Israeli researchers have created the tiniest-ever optical gyroscopes, as small as a grain of sand, but still maintaining the keen accuracy of their counterparts hundreds of times larger. Optical gyroscopes are generally used for navigation in airplanes, ships and satellites, in which they track movement without reference to external navigation points, by measuring the vehicle’s rotation rate and linear acceleration. This is called inertial navigation. It’s extremely accurate but, up until now, only possible in gyroscopes and weighing two to three pounds.

They only need to set their position once, quickly, and then they can remember where they are for quite some time.

via Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground | Popular Science.

This system uses a laser and a webcam to scan an item, which can then be printed with the cheap Markerbot 3D printer, or other printers.

MakerScanner – open source 3d scanning.

India unveils prototype of $35 tablet computer – Yahoo! News.

Android users all seem to throw about that it’s an open architecture, but it quite simply isn’t. In order to do everything on an Android phone you have to root it, which is the same as jailbreaking it.

Motorola has taken the extreme measure of making sure that if it gets rooted, it’ll completely fuck up the startup stack, thereby permanently bricking it. A kill-switch for tampering.

Droid X’s Defenses Makes Jailbreaking Look Easy – iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad news – Multi-Touch Fans.

Terahertz Detectors Could See Through Your Clothes From a Mile Away.

Looks very easy to build too

a little brown egg in Maine: terra cotta smoker.

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Airwolf Raven

Breitling B-1

Airwolf

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.