This is the MonoTracer motorbike, designed to reduce drag, keep you dry and drastically reduce the number of splattered insects on your visor.
The futuristic looking ‘enclosed’ motorcycle is not a concept anymore, but the real deal with a 130hp BMW engine capable of 0-100kph is under 5 seconds and a top speed of around 250kph. The company boasts that the bike has extremely low drag and ‘sensationally low CO2 exhaust emissions’.
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The hacker that managed to port the BBC’s iPlayer onto the PS3 console has been unofficially offered a job by the BBC’s Head of Digital Media Technology, Future Media & Technology.
Anthony Rose, who was speaking about what the BBC was hoping to do with iPlayer on the PS3 and other consoles, jokingly [but maybe for real] offered the hacker a job on his BBC blog:
“By the way, if the person who created the ps3iplayer port is looking for a job at the BBC, (s)he's welcome to contact me ;-)”
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Next time you’re in London at 3am and wake to find yourself mysteriously shoeless, just point your feet towards Carnaby St., to what is being billed as the UK’s first sports trainer vending machine.
Those wacky Japanese will sell pretty much anything in a vending machine and it’s high time we got some of that 24-hour shopping experience over here.
Japanese sports brand, Onitsuka Tiger, which has a store off Carnaby St., has just launched a vending machine containing 24 pair of trainers in 6 different sizes.
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As kids toys go, Lego gets around more than most and with a new Lego Mp3 player on the block it looks likely that Lego will remain one of the most modified objects available.
This is the Homade MP3 i-Player which looks like a Lego brick, weighs a featherweight 26g and joins a growing family of eclectic gadgets inspired by Lego, like the LaCie Lego Hard Disk Drives, the battling Lego Robots and the, quite frankly insane, Lego Flamethrower. Here are the key features:
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You have to give it to elderly Afghan inventor, Hanif Molavizadeh, because when the local Asbos come to rob him of the very few things he owns, they’re going home filled with lead.
Hanif has built a very rough and ready Kalashnikov Burglar Alarm, designed to take a routine robbery to DEFCON 1 in a matter of seconds. The rifle is attached to a sensor, alarm and a speaker phone, which alerts him to a burglary in process on his mobile.
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