If your a slacker at work you might like to read this. The Japanese phone giant KDDI has created a mobile phone that is capable of tracking your movements and what work you are doing during your daily business routine.

For example, the KDDI mobile phone strapped to waist of a cleaner can note the differences between actions performed such as scrubbing, sweeping, walking an even emptying a rubbish, then beam these back to their superior for analysis.

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The Intendix Brain-Computer Interface works on a thought to computer system. The user wears the EEG cap and can control the attached PC using their brain waves. The EEG head gear allows you to write texts, let the computer speak the written text, print out or copy the text into an e-mail or to send commands to external devices via brain control.

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Remember the Freescale Smart Tablet from CES earlier this year? Well its returned with a range of compatible operating systems which now includes Android, Chromium OS or Linux.

Freescale say that adapting the open source Chromium OS and another Linux variant to the ARM architecture device was not much of a hurdle and is currently finalising an Android version as well. Check out the video for more information and a demo after the break.

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Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman have created an in expensive robotic prototyping environment using a Android phone, cardboard from the trash and around $20 worth of components. Check out the video for more information after the break.

The main reason for using a cell phone was to keep costs down as a standard smart phone comes equipped with everything you need straight from the box. Wi-fi, cellular connections, Bluetooth, GPS, touch sensing, accelerometers, magnetometers, displays, microphones, speakers, and cameras.

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A prototype lip-reading technology is on display at CeBiT in Hanover this week that can recognise the smallest of electrical signals created by facial muscles when a person is talking, without any syllables being spoken.

Professor Tanja Shultz of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology told the BBC  ’I was taking the train and the person sitting next to me was constantly chatting and I thought ‘I need to change this’.

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Who said video projectors all have to look the same? Designer David Riesenberg doesn’t think so with his stunning OO HD Wireless Projector Concept.

The OO HD Wireless Projector is designed to display Full HD video in 1080p over WiFi or from the built on solid state drive (SSD), and it is designed to playback videos for up to three hours without the needs for any wires.

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Too lazy to push the paddle buttons on your pinball game? Well Berlin Brain-Computer Interface research consortium has developed a device which now allows you to play pinball using just your brain waves to control the paddles.

Joking aside this new technology was demonstrated at the recent ceBIT Technology fair and shows what can be achieved with current cerebral electric activity technology . Check out the video after the jump to see the device in action.

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Ever fancied owning your own Jetpack? Well you can shortly buy your own for $75,000 thanks to a partnership between the Jetpack designers Martin Aircraft Company and an unnamed international aircraft company. The initial production run will be for 500 Jetpacks which require no pilots license to fly( at the moment ). Check out the video after the jump.

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Porsche has shown off a new concept for a mid engined hybrid sports car which features a 500hp V8 petrol engine, which is paired with two electric engines, the Porsche 918 Spyder.

The two electric engines produce an additional 218hp, which means that it can reach 0-60 mph in just 3.2 seconds and has a top end speed of 198 mph.

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The guys over at Tokyoflash have just released details of their latest watch concept, the Tokyoflash E-Paper Timing Watch. The Tokyoflash E-Paper Timing Watch concept uses E-Paper to display the time in negative space.

It also has a range of built in features which includes Bluetooth connectivity for your mobile phone, when you phone rings or you receive a text message the watch will vibrate.

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Here is an interesting design concept for a computer mouse from designer Onur Karaalioglu, the Ceramic Passion Mouse. The Ceramic Passion Mouse features a stylish design.

Whilst you might think the Ceramic Passion Mouse Concept looks like a high end gaming mouse it is actually designed with music in mind.

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A team of scientists at IBM have created a technology that uses light to allow chips to communicate and replace the traditional methods using electrical signals via copper wires. The tiny silicon circuits called nanophotonic avalanche photodetectors use small pulses of light to communicate to each at super fast speeds receiving optical data signals at 40Gbps (billion bits per second) and simultaneously multiply them tenfold.

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