New Laptop for only $20 announced in India

India announced a new Laptop initiative crushing the OLPC program's rock-bottom price of $100 per laptop.
R.P. Agrawal, secretary of secondary and higher education, said last week that the cost of the laptop was about $20 a unit, and that expected that to fall. He also said he expected the units to be commercially available in six months. My suspicion is that the laptop will actually be a Network Node - i.e. not have software embedded, and work in a local "cloud" suitable for Universities or IT networked schools.

New 8 Wheel Electric Cra

NEXT: a four-door eight-wheeled electric car. Called the Eliica and is intended for the consmer market.

The Eliica which stands for Electric Lithium-Ion battery Car - is an eight-wheeled powered by eight in-wheel electric motors producing 60 KW or roughly 80 hp each, the Eliica will accelerate to 60 mph in leunder 4 seconds and is promised to reach 100mph in just 3 seconds more. PRICE: one Eliica for $255,000 pending development sponsorship.

Disposable Email Accounts Made Easy - look Ma I'm melting!

Melt Mail is a new free email forwarding service that lets users create a temporary email address for forw3arding email to their "real" email address. Users enter the email address they want messages forwarded to, define how long they want it to work, and then hit Create. Melt Mail generates a random address suers can register on spam-likely sites so the site's subsequent forwarding will stop. Very simple interface. We can expect an alternate solution from GMail soon!

Speed Typing by Smearing letters on touch-screen

The screengrab (left) shows how to type the word “quick” on any touch-screen device, by tracing the path shown above in a fraction of a second, by roughly aiming to pass through the letters of the word. The intention of Swype is that there should be no need to be very accurate, enabling very rapid text entry. Swype was one of 5 top TechCrunch finalists - and their primary business model is to be OEM licensing.

Sign up here for the beta: http://www.swypeinc.com/beta.html

New nano drug delivery mechanism

The new proposed AdminPatch system is a microneedle transdermal delivery technology that forms hundreds of tiny aqueous channels (micropores) through the skin. Proteins and water-soluble molecules can enter the body through these aqueous micropores. The punch holes or created aqueous channels stay open while AdminPatch is applied through the skin.

The AdminPatch system can be a single-use disposable unit - or a re-useable handheld Applicator. The disposable AdminPatch contains a proprietary microneedle array laminated on a conventional transdermal drug-in-adhesive patch.

AdminPatch is based on the proprietary microneedle shape which has been developed by nanoBioSciences LLC. The proprietary microneedle shape allows continuous delivery of drugs when the microneedle is inserted in the skin. The microneedles are formed from a standard metal film. A conventional transdermal drug-in-adhesive patch is laminated on the back surface of the microneedles.

The aqueous channels formed by the microneedles have a depth of about 100 microns, deep enough to extend through the viable epidermis but shallow enough to avoid the dermis and any pain receptors.

When the transdermal patch is removed from the skin, the micropores simply collapse and the skin barrier repairs itself.

Xobni adds facebook, Yahoo! and Hoovers to Outlook

Xobni (inbox spelled backwards) the powerful Outlook plug-in has just added third party functionaily with facebook, Hoovers and Yahoo. If you haven't tried Xobni already - the Xobni free plug-in adds search and statistical data to your Outlook Mailbox that puts the email application on Steroids. With the new thrid-party integration, Xobni users can search within their Outlook and Yahoo inboxes. Similarly, clicking on a Facebook tab will bring up the most recent updates from contacts who are also your Facebook friends. Hoover, meanwhile, provides data on the company associated with a particular contact's e-mail address. Tabs that do not interest users can be collapsed.
Xobni already had functional integration with Skype and LinkedIn - dated back last July. Here's the download page for Xobni: http://www.xobni.com/download

Wiki for Nano Safety

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it is is co-developing a collaborative Website intended to establish standard methods for controlling the environmental, health and safety risks of nanotechnology.