Awesome Tech

Apple’s colorful new take on the nano changes things up with a tiny 1.48″ x 1.61″ x 0.35″ anodized aluminum case and a multi-touch interface for controlling your tunes.

Marty McFly’s shoes are supposed to be 5 years away from being real, but if Blake Bevin gets her way we’ll all be rockin Power Laces soon. Help her out by donating to her project.

This wireless controller features concave analog sticks and a d-pad that can shift between the “disc” format and the more accurate “plus” format. The color-coded buttons will be missed though.

If you struggle to keep your email box tidy, Google’s new tech might help. Gmail Priority Inbox uses fancy algorithms to automagically put your most important messages at the top of the list.

The Wilderness Downtown by Chris Milk uses Chrome to create an interactive and hyperactive music video for Arcade Fire’s “We Used To Wait”, and showcase the power of HTML5. Try it here.

Forget multi-monitor setups. Ostendotech’s 43″ CRVD 2880 x 900 curved display is all you need, whether for work or play. Ostendotech will even install and calibrate your display upon delivery.

The guys with the rights to the original Commodore name are releasing a new PC that looks just like an old C64. The PC64 will run on an Atom 525 CPU, and come with 4GB or RAM and a 1TB hard drive.

German tuning shop Brabus created the iBusiness by adding a Mac Mini and 2 iPads with Apple keyboards to the beastly Mercedes-Benz SV12-R. Bonus: 750 hp and 995 lb/ft of torque on tap.

The latest entry-level dSLR from Nikon gets a 14.2-megapixel CMOS sensor and full 1080p HD video. A 18-55mm zoom lens with image stabilization rounds out the package.

LaCie’s follow-up to the Rikiki portable hard drive retains the sleek look of its predecessor and adds practicality with an integrated USB cable and holder. Available in 500GB and 1TB.

SomethingAwful ridiculed Sony’s leaked PlayStation Move guide, which apparently was made for morons who need to be told that hitting people and objects with the controller is not advisable.

What happens when you take a pair of Nike Air Maxes, and combine them with a Wii Balance Board? This. Artist Nick Marsh managed to figure out a way to embed the sensors into his shoes.

Like old movies? This nifty iPad app gives you free access to a growing library of hundreds of streamed classics and B-movies, all in a familiar interface that’s as easy to navigate as it gets.

Google’s new plugin lets you call phones right from within Gmail’s chat window. Calls to the US & Canada are free for at least this year; check out Google’s blog for more info.

Etymotic now gives customers the option to have custom-fit eartips. Have your ears measured by an audiologist, then send the earmolds to ACS labs so they can make the eartips. The WSJ has more info.

Coming in early 2011, the Sony a560 camera comes with a 14.2 MP sensor and offers full 1080p HD movie shooting, 7 fps photo shooting mode, 15 point AF, and 3D Sweep Panorama mode.

An Xbox 360 looking good in crimson and gold, thanks to 19-year old Zachariah Perry Cruse. The console has a LED arc reactor, and the included 120gb hard drive has a Stark Industries logo.

While Apple’s multitasking on the iPhone is a little underwhelming, maybe they can learn a little something from this Cydia app with it’s Exposé-like UI for app switching. Works on iPads, too.

The Proxima concept is actually two devices – the rectangular phone and the wrist strap, which has a proximity sensor. The latter will beep if the two get separated by a certain distance.

While most of you guys are probably too young to need bifocals or reading glasses, you may be able to completely avoid them thanks to these new high-tech glasses with an adjustable focus slider.

Since this particular electronic voting machine is easily hackable, security researchers from the University of Michigan decided to turn this one into something more productive – a Pac-Man machine.

With Fujifilm’s new digicam captures 3D video in 720p HD, and lets you view images on 3D TVs, develop 3D lenticular prints, or view them on the built-in glasses-free 3D LCD viewfinder.

This 3+ minute reel of polygonal meshes, metaballs, fluids, and tearable fabric animations was all created with the new emPolygonizer2 plug-in for Softimage. CGI geeks, geek out!