If you're stuck in traffic when Mother Nature calls, Japan's Kaneko Sangyo Co has developed the loo for you.

Only the Japanese would make this.

Something I bet the jetsons had though.

Car toilet to end crises in traffic jams - Breaking News - World - Breaking News

Monster US arms'n'aerospace outfit Boeing is pleased as punch this week to announce that it has "successfully demonstrated" its new Humvee-mounted raygun, the Laser Avenger - intended to prove "that directed energy weapons are relevant to today's battlefield, and ready to be fielded".

Boeing trumpets 'relevant battlefield laser' raygun | The Register

There's still no Wax Museum...

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Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows.

"My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience. Levy recently completed his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships, covering many of the privileges and practices that generally come with marriage as well as outside of it.

Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen - Innovation - MSNBC.com

YABO is friendly robot for lonely unmarried persons.

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Of the many fascinating theoretical applications of DARPA's "cyborg insect" research, the most creative could be using sex-starved moths to follow bank robbers. A new article in EE Times goes into detail on HI-MEMS, and quotes a science fiction writer whose book inspired the DARPA program:

"Moths are extraordinarily sensitive to sex attractants, so instead of giving bank robbers money treated with dye, they could use sex attractants instead," said [science fiction writer Thomas] Easton. "Then, a moth-based HI-MEMS could find the robber by following the scent.

DARPA's Sex Slave Insects on Danger Room

Technologically better equipped than booth babes, fantasy fembots seem to be popping up everywhere in ad campaigns these days. Alcohol seems to be popular with the fembots -- they're employed in ads from both Heineken and Svedka -- but Philips is utilizing them in a campaign for an electric razor as well.

Adgadget: Fantasy fembots market male products - Engadget

Let's face it, we've only got what, maybe three or four hundred years left to enjoy the great outdoors before pollution levels eventually prohibit even stepping foot outside without our personal breathing apparatus. Well Suzuki thinks that it will be in this bleak and toxin-filled future that motorized single-passenger vehicles like the Segway will finally thrive, and is preparing to capture a piece of this potentially lucrative market with a concept transportation system known as PIXY SSC.

Suzuki's PIXY SSC concept thrives in post-nuclear wastelands - Engadget

The device, currently on show [Subscription link] only in Japan, can scan a printed sheet of Japanese text from a newspaper or magazine and churn out a translation of it in Chinese, English or Korean while retaining the original layout. Flip a switch and the linguistic parsing works in the opposite direction too.

Digital World Tokyo | Photocopier translates Japanese to English at touch of button