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Alright readers, get ready to have your minds proverbially blown!Imagine you are shopping in a grocery store,strolling through the aisles, when all of a sudden the cereal begins talking to you.You step back, and look around.No one else seems to notice.You move forward again and hear the commercial persuading you to select and purchase Lucky Charms.Have you finally lost the last little hold you had on sanity?Or is it a hypersonic sound beam, intended for your ears only?

Chances are, in the near future, supermarket shelves will be lined with these sneaky sound systems, but they aren’t just for use in advertising.This ultra-cool technology remotely transfers sound waves in tightly focused “columns” of sound.Once directed to and landing on any surface, (ie. ceilings, floors, walls, paintings, sculptures, advertisements, or even people!) they instantly become a source of sound.The sound waves can then be processed and heard by only people in the direct path of the audio.Surprisingly, the sound seems to come from inside the head, as it acts like a speaker while transmitting the sounds to the brain.
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Today, yet another blog directory launches. Blogged has blog ratings and reviews in many categories, including technology, entertainment, business, sports, culture, and politics. Its own staff rates and reviews the top blogs, and that is combined with reader ratings and reviews, similar to how Yelp combines staff and user reviews of restaurants and stores. (After a blog gets more than 10 user reviews, the user ratings override the editor’s rating).

For instance, here are the top blogs in technology (TechCrunch is No. 2), and here are the top blogs in crafts (Angry Chicken is No. 2). Blogs are ranked both based on number of votes and reviews. Each blog gets its own profile page with a rating, tags, recent posts, and a list of “related blogs.” But that last item is pretty random.
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It looks like a big flashlight — but it’s really a nonlethal weapon designed to make you sick.

Its inventors call it the LED Incapacitator (L-E-D, as in light-emitting diode). Weapons buffs call it a nonlethal weapon. But test subjects who have buckled and reeled from its nauseating strobe call it other names—none printable.

A flashlight designed to make you nauseatingly ill? What fiendish minds would invent such a tool? The minds of Bob Lieberman and Vladimir Rubtsov, president and senior scientist of Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., a small R&D company in Torrance, CA. Under a multiphase contract from the S&T Directorate’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Office, with technical direction from S&T program manager Gerald Kirwin, the two physicists are refining an ultra-bright, multicolored, pulsing “lightsaber” that’s more disorienting, dazzling, and dizzying—though a tad less dangerous—than disco. It’s enough to make you sick. And that, Lieberman says, is not always a bad thing.
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Don’t let an illness (like one of these) spoil your next backpacking, vacation or important business trip. The iStraw Emergency Water Filter is a personal water filtration drinking straw. This means you don’t have to worry about using local tap water or ice cubes and also means that you are playing your part in helping the environment by not using plastic bottles of water that release harmful emissions into the atmosphere.

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MacBook Air is the result of rethinking all design conventions which lead to a ultrathin and ultraportable notebook.

What is impressive is that there is a full-size notebook keyboard encased in the 0.16 to 0.76 inch of sleek, sturdy anodized aluminum. It weighs just 3 pounds which makes it more than portable.

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