Fuel cells may have lost some steam of late here in the automotive realm, but they’re still going strong at 30,000 feet. Over in Hamburg, Germany, the Antares DLR-H2 has become the first piloted aircraft capable of taking off using only power from fuel cells, which means that it flies with absolutely no carbon emissions. The craft is based on the Antares 20E glider, which boasts a wingspan of just over 65 feet and has a cruising range of 466 miles over five hours.

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Video: Antares DLR-H2 becomes planet’s first fuel cell-powered aircraft

It’s not much, in fact, these screenshots are incredibly easy to fake. Still, a hastily constructed WordPress blog has been setup to host what are claimed to be the world’s first screenshots of Google’s new Chrome OS — hailed as both a Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X killer or Google FUD generator depending upon who you’re listening to. As the story is told, a Google representative demonstrated a private beta build of the OS to an anonymous Acer parts supplier yesterday, presumably somewhere in Taiwan.

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First Google Chrome OS screenshots leaked?

The technology behind this display might not be new, but the approach to demonstrating it is absolutely captivating. Good thing too because the idea here is to combine Epson’s rear-projection technology with 3M’s 0.3-mm thin Vikuiti film to project talking avatars onto to shop windows in a bid to lure lusty nerd-boys and impressionable Cosmo-girls in for a closer look.

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Video: Epson and 3M create the 0.3-mm spokesmodel, eating disorders skyrocket

It may not be the first 1.8-inch hard disk we’ve seen pushing a 250GB capacity , but damn if Samsung doesn’t know how to market its tech. See, these drives are small as Samsung skillfully demonstrates by photographing its new Spinpoint N3U disk in front of a credit card.

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Samsung’s 250GB SpinPoint N3U has on-board USB, personal bonus card

Admit it, your 1150mAh stock Palm Pre battery is far less than stellar — it’s okay, we won’t tell anyone. In fact, you can pick up an even larger, 1350mAh battery from Seidio that manages to keep the same physical proportions as its predecessor, meaning no dead giveaway / gaudy bulge the back of the phone. Ideally, that’d get ya an almost twenty percent bump in usage, but we doubt it pans out so nicely in field testing

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Seidio Palm Pre battery adds more staying power, retains slim figure

While Apple may have moved on to selling the 4th generation iPod nano, consumer protection agencies are still focused on gen-1. For good reason too, apparently, as there’s mounting evidence that those early white and black plastic players have a tendency to overheat, swell, and possibly burst into a nasty chemical fire . Responding to four formal consumer complaints made between December and June, the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards sent a request to Apple on June 25th recommending that Apple “aggressively” collects first generation iPod nano with Lithium Ion batteries made by the Chinese company ATL.

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Apple recalls faulty first generation iPod nano players in Korea

Thought all your dreams of an all-in-one NERF gun / Wii controller were fulfilled with the original NERF Blaster Controller ? Think again. ‘Cause EA has now announced its follow-up NERF 2: N-Strike Elite game, which will of course also come bundled with a new and improved NERF Switch Shot EX-3 blaster

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EA announces latest NERF Wii game with new and improved blaster

A 29-year old worker died today when he fell into a giant vat of hot chocolate at a New Jersey factory. Hope someone at the scene had the presence of mind to question the oompah-loompahs. A spokesman for the local prosecutor’s office said the man appeared to have died instantly from a blow to his head by a paddle mixing the chocolate

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Death by Chocolate (no, really): worker dies in hot cocoa mixing vat

Oh, this is righteous and terrific news. Remember Jean Anleu , the mild-mannered, book-loving, code-writing geek who was jailed in May by the Guatemalan government over a single tweet he posted during that country’s political crisis?

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Guatemala: Charges against Twitter user finally dropped

It may look like little more than a pegboard and a force meter at present, but the PRIME hand-strength measuring device has already won first place at the IShow innovation showcase. Its magic lies in the custom software loaded onto the appended PDA, which makes it possible to accurately and repeatably diagnose hand and wrist injuries that doctors currently test for by squeezing and prodding.

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PRIME hand injury diagnosis system takes hold of innovation prize