Dervish Ceiling Fan 
I can't really say much about this, because this quote from Philippe Malouin, the creator, says pretty much everything:
"While borrowing a friend's car for the day, I decided to have it washed to show my gratitude. I pulled into an automated carwash, and while inside, I couldn't help but notice how the carwash brushes completely alter their shape from flimsy drooping hair covered rods to massive powerful beams. Could this quality of transformation be applied to the home sector? Where would a transforming apparatus find use in the home?
The carwash brushes go from limp, to cones, to beams. A lamp could use this whimsical feature to direct light, from a tube of light to a cone, to an open light source. The contraption, with its spinning, would produce a rather considerable amount of wind. Ceiling fans have not changed in the slightest ever since their introduction. Apart from finishes and rotation speed, they have always remained rather dull."
In short, his goal is to make a fancy new ceiling fan, inspired by a car wash.
Do you want the full story? dornob.com has it
Apple and Google
Quite a while ago, Google wanted to get an app for the iPhone for their Google Voice. Originally, Apple says they are still reviewing it; Google recently rebuts with calling them liars, that they rejected GV back in July, then Apple comes back reiterating that they haven't accepted or rejected and that this is a false accusation.
While GV itself might not be a big deal to most people, the real issue is this: one of them outright lied.
(for those that don't know what Google Voice is) go to google.com
Nanotubes could Create Self-Healing Tech
Electronic devices of the future may self-repair tiny cracks or breaks in their circuitry with the help of nanotubes. Researchers at the University of Illinois have created capsules that hold conductive nanotubes and can be put on circuit boards. When something breaks inside, so does a capsule and nanotubes are released to bridge the gap. This could help cell phones and laptops.
However, convenience items aren't all it will help; this technology can also be useful in larger things such as satellites or in submarines, where manual repair is tedious and impractical.
full story at popsci.com
Apple iPod Touch (third generation, 64GB)
The good: The third generation of Apple's iPod Touch is still the king of the hill when it comes to portable, Wi-Fi-wielding media players. New additions such as Voice Control, graphics enhancements, improved accessibility, higher capacity, and a faster processor help to refine an already excellent product.
The bad: The video cameras found on the iPhone 3GS and iPod Nano remain conspicuously absent. The lack of refinements to its audio quality, hardware design, and video playback leave us feeling just a little uninspired.
The bottom line: Though the updates are subtle, the third-generation iPod Touch leaves its competitors in the dust.
full story at reviews.cnet.com
Polaris Phone
The Polaris phone has three parts: the phone, your television, and the robotic sphere. The sphere has speakers for the phone's music, and will roll to the nearest power source to charge it. It also connects to the television to display the detailed data about your life and behavior that the phone stores. That's right, the phone follows where you go, who you e-mail, what you buy, pretty much everything; then it gives out advice based on it's collected data.
Of course this sounds like it could be terrible; if your phone was stolen, hacked, etc. then you'd have problems; but it also sounds pretty advanced. here's the full story. engadget.com
SlingPlayer for iPhone
A Slingbox takes the cable or satellite TV you get from your TV at home (or whoever's TV it's hooked up to, for that matter) and transmits it to your computer, convenient for region-specific televised events, or just watching those channels that you payed extra for. Slingbox sets atop any video player and transmits the signal in real time, not a recording.
Now the company is releasing SlingPlayer, an iPhone app that connects to the Slingbox and plays TV on your iPhone rather than your computer. However, AT&T has refused the use of 3G for this app, because too many people were using it and straining their network.
full story at slingbox.com
A Cool Phone You Probably Won't be Getting
With a 4 inch, 800 pixel wide screen, 21:9 aspect ratio, 3D UI, 7.2 Mbp/s HSDPA, a wide screen for viewing web pages full width and room for a QWERTY keyboard and a scratch proof screen, LG's BL40 is more like a miniature computer than a phone (then again, what new high tech phone isn't?). Unfortunately for anyone who just thought they found their next phone, this one has no plans of being released in the US, only Europe.
But so you aren't totally crushed, the fact that it isn't coming to the US isn't totally official. As of now, it is only going on sale in 54 countries.
full story at mobile.engadget.com
Europe Makes Cellphone Charging more Convenient
Anyone who's ever lost a cellphone charger knows what an annoyance it is. The European Union (the EU) is trying to convert all European cellphone companies to create a single cellphone charger based around computer USB ports. Some of the largest companies (Motorola, Nokia, Apple) have agreed to the change. The change is expected to take place at the beginning of next year.
full story at boingboing.com
ChefStack
Forget all these fancy cellphones and mp3 players, what you really want is pancakes. The ChefStack is meant for convenience stores, coffee shops, and other miscellaneous breakfast places. After filling it with batter, the ChefStack pumps out pancakes and perfectly stacks them -- at a rate of 200 per hour. You could have more pancakes than you could eat in only fifteen minutes.
However, at $3,500, only the previously mentioned miscellaneous breakfast places and people with an exceptional amount of pocket change will be getting this personal pancake chef.
want the full story? uncrate.com has it
CRISTAL Universal Remote Control
But not really, because a universal coffee table is cooler. CRISTAL (Control of Remotely
Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is just that: a table. Working in conjunction with an overhead camera, a live picture of the room is shown on the table. Interacting with remotely controlled electronics is as easy as touching it.
You can browse digital movies on network storage, watch them by simply dragging them to the TV, and you can watch previews on the tabletop. The same goes for photos as well. You can also manage your lighting via CRISTAL. When released, CRISTAL could cost around $15,000, but as of now it's under development by the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Media Interaction Lab.
full story you gotta see at touch.schematic.com
DROID
The thickness of the DROID is striking, coming in at just a hair (13.7mm vs 12.33mm) thicker than the iPhone 3GS. The body itself is actually narrower than the iPhone. While thinness is important (though typically not a deal breaker for us), the fact that the phone packs a larger, higher resolution screen and a physical keyboard in such a small frame is notable.
Throughout our tests, we were consistently impressed with the tightness and speed of navigation on the phone. The DROID makes Android feel modern the way the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre are -- like machines designed for a pace of life that's increasingly more Twitter and less USPS. Full story, you must see, yes? Well go to engadget.com
NEW PSP GO
On the surface, Sony's PSP Go doesn't really look like anything radically new for the PSP franchise. Yes, it's more compact than the three earlier generations of the portable gaming and multimedia handheld device. And yes, it features such additions as built-in Blue tooth, slide-out controls, and a smaller, more pocketable overall design. But the real change here--the radical departure, if you will--is the fact that the Go is the first dedicated handheld gaming system to go completely digital and move away from cartridges or optical discs.
Is that a good idea? Well, with the success of Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch as casual gaming devices, Sony has little choice to head down this path and it's probably smart that's doing it sooner rather than later (you can argue whether it should have done it four years ago, but that's another story). That said, while we applaud the jump to a digital-download-based system, it's certainly fraught with challenges, and how Sony overcomes them will go a long way to determining the PSP Go's success.
FULL STORY...reviews.cnet.com has it