Dvice.com shows us the coolest toasters in town, most are concept devices and may never see the light of day, but I love seeing innovation in something that hasn’t changed much in 100 years.

Let’s see what we have in the picture cache today, shall we?

 

    

 

  

    

    

        

At Popular Mechanics, one of the geek stars of Mythbusters lists 7 tech headaches and how to fix them.

Includes recommending Ubuntu over Vista, automobiles with obnoxious electronics, flashlights and other small electronics that run on exotic batteries and much more.

Check it out.

Via The Smallest Minority

Not familiar with Cthulhu?

Penumbra, Inc. is a medical device company that had it’s tiny device fast-tracked through the medical trial process by the Federal Gov’t and hopefully it saves a lot of lives that hang in the balance where a one minute delay could mean life or death.

It’s a tiny vacuum cleaner for the brain: A new treatment for stroke victims that promises to suction out clogged arteries in hopes of stopping the brain attack before it does permanent harm.

Here’s the catch -unclogging sometimes does more harm than good in strokes. When the dam is broken and blood rushes into oxygen-deprived brain tissue, it sometimes triggers swelling or a brain hemorrhage. Either can kill.

Read all the details in this medical article.