The Geek Church

This DS Stylus has a Toy Story surprise.

You can buy or rent the Bullet 580, the world’s biggest airship.

Here’s a Concept car that can split into two motorcycles.

Welcome to the Aaxa L1 Projector.

Panasonic has Blu-ray 3-D films with their Vieras. Two of them, actually.

Here’s the Bang and Olufsen BeoVision 8, a 40-inch screen.

Here’s how to make a Photoshop screen transparent.

The iPod Touch has a camera, at least in Vietnam.

You want to see holographic broadcasts of the World cup by 2022? It could happen.

That Sarah Jessica Parker used to be a Mac girl, but she’s gone PC.

Google is getting its own App store.

This is the eviGroup Android Wallet MID.

This Nvidia Tablet runs on Android.

Here is the Versace Unique phone. Dashing, no?

The iPad store is going International! Wait, already?

This is the Powermat iPhone bundle, for $69.99. We’ve reported on Powermat before.

Ever heard of Foxconn, a company that makes a lot of Apple products that we know and love? Well, there working conditions aren’t so good. Find out more here.

Android 3.0 has an official title: Gingerbread. Say huh?

The BlackBerry will come in several colors. Check it out.

If you don’t like waking up early in the morning, then the cry of your alarm is probably a regular source of dread and irritation. Furthermore, hitting the snooze button is only a temporary solution since the annoying mini-siren will sound off again minutes later. Wouldn’t it be more convenient to tell your alarm to be silent than to get out of bed or reach over to the nearby dresser to turn it off manually? The idea of an alarm clock that obeys your spoken commands might seem ridiculous but the company Moshi Lifestyle actually created one.

They call it the Moshi Voice Control Digital Radio Clock. This clock really is designed to be controlled by your voice. Furthermore, it features a radio with premium speakers, an MP3 player, two alarm options, three presets for FM stations, three presets for AM stations, three alarm sounds, three sleep sounds and a digital radio tuner. The Moshi Radio Clock was also made to deliver pure quality 2.0 stereo sound that’s better than most radio clocks. You can set and operate it vocally with eleven different voice commands without the need for pre-programming it.

Moshi Lifestyle focuses on providing electronic devices that are stress-free and very simple to use. Thus, their products are specially designed without the requirement of installation or pre-programming. The Moshi Radio Clock is currently available for $70. Now you can have your very own voice-controlled alarm clock that actually gives you more time to sleep when you tell it to.

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Let’s consider some of the methods used to prepare soldiers for active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. Of course, these methods include boot camp, obstacle courses and regiments for physical conditioning, hand-to-hand combat and weapons training. Now augmented reality is another tool for getting military personnel ready to serve their country on the battlefield. A company called the Cubic Corporation has created a special helmet for running combat simulations.

They’ve named this device the COMBATREDI. It is a high-definition equipped helmet that features a mounted OLED video display for a 60 x 45 degree field of view, an integrated 3D stereo audio headset and a wireless, simulation rifle. The rifle itself is actually designed to be used like a real gun, requiring fresh magazine clips and it has a variety of firing modes. A REDITAC tactical computer is also worn on the user’s back to follow his movements through a series of sensors. This computer will determine where the soldier is looking and what his current posture is, whether he’s standing still, on his knees or lying flat on his belly.

Cubic was recently hired to provide the Florida Army National Guard with twenty-seven sets of the COMBATREDI training system for a sum of 4.8 million dollars. According to Cubic Corporation, this combat simulator is currently the most realistic way to train soldiers. However, the COMBATREDI could find customers among the gaming community as well as the military. After all, it was created to give users an authentic experience of combat on the battlefield without engaging in actual warfare.

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Well, we left off with something serious trouble yesterday, and…wouldn’t you know it, there is more to come.

If you missed a chapter or two or three, then you should head to the ever-updating index here.

Anyway, the chapter is after the jump.

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