Imagine a nano-bot that could be implanted under your skin that could be configured to display notes and images as if they were tattooed right onto your body! Well, a new Tattoo concept has been designed by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. They envision embedding hair sized nanotubes under your skin, which will act like real tattoos.

We found this video demonstrating what this effect may look like:

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Google isn’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more. Last night they launched Google App Engine which is an ambitious new project that offers a full-stack, hosted, automatically scalable web application platform. It consists of Python application servers, BigTable database access (anticipated here and here) and GFS data store services.

TechCrunch has a full analysis of Google’s new web-app services as well as live feed from the Google’s Camp Fire.

From millions of blogs about nothing, we’ve selected the 25 best about something—from politics and global affairs to shopping and sports. And NO! YISTA didn’t make it this year :/

Canadian game developers HermitWorks, creators of the rather cool Space Trader, have just posted a short blog entry showing a ridiculously impressive video of Quake III Arena running on two iPod Touch units. Yes, I said two. Network play, baby! The game appears to run at a very impressive frame rate, and it uses the accelerometer for movement and screen taps for firing.

The rumors are out and they have re-styled one of the worlds most popular personal technologies, the Apple iPhone. The iPodObserver has released the above image claiming it to be the new 3G iPhone in all its high-gloss glory.

Some are saying that this new plastic back would be a logical step towards fixing the 1st gen iPhones antennae and connectivity issues. It is speculated that Apple’s new revisions will include 850MHz/1900MHz/2100MHz WCDMA, 802.11n, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc. What do you think? Drop it in the comments below.

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Guitar Hero® is now available on mobile! Rock out anytime, anywhere with this rhythm-based, three button game that stays true to the original. Open with 15 jamming tracks, all taken from the Guitar Hero console series.

• * Grow your set list with 3 new songs monthly
• * Play through 3 venues each with 4 set songs and an encore
• * Unlock guitars, earn achievements and break records
• * Hit the right notes to drive the crowd wild with star power!

Track listing is as follows: Read more »

Microsoft’s Surface computer will make its commercial debut April 17 in AT&T stores in New York City, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco.Microsoft first unveiled the Surface back in May 2007; the coffee-table like computer allows touch screen interaction with various surfaces, can recognize objects places on it and even interact with things like mobile phones.

AT&T said it planned to use the Surface to allow customers “to learn about the growing universe of mobile applications and devices.”

Here is a video of the Microsoft Surface Table in action:

I’m not really sure what these tables will be adding to the the ever-day consumer experience in an AT&T store but it will definitely be a reason to drop in and play for a bit.

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