The Scion FUSE vehicle. Concept only still, but interesting nevertheless. Incorporates a media station, colour highlighting headlights (?), integrated Wi-Fi and LCDs behind the front badge kind of stuff. Will it see the light of day? Sure, about the same time as that 150 mpg sports car hits the asphalt. Tchaw! [Thanks Nuno]  The FUSE was designed to explore what happens when you expand the design, performance and functionality of the sports coupe concept. From the side, its low, aggressive…

The Flashball Defence Weapon. French non-lethal ‘defense’ weapon apparently has the stopping power of a .38 Special. Which it achieves by chucking soft rubber balls at the target. Very fast. So probably like being thumped by an angry Mike Tyson? €346.84 says it’ll hurt. A lot.  The stopping power of the 28 g soft rubber ball (200 joules at 2.5 meters) is equivalent to that of a 38 Special and achieves the same effect as the punch of a champion boxer. On impact…

A no name electric guitar for beginners for $29.99? Including tremolo, humbucking pickup, gig bag, cable, picks, pitch pipe, and tuition DVD? Wow. [Via robotwisdom]

The Biometric Wall Vault. Fingerprint powered wall safe for guns apparently, so there you go. Bang, bang. $479.00. [Via Coolbuzz]  The main storage space of the home safe can accommodate approximately two hand guns, while the hidden storage compartment in the back of this in wall safe is the perfect place to ammunition and other small valuables, such as jewelry, passports, and credit cards. This fireproof wall safe is constructed of handsome 14-guage stainless steel for maximum strength and durability. The…

The Humax LG32TPVR is a flat screen LCD digital television with an inbuilt 40 GB hard disk, a USB 2.0 port and 2 tuner PVR functionality for less than £1000.00. The future of television perhaps? Or just a flash in the pan fashion statement from the Far East? Answers on a gold embossed EPG, to…   * 16:9 Wide Digital & analog / PVR complex LCD TV * Analog and DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) reception * Digital 2 tuner PVR (Personal…

The Solwise PL-85PEW is a Homeplug 85Mbps Ethernet adapter with a built in 54Mbps wireless access point. Try saying that with a mouthful of marbles. The idea is that it makes it easy to extend the pitifully short wireless range merely by plugging a unit into the nearest electrical wall socket. I’m becoming quite fond of Powerline technology, although whatever you do, don’t stick a hairdryer or shaver or any other electrical gizmo into an adjacent socket unless you want…

The Spyder Series Laser is not a device to be trifled with, featuring as it does 200mW output minimum, water proofing, shock resistance and up to 120 miles range. About to write it off as a fool’s tool until I read on the site about doctors using this type of high power laser for medical treatment. Fascinating. From $999.00 including fancy box.   There are several external stimuli that speed up the production of ATP (see sidebar), which is used in cellular/tissue respiration. In…

The Athane Health Cabin. A complete health spa in a pod. Steam heat sauna, far infrared treatment, light/aroma/music treatment, ultraviolet disinfection and traditional Chinese medicine. All in one body sized microcomputer controlled cabin. If you don’t feel better after a session in one of these, sweetheart, you’re probably an android.  The soft skin is whitenned, reduced weight and arranged the poison, resist and press and solve pressing, anti-ageing, accelerate the blood circulation , resolve the honeycomb inflammation to organize with higher speed. Balancing…

Elecom USB U2H-M4B Plug Hub. Not sure what advantage separate USB sockets have over a standard hub, but willing to be educated. Mmmm…maybe it gets rid of the hassles with inserting a few fat drives together etc….? Around $21.00.  

32 in 1 Card Reader. With built in 4 port USB 2.0 hub and lots of cool LED lights. Neat data swap solution eh, but 32 different types of memory cards? Ouch. $28.00. Review here.

The Lemur Multitouch Control Surface. An LCD based computer interface and MIDI controller. Sounds like a musician’s best friend, even if the €2190.00 price may not be.  As a performance interface, the Lemur is immediately appealing. You touch colorful rounded interface objects on the 12″ LCD display to control your computer in any way you can imagine…Make any number of interfaces, store them in an XML-based project file and it’s ready to go…One moment you can be mixing by moving…

The Serenity Security Video Recorder. A network enabled surveillance DVR with 1 terabyte of hard drive-ness built in and the ability to record up to 16 cameras simultaneously. Which is an awful lot of bank robberies, eh? $8399.99.  The rack-mountable Serenity 16-Channel NVR offers flexible setup. Schedule recording to start at specific times, when motion is detected, or upon alarms, using the DVR’s 16 alarm inputs. You can also manually start all channels’ recording at once with the press of a…

The Marantz TT-15S1 turntable. The first platter from the company in 20 years. Does this mean that we’re about to see a massive return to vinyl? Or a seismic shift back to 8 track players? Answers on a $2000.00 bill please to…  Marantz explains that the TT-15S1’s asynchronous motor never makes contact with the chassis, ensuring “faultless signal input, with no transmission of vibration.” The acryl chassis has large aluminum feet for stability and damping. It also includes a 3…