Hasta La Gadget!

Google, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest all became hyper-valued tech
companies in a short time span — to the point that many doomsday
prognosticators are today beginning to cry "chicken-little." Comparison
to the Dot.com bubble of the late 90s is an easy analogy to draw, even
though today’s tech expansion differs markedly. Nonetheless, it’s enough
of a catalyst for the weak-at-heart to second-guess themselves. . .

Crowd-supporting website Quirky regularly receives ideas from inventors
for a chance to have their proto-inventions made into mass manufactured
products. Let’s take a peek at the latest batch of innovators and their
interesting ideas:

An industrial design student received her PhD cum laude last month for
her design of a Smart Jacket for premature babies. Her creation will, no doubt, launch a successful career for a new graduate, but change the
lives of millions of premature infants and their families…

…. On its face,
or throat, as is the case, the tattoo is innocent enough, but an optional
use for the tattoo includes the exhibit of galvanic skin responses to reveal whether one is "nervous or speaking falsehoods…." This widens
the application to include everyone from criminals to politicians to
cheating spouses to, well, just about anyone whose truthfulness one
may want to test!

Dodging the need for a separate sound card, Gigabyte’s new Intel board offers a Sound Blaster chip baked right on, among a few other curious audiophile-targeted features.