, Intel has done it again – not the 1+1=1.999999999r float bug, but close enough. Read about it here…