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South Koreans are designing a road that has contactless power strips designed to recharge electric vehicles on the move. The plan calls for 20 cm (8 inches) to 90 cm (35 inches) wide and perhaps several hundred meters long power strips built into the top of roads. The power strips are contactless and uses magnetic induction which makes it safe to touch. The idea is similar to a recharging station used in waterproof electric toothbrush. The cost of installation cost of the system is estimated at 400 million won ($318,000) per kilometer of road.

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The USB Aromatherapy Oil Burner is exactly what it appears and sounds like. This gadget is an aromatherapy burner in the form of a USB device. Simply plug this device into your computer and remove your stress by soothing yourself with the sweet smelling aromatherapy oil.  The USB oil burner is ver easy to use, just place the aromatherapy oil in the designated place of the this gadget and plug it into your PC.  

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Project Pink is the codename for Microsoft’s own version of iPhone. Some people call the Pink Phone as the Zune Phone. It is reported that Microsoft would not actually build the hardware of the phone but it would be built by another electronics company. Some sources say that Project Pink is Zune software and services running on mobile phones.

Microsoft’s pink phone specifications would be:

WM7 Chassis 1 Specification

Core requirements:
Processor: ARM v6+, L2 Cache, VFP, Open GL ES 2.0 graphics HW (QCOM 8k, Nvidia AP15/16* and TI 3430 all meet spec)
Memory: 256MB+ DRAM, 1G+ Flash (at least 512MB fast flash – 5MB/s unbuffered read @4K block size)
Display: WVGA (800×480) or FWVGA (854×480) 3.5” or greater diagonal
Touch: Multi-touch required
Battery: Sufficient to meet Days of Use LTK requirements.
Controls: Start, Back, Send and End are required (soft controls allowed as long as they are always present).

Peripherals:
Camera: 3MP+, flash optional, 2nd camera optional (VGA resolution sufficient)
GPS: aGPS required
Sensors required: Light Sensor, Compass (3 axis, 5 degrees, 100 Hz sample rate), Accelerometer (3 axis, 2mg resolution, 100 Hz sample rate)
USB: High speed required, 20 MB/s transfer rate.
BlueTooth: BT2.1 required, must run MSFT BT stack, CSR BlueCore6 or later recommended.
Wi-Fi: 802.11B/G required, must run MSFT Native Wi-Fi stack, Atheros 6002 or Broadcomm 4325 recommended.
Connectors: Micro USB and 3.5mm Audio required.

Options:
FM tuner: If tuner HW is present it will be detected and supported by the Media application.
Haptics
SD Card (Micro SD recommended)
DPAD, qwerty or 12/20 key keyboards all optional