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What you see above is a multi touch pad built from a plastic bag, dyed water and a camera. The camera looks up from below and the image it sees it converted in to three areas through threshold. Light blue represents the background with dark blue being the fingers which are seen as an overlay on the screen. Pressure points are seen as another colour and when the pressure points show up they are recognised and translated accordingly. More technical details can be found at 37Signals linked after the video demonstration below. On to the practical side of this… I doubt anyone would want to carry a plastic bag of blue dye around with them, but its still cool and well worth checking out.

Via: 37Signals

Biometrics are very handy as they allow secure access to places by fingerprint, eye scans and other various parts of your body. As long as you do not loose your fingers with this lock then you can get in and out when ever you want. It would seem a little weird swiping your finger over the sensor on your front door. With it being programmable you can deny access to who ever you want while permitting access to all of your family.

Via: ChilliTechnology

Halo 3 was finally launched yesterday, but unfortunately a lot of end users ended up getting a scratched disc like the one above. Microsoft have been good about it and will obviously be replacing any damaged discs, but it will take about 2 weeks to get the new copy back. This is effecting the limited edition versions.

Via: Fosfor

A project is being started which will convert a Honda VFR700F to electric power. The team is looking for help to get batteries and motors so some testing can be done. I wish them good luck and hopefully this post can send some help there way from our readers. Two chassis are being used which one will be for daily use and another as a drag bike. Sounds great and I look forwards to seeing what happens with this project.

Via: Gosleepgo

This new MP3 player is tiny. The ultra thin MP3 player has 2GB of storage which can be used for MP3s or mass storage. The player is also compatible with WMA files. There is no screen, so it could be compared to a shuffle. Also with it being ultra thin it will fit in your wallet. The MP3 player costs just $42 which is not bad at all.

Via: Engadget