U.S. military seem to be smitten by fancy technology at the moment for they have been reported to be developing on digital ‘smart underwears’ capable of monitoring a soldier’s vital statistics such as heart rate, skin temperature, respiration, and heart rate. We have seen smart TVs. Phones and even thermostats but smart undies are definitely top of the heap stuff. Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command and the Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center are developing these high tech garments which use gel-free sensors and gather the collected vitals from a soldier and transfer to a central system which allows uninterrupted monitoring training soldiers on and off the battlefield.

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Game developer Valve’s digital game distribution platform Steam is now available for use on smartphones, with the company unveiling its first official Steam application for the iPhone, iPod Touch or Android phones. The smartphone Steam version doesn’t enable users to play games on their phones, and we weren’t expecting it to. What it does do however, is allows users to connect with the rest of the Steam community, access the store, and in short, keep in touch with Valve’s world of gaming. Featuring about 1504 games and 40 million active user accounts, Steam today has a 70% share of the digital distribution market for video games and this new development is bound to have gamers peep into their smartphones more than often.

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If you’ve been considering reshaping your living room to pay a hearty tribute to the Star Trek series, we’ve got a piece of furniture that’s bound to fit right in. chiseled along the lines of the Starship Enterprise, this coffee table is the perfect addition to your living space. Handcrafted from hardwood with a glass top to hold your cups and magazines (and your feet occasionally), this table is the brainchild of wood artist Barry Shields, and took over a month to build. Standing about 17” tall, this table comes with a price tag of $3,100, a price well-paid for this one-of-a-kind Starship Enterprise inspired piece of furniture.

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With the highly anticipated Avengers movie lined up to hit theater screens in the near future, we’ve just stumbled across a superhero-way to smell good! Behold the Avengers cologne range. Complete with dedicated colognes labeled after Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk and Thor, these perfumes are bound to unleash the superhero in you. Now we really aren’t sure if the Iron Man cologne will have you wind up smelling like sheer metal, or if the Hulk perfume makes you smell like a green sweaty pissed-off beast for that matter. These do seem like a fascinating addition to a comic-geek’s dressing-table though. With these four priced at $47 a set, the Nick Fury and Loki colognes however are priced at a more expensive $32 a piece.

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Reports are indicating that Apple devices are poised for some makeover. Just a couple of days back we heard that the next-gen iPhone could have Lytro’s whole field light camera sensor and today we stumbled on a juicy new bit which says that Apple patent suggested use of MagSafe adapter for iOS devices. This translates into the fact that tripping on your iPhone or iPad while charging will not lead to disasters anymore. Nobody knows how soon this will happen but we must admit that its long over-due. We just hope this technology doesn’t remain limited to future iOS devices alone and that it would be backward compatible too.

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We have earlier seen Samsung indulging in some really never-seen-before marketing stints. Couple of months ago the Korean giant teamed up with Baskin Robbins for the promotion of Galaxy Nexus ICS handset and then recently we had the ‘Samsunged’ TV advertisement which mocked Apple fans. Samsung is now ensuring a high tech makeover for London’s biggest tourist attraction i.e. the London Eye with its Galaxy Tabs. All of the sightseeing capsules in the London Eye will be outfitted with Galaxy Tab tablets to let users interact with the landmarks they’re looking at.

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Samsung has earlier launched a series of women-centric phones with pepped up exteriors and soft colors. They have now unveiled Wave Y La Fleur in Ukrainian markets which comes dressed in a wine red color decked with f lowery design on the back and front. Under the 3.2-inch display, the phone packs bada 2.0 OS, 2MHz processor, 2MP camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, A-GPS and microSD card slot. It is presently available in Ukraine for a price tag of US$166.

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If you are looking out for headphones with some mighty sound qualities, then Ultrasone’s new series of headphones under their Signature PRO line will surely catch your interest. These headphones are handcrafted and come with glass nameplates on both ear cups and black leather. The makers say these headphones also come with soft-touch coating which will bestow upon the user pleasant and firm grip, along with the head pad and ear cup pads being made out of Ethiopian sheep’s leather.

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The Nokia Lumia 900 will be another major step in the establishment of the Nokia-Microsoft alliance among top phone contenders. The phone will be competitive in features as well as price, if we are to go by this report. A source claims that the phone that is set to release on March 18th, will be available for $100 after a 2-year contract with AT&T. The phone was also labeled as the best smartphone at CES, by PC World.

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The great mind that changed the way we look at technology deserves unending accolades. His heroic life and death, battling what could be a weakening disease for many others, has been commemorated on a Virgin America flight. What we love calling the Steve Jobs Plane will bear the words, ‘stay hungry, stay foolish’. The inscription will be on the nose of the Airbus A320 aircraft. The words were read by Jobs and he soon picked them up and began abiding by them.

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So you like drumming your fingers everywhere? Does it annoy everyone, especially those who are completely unaware about the polyrhythmic genius you really are? Get them a dose of the real thing, with the Electronic Drum Machine Shirt. The shirt is so sophisticated that besides the regular drum pads you find on electronic kits, you also get a looping feature that will help you establish your patterns. Loops of up to 3 minutes can be recorded. You also get 9 different drum tones to try and exploit.

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The Toshiba DB50 eBook Reader may not be too distinguishable from the rest of such devices in the army. What we can take from it though, is the face that the reader has some decent processing and of course, Android at the back of it all. The reader is a 7-inch model with a WSVGA screen, 1GHz Freescale i.MX535 CPU powering it up, 8GB internal memory, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, microSD card slot and access to Toshiba’s exclusive BookPlace store.

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Just yesterday we stumbled upon a juicy piece of rumor that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S III handset will hit shelves in April. Today the guys at The Verge are saying that the handset might not appear at MWC this February and reasons for the same are yet to disclosed. Samsung is otherwise expected to unveil other interesting stuff perhaps a new Galaxy tab or even a Windows handset. We must say we are little dejected but hope the wait is really worth it.

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If Geppetto had such a hard time keeping a check on Pinocchio, we’re having nightmares thinking what the world would do, if this puppet robot had to go rogue! By Tim Davies, this awesome giant-spider-robot does everything you’d expect any of its kind to do. It wriggles its giant legs and looks threatening. With a few tweaks and modifications, this giant innovation could pretty much take over the world. Now, we aren’t sure just how good an entry in a science fair this would make, though it does make a suitable weapon to gain mass-control over the world as a whole.

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If your zombie paranoia has begun to blow out of proportions lately, here’s the perfect tool to soothe your strained and fidgety nerves. Called the DoubleStar Zombie-X AK-47, this assault rifle is good enough to make zombies scatter away in hordes and could pretty much put most of those weapons we see in splatter films to shame. Complete with a battery-powered chainsaw to saw off all that’s left of your zombie victims, the rifle also sports an EOTech Zombie Stopper XPS2-Z Holographic Sight (these guys sure love them long names) that puts a biohazard symbol on your target instead of the conventional red dot of death. Priced at $1,249.99, this weapon of mass destruction could be your savior, if the world does succumb to a zombie apocalypse.

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