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When it comes to pitstops in Formula One racing, most of us have our minds blown just watching the regular guys but the Red Bull team is truly something amazing. Watch this clip of their 2.05 second pitstop in slow motion and marvel.

Not long ago we featured an article on the all electric BMW i3 and today the upcoming plug-in hybrid i8 is making news as well with the announcement that BMW will be utilizing gorilla glass. According to reports, the all new BMW i8 is going to be the first car to utilize gorilla glass in place of the more traditional glass. The i8 windows will use gorilla glass to keep excess weight off the car. Currently, gorilla glass is more well known for its implementation in smart phones and smart phone cases but BMW is taking its use in to a whole new realm.

Down at their headquarters in the UK, PayPal employees have decided that they need an easier way to pay for their purchases. Of course, being PayPal employees they want a method that utilizes PayPal. In an effort to promote easier purchasing, PayPal UK are pushing local Rochmond Upon Thames retailers to act as guinea pigs for their new PayPal based photo authentication system. The system works in participating businesses only and works utilizing photo identification.

Designers Kanupriya Goel and Gautam Goel have put together a medication packaging that indicates to the user when the drug is no longer valid to take. The packaging utilizes a layer of ink that slowly seeps through the packaging material over time until it indicates when the medication can no longer be taken safely.

We have all heard about how incredibly powerful the human brain is, but a group of Japanese and German scientists wanted to see just how powerful it truly is. They did this using an 83,000 processor super computer...

The image above is taken from a video of the white blood cell magnet in action. The magnet, developed by researchers at MIT separates the white blood cells from blood samples - a process that can have very significant implications in terms of the future of disease diagnosis.

When it comes to going green, people are always doing their very best to take things in a new and more eco-friendly direction. For Qiyun Deng that means making the cutlery you eat with more Earth friendly...

If you have been reading GearFuse for a while then you will know that we are Apple fans, so it is with great excitement that we announce that Apple has now opened iOS 7 Beta 5 to developers! Why are we so excited? Because this means that we're one step closer to getting our hands on a perfected iOS 7! Beta 5 is available to download via Software Update and registered devices can check out the source link to check out more information. The rest of us however, will have to wait.

The new RAM from Crossbar is not only half the physical size of NAND RAM, but it is also 20 times faster writing at around 140MB/s. Need more reasons to check out this new memory technology? It's less draining on power, using 20 times less power and lasts 10 times longer than NAND.

Researchers at University of Electro-Communications' Koike Laboratory have created an interactive display out of a pool of water and a Kinect. Want to see how?