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The BrainPort device helps the blind to 'see' through their tongues

BrainPort for the visually impaired - ‘seeing’ with the tongue

A new device aims to help restore the experience of vision for the blind and visually impaired by using nerves on the tongue's surface to send light signals to the brain.

The Stem Glass Tray holds eight wine glasses in balanced formation and has a hole for your thumb

Good Thinking

Stem Glass Tray - the wine-drinker's palette

The stem glass tray is a clever item for waiters that makes carrying up to eight wine glasses so much easier. It’s basically a tray with little holes in which you place the wine glass stems and a ninth hole for your thumb.

The new Raytheon 4K by 4K, 16 megapixel focal plane array

Electronics

Raytheon announces improved infrared detector

Raytheon announces the development of a 16 megapixel focal plane array that will allow whole hemisphere surveying using only one array

About 1 million ytterbium atoms illuminated by a blue laser in an experimental atomic clock that holds the atoms in a lattice made of intersecting laser beams (Photo: Barber, NIST)

Science

Ytterbium times its run for next-gen atomic clocks

Technically no clock can be more accurate than cesium standards such as NIST-F1, but researchers have developed an experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms that boasts precision comparable to that of NIST-F1.

Automotive

Spyker C8 Aileron Spyder prototype let loose

Exclusive sportscar-maker Spyker Cars has kept true to its promise made in March at the Geneva Auto Show by debuting the first prototype of the open-top Spyder version of its second-generation Spyker C8 Aileron.

Les Paul Live @ Iridium Jazz Club / NYC (Photo: Thomas Faivre-Duboz, Creative Commons)

Remarkable People

Guitar pioneer Les Paul - 1915-2009

Genuis. Pioneer. Innovator. Words that don't even come close to describing the revolutionary thinking of Les Paul.

Under wraps ... the flying taxi. Inventor Michael Robert Dacre has died testing a prototype

Aircraft

Flying taxi inventor dies in test crash

Sadly, the inventor of the ‘flying taxi’, Michael Robert Dacre, has died after a crash during a test flight of a new Jetpod prototype in Taiping.

The Bluetooth Mini Phone(Image: Thumbs Up UK)

Mobile Technology

Calling all things retro - the Bluetooth Mini Phone

The Bluetooth Mini Phone is, as the name suggestes, shaped just like a miniature retro style phone handset.

President Obama toured Southern California Edison in March 2009 to see the first of the F-550 Eaton-powered plug-in hybrid utility trucks to be placed in service

Automotive

Eaton announces major development of plug-in hybrid commercial vehicles

Eaton Corporation’s truck and electrical businesses will play a major role in producing 378 plug-in hybrid electric power vehicles, the largest commercial hybrid deployment to date in the U.S.

The AVerMedia twin HD TV tuner for your PC

Computing

AVerMedia’s twin HD TV tuner turns your PC into a set-top box

The AVerTVHD Duet is an HD Dual Digital TV tuner for your PC that lets you watch one show while recording another or record them both simultaneously. And by recording your HD content to your HTPCs hard drive it becomes a PVR.

The new Bentley Mulsanne debuted at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance in Monterey, California

Automotive

Bentley Mulsanne debuts at Pebble Beach

Bentley finally took the wraps off its new grand tourer at the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance on the weekend. The Mulsanne is inspired by the company's crowning achievement, the 1930 8-liter.

The handheld GPS unit for the RoamEO Pup

Pets

RoamEO GPS dog collar keeps track of wayward pets

The RoamEO is the latest GPS device for owners of wayward canines who worry about their dogs’ disappearing acts or who are sick of spending valuable time searching for that ‘duck-hunter’ who’s too dog-tired to return with the catch.

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