Google Maps on the web has been updated to include the current weather in a given location. Now, whenever you want to get a decent idea of what the forecast is and will be, Google Maps will be an alternative to other services. Accessing the weather layer on Google Maps can be done with a single click.

You may or may not have noticed that along with the previously mentioned “Blu,” the letter “i” has become prefixed to every product known to man. Obviously, Apple has all the right in the world to do that (as they really popularized it) but Phillips is making a name for themselves with this “prefix-stealing,” after the goLITE Blu. Get ready for the iPill (the intelligent pill).

Most of us already know what camera pills are (pill sized cameras that you swallow), and this is really a development from that idea further into the world of medicine. The pill can essentially do three things: it can monitor acidity levels, it can release medicine, and it can record temperatures. All of which contribute towards its main aim of analyzing problems and acting upon them.

You may remember earlier this year Thanko, a Japanese company, released the imaginatively named “Thanko Cooler USB keyboard.”

For those that don’t, here is a brief recap: it is essentially a solidly build keyboard complete with three fans that are designed to keep your hands cool whatever the weather. So, what now? Well, in keeping with their unimaginative naming method, the new “USB Hot Cooler Keyboard” does exactly what it says on the tin. More after the break.

Are you tired of constantly getting your legs burned by your laptop? In a few years, that problem may be eliminated with the help of Intel. Under a recently filed patent, Intel plans to use “light to sense when a computer casing is getting too hot, and automatically throttles back the power” in order to more »