Sure, we love our pets, so it had to happen sooner or later, getting them to share our addictive computer gaming world with us (and keeps them off your lap when you’re busy fragging the “competition”…Video games for cats. Timber Falls movies

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Go figure…it’s what America does best: create wealth out of a silly idea.

From Popular Science:

The best surgeon is but an internet connection away

, and now the system is improved!

The Da Vinci robot for distance surgery has an added advantage: It tracks what are of the patient the surgeon is looking at and provides the doctor with a 3D image of the anatomy.

What will they think of next?

or…maybe better titled “Fallout of Technology Tuesday.”

From Engadget:

Compulsive e-mailing, texting could be classified as bona fide illness

Posted Mar 17th 2008 8:11PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Considering the plethora of facilities that have opened just in the past few years to deal solely with individuals that have become undoubtedly addicted to video games, the internet and all things Hello Kitty (we jest, we jest), we’re not surprised one iota to hear that uncontrollably texting / e-mailing could soon become “classified as an official brain illness.”
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Watch your usage….before your freinds and family show up for an “intervention.”

Can handle the thought of putting on cheap plastic specs to get a 3D view of a virtual world?

Good news! Help is on the way!

FANTASTIC PLASTIC: Prototypes made from the photorefractive polymer film so far offer small—four-square inch (10 centimeter)—monochrome images, such as this ethane molecule.
Photo: University of Arizona College of Optical ScienceFrom Scientific American: Good Boy!

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Researchers at the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences (OSC) in Tucson, and engineers from Nitto Denko Technical Corporation, in Oceanside, Calif., recently unveiled a prototype of a photorefractive polymer film on which 3-D images can be recorded, erased and replaced with new images. When carried out swiftly enough, this process leads to a series of images on the film that deliver three-dimensional action that can be picked up by the naked eye.

I’m confident I can say a display for your home might be a little pricey right now, not to mention a sort of still in the engineering Frankenstein-istic look about it, too. The “hope” (we hear a lot about that these days) is stuff like this tends to get to be real and affordable one day…hopefully before Darth Vader and friends try to take over the universe.Chasing the Green ipod

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Can’t decide between black and brown shoes as a career accessory? A grounded aviator with a limited budget and a yard not big enough to put in your own runway?

This just may be the answer.

Kit built, 75 mph, max altitude about 10 feet, or hovers at 8 inches. Seats 4 (but only 2 if you’re going to fly)…so you can bring your GIB friends along for the ride, too.

From Universal Hovercraft, here’s the UH-18SPW Hoverwingâ„¢

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What are you waiting for? 275 hours of work is all that separates you from ground effect adventure!

Of course, for those stuck between the surface navy and the Silent Serviceâ„¢, there’s a solution for you, too!

Have you lusted, for a very long time for a fully functional “heads up display” (HUD) that’s no muss, no fuss to wear? No annoying glasses style rigs, no wires dangling around your neck….

Well, in a “life imitates art” moment, someone has done your bidding. Pet Sematary II psp The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! psp

From the Telegraph in the UK:

Contact lenses with Terminator vision

By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 27/01/2008

An electronic contact lens has been developed that will enable maps and videos to be beamed before the wearer’s eyes.

The bionic lens has microscopic circuits fixed to a flexible plastic. The scientists who created the device say the lenses could eventually provide computer-aided vision similar to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s robotic character in the Terminator films.

Drivers and pilots would have essential information – their speed and direction, for example – superimposed in front of their eyes, in a massive advance on the kind of “wearable displays” now available, which are spectacles that have images displayed on the lenses.
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Now, just because this was in an English paper, doesn’t mean it wasn’t homegrown. Babak Parviz, an electrical engineer at the University of Washington is the man with the plan.

And if just data displays aren’t good enough for you, he is working on advanced versions already:

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Mr Parviz plans more sophisticated components to show detailed pictures, and it is possible to include a zoom function. The lenses have been tried on animals but there will be tough safety tests before the technology is developed for people.
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Sign me up for the testing! I wonder…do they also correct for astigmatism? Probably for an extra cost…

A 40 hour laptop battery? The People vs. Larry Flynt hd

Maybe, if Asst Prof Yi Cui and his associates get their way.

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Publishing in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the Stanford researchers have shown that by using silicon nanowires as the battery anode instead of today’s graphite, the amount of lithium the anode can hold is extended tenfold.
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Another life improvement due to nanotech…

Take the tour here.

Apple, out ahead of the pack again. New idea: LEDs for LCD backlighting. Durable, survivable, lightweight, energy efficient. And that’s just the first of the innovation…

Starting @ $1799….

Update: Steve Jobs MacWorld 2008 keynote address. The world may soon belong to Apple…Check out the iPhone market share and new features…

Dust off your old slide rules and HP RPN calculators! Get the big roll around fan and some plywood and get to work on making a makeshift wind tunnel, coz you’re gonna need it to compete in this!

You don’t have to make it up and back into space two times to become a millionaire, you just have to make a really efficient ground bound method of transportation.

Rules will be published this summer (2008), but no time like the present to start scheming on how to change the world now.