SciFi Tech had a great article about this new lighter than air craft.

Private jets? Please. New Money has earned the ability to buy something bigger and ostentatious-er. Ready for a flying palace? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

The Strato Cruiser Airship is a gigantic helium-filled blimp with a gourmet restaurant, spa, swimming pool, library and private offices. Add the Strato Cruiser’s resident DJ and it’s pretty much designed for a supervillain. I’m sure just kinda-evil rich people would enjoy, too.

Designs call for all manner of shiny, fun tech like carbon-fiber skin, sectional helium chambers and photovoltaic power cells. The Strato Cruiser’s but a concept, but you can still dream. Drool over those photos in the gallery below. — Adam Frucci

It makes you want to run right out, higher some henchmen (check out Local Henchman 432) and start working on your plan to conquer the world. If you do decide on this line of business then I would recommend reviewing the Evil Genius To Do List.

ThinkGeek is now featuring this very geeky t-shirt that changes based on the strength of wi-fi signals being detected. Since I looked up whether the short would detect only open wi-fi signals (not that it says), I think that says I am pretty geeky. An insight into how this works is provided by the washing instructions:

Washing Instructions

Carefully peel animated decal from front of T-Shirt

Unplug ribbon connector behind decal and remove decal

Unplug battery pack and remove it

You can leave the ribbon cable inside the shirt

Machine wash gentle cycle on cold

Hang to dry

According to the Sci Fi Tech Newsletter:

Want a bigger, better, faster bike? The HyperBike claims to be all of those things and more. Curtis DeForest wanted a bike that could keep up with traffic. He was inspired by the angled wheels on the wheelchairs used in wheelchair rugby, but in his design those tilted wheels are eight feet high.

“Riders” have to be strapped in, and once they are, the contraption supposedly allows them to cruise at up to 50 miles per hour without breaking a sweat. The bike has no seat and is powered by arms as well as legs. Because it’s a full-body workout, DeForest could market a stationary version as well.

Biking at 50 miles per hour sounds fun if scary. You would have to keep up with traffic as you would not be able to it this in the bike lane.

I saw this cool jacket in an article on CruchGear. It has light up LCDs on the back and apparently has an accelerometer so that it can detect when you are turning or stopping. The back of the jacket then changes color to indicate what you are doing. Cool. $200.

After listening to the most recent episode of David Pogue’s podcast I may have changed my mind about the next video camera I will buy. My plans were that the next video camera that I buy would be an HD camera, but after hearing about Sanyo’s new underwater camcorder I am intrigued by the possibility of taking a video camera snorkeling with me or down the waterslide.

Sanyo Xacti VPC-E1 6MP Waterproof MPEG4 Camcorder

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Get that freshly buzzed caffeinated feeling from your soap. Washing with this soap from Think Geek is supposed to give you the caffeine equivalent of two cups of coffee.

Another, “Ar you sure this is not April 1st” invention. Boing boing found this invention that is a shredder that is powered by a hamster. And then the shredded paper lines the bottom of the hamster page. Ingenious or weird?

Are you one of those people (like me) who prefers the edge brownies to the soft ones from the center of the pan? If so Boing Boing found a brownie pan with nothing but edges:

The Baker’s Edge brownie pan is a labyrinthine trough running through a rectangular pan. The topology means that every brownie cut from the pan has at least two edges, to ensure maximum crunchy/doughy contrasts throughout the snack.

Now here is a cool trick. SciFi.com caught this story about a cool experiment at Purdue:

Working on two problems at once, Purdue University researchers are building a prototype generator that would create useful energy by munching up all sorts of garbage. Dubbed the tactical biorefinery, it has soldiers’ needs in mind. They can tote this thing around to not only give them mobile electricity, but to take care of their garbage as well. It doesn’t seem to care what kind of junk you stick into it, which is pretty amazing. Just tip that trash can and power your plasma TV for a couple of days.

It supposedly would create 90% more energy than it uses, which is damned impressive. All right, when can this be ready for consumer use? Let’s see it, Purdue.

The T-equalizer flashwear is not your father’s t-shirt.

The shirt has an equalizer on the front of the shirt that actually “hears” the music you’re playing and lights up to beat of the music.

Check out this video: