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The most fuel efficient hybrid for sale in the US gets 51 MPG, but a startup called Transonic Combustion claims they can improve that. They claim their fuel-injection system will get 64 MPG

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This Fuel-Injection System Might Increase Fuel Efficiency By Up To 50% [Cars]

The mad scientists at Google Labs have unleashed their latest concoction: Google Reader Play , a new way to look at your feeds one Google-suggested site at a time. It’s actually pretty neat! And would be perfect for the iPad. More »

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Google Prettifies RSS With Tablet-Ready Google Reader Play [Google]

After years of fighting, Amazon’s infamous 1-Click patent has been (re)confirmed. In other words, if a site wants to deploy a single-click checkout system for registered customers, it’s gotta license the tech from Amazon

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Amazon Now Owns the Concept of One-Click Online Checkouts [Patents]

Apart from the name—which I personally approve of very much—Zenitum’s iKat app has another cool edge to it. It’s (we think) the first augmented reality phone app to work without a marker, or real-world prompt. The app itself is pretty basic, just a cartoon-like pet running around on whatever surface you aim the phone at

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iKat Augmented Reality App Works Without Real-World Prompt [Apps]

Sometimes Wi-Fi just doesn’t do the trick when streaming something to several devices. Zinnet’s Brite-View LinkE system will cover you there by allowing you to stream things over a powerline network to four ethernet devices and at up to 200Mbps

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Zinnet’s Brite-View LinkE Streams Content to Four Devices Over Powerline Networks [Zinnet]

For every time you’ve brought a scooter to the airport and wished it fit into the overhead compartment, I give you the Nexus: a battery-powered scooter that folds into a luggage-sized case.

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Nexus Scooter Carry-On: The Most Fun Way to Get Arrested In an Airport [Concepts]

As a kid I had a pair of Barbie sneakers that lit up with every step.

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Glowing Three-Inch Heels: The Adult Version of Light-Up Sneakers [Geek Fashion]

Buried in a site devoted to early robots is my dream man, Electron.

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I Want A Broad-Shouldered, 7ft Tall Man Robot To Rear My Children Too [Image Cache]

Johnny Cash can’t have known about carbon nanotubes when he sang about rings of fire, but MIT scientists have shown how they can create electrical current—about 100 times as much energy per unit of weight as lithium-ion batteries. The new experiments involved nanotubes, or submicroscopic structures just a few billionths of a meter in diameter, that can conduct both electricity and heat

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Heat-Channeling Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries [Nanotubes]