We all know that 3D technology is big business these days, but no one wants to sit around their living room with big dorky glasses on. This is where the Jonathan Post Experiment comes in. He has developed a terrifying way of not only watching 3D TV without glasses, but giving your eyelids a good work out.

The system works apparently only works on 120Hz monitor displays, with hopes for a final version ready fro CES 2012.

Traditionally, nerds and extreme sports don't mix all that well. Hit the surf and you'll likely lose your national health spectacles, while it turns out that skateboarding is way more difficult than Tony Hawks on the PlayStation ever let on.

Un-aided skydiving for geeks therefore must sound like an utter death-wish. But not any more thanks to the clever folk over at Google Demo Slam!

Linking up a huge overhead projector to a zippy laptop running Google Earth, this band of Japanese teenagers get the rush of hurtling towards the Earth at breakneck speed without ever being more than 10 feet off the ground. There are even some big fans to give that gale-force wind effect.

Check it out in the video above.

On the run and out of favour with pretty much every governmental institution around the world, Julian Assange has had a very busy week. It could well be about to get even more crazy, as Assange has now confirmed that the unpublished remainder of his controversial cable documents make multiple mentions to unidentified flying objects.

Is he about to crack conspiracy theories the world over about the existence of little green men? Or perhaps just that George Bush enjoyed sitting down with a bag of popcorn and an Independence Day DVD? Here's what Assange had to say:

Many weirdos email us about UFOs or how they discovered that they were the anti-christ whilst talking with their ex-wife at a garden party over a pot-plant. However, as yet they have not satisfied two of our publishing rules.

1) that the documents not be self-authored;

2) that they be original.

However, it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs.

To be honest, anything as mind-shattering as alien life would probably have been WikiLeaks' first port of call, but I can live in hope, even if just so all my mates stop winding me up about my tinfoil hat.

Oh, and do read the whole Guardian Q and A with Assange linked below, it's fascinating and a little bit frightening too.

Via: Guardian

Ever wished you had a jetpack that could fly over water... now thanks to this crazy invention you can.

The jetlev flyer, lets you fly through the air by pushing the pilot airborne with huge jets of water...basically utilizing jet ski technology. Each stream of water has the lifting force of 400-500 pounds, which as you can see from the video is enough to send a pretty large man flying. The only negative is that you need to stay attached to the giant rubber hose which is attached to your pump raft to supply the pack with water.

Check out the promo video featuring buff men and bikini clad women hanging out with the flyer in the Bahamas below.

The Jetlev Flyer can be yours for only 129,000€

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows is out today, but we bet no one is quite as excited as this kid.

This video has been making the rounds online this week, but if you haven't seen it check it out. This is what the ultimate fan looks like....

We'll leave you today with a little bit of creepy tech-wierdness to settle you into your weekend.

Meet Geminoid-F, a robot actress from Tokyo. If you're making a trip to the Land of the Rising Sun right now you can catch her/it/whatever "performing" in a production of the play Sayonara.

While we do love robots here at Tech Digest, they always end up on the wrong side of the frightening uncanny valley. The memory of this one will be seared into the back of my eyeballs for all eternity.

Can't fault the casting though; a robot playing a robot. It's more convincing than Keanu Reeves anyway. Wonder if Geminoid has an Android handset? Ho-ho, ha-ha, he-he...

Though the World Cup bookies bane, Paul the Psychic Octopus, may have only just recently given up the ghost (may he rest in peace), he's already got an heir to his mystic, underwater throne. His cousin Ollie is taking up the tentacled predictions game, and has been splashing around with his top tips for this year's must have Christmas gadgets.

Two year old Ollie put the PS3 Move at the top of his most wanted list, wrapping his eight slimy arms around Sony's latest motion controller despite the fanfare surrounding the launch of the Xbox 360's Kinect today.

"Unfortunately for Microsoft, Ollie didn't 'Kinect' with the Xbox, but was 'moved' by the PS3, tipping Sony's motion controller wand to win the battle for gaming supremacy this Christmas," said a Kelkoo rep, the price comparison site that orchestrated today's madness.

Ollie also predicted that the iPad would hold out against the Samsung Galaxy Tab and BlackBerry Playbook in the tablet wars this Christmas.

"Working with Ollie the octopus was a bundle of fun and given his psychic lineage, we couldn't think of a better way to predict the UK Christmas best-sellers this year," said Kelkoo's Joe Cross.

"From the X Factor, to Hollywood, to Silicon Valley, Ollie's discerning tentacles know no bounds and his mystic insight into which products are set to sink or swim this Christmas are certainly set to add spice to the sales race over the festive period."

I'm sure Ollie has the best intentions, but I think I'll stick with reccomendations from lifeforms with opposable thumbs for my gadgets, thanks very much.

Click here to view a video of the eight armed wonder in action.

Apple may deservedly rule the roost when it comes to smartphones, tablet and media players, but they don't half take themselves seriously. Their iPads, iPhones and iPods have certainly been revolutionary devices, but the company itself has earned a strangely cult-like status due to their earnest advertising and feverish fanboy following.

Which of course makes them prime targets for a good old YouTube spoof video. Here are 5 of the best we've seen.

The "iPad Shuffle"

Picking up on Apple's love of re-releasing every single idea they've ever had in about a million different variations, this spoof reveals the iPad Shuffle. It's an iPad, but 1/250th the size!

The Scottevest

The iPhone may have an app for everything, but the Scottevest has a pocket for everything! You wont win any awards for fashion wearing this, but you'll be bringing Ray Mears-chic into the 21st century with this tech-savvy sleeveless overcoat.

The Apple "i"

Chrome-y, classy, and shiny, the Apple "i" is probably genuinely in development deep in an underground lab in Cupertino. It's "100% spherical", but what the hell does it do!? Hats off to the actor in the vid for nailing Steve Jobs presentation giving mannerisms. We couldn't embed this vid, but we couldn't leave it out either. Click here to view it instead!

FaceTime kidnapping

As much a dig at the AT&T network as it is Apple, it looks like the iPhone 4's FaceTime app has an unexpected use; sorting out hostage negotiation situations!

Peter Serafinowicz's iPad

Need to take notes, make movies, write music and play games all from the same device? Peter Serafinowicz may have an overpriced solution for you!

All sci-fi fans will know that whilst technological advancement makes our mundane little lives easier and more rewarding everyday, take your mind off its potential dangers for just a few seconds and it can turn around and bite you in the arse, sometimes with fatal consequences. When it comes to tech, complacency breeds death.

Lower your heads as Tech Digest guide you through 10 of the most bizarre, gruesome and tragic tech related deaths.

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3D tech was all over the IFA 2010 conference this year, but perhaps the most unusual example of its usage was over at the Panasonic hall.

Now the actual technology demoed here, whilst impressive, isn't all that strange; Panasonic were showing off live 3D post-production techniques using their latest Viera 3D panels and professional stereoscopic 3D camera gear.

What was, quite frankly, disturbing however was the set up. A trapeze team were inside the arena, spinning around above our heads whilst being filmed by the 3D film crew. In front of the act were a line of 3D panels, and in front of them again were pole-mounted 3D active shutter glasses. The public could either watch the trapeze act naturally, or by walking over to the glasses and slipping them over their eyes, in essence choosing to watch a live show taking place directly in front of them in real-world 3D through a TV screen instead.

In my ten or so minutes at the stand, not one of the hundreds of passers by spent more than a few seconds watching the trapeze artists with their naked eyes, whilst many happily stood and watched for a few minutes on the 3D screens.

Now you can argue that, at a tech show, people are bound to be more interested in the TVs than a circus act. It's what they're there for after all. But the whole set-up just creeped me out a little bit, like a glimpse into some Philip K Dick style future where humanity will only ever see the outside world passively through high-tech TV screens.

Remember folks, real-life comes in three dimensions too.

Click here for more IFA 2010 related news

YouTube can be an amazing platform for musicians to showcase their tracks on. Love him or loathe him, Justin Bieber for instance used the video hosting site to find fame, going on to become a worldwide superstar at the tender age of just 15.

But for every success story, there are inevitably a hundred failures riding a wave of mediocrity down the drain and out into the great ocean of musical sewage. YouTube is a veritable goldmine of unintentionally hilarious music videos, and today here at Tech Digest we've been compiling our ten favourites. Some of these are well known virals, some of them have not enjoyed such widespread "acclaim". The one thing they all have in common? They're all truly, truly awful.

Jan Terri - Lose You Tonight

We'll kick proceedings off with a classic. Limo driver by day, Jan Terri's crooning vocal sees her turn into a rock vixen by night. By "vixen", we mean she sings with a shriek similar to that of a brawling urban fox after a night on the tiles round the back of the bins behind the kebab shop. Jan Terri apparently played at one of Marilyn Manson's birthday parties. Confrontational as he is, we can only imagine Manson had a soft spot for Terri's unique "having an argument with my own song" performance style. Keep an eye out for the shot by the sewage-run off too, a superbly apt location we feel.

Majela Ze Ze Diamond - Show Me Your Genitals

Firstly, a word of warning. This video, lyrically at least, is pretty NSFW. Call me prudish, but Majela Ze Ze Diamond, surely an internet star in the making, has a knack for slipping in the odd below the belt anatomical detail into the words of her songs. It all gets a bit hypnotic by the end, and by the 500th time Majela offers to show you her genitalia, you're all but ready to submit. Key line? "Men are good for money, sex and vagina". Indeed. Make sure to check out Majela's other "hit", Tickle My Vagina, when you're done.

Manakin - Something is Locked Inside of My Soul

Disregarding the musical "wizardry" going on in the background (which incidentally sounds more than a little bit like the theme tune to kids' dungeons and dragons TV show Knightmare), the real star of 70s rockers Manakin is their rather limber frontman and his collection of creepy masks that appear to be made of human flesh. Keep an eye out for Jerry Lewis at the end of the performance, his usually uber-professional TV persona stunned into a faltering mess. If Silence of the Lambs' Buffalo Bill were ever to start a prog-rock band, it'd probably sound a lot like this...

Maxine Swaby - Pardon Me

It's hard to put my finger on what makes Maxine Swaby such an important force in music today. Sometimes I think it's the "end of the pier" production sound her songs carry, other times how she brings some much needed glamour to the video's rural locales with her array of nautical-themed costumes. But the truth of the matter is, they don't call Maxine Swaby "The Voice" for nothing. YouTube commentator manbearpigisalive sums it all up far more eloquently than I ever could: "She sounds like she's being microwaved".

Rap Against Rape - What Did I Do Wrong?

In what is surely the most unintentionally unsympathetic treatise against rape of all time, Dublin-based Rap Against Rape attempt to fight sex crime with this banging 90's dance tune. "What did I do wrong?" cries the refrain. Going ahead with this ill-conceived mess for starters. Rumour has it this inspired the short-lived "Rape Against Rap" movement. Oh, and keep an eye out for Tom Selleck's cameo freestyle halfway through too.

Reh Dogg - Why Must I Cry?

With nearly 4 million YouTube views, Reh Dogg enjoys a level of notoriety few other "stars" on this list can lay claim too. A pioneer of "emo rap", Reh Dogg's lyrics deal with poverty and issues relating to accepting an unsatisfactory body image, as well as wanting to get with Asian women, and failing to get with said Asian women. He'd probably have a better chance sorting out that last problem if he didn't keep posting videos of himself all-but naked in the shower.

Anonymous 80s bizarreness...

Words cant really do justice to this one. While the initial purpose/meaning behind this video may forever be lost in time, at least we can all sleep safe in the knowledge that floral shirts, shorts, white knee-socks and red pumps are no longer considered a legitimate outfit for a full-grown man.

Steklovata - Novi God

Just like with the complete works of Shakespeare, give a gang of monkeys access to a bluescreen, the internet and infinite amounts of time, and one day they'll strike pop-gold with an MTV-defining music video. The problem with humanity is that offer the same parameters to four men and they'll settle with giving birth to the hellspawn that is Russian boy-band Steklovata, seen here with their hit "Novi God". That said, I'd choose Steklovata over Justin Beiber any day of the week...

Lori Watt - Chill in my Veins

I was in two minds whether or not to post this video, as I just couldn't be sure that mental illness, which isn't at all funny, didn't factor into proceedings somewhere along the line with this tune. Thankfully, for the sake of my soul, I've been reassured that Lori Watt is perfectly healthy, and just a shockingly bad musician. Amazingly, this was played on TV in New Zealand, supposedly without a hint of irony.

Speak - Stop the War

If only Hungarian rapper-cum-anti-war-philanthropist Speak had been around before all of history's greatest conflicts! We'd so be living in the post-nuclear apocalypse wasteland, overrun by mutants, that I've been training for my entire life! Oh, and just so you know for next time Speak, doves are the international symbol of peace, not white pigeons. An easy mistake to make when you're this damn cool though we suppose...

As far as school projects go, I cant think of anything cooler than building a gadget that turns you into a real-life Spiderman. But that's exactly what UK schoolboy Hibiki Kono has done, as he has amazed the world by scaling walls with his DIY superhero kit.

By strapping a pair of £15 Tesco vacuum cleaners to his back and attaching two nozzle pads to them, Hibiki Kono has become just like his comic-book wall-crawling hero.

"I used to dress up as Spiderman when I was younger, I love the films," said 13 year old Hibiki. "I wanted to make something a bit different. But my mum won't let me use it in my room - she's worried I'll pull down the ceiling."

When I did Design and Technology at secondary school all I got to make was a clock. I'm starting to feel a bit cheated after seeing this. It was a great clock, mind you...

Via: The Mirror

Dr Mark Gasson, a cybernetics scientist at the University of Reading, has become the world's first human to become infected with a computer virus.

Gasson has an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip implanted into his wrist, and deliberately infected it with a virus as part of an experiment to highlight the risks of having bionic implants. The chip usually is used to emit a signal unlocking locked doors in Gasson's university and allowing only him to access his mobile phone dependant on which hand he is holding it in.

The virus Gasson installed was built to spread through the university lab's databases, and replicate itself onto the swipe cards of his colleagues. Gasson's findings show that viruses can quite easily be spread wirelessly from implanted devices.

Many life-saving devices such as pacemakers now include similar RFID chips in order for doctors to monitor their patients. While a computer virus could not harm Gasson's health, if a virus interfered with the workings of implanted medical devices it could prove fatal.

Via: Sky News

Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar's epic wild west adventure, is a massive game that's massively good. Just check out our full review if you don't believe us. For whatever reason however, it also features some pretty huge glitches too.

And boy are they funny. From a gunslinging dog to the creepy "Donkey Woman", here are five of the best glitches that have been spotted so far. Part of me hopes Rockstar don't put a fix out for these. They're that good. Check them out below.

(Kudos goes to WhereDaBootz for finding most of these)

Flying People

Gunslinging dog

Donkey Woman

Flying Deer

Invisible Horses

It was an i-fairytale day, like something out of an electric dream for Tokyo couple Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue, as they became the world's first couple to take their marriage vows in front of a robot priest.

"Pastor" i-Fairy is a four-foot tall automaton, featuring flashing eyes and a plastic pigtail that make it look not unlike Johnny Five from the cult 80's comedy Short Circuit.

With both newly-weds working within the robotics industry, the pair felt that a robot priest would be a fitting homage to the work that brought them together in the first place. Inoue is an employee of Kokoro Ltd, makers of the i-Fairy, with Shibata one of Kokoro's clients.

"It's true that robots are what caused us to first begin going out, and as suggested by my wife, we decided that we wanted to try this sort of wedding," Shibata said at the bizarre ceremony.

"I always felt that robots would become more integrated into people's everyday lives. This cute robot is part of my company, I decided that I would love to have it at my ceremony," added bride Inoue.

Via: Reuters

Got a TV that's been acting a little erratically recently? Try checking any nearby energy-efficient lightbulbs, as some are reporting that they are causing their TVs to change channel and switch themselves off seemingly at random.

Take the case of Emma and Alistair Clements, who found their Virgin Media box to have a life of its own.

"At first we thought it was the children's sticky fingers on the remote control and that the buttons were sticking," Emma told Guardian Money. "But the novelty soon began to wear off. With the new box it was worse, if anything."

A sharp Virgin Media engineer suggested that a nearby Philips-branded energy-efficient lightbulb could be causing the problems, due to their flicker frequency interfering with infra-red remote control receivers. With the bulb unplugged, the problem was solved.

"Some very early compact fluorescent lamps, shortly after starting, could cause interference with TV controls due to the frequency of operation of the bulb and when placed near a TV," said a Philips spokesperson. "The frequency was quickly changed many years ago and we have had no recent reported incidents."

Philips are said to be investigating the light bulb in question. But with old-style traditional filament bulbs outlawed in the EU since 2008, the Clements family might want to stick with a laptop and iPlayer for uninterrupted TV viewing.

Via: Sky News

I've heard of people going out of their way for a Foursquare badge, but this is ridiculous. 15 year-old Parker Liautaud hopes to be the first person in the world to check into Foursquare (the popular location game/social networking iPhone app mash-up) at the North Pole.

As if being one of the youngest people to ever ski to the North Pole wasn't enough, the son of billionaire Business Objects co-founder Bernard Liautard will also earn the Last Degree badge, specially created by the Foursquare team for his expedition.

Liautaud apparently attends the prestigious Eton College, once home to Prince Harry and Prince William. With an education like that you'd think he'd have a bit more common sense really, wouldn't you? But it's all for a good cause, as he is is trying to raise awareness about and funds for environmental issues facing the Arctic.

I'm guessing fund raising days at Eton with chocolate Rice Krispie cakes and a tombola would all seem a bit tame for billionaire heirs then?

Check out Parker Liautaud's Facebook page for his trip here, and check out how his preparations are going in the YouTube clip above.

April Fools day is a big deal for tech companies. Google have turned the annual day of japery and tomfoolerly into an art form -- last year announcing Gmail's autoreply feature which analysed the way you replied to your emails and could reply automatically for you.

It caused a minor storm and lovably gullible people the world over fell for it. Though this year Google may well have been trumped by Californian chipset doyens Qualcomm.

According to a press conference video posted last night there has been a string of savage butterfly attacks attacks caused by Qualcomm's latest mirasol screen device which was stolen from their labs.

Best tech April Fool this year? You decide.

The war on copyright infringers has just stepped up another notch. Global entertainment giant Warner Brothers have placed an advert for a £17,000-a-year job at their London headquarters for an "Anti-Piracy Intern".

The job will involve scouring message boards, issuing copyright infringement notices, monitoring BitTorrent sites and generally searching for those pesky illegal downloaders who are supposedly syphoning millions off Warner Brothers exorbitant profits.

A successful applicant will need knowledge of FTP and IRC, and "peer to peer networking". They should also have "web experience" -- which is improbably vague.

Basically you'll be a little Internet grass. The modern equivalent of a TV license van, except as opposed to staking out student flats from a transit van, you'll be sat in an office looking at a screen.

We'd kind of got it into our heads that Warner Brothers would have a whole copyright infringement department, working on Minority Report-esque screens, building up a database of infringers, who as soon as legislation is passed, they'd send very strongly worded letters to.

It might be a bit late in the day, but shouldn't we boycott this job? We know the recession has crippled the job market, but come on. It'd be great.

[Via The Register]

To celebrate 50 years of being on the goggle-box, Coronation Street is all set to get its own Wii game. There are few details on the title so far, other than that you can expect street-stars from past and present to all make an appearance. We've always hoped to pull a virtual pint or two with the Wii-mote down the Rovers Return, truth be told.

The news got the Shiny team thinking: what would be the best shows to get a bit of an interactive makeover on Nintendo's Wii?

Check out our gallery below for some truly inspired choices.