At a Campus party in Columbia an Ubuntu fan made the logo of his favorite Linux installation from Red Bull Cans. (Thanks Mark) via Flickr...

Here is a must have accessory for avid readers, the Twinbird LED light. It easily clips on to the bed's railing and the LED focuses the light so you can read even an A3 sized paper without disturbing anyone. As it uses LED heat generation and power consumption is very less compared to standard electric bulbs. Furthermore the LED lamp can be adjusted by hand as it can rotate a good 270 degrees. Available in Japan only the Twinbird...

Although this technology is just a day old, the amount of spam companies lining up to buy the technology will rise by the dozen every minute. The name 'Image Fulgurator' comes from the Latin for 'lightning' (fulgur) and means 'Flash Thrower'. The device is a modified camera -- in this case, an old manual Minolta SLR. A flashgun fires through the camera in reverse, from the back. The flash picks up the image of a slide inside and projects...

Thanko the Japanese company known for their crazy USB gadgets has proved themselves again with the Thanko i2 Stream which is a audio transmitter and receiver. So what does this novel gadget do? It connects to your MP3 player / phone etc and transmits the audio at 2.4 Ghz to be picked up by the receiver unit. The idea is pretty simple what if you want to share some music with your friends in an unconventional way, you use...

The ICT Graphics Lab at USC has created a low-cost volumetric 3-D display, which is really impressive. Apparently the process requires spinning mirrors, high-speed DLP Projections, and very precise calculations that figures out the correct axial perspective needed for a 360-degree image. The process even takes into account a viewer's positioning. Small viewing areas, high costs and the viewer disconnect with blurry optical illusions, have bogged down earlier attempts by several companies. But the USC project is different and...

This Sentry speaker system can be expanded up to 6 speakers plus can take on a wireless headphone to the system. You can plug any audio device that has a 3.5 mm headset port directly into the unit for easy plug and play. The transmitter lets you charge your iPod or MP3 player through the built in USB Port. Since the system is water resistant, it is can be around the pool, but never in it! You can hook...

Korean researchers and Samsung SDI have developed a window that can be used to generate electric power. Bae Byeong-Soo, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said that the building integrated photovoltalic (BIPV) cells made by coating windows with Sol-Gel material have reached power efficiency of 11 percent in laboratory tests. However, more research needs to be carried out to raise sustained efficiency from 8.9 %. The team is also concentrating to make models...

Although Logic Instrument got FCC approval for their Tetra T-Pad rugged smartphone almost 2 years ago, little has been known about it since then. It features a Drop shock- resistant design and uses Intel Xscale 400MHz PXA 263 processor. Specs include Windows CE.NET 4.2, 4.0" Transmissive TFT VGA, (480 x 640) Outdoor Readable Touchscreen Display, 16-Bit Colour Display, 16 Key Alphanumeric Keyboard, Up to 5 hours of battery life, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, Ethernet, and options for USB and modem....

The biggest USP of the Ultimate Ears Loud Enough Earphones is that it is child-friendly and promises to protect those fragile eardrums from damage. As grown-ups we know that our eardrums can be permanently damaged due to loud settings of the earphones, but as children we tend to enjoy our music best when it's loud! Ultimate Ears has released the Loud Enough Earphones, a $40 pair that comes in a choice of blueberry (blue), mint (green), or plum (fuchsia),...

We were very happy when Japan announced that it would introduce age-verification cameras in cigarette vending machines, so that under-aged people would not get access to the poison stick. But apparently there is a terrible glitch in the system. A Sankei Sports news reporter carried out some tests and realized that magazine photos can be used to fool the age-verification cameras on some machines. Some new machines were introduced in the Osaka area in June; the reported discovered that...

David Caminer died at the ripe old age of 92, but he has left a rich legacy behind. He worked in one of the legendary chain of British tea shops Lyons, but his calling came when he a found the earliest ways to use a computer for business purposes, including standardizing flavorful, cost-effective cups of tea. The Leo Computers Society, whose purpose is to keep alive the memory of LEO, the computer Mr. Caminer helped develop for J. LYONS...

Although Speedo is connected with swimming gear and iriver with MP3 players and gadgets, the two have found a common ground with waterproof MP3 players. The Speedo Aquabeat is a waterproof MP3 player made by iriver. The player is waterproof down to 3 meters. Incase it dislodges itself, no worries as the player actually floats. It features 1GB of memory, up to 9 hours of battery life and a weight of only 35 grams....

Reflect is actually a luminous board embedded in a table. It monitors conversations via microphones and shows a visualization of who's been doing the maximum talking using arrays of color LEDs. It is meant to act as public shared memory that describes recent and past moves in the conversation. Translated, it means to show the rude guy (or girl) that he has been doing the most of the talking,g so he should shut up a bit! Source...

Events House offers their 8 Lane Scalextric track set for party events, corporate team building, promotional events and any other event that you can imagine. Two 8-lane scalextrics tracks are available for hire. A classic BIG 8 track is computer controlled and it will keep records of lap times, race winners and championship points. Although you need to live in UK to hire one of these, I'll give you the details anyways. Upon hiring, Events House provides you with...

Psychedelic goodness or not, Mathmos Poplight sure grab your attention for their unique design. From the house of the original lava-lamp makers, this lamp adopts the goodness of LED instead; the lamp itself is just six inches high, and in hand-blown glass. The LED bulb changes between blue, purple, violet, magenta, red lighting, and you turn them on my simply pushing down on top....