The Geek Church

Spatial Interaction faucet is better than that one the Count on Sesame Street sings about. See what I mean here.

Rock Band 3 could have a keytar, or some type of keyboard.

Check out this ChinaVasion Magnetic Suspension Device. Levitate a soda can into thin air.

This is the Aiptek i2 camcorder, which is capable of 3D.

Don’t look now, but here is the Photoshop Beauty Cream.

Kodak has a great camera known as the Playsport.

Neoya presents the Wii2HDMI Adapter.

Check out these HDHome S2 and S4 HTPC media servers from Mvix.

You might be seeing the Avatar 3D Blu-ray a lot sooner than expected.

Barnes and Noble has made an eReader for the iPad.

Firefox is planning on coming to the iPhone, in the form of Firefox Sync.

Here’s a Project Natal price and possible release date.

This is the Acer CEO showing a new tablet.

Here’s some data storage cufflinks.

This is the Wii running on the iPod Touch or iPhone.

The Kindle version 3 may not get a color screen, but it might be cheaper.

This is an iPhone/iPod dock for the iHome iP49.

Here is the Aeolus phone, which runs on the sun and wind.

This is the Logic3 LCD ProDock.

In the development of new technology, making better vehicles is one of the goals that researchers seek to achieve. Of course, this leads to projects in which new vehicles are designed to be faster, more fuel efficient, easier to operate and safer for the user. Thus, the Air Force made a recent achievement in aviation when one of their scramjet engines set a new record for hypersonic flight yesterday.

The test vehicle they used is called the X-51A Waverider, which reached a speed of Mach 5 in 200 seconds. Now this is the longest recorded hypersonic flight in history since NASA’s X-43 was the former record holder in 2004 and the X-51A flew ten times longer than the X-43. In its test flight, the unmanned X-51A Waverider was launched from a B-52 plane over the Pacific Ocean and the X-51A used a rocket booster to reach Mach 4.8. Then the booster was jettisoned and the X-51A’s SJY61 scramjet engine did the rest of the work, generating supersonic combustion to make a shockwave that the jet used for propulsion. After setting its historic flight record, the X-51A crashed into the Pacific Ocean, abandoned as a lost vessel.

However, three other X-51A Waveriders have been scheduled for future test runs later this year. According to Air Force X-51A program manager Charlie Brink, the record setting flight was a big day in aviation technology. He also went on to say that the development of the scramjet engine is an achievement equal to the innovation of jet engines replacing propeller planes after World War 2. Considering that the X-51A was unmanned during its test flight, I wonder how long it will take the Air Force to ensure that hypersonic planes are safe for human pilots and passengers in the future.

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Hey there, dear readers! Let’s take a moment to discuss public commuting. Of course, common options in commuting include buses, taxis, and trains. These options exist to serve people who don’t have their own vehicles and those who just want to avoid the issue of parking and spending gas money. But have you ever considered what public commuting could like in the future? How about a robot transport system that you can access through text messaging?

Yes, such a concept really is on the design table right now. It is called the Iris Autonomous Transport, which seems to have a large “eye” in its design, making the term “iris” appropriate in its name. You would use a text message to summon this self-operating commute vehicle and tell it your desired destination in the same way. Apparently, this conceptual vehicle would be relying on GPS technology to guide its navigation during travel from one location to another in a city.

However, if this Iris Autonomous Transport concept ever does make it into the real world, that might not bode well for public commute operators. It’s likely that bus drivers, train conductors and cabbies would never want this concept to be fully realized so their jobs won’t be threatened. After all, the idea of machines replacing human workers could be a legitimate concern in today’s technological culture.

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Today, there is a major decision that must be made for these characters. Find out. You won’t be disappointed.

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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