This is the highway of the future

According to Studio Roosegaarde the highways of the future are safer, cleaner and more environmentally sound.

The Dutch design lab Studio Roosegaarde invents weird things. And now, the brains behind clothing that becomes transparent while the wearer is getting, ahem, intimate and a room that contracts and expands based on how hard you dance in it would like to redesign Europe’s entire system of highways and roads. So they did.

The lab has developed solar powered glow-in-the-dark roads that charge during the day to illuminate your evening drive, dynamic asphalt paint that transforms in response to road conditions like ice and sleet, and car lanes that double as electric car chargers by using magnetic fields under the asphalt. These ideas might seem far out, but they’re already being implemented in Holland. If all goes well during the piloting program, there are talks of implementing these upgrades across Europe.


Dutchman brings glow to night-driving: Reuters interviews designer Daan Roosegaarde from Daan Roosegaarde on Vimeo.

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The new HTC One, Everything you need to know!

HTC introduces One Android flagship: a 4.7-inch 1080p phone with an 'UltraPixel' camera
Everything you need to know about the Brand New HTC One. Mr. Chou has come to the stage and has officially announced the new device. Here are the specs:

- 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quadcore processor
- 2GB of RAM
- 32GB or 64GB of onboard storage
- 137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3mm body (tapering to 5mm at the edges) CNC’d from a solid slab of specially formulated aluminum alloy
- 4-megapixel camera on the back
- 2.1-megapixels on the front with an 88-degree wide-angle lens
- 4.7-inch 1080p Full HD LCD3 display
- 25GB of free Dropbox storage
- HTC Sense 5
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Android 4.2 coming shortly

The HTC One will be available in a choice of silver or black starting in the latter half of March. Of course people are hating the fact that there is no micro-SD slot and no removable battery. I am telling you it really is not a big deal since I have been dealing with that the past year with my One X.

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SEGA Is Back .... with laptops?

Don't get to excited, SEGA is back, but not with a new dreamcast. For the real SEGA Fans there are limited edition designed laptops on the market. Each Sega Note PC is decked out in Sega regalia: the Mega Drive (Genesis in the US), Saturn, and Dreamcast all get their own versions, while a fourth comes in a nostalgic shade of blue. You can also buy the lid shells separately, allowing you to switch between "consoles" at will. Each PC will come pre-loaded with full Windows themes including wallpapers, icons, and music from various Sega releases. 

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The Portable Handheld Scanner

This is the portable, cordless handheld scanner that preserves important documents, letters, or recipes, recording its contents onto a memory card for later retrieval on your computer. As you move the scanner over an area as large as 8 1/2" H x 50" L, its sensitive color image sensor scans at high (600 dpi) or standard (300 dpi) resolution, saving images as JPEG files stored on an inserted microSD card (sold below). A scan of a passport takes only five seconds. You can download your images to your computer using the included USB cable. Its built-in display shows the selected resolution, remaining battery life, and memory status.

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