The Geek Church

I’ll start with this.

Please, someone make this YEE Flying concept car a reality.

This is Muon, a mood car. Yeah, I know, but it’s true.

Here’s what you get when you mix LEDs and bike spokes together.

Check out this Fisheye-Nikkor lens.

Sony Handycam is celebrating its 25th birthday.

See these nifty photographic effects by Chema Madoz. No Photoshop required.

Hillcrest Labs has come up with Kylo, a web browser for the TV.

Here’s some wooden speakers by Davone of Denmark. Star Trek fans will love them. See why here.

Want to know why 3D hurts some people? Let the one and only Bill Nye explain!

Apparently, Kindle won’t be getting an upgrade to color anytime soon.

Wired Magazine has come to the iPad.

Ah, get Bruce Lee: Dragon Warriors for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Hiya!

LG and iRiver are launching a new phone known as the LB4400 that is both digital audio player (DAP) as well as a phone.

The HP Slate is soon to be released, but it won’t do Windows. It is opting for Palm WebOS.

This is a new MID (Mobile Internet Tablet) that does 1080p and Windows CE 6.0. It is the X10.

I’ve talked about Tweet Defense for the iPhone before, and now there is Tweet Defense for the iPad.

JBL has created the OnStage Micro2 iPhone Speaker Dock.

Devotec has made the Solar Sound 2 Bluetooth Speaker.

This is the Loop phone, made for the visually impaired.

Ah, the wonders of paper. This byproduct we get from trees is used in many ways. We commonly see it as pages in a book, magazine or newspaper, advertisement fliers, notepads and blank sheets from a printer among other things. But now the company WowWee has added making playable guitars to the long list of paper’s uses.

The product line for these “paper-made” guitars is appropriately called PaperJamz and the actual instruments come in five styles, which each feature certain, well-known songs. The Stratocaster has ‘What I Like About You’, ‘Two Princes’ and ‘End Of The World’. The Telecaster comes with ‘Born To Be Wild’, ‘Mississippi Queen’ and ‘Smoke On The Water’. The Flying V features ‘You Really Got Me’, ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ and ‘Godzilla’. The Explorer offers ‘Hey There Delilah’, ‘All Star’ and ‘Helicopter’. Lastly, you can play ‘Woman’, ‘Rock Star’ and ‘Take It To The Limit’ on the SG-style guitar. However, these guitars were actually made without strings so three alternate methods are necessary for playing them. The user can just strum along to the songs, use “rhythm mode” to follow the rhythm of the songs with strumming and freestyle by creating your own notes and songs. Nonetheless, basic strumming is the easiest method while doing freestyle is the most challenging way of guitar playing.

The Paperjamz guitars are currently available for $35 each at IWOOT.com. Amplifiers and drums are also available as accessories and they’re made of paper as well. These instruments are compatible with headphones and speaker jacks and you can also play real chords if you have backing tracks to accompany them. Personally, I never thought I’d be living in a day where musical instruments can be made from paper. But it seems that technology and people’s creativity continue to make the unlikely and unexpected possible these days.

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There are risks involved when it comes to developing new concepts in this ever-changing modern age of technology. Some of these risks include product malfunctions, loss of money on a failed project, professional equipment being damaged during test runs and safety threats to the user of a new product. Of course, scientists, inventors and research companies are willing to take such risks in the name of science to make new discoveries and breakthroughs in technology. Such is the case with scientist Dr. Mark Gasson from the University of Reading in the U.K. who recently tested a chip implant for the human body on himself.

Dr. Gasson actually placed a tiny RFID chip into his own body by implanting it under the flesh of his hand. This chip implant was designed to give its user the capability to open certain doors and lock down one’s own cellphone and limit access of its use to the owner alone. However, the chip was also used for a very unique purpose, which is to be exposed to a computer virus and then be put into a living person’s body. That’s right, readers. Gasson actually got a chip implanted into his hand and used it to give himself a computer virus. In this experiment, Gasson’s goal is to identify weaknesses in computer systems and online networks and explore the possibilities of improving the abilities of the human body through technology.

According to Gasson, mobiles devices such as cellphones can be vulnerable to threats like computer viruses. He also stated that a person’s chip implant could be compromised by a hacker who gains access to it online. This potential vulnerability might affect devices put into the human body like pacemakers and other types of implants that can interface with vital organs like the heart too. Thus, Gasson’s research could lead to better security options and solutions for vulnerabilities in computer systems, web networks and greater protection for various types of personal, electronic devices as well. Personally, I’m impressed that Gasson chose to be his own test subject for his experiments. In his scientific work, this researcher is definitely a risk-taker.

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So who is this Rainbow, anyway? Today, we will find out.

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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