When looking at something like the image below photoshop and some fancy 3D modelling application come to mind. Incredibly, the picture is real.

This 6x picture of a chicken embryo was captured by Tomas Pais de Azevedo of Lisbon, Portugal, using stereomicroscopy. It was named an Image of Distinction by the judges, but won first prize in the popular vote opened up to the public.

Yes, that baby alien monster is actually a chicken. Click here to see them all via cnet.

Presenting the KEYBOARD for blondes bimbos (because to say this is for blondes is offensive, they’re known to be intelligent, y’know). It’s basically a normal keyboard painted pink with pink keys and pink LEDs (I think), but the bimbo part comes with the keys which have changed. There’s the usual QWERTY alphabet, but some keys have been renamed to reflect their purpose for the kind of person who may use it.

Alt becomes “Another Useless Key”, Control “Totally Useless Key”, backspace “Oops!” and the Windows Key a girly flower. There I was thinking the pink keyboard/mouse with rhinestones combo was offensive. Clicky to check it out and possibly buy it.

It’s a good thing this is just a prototype at the moment, or the urge to waste money on useless cool stuff would be hard to resist. The “Wing Man” as Rory Craig (the designer of the seat) calls it is going to be pitched to the famous racing seat company Sparco. Here’s hoping it get’s approval and makes it into production.

Read more about it over at Carbon Fibre Gear.

I know I don’t usually make two posts in a row with video content, but I couldn’t help myself. I present some very disturbing clips I had lieing around on a DVD; from a collection of commercials to motorshow footage and rare footage of the Torana GTR-X Concept car in testing and development. First up is the hilarious commercials compilation, with more on ‘continue reading’.

I was actually surprised to find out that build 6801 of Windows 7 has the so called “Super Bar” hidden within. The first time the public got a glimse of the new toolbar was at PDC, in a later build than the one they gave out. To access it we need to trick the OS into thinking we’re authorized Microsoft employees with permission to access the hidden stuff, and this is done via a patch which I’ll mirror here for x86 and x64 but do check out the author Rafael’s site for the latest version first.

A lot has been said about the superbar so I won’t bother writing anything new except to say it’s damned awesome, especially how it shows the recently opened files in an application from the taskbar or windows menu, and logical grouping which makes sense.

… but only if you don’t like insects. The Conservation Report has put together a list of insects which have incredible camoflage. I don’t know what’s going on with their references to evolution natural selection, regardless of their well accepted beliefs the article’s about insects you might easily miss. Here’s just a taste (the dead leaf butterfly):

Looks like an insect hiding under a dead leaf? THERE IS NO LEAF! You may want to reconsider ever going near a tree. Click here for more.