Chechen soldiers' Flinstonian phone charger

Brilliant use of technology and woodworking skills. Now they just need to put a Pelton Wheel on it and drop it beside a stream.

Twittervision

Cool mash-up… http://twittervision.com/ and quite fascinating to watch.

But then as per Jon Stewart I’m not sure I still get it…

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Precision Agriculture

Cultivating and harvesting tomatoes with robotics. The video is fantastic; esp. them watering the plants but it may have some way to go before picking becomes reality.

The next boat perhaps?

An electric hybrid wakeboard boat.

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/03/epic-wakeboats.html

Vineyard Fresh

Only an infrequent problem around our house but VineyardFresh promises to preserve open bottles of wine by stopping the process of oxidation. According to the Web site, you simply spray two quick bursts of a mixture of argon with a small percentage of nitrogen, and then "a combination of chemistry and physics" takes over and creates a protective barrier between remaining wine and the air left in the bottle, preventing oxidation.