Google is just making more and more cool stuff.

Chris Dimino was given the following challenge.  Take this now useless item and give it a new life than it was intended to have.  The solution is presented in his typewriter series of sculptures.

My personal favorite is the “Corona-Matic”.  A typewriter turned into a waffle iron that makes keyboard shaped waffles.  I came across this image on Treehugger.  Click on the picture to go to his site and see more of his work.

The new Canon 5D Mark II is a pretty awesome camera.  It retails for $2700.00, which is quite a lot of money for a camera, but the results a remarkable.  I’m not a big photography buff, so it’s actually not the still image capabilities that caught my attention.  These new cameras are capturing High Definition images AND can capture video.  The full frame, 21.1 Megapixel EOS 5D Mark II is the first EOS with full High Definition video capability.  Click here for more info, or just watch some of the videos below.

I haven’t fully researched these but it looks like there are two great sample videos from this camera. The first video was done by a professional with tons of extra equipment and the second video was done by a news photographer and a laptop.  Here is a link to the super professional one, and I’ve posted the other video below. 

When I was in Japan (15 years ago) I was surprised by the different types of vending machines they had.  You could buy food, beer, batteries, and even underwear.  Well it seems that our insatiable appetite for media has demanded the creation of a Media Vending machine.

According to the Dow Jones Report, Walmart will start selling the new T-mobile G1 today.  I have been a T-mobile customer for the past 2 years and have some credit to spend on a new phone and have been considering getting this Android phone.  As a reward for being such a great customer and honoring my contract with T-mobile, I’ll be able to buy the phone for the discounted price of $179.99.  That discount price from T-moblie is actually $31.11 MORE than if I just walked off the street and into a Wal-Mart to buy it there.  THANKS!!

Love it or hate it, the new T-moblie G1 phone is here.  This phone is supposed to be the iPhone killer.  T-mobile is claiming that they have pre-sold 1.5 million phone making it’s debut larger than the iPhones, but some people claim those numbers  to be inflated.  I personally like the idea of the phone and would gladly accept a free phone for review.  Until that happens, you can go over to Gizmodo and read their review. 

Flash 9 support for the PS3’s web browser is now available in the latest update.  I’ll be testing this as soon as it’s done dowloading, but this means that HULU and other online video sites will now be available.  Goodbye cable, hello internet TV! 

Nikola Tesla’s early work pioneered modern electrical engineering.  He is best  known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1899 Telsa had a major breakthrough when he transmitted 100 million volts of high-frequency electric power wirelessly over a distance of 26 miles at which he lit up a bank of 200 light bulbs and ran one electric motor!  He did this with a souped up version of his Tesla coil.

A Tesla coil is a special transformer that can take the 110 volt electricity from your house and convert it rapidly to a great deal of high-voltage, high-frequency, low-amperage power.  This big breakthrough was in 1899.  I’m a little afraid of getting fried when ever I think about these Telsa Coils shooting electricity into the air.  It just dosen’t seem all that safe to me.  Maybe that’s why it’s taken so long to develop similar technology.

Fulton Innovation has released a video showing how they are working to make wireless power possible in the future.  Now if they would start working on my jetpack!! 

A commercial for the new HP Touch Smart came on and my son asked if that was an iPod computer.  Technology is really developing quickly, but I think what is even more impressive is the way that my children will be using technology in the future.

Technology is AMAZING!  I just read that there is now live video streaming client for newer Blackberry phones.  You download the  Next2Friends client to your phone and use your camera to broadcast live events  for your family, friends or the entire Next2Friends community to watch in real-time!  This is not a new idea.  I’ve heard of another service called QIK that does the same thing.

Most of the video that is captured by these services is not very interesting at all, but it’s the possiblities that are so amazing.  I really wanted to get this service running on my phone for my trip to Star Wars Celebration Japan.  I imagined that I would be wandering around the event and see something amazing and I would just pull out my phone and capture a video.  The video is stored on the servers and available IMEDIATELY.  Pretty fancy.