Finally, the transparent toaster becomes a reality. Thought not as sleek as the concept, it actually functions and comes with “with insulated glass walls that let you see just exactly how burnt to a crisp your toast is getting.” Video after the break.

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There is nothing permanent except change. Therefore, in this ever changing world a Smartphone modded into a Steampunk-style cellphone looks ever so fitting. This mspark400 designed Steampunk Treo Smartphone Mark 1 with a retro looking watch dial on the keypad, completes a universe for any Steampunk aficionado. The Smartphone mod complete in leather and brass plates, despite the modification remains 100% percent functional and to me is almost too cool for words. Awesomest and worthy of all attention, so don’t miss a bit in the images that follow.
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Aside from the numerous piano apps, there’s also String Trio, which basically “lets you play your iPhone [iPod Touch] like it was a violin, viola or cello.” It’s available now from the app store, priced at $1.99. Video demonstration after the break.

The music loads in, plays based on the strokes of the virtual ‘bow’. String Trio uses the motion sensor in your iPhone to detect the angle and length of your strokes, and adjusts the playback of the music accordingly.

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“There’s a mobile app for that” as Ford opens the interface to its Sync system. The Sync Open API lets developers create applications, or port over existing applications, for use with the Sync audio and Bluetooth system that’s on more than a million Fords, Lincolns, and Mercurys. Ford recently showed the first two applications, SyncCast and FollowMe, developed in just 100 days this fall by a team of six students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. SyncCast allows the Sync interface to control streaming iPhone Internet radio. FollowMe lets one iPhone-equipped car follow another iPhone car to a party or restaurant; the trailing car receives turn-by-turn directions not to the destination but to follow the path of the first car.

Brain has been the most complicated organ to figure out. Even when technology has reached a level where it intends to simulate the brain, researchers and scientists aren’t too comfortable with the brain. To help understand the brain to a new extent, Van Wedeen, a Harvard radiology professor and his team of researchers has gone past the conventional brain scanning technique and have readied, what is a circuit diagram the “connectome” – first ever three-dimensional map of all neurons and connections in the brain. This project is initiated to help understand everything from imagination, language and causes of mental illness.
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Before asking Google for suggestions, consider solving the situations offline if they involve a burning home, becoming a nerd, or even when you finally decide that Windows itself is a virus. Continue reading to see them all. For those just checking in, check out the first, second and third installments.

Honestly speaking, artists have become accustomed to creating sculptures from everything we regard scrap. And what they create is actually impeccable. The Rolling Robot Dog, better known as the MITZY by Will Wagenaar, is just an example of how beautifully-real scrap artists can create sculptures. Made in all recycled material, and fitted with rusty looking wheels to move about, MITZY – The Rolling Robot Dog, measures: 12.5-inches tall, 10-inches wide and about 16-inches long. Wearing an antique camera and binoculars for the head, MITZY is a striking little pup seen moving around with a wagging tail.
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Designed by architect A. V. Dobrovolsky and engineer by G. B. Fux, the Moscow Bridge in Kiev, Ukraine was completed in 1976. It consists of two spans: “a 816m long and 31.4m wide span across the Dnieper and a 732m long, 29.1m wide span across the Desyonka.” This is what it looks like from the top. Click here for first picture in gallery.

The Moscow Bridge, which is actually in Kiev, Ukraine, sits on pylons that are only about 500 feet high, which is lower than the Golden Gate Bridge’s, and less than half the height of France’s Millau Viaduct, the world’s tallest suspension bridge.

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Smule’s Ocarina app has been a remarkable inclusion in the app store, and now the latest to impress thoroughly is the String Trio – an air violin, viola and cello application for the iPhone. Included with 20 classical and folk songs, the greySox app plays with strokes of the virtual “bow” – iPhone or iPod in case. Using motion sensor of the iPhone to detect the angle and length of the strokes, the app with graphical guides which falls as a bar creating a sound similar to that of a violin each time the iPhone or the iPod is tilted or twisted. String Trio is available over at the iTunes App Store for $1.99 (USD). Hit the jump to see a String Trio app demo.
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