The above picture might look like a rendering done by some Maya expert but it is actually Tokyo's underground sewer system. No wonder inspite of heavy rains Tokyo never gets flodded. (More pics after the jump)...

The U.S. Army unveiled its first hybrid-electric propulsion system for a new fleet of Manned Ground Vehicles (MGVs). The Army is developing and building eight new MGV variants for 15 Future Combat Systems Brigade Combat Teams (FCS BCTs). All eight commonly-designed MGV variants will provide Soldiers with enhanced survivability, increased speed and mobility, new network-based capabilities, and more modern, modular technology. All the eight variants will have a common chassis saving the army a great deal of money. For the...

The first Airbus A380 is planned for handover by Airbus to Singapore Airlines on Monday, October 15, at a ceremony in Toulouse, France. The aircraft will be configured with 471 seats in three classes: Economy, Business and the new Singapore Airlines Suites: a class beyond First. After a few days the aircraft will fly to Singapore's Changi Airport: the world's first A380 home airport where the crew and ground staff can be familiarized with the super jumbo. The first...

Light travels faster then sound……we all have learnt it in school. But I feel money travels faster then the two. How else can you accept as true that a high-end system at at Bill Parish's GTT Audio & Video shop costs a staggering $350,000! As the V.Y.G.E.R. Indian Signature turntable churn out the best tunes, the MBL 101E Radialstrahler Reference speakers ($49,900 per pair) with distinctive woofer, midrange, and tweeter technology radiate sound with 360 degree dispersion. The only...

If you identify yourself primarily as an Adam (1st male on this globe) and Audi is your source of transport then I can’t be wrong to assume that Apple iPhone is the device you use to communicate (essentially). This makes perfect sense! Well Audi and Apple have been working closely to ensure that the full functionality of the iPhone is available in most Audi models. The only requirement for this the Audi Music Interface is the mobile phone preparation...

Someone setup security cams on their house and got a glimpse of how their precious package was delivered by UPS. The truck driver chucks it against the door from several feet away. So the next time you order China get your package insured. Source...

Millions of dollars from oil tycoons, kings and lotteries are a thing of the past. This phishing mail is the best. Source...

The above is a newspaper ad from 1976 for the original Apple-1 computer, a time when Apple was not AAPL and it had to advertise for dealers. Via - Flickr...

Comic books turn to Hollywood flicks and then to video games, Gametrailers takes us back memory lane for the Top 10 Comic book games. Did you know that Turok was actually a comic in the early 50's....

I wish this were not true, but as they say truth is always bitter. The American insurance industry conducted side-impact crash tests of luxury sedans and from the whole lot the 2008 BMW 5 Series had the worst performance record. The Acura RL, Kia Amanti and Volvo S80 all earned the highest safety rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Cadillac STS and Mercedes E-Class earned the second-highest rating. The tests were designed to reveal what would...

Digix a Korean company has created have created a functioning ball-point pen that has a built-in 1GB of flash memory. The pen has a a removable cover that reveals a USB connection. The pen is available in four different colors silver, black, red and pearl blue....

The chair or rather the correct chair is an integral part of our lives. Be at office or at the gaming station, it's always about parking that behind on the most comfy, cushy one. The Trey Chair strives to be that perfect one, on which you can spend hours without even realizing it. Folks at Ars Technica had the opportunity to meet up with the designer of the Trey Chair, Jeff Jameson. On the one on one that he...

The latest to join the Digital Audio Player bandwagon is Samsung's YP-S5 and YP-T10. Both the players have Bluetooth, but if you look at the S5 player's image carefully, you will notice that it has a dialpad feature as well. Could this mean that the player can double up as a phone, we hope so cause that will be really exciting! The S5 also has a speaker (quite like the year-old YP-K5) and the YP-T10 gives the Nano a...

We've broken the sound barrier so should the possibility of breaking the speed of light be far behind? Well, it a couple of decades behind, but if we believe Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, then breaking the speed of light has been achieved. They say that have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up...

It's always a pleasure to track what Samsung is up to because they always make juicy announcements. For instance, at the IFA in Berlin they announced the F8 series of LCDs. What makes this jaunt special is the LE46F86BD TV. It features 100MHz Motion Plus technology for sharper images, 1080p support, a mind-boggling 25,000:1 contrast ratio, and a super CLEAR panel coating. Additionally, you'll find a USB 2.0 port, a trio of HDMI 1.3 sockets, an eight-millisecond response time,...