Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard

The Future Has Arrived

Remember when you were promised all those amazing future tech innovations? Just around the corner was supposed to be a shining technology utopia with flying cars, personal space travel to distant galaxies, and bio-implantable cell phones. It's almost disappointing enough to make you sit at home and watch old episodes of "Space 1999".

Don't lose hope! An amazing glimpse of this promised future has just arrived at ThinkGeek in the form of the Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard. This tiny device laser-projects a keyboard on any flat surface... you can then type away accompanied by simulated key click sounds. It really is true future magic at its best. You'll be turning heads the moment you pull this baby from your pocket and use it to compose an e-mail on your bluetooth enabled PDA or Cell Phone. With 63 keys and and full size QWERTY layout the Laser Virtual Keyboard can approach typing speeds of a standard keyboard... in a size a little larger than a matchbook.

Product Features

• Connects to PDAs Smartphones and Computers using Bluetooth
• Projects a full size keyboard onto any flat surface
• Allows the convenience of regular keyboard typing in a tiny form factor
• Rechargeable battery lasts for 120 minutes of continuous typing
• Tiny size only 3.5 inches high
• Compatible with PalmOS 5, PocketPC 2003, Windows Smartphone, Symbian OS, and Windows 2000/XP. Limited Mac OSX Support. 

MEET ROVIO Demo

It comes in peace.

Your friends at Skynet bring you the Rovio! Rovio is a robotic webcam with microphone and speaker for 2-way audio. This wi-fi connected bad little bot will stream video and audio to your favorite web-enabled browser anywhere in the world! Use your PC, your MAC, your iPhone, even your PS3 to control Rovio.In this way meatbags will have the illusion of control over the machine. Drive the bot around the house, take pictures of the family and e-mail them to friends. All this can be done from thousands of miles away.


Every human family should own a Rovio. This way the machines will be able to see and hear everything you do. Rather meatbags will be able see and hear everything other meatbags do.

Rovio

Easily control Rovio remotely 24/7 from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
Rovio detects your computer settings and guides you through the setup process.
Its head-mounted moveable camera and wide range of vision enable you to see and hear exactly what Rovio sees and hears, on your screen.
Set waypoints so that Rovio can navigate itself around your home, without having to control each step yourself!
At the click of a button, send Rovio back to the charging dock using its self-docking capabilities - even when you are not at home!*
Guide Rovio through dimly lit locations with the aid of its built-in LED headlight.
Rechargeable NiMH battery included
1 x Charging dock with built-in TrueTrack Beacon
3 x Omni-directional wheels
1 x Head-mounted VGA camera
1 x Speaker and 1 x microphone for 2-way audio
USB connectivity
Wi-Fi connectivity (802.11b and 802.11g)
Dimensions: 10" x 9" x 4" (8" with camera full extended)

Eggcar

Ride along with us inside GM's EN-V (Electric Networked Vehicle), a tiny two-seater with a 40-mile range that whisked us around a hotel ballroom in smooth, quiet comfort.
The little two-seater, employing the same balancing-act technology as the Segway scooter, sheds the two-wheeled scooter's nerdy Mall Cop image for a Pac-Man-esque bubble design.
It was a hoot to take this egg-shaped hotrod for a spin inside a controlled environment, but we're not quite sure how it would do on the mean streets of the real world — say, pitted against a giant SUV.
But so what? Maybe the future this precocious car occupies doesn't include SUVs.
That said, it gets even more sci-fi: The EN-V has an autonomous mode, where you can sit back, texting and enjoying your morning coffee while its GPS-driven navi system takes care of the driving for you. Sounds great, but GM wasn't demonstrating that feature to us quite yet. We'll believe that when we see it.
Didn't we already see a bubble car like this in a Woody Allen movie? Maybe so, but this cute conveyance is not available for sale yet -- it's a concept vehicle thus far -- but it feels refined enough to hit the streets (or at least a golf course) before too long.

News: Scientists explore Bahamas’ breathtaking blue holes

Actually, you don't have to picture it. As with the Vietnam expedition and an earlier tour of Mexico's Cave of Crystals, National Geographic has done it for you in another series of breathtaking photos.

[Photos: More award-winning photography from National Geographic]

The "blue holes" of the Bahamas are little-studied flooded caves containing some of the richest and rarest scientific treasure troves on the planet -- and some of the most dangerous, often requiring deep and highly delicate dives under tremendous time pressure. But the findings of blue-hole dives can have widespread implications in fields as far-flung as geology, archaeology, paleontology and biology. They could even offerinsights for astrobiologists who postulate extraterrestrial life.

A team funded by the National Geographic Society with the National Museum of the Bahamas set out to explore the blue holes not long ago, and the magazine published the photos in its August issue.