Virtual Cocoon Is The First Virtual Reality Headset That Can Mimic All Senses – “British scientists have designed a virtual reality headset that is able to recreate the smell, sound, sight and taste of every place on the Earth, as it is nowadays or was thousands of years ago. The user will be able to smell the rarest flowers on Earth, hear the sound of whales or feel the heat of the sun in the hottest place on Earth…”

Docs seek gag orders to stop patients’ reviews – “‘They’re basically forcing the patients to choose between health care and their First Amendment rights, and I really find that repulsive,’ Swapceinski said.”

World’s First 4K 3D Digital Cinema Camera System For Studio, Location, and Underwater Filming With RED Cameras – “Liquid Pictures, a pioneer in 3D stereo production and cinematography, today announced the world’s first camera system utilizing RED Digital Cinema cameras capable of shooting 4K 3D footage on land, underwater, and macro 3D. The proprietary Liquid Pictures 4K 3D Digital Cinema Camera System is uniquely built with an unprecedented range of acquisition options, including the world’s first Digital 3D underwater beam splitter housing…”

10 Amazing High Tech Crimes (Which Mostly Failed) – “If crime didn’t pay, there wouldn’t be any criminals. Throughout history, the successful criminals have used technology to stay above and beyond the law, developing new techniques to hedge their bets and avoid arrest. While some tech masterminds have escaped the long arm of the law, most have still failed. Meet the 10 most amazing high tech crimes– and the fate of the criminals that pulled them off…”

Train Wrecks! – “These are wicked and miserable accidents and derailments, some of them large-scale, caused by a single error of machinist or controller, big enough to be recorded in history books…”

NVIDIA pushes ahead with 3D glasses, claims developer support – “Today, NVIDIA announces it has support from a list of developers, now proclaiming that 3D Vision has “received a rousing thumbs up from the who’s who in the game development world.” Certainly a step forward, but the biggest challenge remains: are people really going to buy into such a proprietary, pricey, and entirely optional piece of novelty equipment?”

IBM Creates Software for Holding Face-to-Face Meetings in Virtual Worlds – “IBM is making it easier for widely dispersed businesspeople to interact and collaborate without the time and expense of in-person meetings. “

NASA’s supercomputer – “51,000 cores, 609 Tflops/second”

IKEA Planner Visualizes Your Dream Rooms in 3D – “IKEA has released its own 3D room design tool to help you plan the modernist, clean-lined kitchen, bedroom, or workspace of your dreams. Check out screenshots of what the Swedes have given us below…”

The 8 Most Unusual & Cutting Edge Inks – “We have scoured the web for the most unusual, random and downright fascinating printing-related articles out there. We start with a playful look at the more frivolous side of ink innovation and swiftly move on to some industry advances that could make a real difference to the environment. Next, we explore how printing is being applied to microelectronics and finish off with a look at a printing application that could change the lives of millions of people in the most dramatic of ways. Who said printing’s boring?”

Your handwriting samples – “In response to our piece on the death of handwriting, hundreds of you sent in examples of your own. Here are a few…”

You Wouldn’t Let The Kids Play With Them: Ludicrously Expensive Toys – “To outsiders, collecting might seem like a pointless waste of time and money, but beauty – as they say – is in the eye of the beholder. Here’s a list of items created with their price tags becoming vastly inflated due to this infatuation the human race has with collecting things…”

The True Stories Behind 5 Famous WTF Images – “Most people have already seen the following images in the ‘WTF’ sections of social bookmarking sites, in threads dedicated to badass pictures or just circulated through their inboxes by the “funny” boss. There is never an explanation for these pictures, because they seem to intrinsically defy explanation…”

Amazon Releases Kindle for IPhone – “Amazon.com released Kindle for iPhone late Tuesday night, providing iPhone users with the ability to read more than 240,000 Kindle-formatted books from Amazon’s e-book library. It’s a free download from the App Store…”

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