So you thought the Samurai had useless skills. 

Well Check this out. 

"while the automobile industry’s financial woes dominates news headlines, the new GM and segway
collaboration P.U.M.A. (personal urban mobility and accessibility), aims to swing the conversations in
new directions. the new transportation concept was debuted at the new york auto show earlier today.
the vehicle is self-balancing much like the segway, but with seating for two in an enclosed seated cabin.
the P.U.M.A. is said to also reach speeds of close to 60 km/h, unlike the 20 km/h of the segway. the
vehicle will run using a lithium battery that provides 60 km of travel per charge. the size of the car is
roughly 20% of a standard american car and costs only a few cents to recharge. the vehicle won’t be
ready until next year, but could prove to be a radical shift in the automobile market and perhaps solve
some of the industry’s financial troubles."[designboom]

Vertigo Self-Heating Container
by Nicholas Bernal

A product for heating soups and drinks by the means of manual cranking. no outlet necessary. The form and idea are great, but according to some calculation from a yanko forum member, to get a liquid to 60c would take half an hour. [yanko]

These are probably some of the most amazing robots i've ever seen by Shigeo Hirose.
It's amazing to see how old some of the robots are and how advanced they are.
Watch the entire video, you won't be disappointed. Oh and the ending is the best part.
Enjoy.

Moshi
I like it when certain products have more than one function. I've been checking out the designs from Moshi for a while and they seem to pump out some rather nice products.
Here is their shield pad/screen protector/mousepad

check them out here

Cream That Egg.

One of the coolest Rube Goldberg machine I've seen to date.

Personal Sky Garage
is basically an elevator that delivers you and your car to your apartment floor.
Pretty simple concept. Hopefully you don't own more than one car or a huge hummer.
Check out the video rendering here