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Sony has just informed Euroland that its Qriocity on-demand ecosystem will be showing up in the continent’s wealthier regions this fall. France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK will get a chance to savor the Video On Demand option, which will form the vanguard of a wideranging content streaming service, available on Sony networked devices — yes, that includes the do-it-all PlayStation 3. The heavyweight movie studios behind the venture include 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, MGM, NBC Universal, Paramount and, of course, Sony’s moviemaking arm. But you already knew that, given that the whole enchilada’s been available to American gringos since April. All Qriocity participants will get to use a new Music Unlimited service, which is launching by the end of the year with as yet undetermined pricing. Plans are also afoot to offer Qriocity on third party devices, but until then you’ll wanna make sure to have one of them newfangled web-connected Bravia TVs or any of the litany of Blu-ray players and home theater setups Sony is busy promoting right this minute.

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Babies. I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust ’em. Those bald heads and toothless mouths. Those soft spots and unfused bones. And just when you think they’re on your side, it turns out to be gas. Worst of all, you never know what they’re up to. If only there were a convenient–yet fashionable–way to track their every movements.

What’s this? Exmovere has the solution? The company behind the Wearable Chariot (a robotic centaur-like wearable Segway thingamaglob) is giving the world Exmobaby, infant pajamas with built-in monitors for your baby’s heart rate, behavior, and even its emotional state.

The pajamas likely won’t make your baby any happier than a standard pair of PJs, but they’ll certainly be able to let you know just how depressed your kid is, by sending that information your mobile phone via a series of icons.

Exmobaby is coming out at some point next year, so go start making those babies now.

Deep down, NASA scientists–all scientists, really–get into this business to blow stuff up. No one’s really watching Mythbusters to learn about the physics of how a cup of jello handles a ride down an escalator in a humid room. We watch to see things go kablooey in the presence of high-speed cameras which allow the kablooey to be looped time and time again in all its kablooable glory.

That’s why NASA engineers must have been in science kablooey nerd heaven yesterday as they tested the monstrous DM-2 rocket in the Utah desert. The DM-2 is the world’s largest, most powerful solid rocket motor and is designed to provide up to 3.6 million pounds of thrust. That means if it wanted to, the DM-2 could punch God in the face. The rocket is slated for use as a heavy-lifter in 2015.

To be sure, the thrust and power of the DM-2 is very impressive. But in this day and age, I was kind of hoping NASA (or private industry) might have created a more practical means of transport into space? Anything happening with that Space Elevator concept? Anyone else disappointed that in 2010 we’d still be testing bigger and bigger Godzilla rockets?

Very loud rocket test video after the jump.