Anima Causa Feel Seating System

Anima Causa Feel Seating System: "The Anima Causa “Feel” Seating System is made of 120 elastic fabric-covered balls that move around with you, changing their form with what the designer calls “the emotional state of the body.” Inspired by molecular structures, it can be arranged in a nearly unlimited number of positions. Fold it up into a seat, lay it flat as a bed, or wrap it around you. Looks like fun. Check out the animation on the company's website. If you want to know how much it costs, well, they'll get back to you.

16GB Iocell CellDisk: world's largest flash drive

16GB Iocell CellDisk: world's largest flash drive: "Filed under: Storage That 8GB thumb drive not doing it for you? Iocell has the solution, with the 16GB CellDisk, currently the largest flash drive available. Should be just the thing for creating that bootable XP flash drive you've been planning or for carrying around a couple of flicks from one PC to another. Of course, this won't stay the world's largest for long, and we're fine with that. Bring on the terabyte thumb drives, and make it snappy

Eclipse 500 Personal Jet Now in Production

Eclipse 500 Personal Jet Now in Production: "If you're looking for your own private jet, then $1,295,000 will buy you this Eclipse 500, a twin-engine “very light jet” (VLJ) that can carry six passengers at 408 mph for 1,495 miles on a tank of fuel. Not only is it the cheapest jet available, at a cost of approximately 56 cents a mile to operate, it also has the lowest operational costs of any private jet on the market. Originally announced and test-flown in 2002 at a price the company estimated would be $837,500, its real-world price has gone up a bit now that Eclipse Aviation has actually begun production of the “affordable” jet. The mini-jet has proven itself to be popular, with the company receiving 2400 orders thus far, worth more than $3 billion. Although 1.295 mill sounds like a lot, it's cheap compared to the $90 million you’d have the plunk down for Gulfstream V like the one belonging to Steve Jobs.

Sony to Ship Blank Blu-ray Discs This Month for $30

Sony to Ship Blank Blu-ray Discs This Month for $30: "Sony announced it will ship blank Blu-ray disks in Europe beginning this month, but added that dual-layer versions won't be shipping until later this year. That’s okay, though, these single layer BD-R (recordable) disks hold a whopping 25GB of data. It's just that $30 price that's hard to swallow. BR-RE (rewritable) disks will be along in April for $36. Could it be that a couple of years from now you'll be able to buy a stack of 100 of these for $20? Does history repeat itself? Maybe not. Sony to ship blank Blu-ray Discs this month

Toronto latest city to get WiFied

Toronto latest city to get WiFied: "Filed under: Wireless The Toronto Star is reporting that the biggest city in Canada (that would be Toronto) is about to get blanketed in WiFi goodness, joining such US cities as Philadelphia and San Francisco with similarly ambitious municipal broadband initiatives. Mayor David Miller is expected to announce the project in conjunction with Toronto Hydro, who had previously bought 18,000 street lamps around the city for $60 million, and which will be used partly to help the water utility fulfill a mandate requiring it to deploy remotely-readable smart meters. No details are available yet regarding proposed pricing structures or benefits to the city such as reduced-cost access for low-income households, but the project already has some detractors who question the appropriateness of government involvement in citywide mesh networks. Also keeping a close eye on developments are major Canadian telecom players such as Rogers, Bell, and Tellus, whose own wired and wireless broadband services could be threatened by Toronto Hydro's network.

Jet-powered VW bug takes to the street

Jet-powered VW bug takes to the street: "Filed under: Transportation Ron Patrick wanted a VW Beetle with a jet engine (hey, who doesn't?). But he also wanted to be able to drive it on the open road, rather than just on a closed airport runway surrounded by fire engines and EMT crews. His solution? A dual-engine vehicle, with a normal VW motor for day-to-day transportation, and a GE T58-8F helicopter turboshaft engine converted to run as a jet, to get through rush-hour traffic. All we know is we don't want to be caught behind Patrick when he flips the switch on this one. That, and how much will he charge to add this little trick to our ride?"

AOL opens AIM platform

AOL opens AIM platform: "Filed under: Developer, Fun, Internet, Text, News, Windows, Web services AOL has opened up their instant messenger service to developers with Open AIM, and you can find all the juicy, code-related details on the AIM developer page. There's another little intro to the program from Justin Uberti, AIM's chief software architect on his blog. This opens the entire Triton app up to developers, who can even write their own IM client if they like. Plug-ins will no doubt be a popular item as well. Unfortunately, this also means apps like Adium and Trillian will not see those features, as you won't be allowed to replicate them on other chat clients who use other protocols

Japanese Researchers Look to Cattle for Fuel

Japanese Researchers Look to Cattle for Fuel: "Where's the beef?..."