Liquid Metal is twice as hard as titanium or stainless steel, and so smooth that paint won’t stick to it. But when heated to 750 degrees it turns into an easily moulded goo like plastic. The company is trying to sell it as a new material for everything from golf clubs and tennis rackets to PDA, watch and mobile phone cases. It’s an amorphous alloy, see? ‘Kang is so confident of the material’s potential that he’s even hired Silicon Valley…

Dys Monkey sent in a funky little online avatar creator service called Wee-Mee.. Costs �1.50 to create and download a likkle fella or fillee. Only prob is you can’t get onto the site unless you have, or register for, Passport. Silly design.

Sony’s QRIO robot looks really neat. Of course it still can’t do that much (check out the capabilities section on the site) but it sure looks like a good pointer to the future of the genre. Take a look also at this fascinating interview with a Sony robot guru.

The PC appears to be dying. Slowly. Very slowly. In its place expect to see a rash of computers which look more like consumer electronics devices. Like the Asus DigiMatrix box above, or the ABIT DigiDice box below. Time for some design fun, folks.

The Fan Brand BBQ Grilling Iron must rank as the Number 1 foodie tool. Yep pardners, now you too can brand a favourite logo onto your steak or chicken piece while it’s on the fire. Yer darn betcha….! Now if only they did a version with a Linux penguin or – gasp – an Apple logo, I’m sure that the geek fraternity would be queuing up. No really!

Those clever folks at the German Fraunhofer Institute claim to have developed technology to speed up or slow down music without messing with the pitch. The result is StepMan, a set of sensors which work with a standard PDA or WalkMan to monitor a jogger’s pulse, blood pressure and speed. Some clever software then adjusts the music to suit the jogger’s tempo. Neat eh?

Whooo, inflatable kayaks look to be fun… Jest add water…

The 180’s (what kind of a name is that?) Exhale Gloves ‘let you use your own breath to keep your hands warm even in the harshest weather.’ That’s right instead of breathing into the popped open wrist end of your mittens like everyone else, you can spend a small fortune buying a pair which will channel the heat around for you. Riiight! Actually can’t find the price anywhere on the site. Whatever.

PC Cards (aka PCMCIA cards) which fit into laptop computers are gonna get small. The PCMCIA trade group has just announced the launch of the ExpressCard, a smaller, faster, more compassionate and sympathetic expansion card format. Half the size, but probably twice the cost initially, eh? But in the meantime here is the ‘most comprehensive directory of PC Card products in the world. Apparently.

Tack-0-Rama. Because nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

The Font Browser site is an online service which lets you examine the fonts on your computer in detail. It’s like the Fontastic program except online only.

Hilarious!!!! Angle-Grinder Man ‘the U.K.�s first wheel-clamp and speed camera vigilante cum subversive superhero philanthropist entertainer type personage.’ Of course it’s a spoof (er…I assume so anyway) but it’s fab. Check out the videos of him sawing off a wheel clamp. Priceless.

How to turn that spare DeLorean you’ve got lying about in the backyard into a hovercraft. Maybe some people just have too much time on their hands, eh?

MP3 Workshop is a freeware MP3 ripper/encoder/decoder/resampler +. It hasn’t seen any development for 2 years but is still probably worth a download.

The Care and Repair of Toilets. ‘Let’s plunge in and flush out the facts.’ I particularly like the sections entitled Repairing Flush Valves and the Blue Goo Story. Invaluable.