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 Every day, I see commuters hunched over their iPhones and other smartphones watching videos on their devices, and it looks uncomfortable and full of compromises. Michigan-based Avegant ran a Kickstarter earlier this year to address this issue, with Glyph, a head-mounted display that’s designed to both blend into your surroundings with a headphone-style design and also offer up a… Read More

Not long ago, mining Bitcoin was territory for serious nerds and hardware freaks who were willing to horde GPUs and Frankenstein them into hulking digital drills that devoured electricity and spit out cryptocurrency and garbage heat. Now, all you have to do is buy a little black box on Walmart.com.

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You know how some things you expect to be sacred, but then it turns out that even Nintendo is prepared to bulldoze your childhood in exchange for some cash? Welcome to 2014, where you can drive a Mercedes-Benz in Mario Kart 8 and witness the…

Steve Rogers, the weakling who gets his butt kicked around all over the place before he was injected with the most American thing in the 1940s, steroids – I jest, a Super Soldier serum, in order to let his physical ability catch up with his patriotic fire, also needs a watch to tell the time. You know, so that he is able to execute whatever plan that the Army has for him in tandem with the rest of the team, and not go off all on his own at his pace just because he has this Super Soldier moniker stuck to him. Well, no ordinary watch is going to do then, so why not let him settle for the $129.99 Captain America Executive Shield Watch?

The Captain America Executive Shield Watch is a Super-Soldier’s super watch, where it boasts of solid stainless steel construction with Cap’s shield right smack on the face. Do bear in mind that this is an officially-licensed Marvel merchandise, and it comes in a box as well that makes it suitable for gifting. Cap’s shield is on the face of the timepiece, where it boasts of blue highlights on the hands, case, and crown. It is water resistant up to 3 ATM, and will run on SR626SW batteries.
[ Captain America Executive Shield Watch lets you tell the time like a Super Soldier copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

The world’s mega cities are certainly getting more and more densely populated as well as congested, as just about everyone wants in on the action – city life tends to be more glamorous and glitzy after all. Traffic woes, however, seem to have been accepted as part and parcel of a cosmopolitan city life, and it seems that cars of the future will have to be designed to help ease congestion on our roads. Sounds impossible? What you see above happens to be an idea by designer Alex Langensiepen who comes from Beverly Hills, MI, United States, calling it the “USF – Ultra Small Footprint Vehicle”.

This particular concept was specially designed to thrive within the city of Tokyo when the year 2025 arrives, with the whole objective of the USF being to bring excitement back into the commuter’s everyday travels. Tokyo might have one of the world’s most efficient transportation systems around, being prompt as well, but it does not deal with the over capacity issue which could be close to 200% in certain cases, leading to an extremely cramped experience when one goes to work.

The inspiration? Movies such as Tron, where a vehicle could disappear and re-appear on command. The USF has a motor, battery system, and protective structure that are stored within a couple of spacious, hub-less wheels on either side of the seat, which maximizes the amount of space while reducing weight in the process. There is also the weather protection system that can adjust itself automatically, upon figuring out the direction of the rain. Apart from that, it can also fold itself into a smaller size that will help reduce its footprint further, making it a snap to store. Will it ever become reality? Not anytime soon, unfortunately.

Ultra Small Footprint Vehicle Could Be Future Urban Transport

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