Heads-up displays are undoubtedly novel, and downright useful in the right circumstances. Trouble is, few of these prototypes ever make it beyond the lab, and we’re stuck using these same two eyeballs to experience the world around us. General Motors is evidently tired of the almosts, and it’s now working in concert with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California in order to concoct one of the most advanced HUD systems that we’ve seen — particularly in the automotive world. Setting out to create “enhanced vision systems,” GM’s R&D team has created a windshield packed with visible and Infrared cameras along with internal optics that keep a close eye on the driver’s retinas. In the images and video below (hit the ‘Read More’ link for the real action), you’ll see a solution that utilizes lasers in order to highlight road edges, speed limit signs and all sorts of other vital bits of data during a fog-filled commute. Best of all?

Just like hard drive sectors can fail, neurons can go bad as data processing, memory-storing units in your brain. In this video, a neuron lacks the protein needed to make connections with other cells, essentially becoming a bad sector. More

We’re used to feeling oddly insulted by Sony ads , but for once it’s everyone else who might need a hug. Because in this PlayStation Move ad, the competition gets named, shamed, and leaves crying for mommy. [ Ars Technica via Kotaku ] More

It makes it feel like you’re in the middle of Tron , but GM’s new heads-up display’s not just a way to play out childhood fantasies. The system projects laser-generated images onto windshields, providing a great looking enhanced vision display. More

In Fox vs. Duck, you are the duck, and you need to survive constant attacks by fox and fish alike. Like the best iPhone games , it’s simple but addictive. More

So… look. Sometimes you find yourself in a Vegas club at 3AM, holding a Windows Phone 7 Series testing device loaded up with a working copy of The Harvest, and you shoot what might be world’s shakiest video of the gameplay using a nearby Nexus One. It’s practically a rite of passage in this town, right? Video after the break

This 4:50 flyby over the surface of Mars—created by 3D artist Doug Ellison —is the most accurate to date, and the closest thing to being there than any of us would ever be . Simply spectacular. More

One three-inch shrimp—happily swimming under 600 feet of ice, 12.5 miles from open water—has shattered all scientists’ theories on life-harboring environments. An impossible discovery that opens the possibility of complex extraterrestrial life in our Solar System: More

We’ve seen some pretty neat concepts of how magazines will make the transition to tablets, but this new VIV magazine spread by Alexx Henry Studios is maybe the most visually arresting yet. More

Not that we’ve never seen Surface -like touch tables interacting with mobile devices before, but now that the whole thing is being repackaged as “the magazine stand of the future” and those trendy tablets are involved, we might as well have a look. Cynergy is demonstrating a seamless method for purchasing digital content from one of these kiosks using your e-reader or tablet pc. It’s just a matter of plopping your device — which already knows your identity and available credit — atop the display table and then flicking the particular magazine or newspaper you want onto your storage. It looks effortless and all, but it also requires that you have the “custom designed and built” software from Cynergy, which you’ll have to pump funds into in order to get the seamlessness going. We don’t know how we feel about yet another proprietary ecosystem floating about, but you can make your own mind up after watching the video after the break.