Once nearly extinct, the Moleskine notebooks have not only survived but thrived. In fact, the humble black notebook spawned many new species, including this little fellow that uses the iconic black elastic cord as a catapult to launch analog text messages up to 17 feet away. It’s fun, functional, and delightfully anachronistic.

Despite the rumors that Amazon is going to launch three new tablet devices, the gargantuan retailer is apparently not ready to abandon the ultra-readable E ink display format for their Kindle eBook readers. TechCrunch has apparently been allowed to sit down with Amazon’s next generation E ink Kindle and reports that it will feature a long-awaited feature: Backlighting. The new device is apparently set to roll out sometime this year, and could bring an entirely new face to E ink readers as well as the end of reading lights for digital devices like the one pictured above.

If it wasn’t enough that graphene is photovoltaic and that it can be as strong as steel in sheets as thin as paper, it turns out that graphene has yet another useful application; graphene can be used to make thin, flexible supercapacitors that are 20 times more powerful than your average electrochemical variety. On top of that, the production process can be performed with a DVD burner. The applications, as you might imagine, are plentiful.

In our digital age, the printed word has a powerful sense of permanence — even the humble copied page. However, Toshiba’s new copy-scanner-eraser device challenges that very notion by using a special toner that disappears when quickly heated. The result is a copy machine that can erase what it copies — and even render the ink from certain erasable pens invisible as well. Our world might never be the same.

For most of my adult life, I believed that the best possible driver’s license photo would be one that was perfectly flattering. One that conveyed my charm, my wit, my winning smile, and rendered me identifiable within the eyes of the law. But I was wrong, and Reddit user adambard has showed me the way with his half-hair half-beard license photo. Interestingly, the look is so visually confusing that it leaves me with no discernable impression of his face. Could it be that adambard has also discovered the perfect facial camouflage? Decide for yourself and see a larger, clearer view after the break.

So, after reading that headline you might be a little confused since, famously, the DeLorean Motor Company collapsed under the weight of an overly ambitious production scheme and a drug smuggling sting operation. However, that apparently wasn’t the end of the iconic stainless steel vehicle famously used in Back to the Future, as the remaining parts and distribution rights were secured by a Texas company. Reborn, the new DeLorean motor company is now planning to offer an electric version of the car in 2013. Friends, this is amazing.

Though only in prototype, the electric DMC-12 aims to follow in the footsteps of the Tesla roadsters. As such, the cars won’t be consumer priced — expect something more along the lines of $90,000 per vehicle. But these won’t be just for show, since the company is hoping to not only match the (somewhat lackluster) performance of the original, but perhaps to even improve upon it. The car is also expected to need far, far less than 1.21 gigawatts to get going.

CSI has made somewhat of a meme (no, not the sunglasses) out of image ENHANCEment, and people knowledgable on the subject have done a lot of work to explain to us that it is not how image enhancement works. Adobe, ever the photo-editing pioneer, is aiming to change that, and with the unveiling of their new unblurring algorithm, it seems that they have taken great strides toward the CSI fantasy.

The unblur feature was shown at Adobe’s MAX 2011 where it was used to clarify a blurry picture of a crowd at what appears to be a mall. The algorithm actually calculates the movement of the camera during the time the shutter was open and uses it to retroactively correct the blurring that occurred. Impressive. Perhaps as shocking as the unblur feature itself was the crowd’s reaction. Immediately after the demonstration, there were first gasps, then applause, then several shouts of “That’s impossible” and “H-how does it do that?” No word on when the feature will be available to the public, but it has to take some serious computing power. Still, it’s an incredible advancement. We are living in the future, my friends.

Video after the jump. Watch it. Really. It’s a little shaky, but the crowd reactions alone are worth it.

According to researchers at MIT, graphene generates an electrical current when struck by light. If you aren’t familiar, graphene is something of a miracle material. It’s basically a one-atom thick sheet of carbon that manages to come in sheets as thin as paper while being as strong as steel. That’s already pretty impressive, so the ability to generate electricity from light is just icing on the cake.

The way it works is that when hit by light, pretty much any kind of light, graphene generates a hot carrier response. This means that the electrons of the molecules in the graphene sheet gain enough energy to start moving (creating the current) but the carbon underneath still manages to stay cool.

According to a report by the Associated Press, researchers at CERN have observed a subatomic particle moving faster than the speed of light. That’s right, faster than the speed of light. Like any sane people, these researchers are currently looking for outside sources to verify their results, and with results as mind-boggling as these, who could blame them.

It appears that the actual observation happened several months ago when a neutrino was shot 454 miles from the area around Geneva to Italy and clocked in at 60 nanoseconds over the speed of light. That’s not much over, but the margin of error was only 10 nanoseconds, which means this is a statistically significant discovery. After pouring over the results for months, CERN has now turned to the U.S. and Japan to double check their work. Although 50 to 70 nanoseconds over the course of 454 miles might not sound like much, it could actually change the understanding of physics as we know it, or at least as we’ve known in the past century.

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