Cool stuff to do with your Kindle

Cool stuff to do with your Kindle: "Reading books from Amazon is what most people use the Kindle for, what many people don’t know is all the other really cool things that you can use your Kindle for."

Do you need a Kindle

Do you need a Kindle: "There has been much talk in the news lately about e readers. If you don’t have one you have probably been thinking about if you need one.If you’re in this group and trying to decide which reader to get, the Kindle is the e reader that you want."

The Phantom v1610 camera shoots videos at 1,000,000 fps

The Phantom v1610 camera shoots videos at 1,000,000 fps: "Vision Research has revealed the latest addition to its line of digital high-speed cameras, in the form of the Phantom v1610. It shoots videos at an impressive speed of 16,000 fps, at a resolution of 1280 x 800."

Proposed 'fluid flow cloak' might greatly reduce ships' hydrodynamic drag

Proposed 'fluid flow cloak' might greatly reduce ships' hydrodynamic drag: "North Carolina's Duke University has been grabbing some headlines over the past few years, due to research carried out there involving the use of metamaterials for creating functioning invisibility cloaks."

Air Swimmers give a new meaning to 'flying fish'

Air Swimmers give a new meaning to 'flying fish': "Should someone tell you 'Last night, I saw a great white shark swimming through my living room,' don't assume that they're crazy. It could be that what they saw was an Air Swimmer."

M55 announces availability of (very expensive) Terminus hybrid bike

M55 announces availability of (very expensive) Terminus hybrid bike: "Late last year, we brought news of the development of a very exclusive hand-built, luxury human-electric bike from Hungary dubbed the Beast."

Skin-mounted electronics that can be applied and worn like a temporary tattoo

Skin-mounted electronics that can be applied and worn like a temporary tattoo: "Wearable electronics generally take the form of clothing embedded with electronics or miniature electronic devices that can be worn close to the body for purposes such as medical monitoring and communications."

Lotus Evora S joins Italian Carabinieri

Lotus Evora S joins Italian Carabinieri: "There have been a number of contenders for the title of world's coolest police car featured on gizmag over the years, among them a number of Lotus models. This time the British marque is venturing away from home soil and into the heart of sportscar land where it will join the Italian Carabinieri."

Genetically-engineered spider silk could be used in gene therapy

Genetically-engineered spider silk could be used in gene therapy: "Spider silk is pretty amazing stuff. Pound for pound, it has a tensile strength close to that of steel while being one-fifth as dense, it's tougher than Kevlar, and it can stretch to almost one-and-a-half times its length without breaking. As if that wasn't enough, it now appears that a genetically engineered version of the substance could be used for delivering genes into human cells."

Braincar records and replays its travels

Braincar records and replays its travels: "Have you ever questioned what it would be like if a car 'could experience with a kind of consciousness its own passage through spacetime'? Well, Rotterdam artist Olaf Mooij has. It drove him to create 'braincar,' which is ... well, it's a car with a brain on the back. By day, the car captures stills and videos of its travels down the roads"

China's other aircraft carrier is a hotel

China's other aircraft carrier is a hotel: "After the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 90's three of its most powerful aircraft carriers sat rotting in a Kiev dock. With disputes over ownership and no money or crew to maintain them, the ships were eventually stripped of their weapons systems and engines by the Ukraine and one was sold to a Hong Kong based company"

Night Rod Special - cream of the 2012 Harley-Davidsons

Night Rod Special - cream of the 2012 Harley-Davidsons: "Harley-Davidson is an American success story. The company has been manufacturing its iconic machines since 1903 but its values were forged by association with the post-war 'rebel' motorcycle clubs and paradoxically with the highway patrol police they were so often in conflict with."