Evolio, a Romanian tablet and GPS maker you probably never heard of before, has just announced the introduction of the Evolio U9, what he company touts as being the world's lightest notebook since it weights a mere 980g, or about 2.16 pounds.

Despite calling it a notebook, Evolio's latest creation is actually more of a netbook if we happen to take a look at its specifications since at it heart runs an Intel Atom CPU.

The good news however is that we are not dealing here with the usual puny Atom chips that we are accustomed with seeing, but with a recently launched CPU based on the Intel Cedarview architecture.

While this won't bring a huge increase in performance power, users do still get slightly increased frequencies over those of the Pine Trail platform as well as better integrated graphics with support for Full HD acceleration, including Blu-ray 2.0.

The rest of the netbook's configuration includes 2GB of system memory, a 64GB or 128GB solid state drive as well as the usual Bluetooth si WiFi connectivity options.

These are paired together with a 11.6-inch screen that has a native resolution of 1366x768 pixels, a 1.3MP webcam, and an HDMI video output for connecting the U9 to an external display or to an HDTV.

All the components are housed inside a 18mm thin chassis (about 0.7 inches), and are powered by an internal battery pack capable of providing up to 5 hours of running time, according to the manufacturer.

Sadly, Evolio hasn't mentioned the price that the U9 is going to be launched at, but the 11.6-inch ultra-thin netbook is expected to arrive in retail in December of this year.

Consumers searching for an ultra-thin and portable netbook can also go for the MeeGo-running Asus Eee PC X101, which has the same 18mm thin chassis as the Evolio U9, but weights a bit less since it tips the scale at just 2 pounds (a bit more than 900g).

Most drivers are probably acutely aware of the frustrations of driving behind a cyclist. A cyclist could be pedaling away like crazy, but compared to a driver of a car who just needs to put the pedal to the metal and achieve speeds of 40-50mph, naturally the driver of the car will feel that the cyclist is extremely slow.

This is a frustration that avid cyclist Mykle Hansen has dealt with countless times, and sick of cars honking and giving him grief, he decided to do something about it in the form of a vest, which not only increases his night time visibility, but also displays his speed on the back of his vest in 7” tall numbers.

It looks like a simple setup, requiring an off-the-shelf speedometer, which feeds data to an Arduino that is hidden away in the vest. The Arduino then lights up the electroluminescent wires sewn into the vest (as pictured above). If you’re an avid cyclist and this sounds like a great idea, head on down to Mykle Hansen’s page for the instructions.

While Google Maps’ regular 2D view is usually more than enough for you to find your way to your destination, sometimes it’s not – especially when you’re unfamiliar with the territory, and have no idea what the buildings on the map look like. Well, it seems that folks at Google recognized this problem as an issue and has taken it upon themselves to fix it.

Indiana governor Mitch Daniels was forced to close the Sherman Minton Bridge over the Ohio River last week. The 50-year-old structure connects Indiana with Kentucky via Interstate 64, and after years of overuse, the bridge has deteriorated significantly.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to eat – no sorry, scratch that – what it’s like to drink your words? Well if you have the time, patience and dedication that morskoiboy had, you may be able to. Apart from the novelty of being able to “drink” your words, you will also be able to have fun mixing various cocktails simply by typing them out.

Basically a liquid such as alcohol, milk or even water is attached to the top of the device, which acts as a neutral color liquid. The various tubes at the back are then attached to bottles of various colors, for example you could use rose syrup, or grape juice, or pink guava juice, or a bottle of Gatorade. As the liquid at the top flows (whose flow rate can be controlled), you then type in the various letters which will then draw out the liquid from the other bottles.

For example you could associate the letters on the “keyboard” (which are actually syringes) with its drink, like A for Apple juice, O for Orange juice, L for Lime juice, so on and so forth. By pressing the letters, the colors will then form into the various alphabets that you pressed in the white piece of plastic on the front, which a commenter on YouTube has amusingly referred to as an LCD – Liquid Cocktail Display.

It does not appear to be for sale, but if you want more detailed information on how it works, you can check out the video below for a demonstration or head on down to morskoiboy’s website for more details.

Good news for chocolate lovers as a fascinating 3D chocolate printer is at the door — the world’s first 3D chocolate printer was just unveiled in U.K. This 3D chocolate printer is the result of collaborative work and research of University of Exeter in collaboration with the University of Brunel and software developer Delcam. The printer can produce 3D imprints of chocolate based on user demanded designs or wordings. 3D printers have been previously used with metal and plastic objects for industrial purposes but this is the first time chocolate imprints are produced.

Toto Neorest 600 – $5,000

What more do you need, when doing your business, than your standard lavatory offers? Toto’s most expensive toilet, the Neorest 600, has a wide range of features to answer that question. For starters, the lid automatically opens whenever you approach the toilet. As soon as you rise from your state of the art porcelain throne, it automatically engages its Power Catalytic Air Purifier function. Six seconds after you’re out of range of the toilet’s sensor zone, it will automatically flush and close both the lid and the seat.

“[This is] really a most imaginative way not just to map, but also to empower,” writes Thomas Theis Nielsen of the HarassMap, which plots the incidence of various types of sexual harassment in Cairo.

Sexually inappropriate behaviour is widespread in Cairo - in a recent survey, 83% of Egyptian women and 98% of foreign women reported being insulted or groped in the Egyptian capital [1]. On International Women’s Day earlier this year, a march for women’s rights in the city’s Tahrir Square descended into violence when a mob of angry men surrounded the female protesters, insulting and even sexually assaulting them [2].

Iain Wood spent up to 18 hours per day online, working out passwords from personal information posted on social networking sites by his acquiantances.


He targeted people living in his block of flats in a complex fraud and used his friends' personal details to get past security checks and hack into their bank accounts - stealing more than £35,000 over two years which he blew on gambling.


His scam only came to an end when he became over-confident and changed his system and the authorities were alerted.


Jailing him for 15 months, Judge Guy Whitburn said at Newcastle Crown Court:

HP has stepped forward to lay the smack down on its webOS operating system, saying that they will not license it – at all, making it stone dead, and for good. This comes after news of HPrefunding early adopters of the HP TouchPad, not to mention introducing a massive price cut to clear off whatever remaining inventory of the TouchPad that is left lying around. Perhaps ifTouchDroid takes off successfully, you might just see a reversal in the price policy of the TouchPad, no?

You don't find many designers working in the funeral business thinking about more creative ways for you to leave this world (and maybe they should be). However, Spanish designer Martin Azua has combined the romantic notion of life after death with an eco solution to the dirty business of the actual, you know, transition.

He made more money as a handyman than as an artist, but Vincenzo Peruggia’s personally responsible for making the Mona Lisa what it is today. Leonardo da Vinci painted Lisa del Giocondo in the early 16th century, but Peruggia made her famous worldwide by walking out of the Louvre with the painting wrapped in his smock on August 21, 1911, one hundred years ago today. With that daring daylight robbery, the Mona Lisa began her ascent into the stratosphere of cultural fame, while Peruggia (shown above, in his police photo) sank further and further into the hazy mists of vague infamy. How and why did Peruggia do it? More importantly, what would have happened if he hadn’t?

Peruggia came to Paris in search of a life in art, even if it was only as a part-time worker in the Louvre. Like many other Italians, Peruggia sought greater opportunities in the City of Lights only to find himself disparaged by the locals as “sale macaroni,” French for “dirty macaroni.” Wounded by prejudice and longing for home, Peruggia, as he later claimed, stole back what he mistakenly thought Napoleon had stolen from Italy a century before. In reality, Leonardo sold the painting to Francis I after moving to France to become court painter. But why did Vincenzo really do it?

There was a time when big was considered better. The more powerful the computing power, the more powerful processing, etc the better the computer was considered. In the last couple of years all that has changed.
Two companies that can be termed responsible for this change areSalesforce and Apple.Salesforce because way back in 2000 they launched server driven apps so the client didn't need any software, their application did all the work.That time it wasn't called cloud computing, yet application driven computing and now cloud computing changed the way software was used.