There’s a saying that originated in the wild, wild west, and if our memory serves us correctly, it goes a little something like this: “If you can’t convince the cops to do their jobs, just install as many speed bumps as humanly possible.” Oddly enough, that very mantra has mirrored reality down in Mexico , with some 18,000 speed bumps established in central Mexico City alone. In an effort to cut down on pollutants emitted from legions of motorcars slowing and accelerating rapidly, Decano Industries is developing a “smart” version that collapses if your vehicle taps it gently enough.

Another season, another Texas Instruments coprocessor for us to wonder about . For what feels like ages now , TI has been pumping out silicon that promises to bring high-def recording capabilities to cellphones, but by and large, most everything has been stuck at VGA or below. Oh sure, we’ve seen our first batch of 12 megapixel cameraphones , but it’s not like those things are replacing DSLRs en masse.

The world needs another VGA pico projector about like it needs another ton of plastic goop swirling in the Pacific, but thanks to FPS, that’s exactly what we’re getting. (The former, just so we’re clear.) The LCoS-based beamer puts out an image between 5- and 66-inches and packs a native resolution of 640 x 360; there’s a composite input, stereo output, USB socket and a microSD expansion slot. You’ll also find a one-watt internal speaker and a 2,500mAh battery for projecting on the go, while most every file format you can think of is supported.

There are times, when words feel too inadequate to express our deepest and most valued emotions and one thinks that, words will not do justice to the sensitivity of our feelings. That’s the time when we feel stumped and really frustrated, keeping such emotions bottled up inside. Now, DIYer Wei-Chieh has devised an innovative way to ensure that, these emotions have to be expressed and that way is in the form of a tail. That’s right, a robotic tail that wags and mimics almost every gesture, as a real tail would do.

Another season, another Texas Instruments coprocessor for us to wonder about. For what feels like ages now, TI has been pumping out silicon that promises to bring high-def recording capabilities to cellphones, but by and large, most everything has been stuck at VGA or below. Oh sure, we’ve seen our first batch of 12 megapixel cameraphones, but it’s not like those things are replacing DSLRs en masse.

Surely by now you’ve seen pictures or videos of flexible OLEDs — many from Samsung . Did you ever wonder just how durable the things are? The video after the break should answer that question. In it, one of the Hammer Bros. from the Super Mario games, apparently frustrated about Polyphony Digital’s endless delays, is attempting to destroy a screen looping a Gran Turismo 5 clip. A traditional LCD shatters like so much porcelain, while the 2.8-inch, 20 micrometer thick OLED display is completely unaffected, even when folded.

We’re not quite to the point where everybody has a 3D printer sitting on their desktop, spewing out conceptual widgets and free energy devices, but by golly if we aren’t getting close. The ZPrinter 350 from Z Corporation is the latest, a (relatively) compact machine that uses easy snap-in cartridges of material and automatically recycles any waste created during production. It sports a 300 x 450 dpi resolution, can create objects that are up to 8 x 10 x 8-inches, and while its printing speed doesn’t exactly seem blazing (just .8-inch per hour vertically), that’s apparently the fastest on the market.

Remember that lone Pine Trail nettop that was spotted yesterday morning? That wasn’t the only next-gen Atom product that KND had up its sleeve — not by a long shot. The company has an array of netbooks, nettops, and one hybrid combination of the two displayed on its website, all captured in tiny little pictures like the one you see to the right. On the low end there’s the K116, an 11.6-inch netbook with an N450 processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 250GB hard disk.

Just as Nintendo finally decides to bring some of that noir goodness over to the US , Nyko pops up with no less than four new colorways for its Wand Wii remote . We’re no anthropologists here, but we reckon one of these new options will do a lot better in sales than the other three. All the same, with Nintendo furnishing Japan with blue and pink Wiimotes, Nyko has played it safe and followed suit. These should be hitting Walmart right about now with an MSRP of $29.99, so look out for them at your next government-sponsored Wii bowl-a-thon .