Silent Helicopter Blades

Helicopters make a lot of noise because of a physical phenomenon called blade-vortex interaction. Eurocopter engineers have developed a new kind of rotor blade that attenuates this problem. This is cool because now Helicopters can be more quiet.

USB LIGHTSABER!

These 1GB lightsaber flash drives may have been imported from Japan and they may light up when plugged in. This is awesome because its a lightsaber USB!

PS3 uses 70 MB more RAM

When the PS3 launched, 120MB of its 512MB of RAM were dedicated at all times to the OS. (To put that footrpint in perspective, the Xbox 360's OS only used 32MB.) Luckily, Sony has refined their system.

Over the course of several updates, the PS3's OS has been weaned off RAM, its dependence cut to just 50MB—including the in-game XMB upgrade—meaning that an additional 70MB of RAM is available for game developers to use as they see fit.

No, that's not enough extra oomph to revolutionize the PS3 as a brand new console, but it's likely we'll see a slightly nicer lighting effect (or an equivalent) some time because of it.

MSI Air Keyboard Mouse

The upcoming MSI Air Keyboard is an HTPC keyboard/mouse combo that fits right in your hands much like a game controller. Because aside from the typical QWERTY layout, the back is ergonomic for dual-handed use, and it even includes LB and RB shoulder triggers. And much like the Wiimote, the Air doubles as a mouse through the use of an internal accelerometer, allowing you to aim the device to control an onscreen cursor—effectively eliminating that whole where-does-the-mouse-go-on-the-couch problem.

Little Electric Bubble Car

We have been seeing concepts similar to this Peugeot bubble electric car for years now, but they never seem to materialize. It looks like a cool little car.

ThinkSound Earphones

Thinksound's Rain and slightly bassier Thunder earphones are made out of wood. These apparently have a good price. Though their MSRPs are significantly higher, at $100 and $75, respectively, you can find the Rains for $60 on Amazon, and the Thunders for about $45. In these photos, the Rains have the darker finish and black tips, while the Thunders have a cherry finish and white tips. I have my skull candy headphones for about 15 dollars and they have noise canceling and they are great.

Windows 7 Phone

This phone has Windows 7 on it, but that is about it. It does not look that cool. It does not have any new cool interesting things that have not been done. I probably won't want to get this phone. It was a cool idea though.

Spokesless Bike

Leave it to a bunch of engineering students at Yale to design a crazy spokeless bike. It's not the first spokeless bike we've seen, but it looks a lot more like a real bike. It seems pretty cool since it is a different design. I wonder how well it rides.

Toy Story 3 HD Trailer

We're still a few months away from the June 18th release. This will be able to see in IMAX 3D and looks good. Its been a while since Toy Story 1 and 2, but it seems awesome.

Ps3 Goes 3D

This summer PS3 is going 3D with 2 firmware updates. You need a 3D T.V. however which is very expensive. It is still pretty cool.

Microsoft will not sell Xbox to military

Microsoft said * Microsoft was afraid that the military would buy up lots of Xbox 360s, but would buy only one game for each of them, so MS wouldn't make much money off of the games.
* that a big military purchase would create a shortage of Xbox 360s.
* that if the Xbox became an Army training device, it would taint its reputation. Microsoft was concerned that "do we want the Xbox 360 to be seen as having the flavor of a weapon? Do we want Mom and Dad knowing that their kid is buying the same game console as the military trains the SEALs and Rangers on?" Smith told me during an interview for Training & Simulation Journal. This doesn't make any sense. This is a very stupid move because they will lose a ton of xbox sales.

HTC Legend Picture

New pictures of this HTC Legend were released. Inclduing a 5.0-megapixel with LED flash, a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, and 512MB of internal memory. It seems like an even better phone.

New Facebook

Along with Facebook's new look they also are working on a new Webmailing system. In the TechCrunch post, Arrington suggests that Facebook has been working towards a webmail service for some time, expanding their messaging platform to be searchable and allowing Facebook users to send messages directly to non-Facebook e-mail addresses.

ChiliBed the Hot or Cold Matress

This bed goes from 48-118 degrees F. This is really cool literally and figuratively because on hot summer days or nights you can cool it down. If its winter time you can heat it up. This is an amazing idea.

BigDog Is Going to War

Like BigDog, it will travel autonomously for 20 miles without refueling, carrying 400 pounds of equipment for the soldiers in its squad. It looks awesome and I wouldn't know what to do against it.

Windows Mobile 7 with Zune

This Zune Phone uses Windows 7. This is pretty crazy. MuyComputer says that the phone will have a 480 x 272 screen, HDMI video out, and weigh around 2.45 ounces.