At just 2.5-pounds, the Lenovo X300 features a 1.2-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SL7100 processor, 2GB of memory, 64GB SSD drive, and integrated EVDO (Verizon Wireless). Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Laptop Mag posted this nice little tour of the Lenovo X300. Looks great, covering so many of those shortcomings of the Apple Airbook, at the cost of more girth. The guy in the video hefts it around, making it implicitly clear that it is not nearly as thin as the Air, but what’s a few more millimeters?

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To make your own nifty water gun alarm clock you’ll need: “some soldering skills, a motorized water gun, a voltage relay switch, a bread board circuit and some basic tools.” Video after the break.

If this doesn’t wake you up, you are going to be condemmed to a lifetime of lateness my friend. That is until someone develops an alarm clock that slaps you in the face and/or groin each day promptly at 6:30am

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Built by Tokyo University engineer Tsuyoshi Horo, this high-tech robot uses cameras to “create a real-time, 3D, volumetric model of objects or people in the space, which is then converted into a psychedelic stack of virtual cubes which are read and processed as data.” Videos after the break.

The researcher is utilizing a circular array of cameras to track and detect body movement within a controlled environment, and then translate those movements to actions for an automaton

[via Engadget]

Motion capture company Mova used a special array of cameras and Unreal Engine 3 to create this amazing face animation, rendered in real-time with “dual NVIDIA 8800 GTXs”. Videos after the break. Click here for one more picture.

At this year’s GDC, the company is trying to attract the game industry’s attention by unveiling examples of their facial modeling running in real-time on the popular Unreal Engine 3

[via Joystiq]

ASUS’ Mac Mini-inspired Nova P22 proves that good computers can come in small packages. Priced from $899, it comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (1.86-GHz), 1GB of memory, 160GB hard drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi, slot-loading disc drive, and integrated Hi-Fi speakers. Available now. Click here for first picture in gallery.

ASUS’s P22 Nova is a small (9x7x2 in, under 4 lbs.), attractive PC designed for the living room. The cool thing is it has built in Hi-Fi Speakers, providing something more than TV speakers if you lack a 5.1 setup

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If you’ve always wondered how hard candy was manufactured, then check out this interesting “How it’s Made” segment. Video after the break.

Candy is made by dissolving sugar in water or milk to form a syrup, which is boiled until it reaches the desired concentration or starts to caramelize. The type of candy depends on the ingredients and how long the mixture is boiled. Candy comes in an endless variety of textures from soft and chewy to hard and brittle

Alter-G puts all the extras into this futuristic “anti-gravity” treadmill — FDA approved for rehabilitation purposes. Video after the break. Click here for one more picture. Here’s how it works:

The physical lifting force generated by the G-Trainer comes from a difference in air pressure around the user’s body. Normal environmental air pressure is approximately 15psi. The maximum amount of air pressure used in the G-Trainer, if the user chooses to reduce effective body weight at the maximum 80%, is 16.5psi, so the difference is very slight. At the maximum air pressure, the user experience feels similar to the pressure against your feet if you were standing in waist-high water, but without the resistance or movement of water

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Not only does it look like a Wiimote, but this fully-functional USB drive (1GB – 8GB) has a slide-out connector, which appears at the push of a button. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Switch On: Press the A key and the USB connector will eject from the housing. Switch Off: Press and hold the A key and push the USB connector back into the device housing until it locks into place

(Thanks, David P.)

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