Google have been researching and developing mobile phone technologies for a while now, and for the first time, we have some scoop on these gPhones. Read it at ars technica.

Citing “people familiar with the plans,” the Wall Street Journal has a write-up today exploring the rumors of Google’s mobile ambitions. Google is believed to have spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” on its mobile phone project and has courted Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and others as possible partners for carrying a Google-designed phone. According to anonymous sources, Google has multiple phone prototypes and envisions a day in which mobile phones will be ad-supported thanks to services such as those Google provides.

As you would expect, Google is not ready to become a cellular provider just yet. Even if the company succeeds at the 700MHz spectrum auction, it will be a long time before it can compete with the likes of Verizon or AT&T as a carrier. Infrastructure can’t be built overnight.

Instead, Google’s approach is two-pronged, in that the company is working on its own devices, but is also working on a set of technical specifications and applications to be shared by multiple mobile devices. Google will allow manufacturers to use their prototype designs or make their own. Google’s chief interest, clearly, is getting its applications on phones. Mobile device versions of Google Maps, Google Talk, and even Gmail are already popular, and the company is working on a web browser as well.

Of course, as we have reported previously, mobile ad platforms make the wireless carriers nervous, especially when they are built around search services that are ultimately poised to eat the carriers’ lunch. If you’re a Verizon or a T-Mobile, you have the option of running your own search engines, which would allow you to keep a bigger chunk of the revenues generated from advertisers. Of course, if users sidestep your services for something offered by Google, then you’ll ultimately lose out.

However, ad revenue sharing is not the only issue. Third-party search results can’t be manipulated by wireless carriers to promote their own offerings by privileging them in searches and other search-based services. The wireless industry thrives on monetizing what many would consider typical behavior on any IP network, and handing over the keys to Google makes them understandably nervous about their own futures. They might also be a bit bitter when Google turns around and uses its own services to cross-promote its other offerings, which it can do for free.

For now, interest among carriers appears to be mild, but of course, no one is talking on the record, and Google is still deep in R&D. Stay tuned.

Here is a pretty cool looking screenshot (from the Xbox 360 game) of the Bumblebee…

We all take our office printers for granted that when we press print, ink will come out (ok, sometimes it won’t… but generally…). What if we were to tell you that with any standard HP printer, you could print out electronic circuits? And we don’t just mean photos of them, either.

By using special “ink” cartridges that have a special metal salt and water solution, your desktop printer could be printing out even the most complex electornic circuit.
What’s more, it is quite environmentally friendly as the solution is 100% water soluble.

Source: Coolest-Gadgets.com

Just announced is a new offer for parents with what they believe to be a cute baby. See if the panel from this company think the same thing – all you have to do is upload a photo to this baby photo contest, and come up with a good caption.

Click here to go to Cute Babies USA’s offer

There is a chance to win $2,500 just by uploading a photo of your baby. Enter your baby photo and every month $2,500 is given in prizes. You do also have to caption the photo, so if you can come up with a funny caption for it make sure you enter it. I think the company that runs it probably uses the caption to help them decide who should win.