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If we can have Smart Phones, Smart Cars, Smart Glasses and even Smart Guns - why not have some Smart Ice Cubes !!

Influence of technology into the physical things we use today is increasing at an unrepresented rate, be it the automobiles we use or any other day-to-day things which were not associated with technology earlier. After home printable 3D gun we have another devlopment linking technology to guns - A computer assisted Precision Guided Firearms with Linux powered scope featuring an heads-up display allowing users to "MARK", track and shoot a target precisely. The gun can also stream live video to WiFi devices for an accurate view on a bigger screen (tablet).

To shoot, you simply need to "mark" the target, which illuminates it on the tracking scope. Once marked the "Smart Gun" takes into account the range of target, ambient temperature-humidity, the age of the barrel, and lots of other parameters to provide all the vitals corrections to get the perfect shot displaying accurately where the round will go. This is not all - the image recognition routine keeps track of the "mark" in the scope's field of view, and a user simply needs to squeeze the trigger to get the perfect shot anytime. Do watch the video posted above and below to see this amazing technology in action in real life hunting conditions, if you like you can even order the rifle now starting at $17000 a piece.

In search for the most stable yet low resource consuming download accelerator for my Raspberry Pi NAS, we have tested and written about excellent utilities like Transmission Bittorrent Client, pyLoad and FatRat which gets the job done. However, after extensive testing with all these I can now easily conclude that the best download manager for Raspberry Pi (or any other low-resourced Linux computer) is - aria2.

aria2 is an versatile multi-platform, multi-protocol download accelerator with lots of powerful features not available in any of the competing applications like the ability to download the same file from multiple URLS and protocols. Aria2 is available for Linux, Windows and Mac and supports multi-protocol, multi-segmented parallel accelerated downloads from HTTP,HTTPS,FTP,BitTorrent and Metalink protocols with download resume capability. Despite being a lightweight command line utility, you won't feel the lack of an GUI as it supports an XML-RPC interface for remote-control - there are quite a few handy GUI's available like web-interfaces, desktop clients and native mobile applications.

Miss the physical buttons when using cellphones and tablets, well you soon wont. Tactus Technology has developed a new tactile user interface for touchscreen devices that does exactly that. Tactus provides a new dimension to touchscreens by enabling real, physical buttons that rise up from the surface on demand, and then recede back into the screen, leaving a perfectly flat, transparent surface when gone. Watch out the CES2013 demonstration video posted ahead.