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Once, in a lifetime, do geekiness and fashion blend together in the perfect marriage of comfort and dorkiness. Finally, that moment has arrived.
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you 'Beauty and the Geek', designer Erik De Nijs' marriage of fashion and technology. More specifically, the sewing of a soft keyboard into some baggy pants.
However, it comes with all the mod cons, and does, in fact, actually work. They come complete with a joystick 'just behind the zipper' and a mouse. They also have speakers in the knees (of course).
Nanotechnology Means A Nokia Flexible Phone - Real Life Sci Fi At Your Fingertips!
GADGETS
Tuesday, April 8
by Captain
Never mind about the hover car, check this out! Nokia has just released concept video on their new flexible phone.
And by flexible, we mean flexible. The phones of the future will be something that you can use as a keyboard, a wristwatch and er, a phone. The Nokia Research Centre and the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre have joined forces to create a phone that will be charged merely by solar absorption. Check out the concept video after the click that showcases the upcoming 'Morph' phone.
One of the cooler sites on the web, io9.com, has always delighted us with an interesting slant on all things gadgety.
A recent page has them showing the original inspiration for some of the cooler creations in the Sci Fi universe. The idea that something as terrifying as Robert Patrick's T1000 in Terminator 2 could be born in a hot fudge sundae seems to be so perfectly perverse that we can only think that it must be true. For more of Sci Fi's legendary creations, click on the link below.
Sending Episodes Of Stargate:sg1 To Scientists Could Save The World
GADGETS
Saturday, March 15
by Captain
In a disturbing trend, European robotocists have not only begun work on but now are further developing not normal, bring me a drink Martini-making robots, but self-replicating, swarm mentality robots.
We'll give you a moment for the eerie icy chill to run up and down your spine.
Yep.
"The REPLICATOR project focuses on the development of an advanced robotic system, consisting of a super-large-scale swarm of small autonomous mobile micro-robots that are capable of self-assembling into large artificial organisms."
We may not live in a perfect world, far from it, to be honest, but there are people out there doing their level best to bring reality up to the high standard set by Science Fiction.
Awesome. That's the word we're looking for.
The good people at Tom Spina Designs, a company that supplies custom-made sculpture, furniture and movie props in the US, has come up with the ultimate desk for fans of Carbonite.
They made it as a special one-off for Mark Hall, musician with Casting Crowns, a Christian rock group. What the connection is between belief in God and desire to go over paper work over Han Solo's cryogenically frozen body, is and will probably remain, a mystery.
Awesome. That's the word we're looking for.
The good people at Tom Spina Designs, a company that supplies custom-made sculpture, furniture and movie props in the US, has come up with the ultimate desk for fans of Carbonite.
They made it as a special one-off for Mark Hall, musician with Casting Crowns, a Christian rock group. What the connection is between belief in God and desire to go over paper work over Han Solo's cryogenically frozen body, is and will probably remain, a mystery.
Many of us search the web for the best skins, the best icons, the best sounds and the best looking wallpapers to make our computers ever so Sci Fi, but not too, too Sci Fi, in an overly geeky way.
However, there are times when a system of pictures or skins or even an entire theme is done so correctly that we cannot ignore them and must embrace them fully and immediately download them and display them proudly like grinning idiots...
As far as Star Trek fans go, your search for the ultimate screensaver is now over.
In this day and age of either hyper-complex gadgets or anyone, even a Hilton, can use it toys, new technology can either be a godsend or yet another thing to do in an already overly busy world. With all the fuss about broadband and the slow and inexorable build up of hatred for Telstra and their ‘line fees’, it seems only natural that a market should open up for mobile broadband. The nice people at Optus have a new dongle, which they call the Roamer USB.
But is it to be trusted? Can it actually work? Is it really plug and play?
No, that heading is not a typo.
Website Boing Boing has announced plans by the Japanese team on the International Space Station to launch a paper aeroplane (co-designed with the Japan Origami Airplane Association) into the Earth's atmosphere.
Before you go saying that's silly and impossible, the paper is being treated with heat resistant materials. So it's not impossible. Just very, very silly.
Research began on January the 17th in in an ultra-high-speed wind tunnel at the University of Tokyo’s Okashiwa campus. The 8 centimetre long aircraft will be subjected to wind speeds of 8,600 kilometres an hour. That's also not a typo. They're pushing that baby to Mach 7!
Whilst we were foolishly distracted waiting for the iPhone to come out, Apple have decided to annoy the heck out of all Macophiles by releasing a brand new Macbook - the Macbook Air. It's less than 2cm thick and weighs just over a kilo - but is still the size of a normal Macbook.
Based on the design of 13.3 inch wide screen Macbook, this new model has had its guts ripped out and replaced by ultra-light, ultra-small and, obviously ultra-thin technology.
Based on the design of 13.3 inch wide screen Macbook, this new model has had its guts ripped out and replaced by ultra-light, ultra-small and, obviously ultra-thin technology.
Whilst this product isn't quite available, eggheaded types are currently beavering away to make invisible toasting an everyday breakfast ritual. Apparently the transparent material is also a resistor, and so acts like a giant heat coil. The technology will allow the world to finally emerge burnt-toast free.
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