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Flying saucer-like blimp could haul 150 tons through the air

Friday, October 1, 2010 - 4:38pm

The aeronautical engineers at Australia's Skylifter have come up with a way to transport 700 times what a heavy cargo helicopter can: fix it to a blimp. The massive disc is almost 500 feet across, and its flying saucer-like shape makes it less susceptible to wind while hauling 150 tons.

LG reveals gorgeous ultra-thin prototype OLED TV

Monday, August 30, 2010 - 9:32am

OLED is a difficult technology to make in large screen sizes, which is why there are only a couple of small-size OLED sets available today. But if this 31-inch prototype set from LG is any indication, when those big screen sizes come, the results will be hot, hot, hot.

Future countertop scans food AND tells you how to cook it

Friday, July 2, 2010 - 10:26am

Here's a kitchen countertop that could be smarter than the cleverest cook. For example, put a piece of meat on the counter, and the Oasis system's 3D depth-perceiving camera senses exactly what it is, and then displays helpful hints, nutritional information, and recipes using its pico projector.

Breakthrough? Color e-reader reflects like a butterfly's wings

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 7:55am

Creating a color e-ink display is a lot more difficult than it looks, but Qualcomm might have found the solution to this vexing problem in the wings of butterflies. Taking advantage of the same iridescent reflectivity you find in a...

Sony demos innovative fuel cell charger and speaker prototypes

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 9:09am

Fuel cells are alive and well at Sony, evidenced by the kooky prototypes the shrinking Japanese giant rolled out today at the Fuel Cell Expo 2009 in Tokyo. What you see here are a couple of fuel cell-powered speakers and...

Smart solar-powered i-Shovel robot automatically removes tons of snow

Monday, January 26, 2009 - 10:09am

Here's a dream come true for those of us lazybones who find ourselves unexpectedly snowbound more often than we care to admit. Dubbed "the world's smartest snow shovel," i-Shovel is so intelligently automatic, it's able to sense when there's...

Mini Media Centre PC packs latest tech into quirky retro design

Monday, January 19, 2009 - 8:54am

We're intrigued by the way British design student Thomas Thomassen blends retro styling with modern technology in this brilliant case mod. His Mini Media Centre looks like its mother was a avocado-colored vintage mixer and its dad was a...

Street-legal open-wheeled limousine aims for 300mph

Monday, January 19, 2009 - 8:02am

You thought Obama's new Cadillac presidential limo/tank was outrageous? This crazy open-wheel Formula 1-style vehicle carries six white-knuckled passengers to their destinations, pronto. Its designer-builder Michael Pettipas hopes it'll zip along at an astonishing 300mph. It had to happen....

Sony gets super-sexy with OLED HDTV prototypes

Saturday, January 10, 2009 - 7:43am

Sony flaunts its exceptional technology prowess with its organic LED (OLED) TVs in an impressive tech demo. The biggest is 27 inches, the smaller is 21 inches. Both are less than 10 millimeters (or 0.4 inch) thick, with the...

ioDrive solid-state hard drive is world's fastest, but not cheap

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 7:44am

Before you think you're looking at some obscure and geeky computer part, realize this: You're looking into the future. This Fusion-io ioDrive prototype is a solid-state hard drive that plugs into the PCI bus, that place inside your computer...

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Prototypes stories

Flying saucer-like blimp could haul 150 tons through the air

LG reveals gorgeous ultra-thin prototype OLED TV

Future countertop scans food AND tells you how to cook it

Breakthrough? Color e-reader reflects like a butterfly's wings

Sony demos innovative fuel cell charger and speaker prototypes

Smart solar-powered i-Shovel robot automatically removes tons of snow

Mini Media Centre PC packs latest tech into quirky retro design

Street-legal open-wheeled limousine aims for 300mph

Sony gets super-sexy with OLED HDTV prototypes

ioDrive solid-state hard drive is world's fastest, but not cheap

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