This is the guy that first worked out how to ‘hack’ the new facebook profile and photo stream to make a creative picture: Now there are lots of people having a go at making their profiles look great with photo art. Here are 20 of the best and most creative profile picture art hacks we’ve seen so far. Click on the pictures to see the full size. Click on the pictures to see the full size. Click on the pictures to see the full size. Click on the pictures to Read more [...]

  Alongside the PocketTouch technology, Microsoft has also been supporting research on something a lot more visual, a lot more flashy, and a lot more versatile: OmniTouch. While mobile technology has been centering around increasing responsive and sleek touchscreens for the past few years, OmniTouch takes things in a bit of a different direction by using a projectorto make any flat surface into a “touchscreen.” At the moment, OmniTouch is pretty primitive and requires the user to wear a shoulder-mounted Read more [...]

Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion, even inviting people to ride inside one of the robot cars as it raced around a closed course. Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged more than 190,000 miles (about 300,000 kilometers), driving in city traffic, busy highways, and mountainous roads with only occasional human intervention. The project is still Read more [...]

PaveGen slabs, a technology developed in part by Laurence Kemball-Cook, convert human traversal into electricity. While the tiles have been in testing for a while now, they are slated to make their first big commercial appearance between London’s Olympic stadium and theWestfield Stratford City mall during the 2012 Olympics. The twenty PaveGen tiles to be placed are expected to generate enough electricity to power at least half of the malls outdoor lighting needs, practically from nothing. The Read more [...]

  لقراءة الموضوع باللغة العربية اضغط هنا Excerpts from an August 5, 2011 Daily Mail story: ..................... Scientist, photographer and father of three Mohamed Babu said, "The idea for the photographs came to me after my wife showed me some ants that turned white sipping the spilled milk on our kitchen counter. Dr. Babu mixed sugar drops with edible red, green, blue and yellow food coloring and placed the drops in his garden to attract Read more [...]

Retro looking iPhone Dock with Bluetooth You have solid oak and brass features on a dock designed for the iPhone, so many contrasts and yet it looks so right too. This device would make a great feature in an office or at home, the retro handset uses a Bluetooth connection, while an app controls the iPhone and even provides a cool retro looking dialler. Priced at $72 These are the features for the Bluetooth Oak Wireless Headset; Synchronize up your Iphone-ipod in the old world style, Read more [...]

Caller ID on this watch Most people who go to meetings and other functions will place their phone on mute and risk missing that important call. However, this watch uses Bluetooth to connect to the phone and then when someone calls their number or names will appear on the display on the watch face, this means that the user can afford to leave the phone unless the call is very important.   Priced at $69.99 These are the specs for the Bluetooth Watch with Caller ID Display; Displays Read more [...]

"Turn your iPhone into a DSLR using real SLR lenses." $249 (iPhone 4 not included). I'm reminded of the opening line of one of my favorite Jamaican songs: You look like a mouse on a one dolla bread Canon or Nikon: $249 (iPhone 4 not included). Source [bookofjoe.com] Read more [...]

لقراءة الموضوع باللغة العربية اضغط هنا Russian vegetable carver Anastasia Korsakova makes finishing touches on her work on September 5, 2011 during the first European carving competition in Leipzig, eastern Germany. The competition is taking place during the “Gaeste” trade fair for the restaurant, hotel and catering business running until September 6, 2011. Within four hours, competitors have to carve in front of the jury’s eyes a piece from melons, papayas, Read more [...]

التصوير هو أحد أجمل مجالات الإبداع وأكثرها وداً لعقولنا، لذا فحين يجتمع الإبداع بالتصوير قد تساوي الصورة آلاف الكلمات، ومنها سنرى في هذا الموضوع طريقة استثنائية للإبداع باستخدام لعبة دانبو: (نقلاً عن عالم الابداع) دانبو هي لعبة يابانية Read more [...]

لقراءة الموضوع باللغة العربية اضغط هنا A local council in central Turkey has built a morgue with a warning system, in case apparently dead bodies come back to life. The Turkish Anatolia news agency reported the mortuary's refrigerators are sensitive to movement inside. A cemetery official said the slightest motion would set off an alarm. "If the patient, proclaimed dead by doctors, awakens from a state of unconsciousness, then we consider each and every Read more [...]

لقراءة الموضوع باللغة العربية اضغط هنا 3-D printing has already resulted in advances in manufacturing (as well as tiny stop-motion animation), but now taking it one step further is the Urbee hybrid: the world’s first 3-D printed car, developed by Kor Ecologic and Stratasys. The Urbee was created using Stratasys’ Dimension 3-D printers and Fortus 3-D Production System. The full-scale prototype is not yet complete, but all of the exterior components, Read more [...]