Remembering all your passwords can be a pretty tricky process, don’t you think? Gone are the days where all you needed to have in your mind was your Social Security number, a couple of phone numbers (landed lines mind you), and perhaps a birthday or two. These days, you have tons of email addresses to attend to (both corporate and personal), various logins for a whole ton of websites as well as PIN codes and security passwords in buildings. This is just pure information overload, but thankfully there is the Dynahand system that aims to make logging into websites a wee bit easier.

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There are some personal wind turbines floating around, but they are very expensive, heavy and quite inefficient. Ben Storan, an Irish Industrial Design student, thought there could be more done. So he made something different. Something that has brought him the 2007 Sustainability Award, £3000 and a lot of publicity.

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Shopping can be very therapeutic for those who are going through difficult moments in life, but the consequences could plunge the shopper into further depression with mounting debts that never seem to be paid off. The futuristic credit card concept designed by Jacob Palmborg aims to prevent overspending, featuring a screen that tells you all your current economic information including account balances as well as how much your spending spree will affect your future. It is linked to a central system via RFID and stores no data for security reasons. A biometric sensor also lets no one else but the owner access the confidential data within. When will we see this arrive in the real world? Probably never as banks thrive on charging insanely high interest rates on debts.

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Developed by California architect Gregg Fleishman comes the DH1 Disaster House, a shed that can be put up in an afternoon. It’s a deceptively simple idea. Create a house that one doesn’t need a single nail to build. That’s because the home was designed with tabs that make it more a 3D puzzle to put together.

Initially designed to aid hurricane victims who have lost their homes, this alternative is designed to be a 14′ square shed built about 30″ off the ground. All one needs to do is unpack the stack of European birch plywood, put them together via the slots, and in about an hour, you have an instant place to hang your hat – porch included.

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…if only it were real. This oddly named 5005x X-ray phone from Japan apparently claims to see through layers of clothing, leaving you will drool dripping from the right side of your mouth and reducing you to a blabbering idiot frothing at the mouth as you scan through hundreds of ladies in the train each morning. Sad to say technology has not advanced to such a stage yet, and even if it were possible, no government in power would be sane enough to release it on the market. While this prank has been around for quite some time now, it is for the benefit of those who have not yet stumbled upon it.

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Parenting certainly isn’t easy, which is why this fantasy device is a surefire winner if it ever takes off (although probably never). The Control-a-Kid remote is the ultimate magic wand in parenting, operating on nothing but pure, unadulterated positive thinking. It comes with a wide range of buttons to keep your kid in rein, including “Stop Sulking”, “Stop Tantrums”, “Do Homework”, “Don’t Answer Back”, and “Kiss Granny” among others. I personally love the “Grow Up” button – it kinda reminds me of Adam Sandler in the movie Click.

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Researchers from the University of Tokyo, led by Susumu Tachi, have developed a unique display that allows viewers to be immersed in a 3D video environment. The Telexistence Wide-angle Immersive STEReoscope, a.k.a. TWISTER, is the world’s first full color 360 degree 3D display that does not require the use of special glasses to visualize the effect.

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Getting to sleep can be troublesome for some people, so those of us who find no problem nodding off the moment our heads hit the pillow ought to be grateful. Of course, there are plenty of other reasons on why one stays up all night long, tossing and turning, and those include stress, thinking about work, a healthy dose of caffeine, watching TV late into the night, and even hormonal imbalance. One method to enter dreamland soonest possible would be resting in a self-regulated environment, cutting out those mentioned obstacles. Panasonic has come out with a solution in the form of the Sleep Assist System.

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