The Brickhouse Child Locator by Brickhouse is a device that lets you keep a constant watch on your child in public areas. This device works by attaching a tag to your child's clothes or shoes to work as a homing device should your child leave the safety zone, the Brickhouse Child Locator will alert you when that happens. The portable tracking device will beep, vibrate, and visually lead you to your (tagged) child quickly and easily. This device also comes with a “panic button” on the homing tag for your child to use in the event of an emergency. The Brickhouse Child Locator with Distance Alert is priced at $189.95.

There are a number of situations where technology can tilt a tactical situation in favor of Police forces but it’s hard to associate Segways to any kind of tactical situation. In Paris, there are organized Segway tours and it’s not uncommon to see a poor tourist being slapped to the ground by a Segway “gone mad” – that’s my experience, at least. Anyhow, the sight of the picture above is just too ridiculous to skip, but I really hope that these guys won’t have to shoot anyone in this precarious position. Now, is it not as scary as seeing police use a flame thrower in an Olympic terror situation... via Xinhuanet [Thanks Randy for sending this in]

Here's another idea that could potentially take off - Tributes.com. It seems that obituaries could soon make the plunge to the online world, where information on deaths can be gleaned directly from funeral homes. Of course, it will take the current old generation to pass away before this idea is hugely successful IMHO, since our net-savvy generation will probably embrace it much better as plenty of old folks these days still think a mouse is a furry vermin. Guess money is always there to be made, and additional dough can be obtained by selling advertising space, online memorials, flowers and cards.

Nvidia has announced that its revenues will be significantly lower than initially thought: $875M to $950M instead of $1.01B expected by the financial community. The company mentioned several problems that it faces: weak markets around the world, delay in the MCP line of products and competitive pressure on the GPU business. As a result, NVIDIA’s shares were down 21% during in after-hours (6:10pm PT). I personally think that competitive pressure in the GPU business is the thing that is the most worrisome. While AMD was working on a new chip, NVIDIA enjoyed great margins as the dominant player, but the new Radeon line up has to put a lot of pricing pressure. That would be the typical effect of a price war. I don’t want to sound like an alarmist, but Intel isn’t even in the enthusiast GPU party… yet.

The Eclipse pain from Alsa Corporation is pretty spiffy since it changes colors the moment heat is applied to the surface. The paint consists of a basecoat that can change from either black to white or blue to white, but think of the possibilities involved since this is just a single basecoat. Imagine applying such paint to your mouse or keyboard - at least it will tell you whether your pesky colleagues have been snooping around your computer while you're away from the desk. They might deny it, but the evidence of a color changed mouse doesn't lie. Of course, you can take the extra step by performing some forensic tests on the mouse, but that'd be going too far methinks. What are the other applications you can think of for this paint?

Check out the image of the Spinner flying car of Blade Runner fame - this one is different as it is constructed completely from LEGO. Is there nothing that LEGO cannot build? Truly, this is one creative toy that keeps on giving back, and I believe parents would laud the virtues of LEGO over the passive entertainment that video games provide these days. I loved my LEGO Technics set when I was a wee lad, and I still love them even until today.

Are your colleagues teaming up against you, hoping that the next round of office politics will see you whimper and switch companies because they resent your genius and speedy route to the top? Well, show them that you not only deserve your position, but you mean business at the office, not shirking from your responsibilities while tackling difficult issues head on in a wise manner. Also, dent their confidence even more with the 1UP Mushroom - an officially licensed Nintendo collectible. This $9.99 desktop decoration would look better if you placed your own soil around the mushroom, creating an illusion that this actually grew from the pipe.

The problem of hydrogen storage has apparently been solved thanks to ammonia borane - a powder which is more hydrogen-dense than liquid hydrogen itself. This stable white powder will release hydrogen gas upon heating. Currently, research is being done to store hydrogen safely so that it will be released at will to keep a fuel cell going. Hopefully their efforts will scale up to cater for various industries around the world, helping us drop the unusually high dependency on oil.

"Regional WiMAX" services has been shown to visitors at the "Japan Cable TV & Telecommunications Show 2008" last week, relying on the 10MHz in the 2.5GHz band. This service is tipped to kick off early this October assuming the planets are aligned properly. It is interesting to note that despite frequency bands allotted to WiMAX services differ in Korea and Japan, the former's terminal do operate well enough within the latter's 2.5GHz band.

NewSky Factory has this visually interesting faux-sky called SkyCeiling that - they claim- could be a healing tool for dementia or Alzheimer patients. It is called “programmable” because one can change the “scene” and the lighting conditions. That’s interesting because we recently covered a study that concluded that artificial scenery (on Plasma TVs) does not provide the same benefits relaxing as real outdoors trips… However, I’m interested by this because it could look cool in my office. Price: probably uber-expensive. Cons: images might look flat-ish.

Fashionistas will definitely be able to associate themselves with Estee Lauder, and this time the fashion label has introduced what it touts to be the first tube of vibrating mascara in the world. According to Estee Lauder, there is "a relationship between vibration, length, volume, separation and curl." This battery-operated mascara brush will vibrate at 125 micropulses per second and is dubbed the "TurboLash All Effects Motion Mascara." Well, I wonder what happens when one with shaky hands apply mascara this way? Will the end result be really that good? Still, it will cost you $30 for a little bit of rumbling action as the TurboLash All Effects Motion Mascara hits Saks Fifth Avenue this July 17th.

LEGO enthusiast Brian Kescenovitz has outdone himself this time by conjuring a LEGO mecha complete with a hatch mechanism, revealing a pilot inside the cockpit itself. Dubbed the UM-5 War Doll, it received inspiration from the VS suits from the game Lost Planet. That's one mean-looking, scarred mecha pilot in there as well - surely more than able to join the ranks of Solid Snake and the Contra brothers.

Microcontact printing has resulted in a flexible organic TFT array, thanks to efforts by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Japan Chemical Innovation Institute (JCII). The 6" square substrate can take pride in knowing that this is possibly the first product in the world to have such a small substrate with a micro pattern. Heck, it boasts specifications such as a pixel pitch of 127µm and a pixel aperture ratio of about 70%. With AIST hopes to see the TFT array being applied to an active matrix electronic paper, with the intention of rolling out an A4 prototype within 3 years' time while commercializing e-paper by 2015. That'll help give our rainforests a much needed respite, right?