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For the Bond fans, MI fans, tree huggers, and misers our there, we just found something all four groups could find interesting. The Xerox Corporation just developed a new paper that erases whatever`s printed on it within the day, allowing for multiple use of the same paper, and keeping sensitive info (like Bond`s martini recipe) a one-read, "For your eyes only" deal.Xerox Research Centre of Canada, in collaboration with Palo Alto Research Center Inc, have just developed a new printing technology that treated the paper with a special compound that, while it retained the image or text like normal paper, would begin to fade and disappear from the paper within 16-24 hours after print. "Despite our reliance on computers to share and process information, there is still a strong dependence on the printed page for reading and absorbing content. Of course, we`d all like to use less paper, but we know from talking with customers that many people still prefer to work with information on paper. Self-erasing documents for short-term use offers the best of both worlds," said Paul Smith from XRCC.While the process and the "Bond" paper developed is still experimental, Xerox has high hopes for this program, and has already filed a patent for their "erasable paper". Hopefully, it won`t follow the foot steps of the Xerox Alto. Sadly, there`s no news on any developments for reusable toilet paper. Dang, we could use that.

These days, flash drives are kinda like keys. No, not in the sense that they`re jangly and can be used to scratch the hell out of your neighbor`s car`s fancy new paint job - although you can use it for that purpose too.What I mean is that they get lost so easily these days. With the sizes of these things - and they`re getting even smaller, too - it`s not that hard to misplace one and then lost your head over all of the "sensitive data" (read: pr0n) that you have stored in `em.In order to combat this plague of the lost USB flash drives, one brave soul had one of the funniest and coolest ideas that I`ve heard this year: he stuck it inside a bowling ball. Yep, guy named Chris Spurgeon over at SpurgeonWorld.com embedded his flash drive into a regulation sixteen pound bowling ball. The only thing that protrudes out of the ball is the drive`s USB plug, and aside from being a perfect deterrent to the flash drive`s accidental loss (I mean c`mon, just how can you misplace a regulation-size bowling ball?), it also makes a great conversation piece/gift.Oh, and most importantly? It still works. Of course, you don`t plug the whole thing directly into your computer. Just plug a USB extension cable into it and voila! Everything`s good to go. Kinda turns the whole "plug your USB drive into your computer" thing around, doesn`t it? With a flash drive like this, it`ll be like you`re plugging your computer into the bowling ball instead. Now if only the plug was retractable so you could still bowl with the ball...

The Neuros Recorder 2 might be turning one year old in December, but it doesn`t diminish the awesomeness of the device. In fact, people who`ve been looking for an excuse to buy more tech will probably be pleased to hear that the Neuros 2 is once again on sale. We picked up word of another Amazon markdown, and the Neuros was one of the products getting a price reduction. The Neuros is currently being sold for US 99.99, and the sale only has two days left. For those who haven`t heard of the doohickey, the Neuros Recorder is a mini digital VCR your PSP, iPod Video, cellular phone, or other handhelds. Now, before you start flaming us with sentences like "QJ sucks," or "Woohoo I wanna have ur babyz!" it would be good to note that the Holidays are coming. For the budding video editors out there who want to make skating trick vids while playing Tony Hawk on your PSP, or the gamers who know someone who could use this, it would make a pretty interesting gift. If you wanna grab more information, check out the review we made on it some months back. Just remember: contrary to the comments on the linked article, we`re not advertisers. We just have the very bad tendency to sound like them when we`re in a drunken stupor while writing. Enjoy!

Finding a cab during rush hour is bad. Finding a cab during rush hour in the middle of a heavy downpour is worse. It`s a sad situation: just you and your umbrella. Enter Pileus, the umbrella that entertains. Researchers at Tokyo`s Keio University has built a system that allows YouTube videos and Flickr photos to be projected on your opened umbrella via a Wi-Fi connection. The umbrella grip houses the RFID reader, RFID tag, rotary sensor, camera, and the projector. Users can take photos or videos and the Pileus WebService uploads them to Flickr or YouTube. Users can start browsing just by simply twisting the grip. With a nifty device such as this, singing in the rain becomes an obsolete form of entertainment. The Pileus might just catch on, if only for the entertainment factor. But it does bring up the issue of sidewalk accidents. Pileus users might get too caught up with the device and miss the open manhole just a few steps away. That, or people missing work due to a severe case of stiff neck.

Ah, America. Land of political WTF-ery. In one of the strangest foreign policy moves ever done during the Bush administration , the US government is trying to impose trade sanctions against North Korea, specifically against items that Kim Jong Il likes or which are gifted to him by loyalists.What does the North Korean leader like, aside from platform shoes and bling-bling? Why, tech stuff and other assorted luxuries, of course. The Associated Press report says that, in addition to any new tech, such as iPods, PS3s and the like, they also want to ban just about everything else, even sports equipment (Kim compensates for his short stature with a love for basketball, apparently). The AP article cites a lot of other items among those to be placed under trade sanctions: But the list of proposed luxury sanctions, obtained by The Associated Press, aims to make Kim`s swanky life harder: No more cognac, Rolex watches, cigarettes, artwork, expensive cars, Harley Davidson motorcycles or even personal watercraft, such as Jet Skis.Now, let`s get some perspective on this. The man makes secret nuclear tests in his country and the people under his rule suffer from food shortages. That`s a result of rather selfish decisions on Kim`s part, as well as a lack of foreign aid because no one really likes him for messing with nukes right now. The plan, as "creative" as some of the supporters of the trade sanctions might think of it, would only push North Korea`s world leader to use more money to purchase the same things through the black markets (or eBay). If the leader of nuclear-capable nation wants a PS3, why would you try a stunt like this to get him to listen to you?Robert J. Einhorn, a former senior State Department official who once went to Korea, said of the plan, "It can`t hurt, but whether it works, we don`t know." Trust a gamer to tell you this plain and simple: if PS3 fanboys are willing to wait out in the cold for days to get a PS3, and grey market sellers don`t mind shooting people for those goods, you are wrong in assuming it can`t hurt.

The iPod killer, the future-proof MP3 player, the cool-looking portable Hard Drive. The Zune`s been called a lot of things (we`ll omit what the iPod dudes have to say for now), and while we do like the functions that it`s been churning out, and Bill Gate`s exceeding expectations for his (other) little black box, we were beginning to wonder just how people took to it as compared to the iPod."I have never heard of the Zune," came the reply of one sales clerk when asked about the Zune, at least according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Munster had conducted a survey on at 40 major retails stores, and found in his results that only 8 of the sales clerks ever recommended the Zune, with 75 recommending the iPod for customers. "In fact, some MP3 player salespeople had not even heard of the Zune, despite the fact that they sold it in their store," Munster also writes in his report. Ouch. As of Tuesday, the Zune`s on the #22 spot for Amazon`s most sold MP3 player, the 30-gigabyte ipod taking the #1 spot, the 1-gig iPod shuffle at #3, and the pink 4-gig Nano at #5.And what of marketing for the Zune? "our checks show that Zune ads are being placed more selectively than iPod ads," Munster said, adding that the Zune "is off to a slow start; from sales perspective as well as the marketing perspective." Given the season`s just starting up, we`re going to have to see what lies in store for the Zune.

After its public debut last November 14, it`s time to check up on the much-hyped and supposed iPod-killer, the MS Zune. So how is Microsoft`s foray into the portable media business doing? Not too good.After having proclaimed itself as THE portable music player to bring the iPod to its knees, it seems that the Zune has barely made a dent in a market which is still dominated by Apple. Afterall, the Zune seems to be one full gen behind its competitor, as Apple has already released its second gen line of new, cooler and sleeker iPods, iPod Nanos and iPod Shuffles.So why isn`t the Zune flying off the shelves like Microsoft first thought it would? Well, a report over at NBC 11 points out two main factors: its lack of colors, and its lack of just being plain hip.Sure, the Zune can do just about anything the iPod can, and music can even be purchased at the same price that Apple offers at their iTunes Music Store, but would you really want to walk around with a BROWN MP3 player while everyone else has got models in gorgeous shades of red, blue, silver, teal and purple? According to the analyst Rob Enderle, "Microsoft came to the conclusion after market research that the new hot color is brown... No other hardware company has come to that conclusion."So, Microsoft wants this new creation of theirs to become the public`s new darling, they better shape up and stop being out of touch with the public`s tastes, because otherwise, Craig Ferguson`s predictions just might come true, and the only thing that would be cool about the Zune would be its name.

Yeah, yeah. A lot of people have tinkered with flashlights already - there is the flashlight-slash-boombox, there is a flashlight made from an empty Tic Tac container and an Inkjet cartridge, and there`s even a shake flashlight. "Flashlight modding" isn`t something new, but as they say, idle hands are the devil`s instrument, so you can`t blame people from doing something, uhmm, productive with their spare time and idle hands.But none of these flashlight mods could top this. Yup, flashlights light up stuff in the dark, but there is this flashlight that lights stuff on fire. While we we`re browsing through YouTube, we found this video uploaded by MrMcCracken and it stars a flashlight that puts stuff on fire. We don`t know for sure if it`s real or if it`s a hoax. Maybe you should take a look and tell us what you think of it.