Flying cars would just remain as dreams. Not even one that we’ve heard that has made a success. Forget about those flying cars, a personal jet-powered flying wing definitely sounds more promising here. As it’s been tested at 8,000 feet above the ground. Here we come Ironman.

Yves Rossy, in Switzerland, has made an official demonstration for his jet-powered personal flying wing. He asked a plane to lift him up to 8000 feet in the sky and drop him from there to let him sail by his jet-powered flying wing. Everything had gone smoothly, the wing worked, and he’d traveled in the air for about 5 minutes, flying horizontally over the mountains at a speed of up to 186MPH before parachuting gently to the ground.

The wing is about 8 feet across, powered by 4 Jet-Cat P200 jet turbine engines, which each can output 50 pounds of thrust that allows a flight time to last up to 10 minutes. The only control of the wing is a throttle, so Yves had to control the direction of the wing entirely by his body.

The engine enables the user to ascend, which is at a rate of about 1,000 feet per minute. But it might have problem to let you take off completely from the ground. In order to fly in the sky, you’d probably need a plane to lift you up to certain height, let go to let you sail in the air on your own. It’d probably involve some complexity, at least, you’ll need to be trained to know when to parachute to the ground. I guess the device is still in the prototype stage. There are still lots of rooms for improvement, such as making it easier to operate. And safety is the main issue to be taken into consideration before it can get materialized as a commercial product.

I have no patience at all for playing around with Rubix cube as I’ve always been busy. But in fact it really takes time for me to solve this kind of cubic puzzle. Perhaps, I’ll need at least 30 minutes or more for a properly scrambled cube. Anyway, the Japanese has developed a new kind of robot, called Cube Kun, which its sole purpose is for solving Rubix cube. And this Cube Kun robot can solve Rubix cubes within seconds.

The Cubbe-Kun robot has a big flat face. While a cube is presented to him, he will quickly register what the six sides of the cube look like. And then displays it on its screen to continue figuring out a solution in about one second and the next few seconds his hands will start moving to solve the cube! Impressive? Of course, I wanna protest here. Our brains are not solely designed for solving Rubix cubes. We have very sophisticated brain that can solve tons of problems in life. Furthermore, we might be lacking of focus while solving those cubic puzzles as we have worries, distractions and lots of other excuses too.

This is the first early prototype of Google Android spotted, which looks like carrying an HTC form factor. The guy who found this Google phone, has some pretty positive comments for it. After using for a day, he found the phone is generally light and fast, even though this gadget is still in its early prototype. And it’s deemed much faster than the desktop emulator at times.

According to the guy, who is a long-time programmer, the OS that this gadget runs is much better than Windows Mobile 5. Things can change right? Something in its early prototype could be disabled with certain functionalities. Once everything is put together would be a different a story!

What are these Light Fingers for? Putting it on simply makes you look stupid? Perhaps you could make use of it to deceive any of your significant others that you possess some kind of supernatural power or you’d be the most outstanding one while hanging out at any parties.

As what the product page says:

A hypnotic light show at your fingertips; put on your favorite music, turn down the lights, and dazzle yourself with beams of pure color. You control more than 20 different pre-programmed light show patterns, plus a black light and strobe light add mind-blowing effects. It’s made of plastic and need 3 AAA batteries to keep your fingers illuminated.

The Dragonaut is a student project from the Parsons Making Wireless Toys class, created by Kan Yang Li — it’s a cardboard robot that uses an Arduino kit to give him life: “after you use a key to start him up, his arms raise and lower to proclaim ‘awesome!’”

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