Electric Motorsport has released the fairly inexpensive GPR-S e-motorcycle. They’ve definitely taken a mass market approach with the bike. It boasts a 60-70 MPH top speed and a 35-60 mile range. This makes it great for commuter rides, and not so great to visit your grandmother three states away. It can charge in about four hours, or 1.5 hours if you use an optional speed charger.

The GPR-S is also modular in fashion, meaning you can plug and play other devices into the bike as they become available. Kind of cool. Like an Apple bike.

The company has sold 25 so far but they are currently available and as stated before, only a paltry $8,000. What are you waiting for? The Sturgis Rally is coming up.

Leave it to DARPA to make something in the real world that seems like it popped out of our collection sci-fi consciousness. They’ve come at us with nano planes, robot arms and even high-resolution sniper scopes. This time, it’s the DBAC device.

The DBAC device, for Deep Bleeder Acoustic Coagulation, is effectively a portable ultrasound wrap that can identify bleeding wounds and reduce their severity. It uses Doppler waves to find an internal leak, then increases the frequency and amplitude on that location to stem it. This is all automated and, according to DARPA, easy to do even in the middle of a combat situation. This could save many lives. Thanks DARPA!

The company plans to have a prototype available in 18 months. Click the link for a press release.

Now, get to work on that hoverboard guys! I’ve been waiting since I was ten years old.

Companies love to do this during tech wars. It happens again and again. Remember when Sony announced that the Wii selling a bazillion copies was just PR nonsense? Or when the Zune was pronounced a success because it had units on the shelf and not in the hands of consumers? Well, it’s happened again.

Microsoft’s Robbie Bach gave an interview to BusinessWeek recently regarding the Apple’s 6.9 million iPhones figure. He seemed vaguely disinterested and chalked it up to "launch buzz." 6.9 million units, launch buzz? Well, whatever floats your boat Robbie:

"Apple had a big launch of a new product, and they launched at scale in a lot of new countries with a lot of new [wireless] operators. This quarter, RIM is having its big launch, and at some point we’ll have our big launch. We’ll have to see where things normalize."

At least he admits that Windows Mobile 7 won’t continue to be vaporware until the year 2450. Maybe only until 2049. And as far as those iPhone figures being simple launch hype, see the Zune for the exact opposite.

Australia, location for the classic film "Kangaroo Jack", is building over 600,000 electric car stations. This gigantic ongoing infrastructure project won’t be done until 2012, at which time Australia will point and laugh at us Americans as we wait angrily at ever-increasing gas lines. Don’t worry, we’ll deserve it.

Most of the stations will be spread out to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. A paltry 150 stations will be spread out to outlying areas of the country. The outback may produce great steaks, but your car will run out of juice there.

There will also be battery swap stations scattered about, where drivers can trade junked juice for the new stuff.

This is pretty great news for the land downunder. However, it’s not all rosy. The government is suggesting contracts to use the stations be instituted. These contracts resemble cell phone plans. Don’t they know not to make Australians angry? Come on, we’ve all seen Crocodile Dundee 2 haven’t we?

Click the link for the AP article.

Ultima’s Lord British has safely returned to earth. The gaming mogul’s ten day trip into outer space has come to an end. While up there in the black, he participated in an interstellar toilet repair. Really. Not as glamorous as say, meeting alien life, but tons cooler than an earthly toilet repair. Joe the space plumber, perhaps?

At 7:34 Moscow Time (10:34 EST) the space tourist touched down in Kazakhstan. He has offered no comment about his trip to the press yet, but word on the street is that it was "totally awesome." Click the link for more on his arrival.

In other news, I can’t even afford closet space much less to go to outer space. What a cruel, cruel world!