News of the Optimus keyboard seems to have died, and the last I heard, it was supposed to be released at the beginning of February. The good news is that you can now Pre-Order an Optimus mini, which has three high res customisable keys. They're priced at $100, which seems pretty expensive for a gimmicky Winamp remote.
I have a few Vista domains for sale. For anyone that doesn’t know, Vista is the next operating system from Microsoft, the successor to Windows XP.
I also have GetVista.org and VistaSite.US. Leave a comment if you’re interested. 
The United States Army is testing lasers on the battlefield. Ionatron, Inc. of Tucson has developed a weapon called a femtosecond laser, which creates light pulses that last less than 10 trillionths of a second. These pulses carve a channel of ionized oxygen in the air which can conduct electricity. Then, the weapon blasts lightning bolts through these 30-foot channels of conductivity. This is said to be especially good at neutralizing bombs. Ionatron's CEO says his company will be sending 12 of these units to Iraq, the first one by the end of July.
SAN FRANCISCO -Intel Corp. has developed a single-chip wireless LAN solution that meets the 802.11n MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) standard, which offers 108 Mbit/second of bandwidth.
The chip, which integrates two radios and the associated power amplifiers in CMOS, was described here Monday as "the first CMOS MIMO radio."
Krishnamurthy Soumyanath, director of the communications circuits lab at Intel's Hillsboro, Ore. campus, told reporters here at the International Solid State Circuits Conference that it is likely that Intel will put the chip on the market fairly soon, though he called that a "business decision". What I can say is that the technology works and that it can go on the market very soon, no question about that.
Intel engineer Yorgos Palaskas led a design team which put two transmitters and two receivers on the die, with integrated power amplifiers. Intel also could offer high-end customers three transmitters and three receivers for more consistent bandwidth, or solutions with two transmitters and three receivers.
Looks like I'm going to have to wait even longer for that dual core laptop I've been waiting for.
Google has updated it's maps of the UK to a high enough resolution to make out some pretty small details. I can't quite see my blue Peugeot on the drive, but it's a big improvement on the resolution they previously had.
Tissue engineers like Vladimir Mironov of the Medical University of South Carolina, and Thomas Boland of Clemson University, have been printing biomaterials with modified ink-jet printers.
The cartridges are washed out and refilled with suspensions of living cells; the software that controls the characteristics of the ink is reprogrammed and you're good to go. Boland and Mironov use layers of “thermo-reversable” gel to build up three-dimensional structures like tubes‚ capillaries, to use the medical term. When the tiny droplets, or clumps, of cells came together closely, they fused; the gel can be easily removed, leaving a tube of tissue.
Now, it seems to me that a tube or complex living organ is a pretty complicated structure. Why not practice with a simpler, more two-dimensional form of muscle tissuelike bacon, for instance? Nothing like fresh bacon.
I don't know how this would taste, but it would probably be like soya, with no vitamins or nutrients.
It's always the quiet ones who suprise me. 
Beware, this video might trigger some kind of Japanese schoolgirl kissing windows fetish.
The installation of 5000 blow-up dolls in Pasedena, California for a film.
Ampulex compressa is a wasp that has evolved to tackle roaches, insert a stinger into their brains and disable their escape reflexes. This lets the wasp use the roach's antennae to steer the roach to its lair, where it can lay its egg in it.
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From the outside, the effect is surreal. The wasp does not paralyze the cockroach. In fact, the roach is able to lift up its front legs again and walk. But now it cannot move of its own accord.
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The larva grows inside the roach, devouring the organs of its host, for about eight days. It is then ready to weave itself a cocoon–which it makes within the roach as well
So if you ever see me looking vacant, then I die four weeks later and cockroaches come out of my head, you know why.
Source [Via: BoingBoing]
