The Shiro SQ-S MP3 player is one the finalists for the HKEIA Award for Outstanding Innovation & Technology Products. The player is equipped with a 1.8" 65K colors LCD display that can display track lists, Images, Video and even the odd eBook. The media player supports MP3/ WMA/ WAV/ FLAC/ APE/ OGG music formats. It even comes with an integrated FM tuner and a voice recorder, which has the option to even record the song you hear right off...

Scientists have developed a novel compound that is solid at room temperature, is a highly powerful explosive, and can be melt-cast into the desired shape. The new compound falls into the series of the nitrate ester group of compounds, which is known for its explosive properties. The research team that developed the novel tetranitrate ester, was led by David E. Chavez from Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US. Nitrate esters are organic nitric acid compounds that can contain enormous...

This new plane has foldable wings that make it possible to drive on the street. With a FAA and NHTSA certification, this drivable plane is a light airplane that's street legal. At the back is a push prop, and the front canard does double duty as a wing and bumper. Its gas engine will push it over a range of 460 miles through the air. The Transition runs on gas and can go about 450 miles on a single...

Google Earth's new satellite, GeoEye-1, has provided a high resolution picture of Pennsylvania-based Kutztown University campus, which also happens to be its first picture. The satellite took the picture on Tuesday when it was in a 423-mile-high orbit over the East Coast of the U.S. "We expect the quality of the imagery to be even better as we continue the calibration activity," the Telegraph quoted Brad Peterson, GeoEye's vice president of operations, as saying. The 500million-dollar satellite's main client is...

If headphones wires bother you while you listen to your favorite music, Onkyo has a new pair of headphones that may just be of your fancy. The Onkyo MHP-UW2 is a wireless Bluetooth headphone that comes with an emitter, which attaches to the iPod/iPhone. It attaches to the iPod to broadcast music for up to 8 hours before the battery gives up; it operates on the 2.4GHz frequency. It may seem like the right solution to get rid of...

Super Talent terra cotta warrior USB drive is a life-like replica of the ancient Xi'an warriors that stands only 7cm tall. It is full compatibility with USB 1.1 and 2.0 and is available in 1GB-8GB capacity. The drive supports password protection. In 1974 in Xi'an, China farmers digging a well discovered a vast underground cavern containing thousands of life sized terra cotta warriors. Further excavation nearby revealed two more underground rooms and a total terra cotta army of more...

Justin Voskuhl a Google engineer moved into a new place and in a bid to fight boredom and figure out something to cover a large barren wall in his living room, one weekend developed a program that would take a source picture, establish the most optimized colors, Lego brick sizes and orientations in order to reproduce the source image completely in Legos. I moved into a new place about ten months ago, and had a huge blank wall in...

In Tom Clancy's 'The Sum of all Fears' terrorists manage to smuggle a crude nuclear bomb and detonate it in Baltimore. Multiplying the fears if terrorists managed to explode a 'one megaton' 250 miles over Kansas, the shockwave would be sufficient to fry majority of electronic devices, systems and cripple the entire power grid for a long time. A rogue state or terrorist organization could get enough material for a small nuclear bomb for $20 million fit it on...

shows you how to control a WowWee Rovio mobile spy robot with the help of a Windows PC running Robodancea a freeware for advanced robot control. The WiiMote's buttons are mapped to different Rovio operations giving you wireless control of your Rovio, as you pilot it remotely over the Web. Movement, camera control, automatic docking, picture taking and more are all under the easy command of the Nintendo WiiMote. The only hardware required to run this hack, besides a...

Now this is called a gigantic view! Visual impact can be best achieved when the Brand Positioning is at the optimum space. What better way to gram attention than the 33-story-high 'Podium' ad wall in Dubai? Apparently it can be viewed from almost a mile away and boy what a visual impact this will be! The LED display is planned for an upcoming commercial building, and designers are ensuring that the billboard won't obstruct the natural light reaching the...

There are two things about the LG KC780 Portrait Phone that hit you on the onset. One, it is an 8-megapixel camera phone and two it is slim as ever. The slider packs in quite a few features that make it an able digicam as well. On the flipside 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi are missing, but overall the package is pretty neat. The specs include: GSM 900/1800/1900, GPRS/EDGE connectivity, 2.4"screen with 240×320 QVGA 262k color resolution, autofocus camera, FM...

The wireless controls of the Parrot SK4000 Bluetooth headset can be hooked on to the handlebars of the bike. Specs for the SK4000include Bluetooth A2DP that works with your mobile phone or DAP. It also features a omni-directional microphone that has a noise reduction feature that allows you to carry on conversation without the din of the surrounding traffic getting in the way. The headset even includes voice recognition feature to speed dial numbers from your phone list. The...

Christmas is the time for cheer and joy and spreading a little bit of good news, like the fact that Neimain Marcus is hosting the first 31 BMW 7 Series models for 2009. Forty-five Limited-Edition Confederate Fighter motorcycles will be up for grabs. Similar to the Wraith, Confederate Fighter uses a girder-style front suspension made up of titanium, aluminum and carbon fiber bits and a 120ci 45-degree air-cooled V-Twin. However Wraith's carbon fiber monocoque chassis is replaced with a...

Just what we needed, an expensive iPod dock to take our minds off failing banks and nose diving stock markets. The Onkyo CBX-Z20 packs in a CD player, AM / FM radio and of course the iPod dock. The amplifier delivers an output of 5W x 2Ch for the 8cms speakers. The unit measures 435×231.5×138mm, weighs 4.3 kgs, comes with a remote control and is clad in shiny black. It will be available in Japan only later this month...

In a rescue mission, the biggest obstacle faced by the rescuers is the unfamiliar interiors of the burning building, and could pose as a navigation hindrance. Researchers have come up with a new method called simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) that allows robots to visualize a mental map of a location. This technique can be useful for robotic cars to navigate on unfamiliar streets. Similarly a helmet packed with sensors and SLAM software (designed to give robots a sense...