Laptops are handy because they fold in half. But why stop in half? They'd be handier if you could fold them a few extra times, as with the Fujitsu Lifebook X2 concept.

We haven't seen too much new stuff from Chevrolet/GM recently, maybe because they've been pouring all of their blood, sweat, and tears into making the Volt work. And that's fine. But they've found some time to throw together this Mi-Ray concept car, which debuted recently at the Seoul Motor Show.

The design for the power plugs you and I use today — with three prongs where one acts to ground it — came about in the late 1920s after a fella named Philip F. Labre wanted to keep people from shocking themselves. Labre made the plug safe, but no one has really done much for it after that. Well, it's high time we took a long look at the plug and outlet and found ways to make them work harder, as well as make them easier to interact with. Click through the gallery below to see how.

No longer will we have to choose between tanks and submarines when we need to go to the grocery store on the other side of an ocean that's also being shot at.