This is a great design for a bridge. It retracts into itself like one of those rolly-polly bugs. It’s creator is Thomas heatherwick and it’s an award-winner as well as a fantastic addition to the grand union canal system in london. There are other movable canal bridges, but the rolling bridge curls up on itself to form an octagon by using hydraulics. Check out the video below to see it in action. It’s always nice to see a fresh take on an old theme. Turns out London bridges aren’t falling down, they’re just moving.

Canadian business mobility company Talkster recently announced their new VoIP service which allows consumers to place calls from mobile phones to traditional and next generation voice services. The Talkster network currently allows people to place free calls from their mobile phones to instant messaging services such as MSN, Google Talk and Gizmo Project.

This new service is the foundation to the company’s enterprise communications service which will connect mobile phones to VoIP networks and devices without phone numbers, such as IP-PBX office phones within a corporate network. Planned for release in spring of 2007, …

The MaxStream XBee XTender Wireless Bridge extends the range of ZigBee and 802.15.4 networks up to 40 miles. This will provide a viable solution to those customers who want to monitor locations beyond the range of ZigBee networks.

MaxStream has combined the capabilities of the XBee and XTend devices into the XBee XTender. This new wireless bridge permits networks operating under the ZigBee or 802.15.4 wireless standards to communicate data up to 40 miles away via the 900 MHz 1-Watt XTend RF modem.

“As a ZigBee market leader, MaxStream has

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