Two new Apple patent applications have appeared in listings at the US Patent and Trademark Office. The first, Method and User Interface for Accessing Groups of Media Assets, is directly linked to the Apple TV, and describes an interface for browsing

Apple has been granted nine new patents, and I thought I’d take a look at the claims therein and see whether they match up to the descriptions, and whether they seem (to this humble blogger) like … More: A Closer Look At Apple’s Latest Patents

Boot Fashion: Angelina Bogatyrova in Pam Hogg Patent Leather Thigh High Boots. Tokion, Vol. 3, No. 5.(Click HERE to view the enlargement.)

Posted by mincho2008 Saturday, 04 September 2010 Building Protection Systems, Inc. (BPSI) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a second 20-Year Patent (BUILDING PROTECTION AND METHOD) further protecting their

Posted by mincho2008 Saturday, 04 September 2010 Dot Hill Systems Corp. , a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open storage partners and system integrators, today announced the addition of four new patents to the company's

neoflexycurrent writes "Three adult media entertainment producers filed suit Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging copyright infringement against hundreds of anonymous defendants accused of trading videos using

Another day, and yet another audacious-sounding lawsuit in the tech world. This time it's Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen's company, Interval Licensing, LLC, suing a host of big-name companies: Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Facebook, eBay

Blue Origin patent application A reader points to this patent application from Blue Origin regarding one aspect of their vehicle design: Bidirectional Control Surfaces for Use with High Speed Vehicles, and Associated Systems and Methods - World

With the exception of some commentary by publisher Sherman Frederick -- and on his blog, not in print, I believe -- the Review-Journal has not covered its own unusual and very newsworthy efforts to enforce its copyrights via a large spate of lawsuits

The Hamburg State Court ruled uploaded videos on YouTube of performances by singer Sarah Brighton violate existing copyright laws, disregarding current directives of the European Union. "This decision results in a substantial legal uncertainty for all

Now that I was blogging about films anyway, I thought I’d mention my favorite older films, all of them from the black and white era. Sorted from oldest to youngest: Nosferatu (1922) The Great Dictator (1940) Citizen Kane (1941) Casablanca (1942)

A year and a half ago, we noted how nice it was to see Twitter's rather laissez-faire attitude towards trademarks, where it seemed to have no problem with third parties making use of Twitter-related terms in their own names -- such as TwitPic,

Eric Goldman points us to the news that CBS sent a DMCA takedown to Scribd after the reality TV site RealityBlurred.com uploaded a copy of the contract castmembers sign before being able to go on the show Survivor, as well as a copy of the 'rulebook'

Major League Baseball is notorious for it's incredibly over aggressive enforcement of copyright and trademark laws, often well-beyond what is reasonable. Reader Mark alerts us to MLB's latest move, which is to demand that a flugtag team from Philadelphia

from the locking-up-research-is-a-failure dept For many years, we've discussed how the Bayh-Dole Act, which created incentives for universities to patent the (often federally-funded) research results of professors, has been a dismal failure. The failure

We recently wrote about comic book writer Mark Waid's supposedly controversial keynote speech at the Harvey Awards, where he talked about copyright, the public domain and learning to embrace file sharing. Beyond the general controversy, a lot of people

'Perhaps to end my confusion ' Just like I won't jump through hoops to make a three year old understand calculus, I am not going to jump through hoops to make you understand very basic economics. This isn't confusing, you maybe easily confused but that

Earlier this year, we had a long blog post about the sudden rush in patent marking lawsuits. You can read all the details there, but the quickish summary is that patent law says that you cannot falsely claim patent protection on something -- and goods

from the you-need-a-patent-for-that dept A bunch of folks have sent over the story of how Microsoft recently patented its method of shutting down Windows (7,788,474), which plenty of people are mocking for all sorts of reasons. Reader Prashanth points

Sharron Angle hit with R-J copyright infringement lawsuit By Steve Green (contact) The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s copyright infringement lawsuit partner on Friday sued U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle over R-J material posted on her website,

Posted by mincho2008 Saturday, 04 September 2010 Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LWLG) a technology company focused on the development of the 'Next Generation Electro-Optic Polymer Material Platform' for applications in high speed fiber-optic

BY INVITATION In Thailand, as in most developing and well-developed countries, there exists a robust translation industry. Companies, government bodies and law firms, among others, need a wide variety of materials translated. Who owns copyrights in

One such issue pertained to whether protection under the Copyright Act, afforded to a set of drawings qualifying as artistic work, can be extended to a finished product based on the same set of drawings. In its judgment the court drew heavily from a

Alendronate is marketed by Merck as Fosomax, which has annual worldwide sales of over $1 billion. WO/1999/004773 is a PCT patent application to Merck for a once weekly oral dosage pill for alendronate and other bisphosphonates for the treatment of

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Since Vietnam's entry to the WTO, member countries have grumbled about Vietnam's seemingly toothless enforcement of IP rights. In recent years, however, Vietnam has made a strong commitment to encouraging more foreign investment and protection of IP is

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Email yourself a copy? Comments: During June this year, a delegation from Microsoft, Dell, Cisco, VeriSign and Symantec met with the Syrian president, Bashar Al Asad, as well as several ministers and business people. They also visited local universities.

This content share by http://www.km37.com Every once in awhile an engineer describing a product will in some form or another reveal an application or a new device that the patent is intended to legally cover and in doing so allows us to at least

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On August 6, 2010, The Persian Carpet, Inc. (a Durham, North Carolina based company) filed a copyright infringement action in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (Civil Action No. 1:10-cv-604) against Tashi Dhan

Truly thumb size mini camcorder with patented sound activated recording function. 2.0 mega pixels with high qulality video audio recording Used as web camera one 4GB Micro SD Card and SD card adaptor included Used for security surveillance camera

A trap for gullible tapeworms, patented in 1854 by Alpheus Myers.The capsule is baited and swallowed by the patient, after a fast “to make the worm hungry.” The worm seizes the bait, the trap closes on its head, and the doctor withdraws the whole

This past week, Apple had a host of new patents officially approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Continued here: Apple awarded new patents

From the June 16 Music Conference in Ireland, see more details and my presentation here . Related articles by Zemanta Nice new video: Music Like Water (by Ericsson 2020 Ideas) (mediafuturist.com) Video: the Future of Music in a digital world

Brazil is wrapping up a consultation and it is apparently going out wit a bang. A coalition of 28 academic, educational, consumer, musical and digital cultural organizations have called on the government to legalize file-sharing through a blanket

I'm a moonbat, lefty liberal blogger, and the headline above gives me no joy. Why? Because while I disagree with just about everything Sharron Angle stands for, and cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would support her, I think she's getting

Patent attorneys are professionally licensed attorneys who are allowed to stand before and operate within the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Contrasting, Patent Agents are not necessarily lawyers, but are allowed to practice within these same

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Although the Board of Patent Appeals (BPAI) is working harder than ever, its backlog continues to rise. The first chart below shows the BPAI’s inventory of undecided appeals in ex parte cases. This only includes fully-briefed appeals whose dockets have

Japanese researchers have developed an external airbag that will protect pedestrians if you strike them with your vehicle. Dubbed "iSAVE," the external bags are linked to the internal air bags so that when an exterior bag registers impact, the air inside it is transferred to the interior bags to protect drivers and passengers. They are currently designed for small three-wheeled vehicles, but if testing goes well, may be incorporated into larger vehicles as well.

DARPA’s Quantum Assisted Sensing and Readout (QuASAR) program aims to take high-performance atomic clocks like the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NIST-F1, the massive room-sized clock housed in a lab in Boulder, Colo. Doing so won’t be any easier than many other challenges DARPA brings to the table, but the agency thinks advances in nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) resonators and nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds that exhibit single-atom-like properties could create a close analog to an atomic clock in a miniature, portable package.

Atomic clocks don’t lose seconds or even fractions of seconds over time (well, that’s not entirely true, but time lost is negligible; NIST-F1 will neither gain nor lose a second in 60 million years), and that opens up major possibilities for syncronisity. Such portable clocks would allow for communications systems that are far more secure less susceptible to jamming and GPS positioning that is unrivaled. DARPA also thinks they might lead to precision sensors unrivaled in resolution and sensitivity.

[Network World, FedBizOpps]

Smart materials have been limited to holding two shapes at two different temperatures, but now, researchers have discovered how to embed multiple shape memories into one object. The Multiple Memory Material Technology (MMMT) can work with virtually any memory material, and can even be divided up so that different parts of an object take on different shapes at different temperatures.

Although the butt of jokes in the US, hemp is a legitimate building product used in many places in the world, such as the UK. The exterior walls use "Hemcrete," a mix of chopped hemp stems and hydrated lime, to cover a wood frame. It's a great insulator, is sound absorbent and gives a complete seal. Gives a great modern look as well.

PopSci's first looks at the Empire State Building, the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, and more

We've combed the archives to gather some of our most important first looks at the buildings and structures that went on to define skylines around the world.

Click to launch the photo gallery

Considering the extent to which suspension bridges, skyscrapers, and towering monuments have become symbols of human progression, it's hard to believe that just a hundred, even fifty years ago, our most beloved landmarks only existed as blueprints dreamed up by earnest young engineers. Mount Rushmore had no faces on it. Commuters in San Francisco still rode ferries across the Bay. So-called towering skyscrapers rose only thirty floors.

In 1927, when New York's 57-story Woolworth Building was still the world's tallest high-rise, we continued to ponder the mechanics of installing elevators for high-rises. "Forty thousand people within four walls!" we exclaimed. "Edison and others warn us against threatening chaos."

At times, the process of planning and construction did involve a lot of chaos. Hundreds of workers died while building the Hoover Dam. Even Mount Rushmore's main sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, didn't live to see his masterpiece completed.

Needless to say, finishing projects was no easy feat, so we combed our archives to see how engineers turned empty lots, untended fields, and undisturbed bedrock into the past century's most iconic man-made structures.

Launch the gallery for PopSci's first looks at the Empire State Building, the Pentagon, and more.

How to combat those interminably long airport walks? Use the Titan High-Roller Suitcase. Just pull out the footrest, hop on, and push yourself down the hallways. On top of a quick transit, the suitcase features a pop-out laptop bag that leaves a notch in the case that provides a convenient footrest - adding to your comfort on those long flights.

LaserMotive knows a thing or two about turning laser power into mechanical energy; last year the firm beamed energy to a robot that climbed nearly 3,000 feet up a cable suspended form a helicopter, a feat impressive enough to win $900,000 from NASA. Now LaserMotive is demonstrating that similar ground-based lasers could beam energy to either fixed-wing or hovering rotary-wing UAVs high in the sky, keeping batteries topped up with juice so that they never have to land, with flight durations limited only by the durability of the aircraft’s motors.

Take the tiny laser-powered helicopter. LaserMotive kept the aircraft aloft for six hours at last week’s AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference in Denver using a 7-centimeter beam of near-infrared laser that automatically tracked the helicopter as it moved up and down. The helicopter eventually failed, but only when the motor gave out. The laser never stopped beaming energy.

Better motor tech could lead to unmanned systems that fly missions that last days or weeks, powered by ground based energy beams that keep them running indefinitely. Portable UAV systems could allow troops operating at forward operating bases to send small surveillance platforms skyward to hover overhead, giving them an eye in the sky over their temporary quarters. Troops on the move could feasibly keep drones aloft above their convoys, powered from lasers mounted on the vehicles.

Of course, we could also just use lasers to blast UAVs out of the sky.

[New Scientist]

Dyeing solar cells with a mixture of Fast Green and Rose Bengal - common food and medical dyes - can boost the efficiency of zinc oxide solar cells by nearly eight percent. A simple soak-then-dry procedure used on the solar cells achieved these remarkable results.

We know that commercial dyeing is a major source of water pollution, but now DyeCoo Textile has developed a system that replaces water with supercritical carbon dioxide. The heated and pressurized gas takes on liquid-like properties and penetrates textile fibers with preloaded dyes, without the need for extra chemical agents. After dyeing, the CO2 is gasified, the excess dye is recovered, and the clean CO2 can then be reused, saving energy, water and polluted runoff. DryDye took 11 years to develop... now if only they could develop a black dye that didn't fade...

To quote DARPA’s request for industry solicitations: “The goal of CINDER will be to greatly increase the accuracy, rate and speed with which insider threats are detected and impede the ability of adversaries to operate undetected within government and military interest networks.”

The philosophy driving CINDER is the idea that singular actions by an insider with malicious intent aren’t noticeable as malicious – say, the downloading of a sensitive document from a DoD server or the searching for information on a particular topic. But the larger adversary mission should be noticeable when compared to normal mission activities. By monitoring strings of actions rather than isolated events, CINDER is expected to pinpoint system users who may be up to something malicious.

CINDER assumes that insiders are operating within the Pentagon’s most sensitive networks, so rather than focus on keeping outside threats out, it will be designed to weed out those already inside. As Danger Room points out, it seems like a recipe for false positives, but DARPA seems to think a properly-designed CINDER will be able to distinguish between normal and malicious mission contexts.

We’ll see. In the meantime, while DARPA works CINDER into serviceable shape, the DoD is expected to roll out a new cyber strategy by year’s end to hopefully curtail the kinds of massive leaks and cyber breaches that have been the embarrassment of the Pentagon lately.

[FedBizOpps via Danger Room]

Sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, but dark silicon - the under used transistors in microprocessors - can deliver improved performance for your cell phone. The transistors are left offline most of the time due to lack of power, but the new GreenDroid chip uses 11 times less energy per instruction.

The Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) spent seven years aloft under the careful guidance of professionals and their undergrad protégés at CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). The satellite gathered key data on polar ice, ice sheets and sea ice dynamics that have informed nearly a decade of climate research, but on Monday -- low on fuel and out of time -- ICESat's number was up.

But it wasn't all explosions in the sky. Decommissioning the satellite was a process that required the undergrads to spend seven days a week calculating positions, plotting re-entry scenarios, and ensuring that whatever debris did survive re-entry landed somewhere where it wouldn't do any damage.

That location happened to be the Barents Sea north of Norway and Russia, and no more than 200 pounds of ICESat's original 2,000-pound mass was expected to survive re-entry. The team of undergrads and LASP professionals used the last of ICESat's fuel to put it on course for a spectacular death, and on Monday the satellite re-entered the atmosphere and largely burned up.

Such an honor is rare, particularly for undergraduate students. The last decommissioning-by-fire of a NASA satellite occurred in 2002 and was conducted by NASA personnel. That just might qualify them for inclusion in our guide to the 30 coolest college classes in the country.

[University of Colorado]

An advanced fly-by-wire system capable of landing grossly damaged unmanned aircraft—demonstrated on video saving a plane missing 80 percent of one wing—is key to solving one of unmanned flight’s biggest problems

But to lose control of a flying robot over a warzone is one thing; things get much more complicated in crowded domestic skies. One remarkable system, capable of bringing a plane missing most of one wing safely home, aims to make losing control a more palatable proposition.

Speaking generally about the issue of bringing UAVs into compliance with FAA rules, Lockheed Martin’s Bob Ruszkowski, a Skunk Works systems engineer, said, “I think we need to rise to the challenge rather than ask for forgiveness.” Then he posed a rhetorical question to underscore his point: “How many of those UAVs [in the convention center] do you see with a collision beacon? Or nav lights?”

Very few, in fact, but there were signs of such advancements.

The most dramatic evidence of technology that might clear the way for UAVs entering national air space was on display at the Rockwell Collins booth. Suspended from the rafters was a sub-scale model F/A-18 missing the better part of its right wing, which had been ditched as the plane ripped above Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Ground as part of a DARPA-sponsored technology demonstration this summer. But the model didn’t crash.

It’s sounds improbable, until you see the video:

The plane is up and away, there goes the wing, and then… nothing that your gut grasp of Newton’s laws would lead you to expect: The craft shudders briefly, stabilizes, and then comes in for an astonishing, albeit a bit rough, landing. “We’re not defying physics,” insists Dave Vos, Rockwell Collins’ senior director of control technologies and UAVs. “As long as it’s physically possible to put the airplane in some configuration, attitude, velocity and orientation to recover some degree of control, we can do it.”

The technology, called Damage Tolerance Control, consists of a palm-sized box stuffed with sensors and advanced algorithms that taps into a plane’s existing avionics. It exploits the fact that flight control systems are exponentially more capable to counteract in-flight damage than a human pilot. With all due respect to Sully, a craft’s electronics can move its flaps in configurations you could never imagine in the 2 milliseconds available to compensate. Rather than diagnosing the problem, Damage Tolerance Control reacts instantaneously and automatically when it senses a dramatic change in trajectory, adjusting an aileron, say, and cheating the nose to the left to remove drag from the intact wing to keep the craft from whipping into a death spiral. “If you step off your front porch and your leg buckles, you don’t have time to diagnose it,” Vos says. “You catch yourself and worry about your knee later.”

The system will be tested in a UAV currently flying missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Vos won’t say which one, but according to a spokesperson for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., it’s not the Predator or Reaper. If the system works as advertised, the improved survivability of mid-air damage would be a boon to the military, which under new budgetary restrictions can’t afford to waste resources.

But on the civilian side, improving the reliability of UAVs with a system that automatically lands the craft if something goes wrong is a significant step toward proving that unmanned planes could one day coexist with manned ones. “Once people start believing it’s possible, it’s going to happen really fast,” says Vos.

Stay tuned this week for an in-depth photo report from AVUSI, the drone trade show

This brave new world of free-range felons is highly reliant on technological solutions, but, advocates argue, it would take tremendous strain off a failed prison system into which decent people who’ve fallen afoul of the law (often related to illegal substances) come out of prison hardened, more violent, and with a slew of new friends from their time spent inside. By keeping pettier criminals out of jail, we keep them working, keep them among positive influences like family (a relationship for which the benefits are often reciprocal), and keep them out of trouble.

How does the system keep them out of trouble? The current parole/probation system is also something of a failure, with overworked officers trying to ensure that too many felons keep their noses clean, day in and day out. Technological solutions like the ExacuTrack from Anderson, Indiana-based BI Incorporated can do that automatically. The combination ankle bracelet and GPS transponder (worn on the waist like a cell phone) keeps real-time tabs on its clientele, making sure they do what they’re supposed to do and stay away from places where the state doesn’t want them.

For instance, a parole officer could detail a rigid routine for a free-range prisoner, ensuring he adheres to his work schedule (we’re using the masculine “he” here – in the majority of cases it’s accurate), reports for community service, and stays the hell away from schools or that watering hole down on 2nd Street where the whole trouble started in the first place. Not only that, but the tracking tech can make sure he stays clear of other felons wearing the device, but also from further crime – who would recruit a partner in crime who has a GPS tracker attached to his belt, anyhow?

BI’s technology is already capable of monitoring the free-range felon’s sweat for traces of alcohol use (what’s up, LiLo!) if necessary, but future versions could also monitor for other substances to ensure state charges stay off the hard stuff or on their meds. And as other wireless technologies progress, so too could the monitoring tech, for instance checking for proximity to the kinds of products the "prisoner" has a habit of stealing.

It sounds intrusive, but when citizens are convicted of felonies they do give up some rights. And given that the alternative is to sit in a prison cells, many would likely leap at the option to remain on the outside as a productive, yet partially restricted, member of society. Of course, we’ll always need places to put those citizens that are true menaces to society, but given that American has more than 2 million people wasting away behind bars right now in the U.S. – a population the size of Houston, as Wood points out – the idea of letting our less dangerous criminals walk among us doesn’t seem so bad.

[The Atlantic]

Miele is debuting its smart washer and dryer that can sense when electricity is at its cheapest and run the machines accordingly. You must program in the earliest starting time and latest finish time, and the appliances will then automatically run when rates are cheapest.

Sanford researchers have developed a new high-speed, low-cost filter by dipping plain cotton cloth into a mixture of silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes. Instead of trapping bacteria, this new filter lets them flow through, but kills them with an electrical field. Lab tests show that more than 98 percent of Escherichia coli bacteria were killed when exposed to 20 volts of electricity for a few seconds. This technology is perfectly suited to clean massive volumes of water in developing countries, or disaster areas.

Before the motor was fired, the engineers chilled it to 40 degrees below zero, for additional stress testing. It reportedly passed every test. The motor is intended to be used in the heavy-lift rocket segment of the Constellation program that NASA has slated for 2015.

Researchers at a Rice University lab demonstrated last year that current could repeatedly break and reconnect tiny, 10-nanometer graphite strips to create reliable, very small memory bits. At the time they didn’t understand why the graphite did this so well; now, grad student Jun Yao has figured it out, and it has little to do with graphite.

Using silicon oxide, an insulator, as the meat in a tiny semiconductor sandwich, Yao showed that the electrodes will strip oxygen from the silicon oxide leaving behind a small chain of nano-sized silicon crystals. That crystal chain can then be connected or broken repeatedly by varying the electrical charge passed through it, creating a tiny switch that is always either on or off. And by tiny, we mean very tiny; Yao’s silicon oxide switch is just five nanometers (that’s five billionths of a meter) wide.

The graphite switches that seemed impressive last year were double that size, and conventional electronics can’t even come close to switches that small. Flash memory, in theory, will bottom out at 20 nanometers. Other conventional pathways might someday hit 10 nanometers, but it will be expensive to get there. Silicon oxide is already used in chip manufacturing and would be relatively easy to integrate into existing chip manufacturing tech.

Moreover, unlike flash memory silicon-oxide chips wouldn’t need to hold a charge and it’s perfectly suited to be arrayed in 3-D structures that can further help cram more switches onto a given switch, meaning chips get more memory for every nanometer of real estate. An Austin tech company is already testing a 1,000 memory element chip in collaboration with Yao and his colleagues at Rice. If the technology doesn’t hit any serious obstacles, single chips with memory comparable to today’s high-capacity disk drives could be a reality in just five years.

Well, with the Babelfisk glasses, the deaf wouldn't have to... These concept glasses would hear what you are saying and then display your words in text form on the lenses. Microphones in the frames pick up the voice and an embedded speech to text program would decipher your words. It would also incorporate a flash memory card for later playback.

You can now have your baby's heart rate and activity level sent wirelessly to your cellphone or PC, by tucking them into an Exmobaby onesie. The suit is made from a patented washable conductive biosensor textile with a rechargeable wireless transceiver.

Students have created a mixture of cement and soil that is strong enough to keep its form, but porous enough to support plant life. The Earth Bank Living Wall System was tested at the Eugene Federal Courthouse Garden, where pre-planted sedums were able to thrive in a 3-inch thick wall.

Could thorium reactors be the key to weaning us off oil dependency? Thorium has 200 times the energy potential as uranium, and is much more efficient as a fuel source. The project could lead to a network of tiny underground nuclear reactors that produce around 600 MW each, eliminating the dangers inherent in large nuclear plants.

It's hard to research liver disorders when you can't grow liver cells in a lab. Researchers have now managed to create diseased liver cells out of human skin, which enables liver disease research. Liver disease is the fifth largest cause of death in the UK, with the mortality rate in young people increasing six times in the past 30 years. The new cell-based research allows researchers to test the effectiveness of new therapies.

After you've had a few, how do you know if you're legal to drive? AlcoSense One answers this question with its take anywhere pocket-sized breath tester. And what about the day after? Has all that alcohol left your system? Apparently, one in five DWI convictions happen the morning after! Make sure you are legal with this handy device.

With all the paraphernalia that babies seem to need these days, it's nice to see a stroller design that outlasts your baby's baby stage. Up to the age of three it is a great stroller/car seat combo, but when your toddler is ready for a set of wheels, the Babyoom transforms into a tricycle. And if that isn't great enough, when junior is no longer interested in the tricycle, it can be used as a shopping cart for any family member to use.

We all know that hours spent click a mouse every day can lead to repetitive stress injuries. SmartFish has taken a stab at alleviating this ubiquitous problem. Their ErgoMotion Laser Mouse is mounted on a pivoting base which responds to your hand's natural up and down movements. Does it work? For $50 bucks, it's worth a try.

This fun new way to keep fit will get your heart pumping and give your legs and arms a great workout. It can be brought to the beach in a bag and quickly assembled. Although a little tricky to get it going, once in motion, you just need to keep jumping. It works with hydrofoils that keep it afloat.

This cleverly designed urinal lets the guys do their thing, then wash their hands without moving a step. Not only does this save space, the water from the washing is used to flush the urinal, saving water. Since you have to wash to flush, it also encourages hand washing. The glass top allows a clear view of the urinal and the functional design is both elegant and practical.

Marine rescues can be dangerous to crew and aircraft, especially in stormy weather. A new unmanned, remote-controlled aircraft is being designed to save lives and deal with rough weather. The prototype can land on sea or ground and its onboard cameras relay live conditions to the remote operator. It can deliver supplies to stranded boaters and transmit the location of survivors. Its aeroservoelestic trim tabs perform rapid high-frequency shape changes when hit by wind gusts to keep the craft steady.