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The hand-made prototype for David Schwartz's laser/smoke microphone.

Music

Video: Laser/smoke microphone promises the world's most accurate sound capture

Completely eliminating all the interference a traditional microphone causes in its reproduction of sound, David Schwartz's laser/smoke microphone concept looks set to usher in a new era of transparent audio reproduction.

Purdue University's Tannaz Harirchian and Professor Suresh Garimella have developed a new means of cooling chips in electric and hybrid applications(Photo: Andrew Hancock)

Environment

Keeping hybrids cool under the bonnet reaches boiling point

Researchers in the U.S. believe the secret to cooling the electronics in a hybrid engine may lie in understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny ‘microchannels’.

$The GreenSun Energy solar cell uses a fraction of the silicon found in existing cells and can even generate power when not in direct sunlight$

Environment

Color matters: GreenSun Energy colored solar technology

Researchers led by Professor Renata Reisfeld have created a solar cell which uses a fraction of the silicon found in existing cells and can keep on soaking up light even when the sun doesn't shine

Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel's PC Client Group, demonstrates the difference between Intel's new Intel Core i7 processor and the Ibex peak chipset during his megabriefing at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

Computing

Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor - fastest ever laptop chips

Intel says its i7 Mobile Processor chip now puts processing power that was reserved for desktop computing in the lap of the mobile community.

Karen Braun, Xerox color research scientist, helped develop a natural language that allows users to simply describe the color they want. (Photo: Kevin Rivoli)

Photography

DEMO: Xerox 'Color By Words' uses simple language to get great pictures

Xerox’s Color By Words technology lets users select phrases from a drop-down menu that help them adjust colors in their images simply, quickly and accurately.

Urban Transport

Mosquito Electric Bike by Toto Design

Toto Design are currently in the pre-production phase for its new electric bike, the Mosquito, readying for an April 2010 release

The gold Revomaze for hardened puzzle solvers

Games

The puzzling Revomaze is a maze wrapped in metal - updated

The Revomaze is a cylindrical puzzler that has been individually milled from a solid block of metal and features an internal labyrinth that must be navigated to remove the metal core and solve the puzzle.

Bob Baker, VP of technology and manufacturing displays a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm manufacturing technology.

Computing

Intel unveils world's first working 22nm chips

Intel recently unveiled the world's first working chips using 22nm transistor technology.

The Seabreacher not only looks like a dolphin, it can dive and jump like one, too

Boats and Watersports

Innespace's Seabreacher: cross between a dolphin and a PWC

The Seabreacher is a two-seater, fully-submersible watercraft that was modeled on a dolphin.

The Audiovox VOD10PS2 is great for bored backseat passengers and drivers who like peace and quiet (Photos: Engadget)

Games

Audiovox entertains backseat passengers with PS2 games and video

Audiovox's VOD10PS2 combines its overhead video unit with a PS2 to deliver the ultimate in backseat entertainment.

The Kid Kustoms' trike conversion kit transforms a stroller into a new trike

Children

Kid Kustoms' Roddler stroller converts into a cool trike

Kid Kustoms' trike conversion kit replaces the front end of the Roddler stroller to create a trike for your trendy tot.

The DustCart is a humanoid robot for door-to-door garbage pickup, while the DustClean is meant for use in cleaning narrow town streets that traditional trucks can't access.

AI and Humanoids

DUSTBOT collaborative, multifunctional robots keep your town clean

The DUSTBOT project recently demoed two multifunctional robots aimed at keeping town streets clean and door-to-door garbage pickup.

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