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We’ve heard of capsule hotels before, which usually means rooms with unusually small living quarters. Now this Capsule Inn located in Akihabara, the digi-center of Tokyo, takes the term a little too literally. The Inn features actual capsules which can be rented for 4,000 yen ($34) a night. Don’t be scared by the fact that it looks like you’ll be ...

So, either your parents haven’t ponied up the dough for a new car, you have a bad job, or you just feel like riding a bike is more environmentally friendly. For whatever reason you’re riding a bike, the LED Spokes are a really cool way of making your wheels unique. If you can’t have the blingage of chrome rims, but ...

Researchers over at the University of Madgeburg-Stendal in Germany are working on OLE, a new autonomous robot that could one day help out putting out fires. This fire-fighting beetle will be programmed to run through the forest at 20 to 30 km per hour, looking for potential forest fires in the works and extinguishing them with an impulse appliance. OLE ...

We admit that taking panoramic photos has become much easier through the years thanks to technology that allows you to line up the skyline with your other photos, but nothing makes it quite as easy as this. The Panoramic Digital Camera is specially made to spin on its own axis to take perfectly rounded photos. The camera spins a full ...

People have become rather apathetic when it comes to reading the time in the usual fashion. With this in mind, Art Lebedev shows off the Verbarius, a clock that tells you what time it is without the small talk of numbers, using human language. So instead of the cold message of 12:00, you get “Midnight” as an answer instead. It ...

It’s no surprise that Ferrari has finally added itself into the world of satellite radio. Most luxury companies have already integrated this technology into their automobiles, though in true Ferrari-style, Modena is integrating a sleek NavTraffic GPS / XM Radio device into the new 612 Scaglietti models. The V12 engine of the 612 Scaglietti is sure to be enough music ...

Just in case the super game friendly touchscreen of the iPhone wasn’t all the proof you needed to conclude that there will eventually be game software for the phone, a piece of code embedded in the iTunes’s software further confirms the evident fact that Apple has plans to issue games. The coding looks something like this: /* ===== iPhone Game ...

When we talk about Casio, most people will think about their Exilim digital camera line that Sony, Canon and everybody else copied. Few would know that the company also produces cell phones in Japan. Their G-shock phone was popular, so they decided to bring the Exilim label to their image-oriented cellphones as well. The first Exilim phone is W53CA, which ...

Those of you who are out to save the world with your eco-friendliness will be thrilled with this new concept. It boggles our mind thinking of why bikes were never used this way before. Featured at the Coachella music festival’s Energy FACtory exhibit, these bikes are one step closer to where we want to be environmentally. The hybrid of the ...

You might not have as many cool gadgets as Batman, but at least you can pretend. Everybody’s favorite vampire-esque super hero has just been made into an excellent PC case mod. Inspired after the iconic Batmobile. The modded system started as a normal AMD Sempron 2800+ with 40 gig HD, 736 MB of DDR 400 ram, and a CD/DVD drive. ...