Space Flights to be offered to the Greater Public

Looks like the outer space is becoming more than just an interesting subject to study, it is now starting to become a new tourist attraction. Who knew centuries ago that man can spend some time in space? Virgin Galactic, set to be launched sometime in the year 2009 is the world’s first spaceline with privately built spaceships. Many tourists have already been lining up in hope that they can travel a few hours on space and fulfill their astronaut dreams. One of the companies who have been aggressively promoting such kind of endeavor is Elegant Resorts. This UK travel company has announced its aims of allowing anyone to travel into space. As of the moment, it is the only UK-based company that can book space tourist wannabes their Virgin Galactic Flight.

Some of Elegant Resorts’ staff already underwent training to study spaceflight technology and were given a glimpse of what tourists can expect from a 3-day spaceline experience. The first flight is expected to become a hit. Of course, who wouldn’t want to live his Star Wars or Star Trek dreams come into play? However, there are many questions regarding its safety. But Virgin Galactic’s research and development team sees to it that everything is well taken care of. They believe that this could be a breakthrough not only in technology but also in tourism. Read more

Bioluminescence

Well for those who did not understand the real meaning of the word there is an alternative; the designer of this peculiar thing, Ross Lovegrove, has created these lighting systems which are different, beautiful, and at the same time energy saving. These look like flowers which grasp the beauty of the sun light and transform this sophisticated energy to the streets and to us mortal humans. Well there is a beauty in applied arts; I hope a part of human art compliments every form of science. The solar panels are mounted on top of these branches which imitate the trees in the pathway. Read more

Super-efficient airport scanners: Halving the painful queues

Who wouldn’t be delighted to rush airport checking procedures and make it past them a little sooner? I mean it takes forever till your belongings are completely molested before you can board a plane. Sure I’d rather stand in a 3 hour queue than be on a flight with a bomb, but then again, rush hour services seem to bring out the best in me. Read more

Designer Tower-tubing: Inching closer to better surroundings

In all the tasteless attempts to make cities look like they were urban junkyards, the city’s architechturalists sure don’t seem to have done much to make you feel like your surroundings are worth your money, especially if you have a tall, ugly looking cellphone tower looming over the horizon. They make you feel so plastic and uncouth. Okay, maybe I’m overdoing my dislike for them, but then again we could do with a little bit of exterior designing too right? Looks like Ericsson decided to invest their time and money towards something fruitful at last. Read more

Soduku Playtime: For the love of numbers

For those of you who have come to love the art of number crunching, the fun of it is as addictive as all the word games people like to play. Sure it isn’t exactly the most popular sport, but then again people from the field of numbers have known to get half their abilities from this game. Well, we can’t be sure about that, but the Soduku Challenge, sure sums up about 10,000 unqiue number games in one electronic hand-held portable game console. Read more

Sliding Mouse VOIP Phone: An edge to creativity

Sure the world is on a never-ending quest to make life simpler and much more compact, and one such not-so-brilliant endeavour has been the computer mice doubling up as VOIP handsets. However, this looks like its going to change that for good. The Sliding Mouse VOIP Phone sports a very stylish design with a numeric keypad, a speakerphone, while the top of the mouse has a backlit LED screen that displays contact details, time and other information from the chat program. Read more

Incognito Lipstick Vibrator: When you wanna get away with it

If you’re pervy enough to have experimented with almost every type of vibrator and are so addicted to it that you cannot travel without it, you can save yourself some attention at the airports by carrying the Incognito Lipstick Vibrator. 

Even if it goes on beep mode at the airports, you can be rest assured that the other passengers would merely think its some glossy upmarket lipstick with lots of metal. Tich Tich. Little do they know naughty you. Read more

Time for some monkey-business

If you’ve not had enough of dancing dogs, cats, pigs, cows and every other thing under the sun, how about some dancing monkeys? Yeah, you heard it right, but don’t panic yet. These sound activated mini-dancing monkeys (sounds so techno-phoney) dance along the tunes, and well, if you team it up with a Happy Monkey FM Player, you get em all jiving and partying. Read more

Pinger: Now send voice messages for free

As I’ve told you before, the worst annoyance is when someone calls you up and leaves you this long voicemail when you really don’t want to answer any calls from him or her. The good news though, is that if Pinger, a technology used to send free voice messages, works, then we would never have to worry about a thing. How it works is that, if one wants to send you a message at an odd hour but doesn’t want to rid you off your beauty sleep, then he can simply call Pinger, leave the voice message to you or a group of people as they case may be, and you can simply call back Pinger’s local number, and lo, you have all your voice messages playing to you one after the other. Read more

Cassette Shell for the iPod Nano: Tickle your junkie side

If you’re someone whose creative bone has been itching for quite some time now, here’s something you can do to keep yourself busy and impressed. If you’re a typical junkie that likes to add a little bit of you onto everything, how about using your old cassette for your iPod to snuggle in?

What you see up there is a cassette shell for your first or second generation iPod nano, which you can bag for a mere (scoffs) $45 from 45 iPod Cases. Read more

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