“The Espresso Book Machine is essentially an ATM for books.

Using digital files, it automatically prints, binds, and trims, on demand at point of sale, perfect-bound, library-quality paperback books with full-color covers.

The EBM’s growing digital library includes nearly two million titles.”.

The Flip Mino is a skinnable pocket digital camcorder. Internal Memory: 2GB (60 minutes) Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels Bitrate: 4.0 Mbps (average) Aperture: f/2.4 Fixed focus, digital zoom Dimensions: 100 x 50 x 16 mm Weight: 100 g Price: from $180 (in USA).

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“I currently conduct research for Nokia Design developing new applications, services and products that, if I do my job right, you’ll using 3 to 15 years from now. Pushing technologies on society without thinking through their consequences is at least naive, at worst dangerous, though typically it, and IMHO the people that do it are just boring.”.

“Future Perfect is a pause for reflection in our planet’s seemingly headlong rush to churn out more, faster, smaller and cheaper.”.
(Jan Chipchase)

Above: This Is A Petrol Station, Ho Chi Minh City, detail.

Tata Nano. Length 3,1 m ; width 1,5 m ; height 1,6 m. Metal body, four doors, four seats. Rear engine, 2 cylinder petrol fuel injection, 623 cc, 24 kW (33Hp) Four speed manual transmission. Maximum speed: 105 km/h Fuel economy (combined): 20 km/l Price (in India): from $2500 (Eur 1700).

Above: Tata Nano (Luxury version), at the Auto Expo 2008, New Delhi (from Reuters India).

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The new Asus Eee PC. Processor: Celeron-M 900 MHz Operating System : Xandros Dimensions: 225 x 165 x 35 mm Weight: 920 g Display: 7′LCD TFT RAM: from 256 MB to 1 GB Disk : from 2 to 8 GB Flash memory LAN: 10/100 Mbit Ethernet, 802.11b/g wireless

Price: from $300 to $500 (in USA).
Above: eee with tango for scale, from Flickr.
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“So named because of its "A" like shape in use, the A-bike is designed to be folded and unfolded* in under 10 seconds with a 3 click telescopic mechanism, to a folded size just 67 x 30 x 16 cm. Heat treated aluminum and high strength glass fibre reinforced engineering polymer constitute the majority of the frame. Weight: 5.6kg. The internal twin chain gearing system is totally encased at the rear. Pedal cadence remains the same as a normal bike.”. The A-bike, from Sinclair Research.

Right: A-bike, from Binch Shin’s photo.
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“The Strida is the only folding bike that is greaseless, corrosion resistant, and virtually maintenance free. It’s also the world’s lightest folding production bike and can easily be rolled when folded.”.

A PC for 99 $: the E-Way TU Tiny 200.

Tiny (dimensions: 11.5 x 11.5 x 3.5 cm; weight: 500 g.) has 128 MB Ram, a fanless 200Mhz CPU, 3 USB ports, and a Compact Flash slot; includes LAN, VGA, and audio.

The TU Tiny is compatible with Linux (for example with Puppy Linux, that runs using a 128MB USB Flash Card).

See also: the NorhTech MicroClient Jr, that share the same concept and design.

“My requirement was for the bicycle to have a normal riding position, and:
be open for ease of access, be unisex and of universal adult size, have proper provision for carrying things.”.

“High pressure tyres with their low rolling resistance, and the lower aerodynamic drag of small wheels, mean they will go faster with less effort, and so small wheels with high pressure tyres have been integral to the Moulton design from the beginning.”. (Alex Moulton)

“All Moulton bicycles are inherently more compact, and most have frame separability for case of stowing away and carrying in other vehicles.”.
(Alex Moulton)
The Moulton Bicycle.

Above: Bridgestone Moulton Sport, detail.

	Build a robot, made easy. “The Baby Orangutan is a complete control solution for small robots, even smaller than the original Orangutan. “Orangutan is based on the ATmega8 microcontroller. The WinAVR package allows you to write C programs for the ATmega8.”. Price: $24.95.
“You will still need two important items to get up and running: A programmer for the AVR microcontrollers: Atmel’s AVR ISP is a low-cost programmer that connects to a computer serial port. A power source: rechargeable batteries are generally the most practical.”.

Left: the Baby Orangutan package (3 x 2 cm).
Right: iBOTZ MR-1004 Hydrazoid©.
“This sound-sensing robot walks on four legs and sports fiber-optic eye stalks.”. (Pololu Corporation)