Willow Garage Robots

These guys are doing some pretty cool stuff with robots including this video which shows a PR2 going around an office opening doors and plugging itself into power outlets.

Tricycle to map tourist hotspots for Google Street View

Google Street View is heading off-road, with plans to use special tricycles to map Britain's countryside and urban footpaths.

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/tricycle-to-map-tourist-hotspots-for-google-street-view-21662

Bike Porter Integrated Handlebar Basket

As weird sounding as it is these integrated handlebars \ bike baskets from Good Morning Technology seem like not a bad idea for city style bikes… although they look better mounted on the bike.

Sparse entries…

Haven’t come across much of interest of late and then suddenly there’s this…

…the MyPressi Espresso Machine powered by a gas cartridge. Cool!!!

Gmail brings “Insert Picture”

It’s taken them a fair while but at long last you don’t have to use messy workarounds to put a picture in a new email.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-in-labs-inserting-images.html

Bumptop – 3D Desktop organisation

The traditional computing desktop is broken, according to Bump Technologies. Interfaces that force users to drag equally sized icons around a flat canvas and tediously organize them into deliberately named folders haven't improved much across platforms in the past 30 years, which is why the company created BumpTop. Combining the free-form organizational features offered by your real-world desk with the aging desktop paradigm, BumpTop brings an entirely new meaning to "drag and drop”

Scarpar off-road powerboard

Watch the video for an explanation! Apparently it has an 80cc engine stashed somewhere but http://www.scarpar.com/ doesn’t give away too many specs…