World's Largest R/C Plane Takes Flight

This humongous R/C plane is touted as the world's largest, according to Guiness World Records. Video after the break.

Worlds Largest Model RC Plane - video powered by Metacafe

Note Toaster Concept Lets You Eat Reminders

Unlike other toasters, this "Note Toaster" burns reminders into the toast itself, ensuring you don't accidentally misplace that tiny piece of torn paper laying on the kitchen table

Why leave notes to your family on a magnetic dry erase board on your refrigerator when you can write directly on the toaster where nobody will see it? Of course if I had it my way, I�d use it as a scathing reminder to friends suffering from hangovers. Yes, this piece of toast will help settle your stomach buy not without first reading my warnings about binge drinking

Polish Radio Station Looks Like Alien Colony

A reader sent in pictures of what he claims is a Polish radio station, called "Rmf FM". It looks more like an alien colony to us, what do you think?

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VIDEO: Typical Day at a Tokyo Wave Pool - Where's the Water?

What better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon than at a wave pool, but surely not this one. Video after the break.
***Asian countries have little to no personal space and must get used to living in a very crowded environment***

Spy Photos: 2008 BMW M3 at Regensburg Plant, Sunroof Optional

BMW specialist Irv Robinson managed to snag a few photos of the 2008 BMW M3 at the Regensburg plant in Germany
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From the pictures, it seems like the sunroof is optional which is great news for all the BMW fans that wanted to shed off a few pounds out of their car to make it faster
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Wind-up MP3/video player

The Eco-Media Player is a wind-up MP3/video player created by Trevor Baylis, inventor of the Freeplay wind-up radio. One minute of winding gives you 40 minutes of playback, and the device can also charge mobile phones and has a built-in flashlight. It plays mp3, wma, asf, wav, mp4, and has an FM radio, an analog recorder, and a photo-viewer. You can wind it for 20 hours' worth of playback. Link

US tech firm behind massive new human-tracking system in China

Authorities in southern China are installing 20,000 (or more) police surveillance cameras, managed by software from an American-financed company. That spying system is designed to automatically recognize faces of criminal suspects, and spot potential crimes. And citizens of Shenzhen (pop: 12.4 million) will soon be required to carry computer-chipped residency cards programmed by that same company.

Snip from NYT story:
Data on the chip will include not just the citizen’s name and address but also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status and landlord’s phone number. Even personal reproductive history will be included, for enforcement of China’s controversial “one child” policy. Plans are being studied to add credit histories, subway travel payments and small purchases charged to the card. More about the US-financed company behind both technologies:
“If they do not get the permanent card, they cannot live here, they cannot get government benefits, and that is a way for the government to control the population in the future,” said Michael Lin, the vice president for investor relations at China Public Security Technology, the company providing the technology.

Incorporated in Florida, China Public Security has raised much of the money to develop its technology from two investment funds in Plano, Tex., Pinnacle Fund and Pinnacle China Fund. Three investment banks — Roth Capital Partners in Newport Beach, Calif.; Oppenheimer & Company in New York; and First Asia Finance Group of Hong Kong — helped raise the money.

Here's the website for China Public Security, which maintains offices in Los Angeles and New York: Link. Here's an earlier press release from them: Link.

Image: police monitoring system, from China Public Security website.

Apple's iPhone: yes, it plays Doom

Considering that Doom runs smooth as butter on Nokia's 770, the OLPC XO, and the iPod, you knew it was only a matter of time before this classic made its way over to the iPhone. Just in time for the weekend, Doom is now available for Apple's first handset. And just in case blasting through pixelated fiends wears you out, why not check out the new and improved NES emulator? We won't waste anymore of your precious iPhone gaming time here, now get your downloads on below!

Update: So you can't exactly -- what's the word we're looking for -- "play" Doom quite yet, it seems the controller ain't working. It's a promising sign, though!

Read - id Software Doom on iPhone
Read - iPhone NES v0.20.1 + Games

Improved Web Uploading

Here at Flickr, we want to make sure your photos arrive safely, efficiently, and with style. That why we’ve dumped our dusty old web upload form, and replaced it with a super-duper, sexy-ified, shiny new web uploader.

Some of what’s new:
A snazzy new interface! Designed to show you clearer progress for your uploads.

More files at once. Only six photos per upload? Ha! Now you can select a bunch of files all at once (using shift-click) and upload them all together.

New batch operations. Once your photos have arrived safely, add tags to the batch, or add them all to one of your sets.

Magic pixie dust. Helps your photos upload faster!

What are you waiting for? Try it now!
Of course, we have other uploading tools you can use too, if the web uploader isn’t your style.

Bufferly Knife-Style MP3/CD Player

This butterfly knife-inspired concept consists of "both a portable MP3 player and a more portable CD player." No word yet on if this player will go into production

VIDEO: Nintendo DS Slide Controller Revealed, Creative Gaming Reinvented

For less than $50, this nifty Slide Controller allows you to basically "set the handheld on a flat surface and slide around 'til your heart's content." Short TV spot after the jump

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5841587150082141431&hl=en-CA

Ultimate Machine Gun Has Everything You Don't Need

In addition to shooting a flurry of bullets, this machine gun also comes equipped with a MAG light, dinnerware set, Swiss Army knife, high intensity flood light, and even a bird sculpture to stare at when not in battle.

VIDEO: Gigantic Guitar Looks Impossible to Play

(Video) $600 VIA NanoBook

(Video) $600 VIA NanoBook

Priced at just $600, the VIA NanoBook features a 7-inch display, VIA C7-M ULV processor (1.2-GHz), up to 1GB of DDR memory, 30GB/60GB HDD, Bluetooth, and 802.11g Wi-Fi. Video preview after the jump.

Gadgets- Pistol Clock

Pistol Clock
This Pistol Clock could be one of the coolest desk gadgets that we’ve come across. In addition to telling time, the clock is housed in a “miniature metal revolver with moving cylinder.”

>>>>>>>>>Which means you’re going to be carrying this around to banks, airports, police stations, post offices, churches and elementary schools to whip out and show off<<<<<<

Mechanical Head Sculpture

Mechanical Head Sculpture

If shiny silver humanoid robots existed, this is what the inner workings of its head might look like. View more pictures after the break.

Micro-Sys A1 Website Download v1.1.8

Using simultaneous connections entire websites can be downloaded very quickly. Links can be checked and converted to HTTP or local disk file system. Take websites with you on the road on USB / CD / DVD or any portable media. Use a task scheduler to automate download of websites at times convenient to you. Filter file types and directories to download. Can perform login and maintain session. Can handle redirects, robots.txt etc. Builtin browser.

Download here

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Youtube not money down tube: Google

Mumbai: More than 2 lakh people watched the video of the first rock band to make music over the Net.

Google now wants to make users pay for the videos they watch, by introducing contextual video advertising, but this may take a while to reach India, where Google has only recently appointed its reseller agents.

Companies like Next Gen publishing will buy media on Google Adwords for local clients, but internationally Google can pick from these options.

Says VP Next Gen Publishing Mandeep Singh, "When we talk about visual, either it could be topic based or it could be classified and then it can be sponsored or you never know, google might like to use a contextual search ad. For example if a child gets hurt and a band-aid ad appears, then that could be wonderful."

But that's easier said than done. Google will first need to ensure all offensive clips are removed, then classify the clips which have so far been manually tagged. It will also have to match clients with clips. And the advertising itself will have to be tailormade for the Internet.

Says Founder and CEO Pinstorm Mahesh Murthy, "When you are buying Youtube, and when you have thousands of videos, most of them user generated, plainly funny - a dog fighting a cat or a person eating off a live rat - its really hard to put that in a context and say, 'You know what do I show in that?'"

But Google may just have a googly up its sleeve. It already has content tie ups for Google video, and it could move away from the click through model and charge users and clients per view.

The other option is to tie up with broadband providers to stream the high bandwidth Youtube site exclusively. Even so, experts say, breakeven in three years is a tough ask.

Govt. of India mulls ban on Orkut

New Delhi: Popular internet networking site Orkut is facing attack by Shiv Sena workers, who went on a rampage seeing disparaging remarks made against Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray and Marathi icon Shivaji were posted on the site.

The student wing of the Shiv Sena has asked public Internet centres in India to partly block access to Orkut, and is making a software to monitor abusive communities on the popular social networking site operated by Google.

"Orkut is used by many destructive elements to spread canards about India, Hindus, our gods and cultural heritage," Abhijit Phanse, president of Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, the student group was quoted by Reuters.

"The software should be ready in 2-3 months," Phanse said, adding that they were hoping to involve Orkut authorities in the discussions.

The Shiv Sena said many Indians use Orkut to bad-mouth religious groups and disturb communal harmony, and also spread misinformation about India. The incident seems to once again raise questions about the thin line between censorship and freedom of expression.

The Sainiks vandalised a cyber cafe in Thane, Mumbai and demanded a ban on Orkut because of the remarks posted on one of its forums, essentially group blogs that allow people to write and post their views on any topic - without censors.

The controversy has assumed a nation wide debate. Is banning a public forum a direct attack on freedom of expression?