So it seems you survived the Turkey Day feast and the Black Friday insane crowds? Congratulations, now have fun with the rest of the year because the crowds never quite go away. While I would love to sit and just type up some stories about the holiday or one of the stories I heard from a local SWAT team member about our mall this year, but now is the time for tech news and stories of Cyber Monday but I am all out of stories for that.

Now, admittedly I didn’t know that Nissan had developed a special paint for their car that could “heal” surface scratches as long as it sits in the sun for awhile. Well, they have and they are licensing it out to a cell phone company. I’ve seen some pretty horrific phones after their owners put them through the usual day to day abuses. The next major advance in technology like this would have to be a self repairing screen, someone give me a ring once they perfect that one cause I know someone who needs a phone like that.

When you think of ways you can disturb a library yet remain as blended in as possible, what do you come up with? I first thought of some kind of speakers concealed in a student’s bag. Someone has something quite better, and admittedly not for annoying a library but it could be used for that. A group of designers sat down and created a very special bookmark. This bookmark has a solar cell, a speaker, and is tuned to a specific FM frequency to pick up that radio station. Yep, a bookmark that can play your favorite station’s tunes while you thumb through some reading material. The only potential downside to this bookmark is that each one has to be set to a fixed frequency so you need to order several if you want a few different stations. Not that big of a downside considering how cool this tech is.

This one is for the overclockers and the hardcore performance geeks out there. When you guys/girls buy a new motherboard for your PC, what do you like to look for? On that list the answer “overclocking options” always is there along with the proper slots for your video and audio cards. Asus is working on a new MoBo that should make overclocking one step easier. Normally when you want to overclock your computer, you have to reboot and go into the BIOS settings but with Asus’ new MoBo you can set such settings with a bluetooth enabled phone. Pretty cool, right? Unfortunately, there isn’t any word on when this new piece of computer tech will hit shelves or how much coin you’ll have to scrounge up to purchase it. Unlikely this will be under any trees this year, maybe next year.

With that, I sign off to venture back to boot into Halo 3 again. Recently I’ve gotten back into the routine of playing a few matches a night like I used to about a year ago, some good times were had in Matchmaking and I look forward to more good times. So I leave you with this video that I found quite awhile back.