NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program grad student Eyal Ohana conceptualized “Axolotl” while brainstorming ways to portray life and instigate reaction through motion and form. The end result? A 3D audiovisual display enticing pasyerbys with a computerized aquatic being that responds to facial recognition. Favoring that of a friendly squid, catch the “Axolotl” in action below…

Looking to expand your range of vision while computing? Looking no further then Samsung’s AMOLED Notebook, which PlusPlasticElectronics notes is set to release within a year. OLED-Info also mentions that Samsung wants to dominate the transparent display market, meaning releasing atypical products such as a transparent automobile navigation system to be placed on a windscreen… No word on an OLED tablet though, and we don’t think the masses are quite ready for that!

NASA and General Motors have combined forces to developed and produce Robonaut 2 a.k.a. R2, a second gen humanoid robot intended to assist humans in space. Even without working legs, R2 has the ability to lift up to 20lbs on either arm, and function in environments too hazardous for us mere humans. Immensely stronger and technologically advanced than it’s 10 year old predecessor, you can catch live footage of the “R2″ below…

And the Apple vs. Google rivalry gets just a tad more interesting. Enter the impending Google tablet, running Google’s very own “Internet first” and “Internet emphasized” operating system, Chrome OS. If you haven’t grasped the concept behind Chrome OS, watch Google’s instructional video here. Now acknowledge the news of Google’s tablet to be multi-touch capable, and we’ve got one hell of an Apple Ipad contender. Catch the full concept gallery & video below, as well as some specs to expect…

Sent to Gizmodo as a response to the much deliberated question. “Just how will we be holding Apple’s Tablet”? Lex Lareo:

“If you look at the tablet concepts everywhere, they reduce the concept exclusively to the body of the tablet. Then the designers place a screen with a more or less Photoshopped version of : a) Mac OSX or b) Iphone OSX. But there is a problem with that approach: the way the UI elements are placed over the screen. For me the easiest way to grab the tablet is holding it with the two hands (six of your eleven photographs show that you seems to think the same way), so … why not put the controls in the area that your thumbs can reach them effortlessly?. I’ve developed a UI concept that solves that problem…”

Meet Jo Ann Lewis, and unfortunately In 1949 she began losing her sight to retinis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that destroys light-detecting cells within the eye. But now in 2010 readily available microelectronic implants have granted her the ability to recapture as National Geographic so eloquently put, “A Vestige Of Vision”. After watching the footage of Jo Ann Lewis’ procedure after the break, we must realize that this is the inception, just imagine what microeletronic implants will have in store for us in 5, 10, or even 15 years…