SKIRMISHER

No combustion, no gas, no emissions. Just pure compressed air “fuelling” this new-fangled vehicle.
The skinny:
Compressed air in a carbon-fiber tank, something like scuba divers use, drives the pistons and turns the crankshaft. There is no combustion and no gasoline. That’s why there’s no pollution. You fill it up at an air compressor.
via CBS

Tim Tucker’s Tetris Weightlifting gives a new, calorie-sensitive side to the old game.
Tetris Weightlifting is a prototype entertainment fitness system that allows players to lift weights as the means of control for a modified version of Tetris. User testing with the device suggests great potential for combining casual games with exercise activity.
Try it. I would [...]

If you have $8,999.85 to burn, get yourself your own personal Zoltar fortune teller from Hammacher and Schlemmer.
Zoltar acknowledges your presence and invites you to approach him. Once you insert a quarter (coins may be removed), Zoltar nods his head up and down as his crystal ball illuminates and he sweeps his hand back and [...]

Russia’s Saint B mp3 player completes the common Goth’s requisite paraphernalia, but it maybe has more potent uses as some Catholic protection of sorts. Designed to dangle from your neck, it has USB connectivity and an earphone plug.
Flash-player in a chrome-plated steel body frame.
Control elements and OLED-display are covered by flexible, semi-transparent plastic. A log [...]

Human employees are probably giving one another worried glances at Fukushima’s Aizu Central Hospital, which has two new employees: a receptionist and a hospital guide, both robots.
The first is the job of receptionist, which goes to the blue robot. The blue robot is there to ask you where you are going, and to help you [...]

Bittorrent, Inc. has made available for free download the following nine horror films:
Carnival of Souls
Night of the Living Dead
The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
The City of the Dead/Horror Hotel
The Vampire Bat
Nosferatu
The Bride of the Gorilla
The Wasp Woman
Nightmare Castle
These are already free public domain films, available on Archive.org, so you don’t have to worry that people in [...]

Ultimate Fighting Championship brawler Tito Ortiz had been supposedly the guest of honor at the Marine Corps’ birthday ball, but he’d been ditched at the last minute after hot-blooded Marines learned Ortiz was bringing porn star girlfriend Jenna Jameson.
“We invited him, and he accepted. Then, it became aware to us that his guest was going [...]

It took the FBI days to track down Christopher Soghoian after he launched online his fake NWA boarding pass creator, which was supposedly a tongue-in-cheek demonstration of how easy it is to get a fake boarding pass.
Soghoian, a Ph.D. student at Indiana University, says he has never used one of the fake boarding passes, which [...]