If there’s one thing we’re known for here at GeekBeat.TV, it’s our timely and insightful reviews of new TV shows. Wait, no, we’re not… but we’re making an exception for this one because this particular show is about as geeky as it gets.

Phil Plait’s Bad Universe plays like a cross between Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” TV series and “Mythbusters”, another TV series all geeks should be aware of. In the pilot episode, which aired Sunday night, host Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) takes the viewer on an in-depth exploration of asteroids and comets and the certainty that Earth will be taking a big hit in the future.

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About a month ago I wrote about the 3rd Space FPS Gaming Vest, a really awesome tool in the gamer’s toolbox. This month I have another for you out of Hong Kong; the G-Mate Mag Gun.

Designed to put you much more firmly into the action by feeling like you’re part of it, the Mag Gun has built into it all of the controls you’d find on a standard console controller.

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There’s lots of news on the solid state drive front these days. Recently I wrote about tiny integrated SSDs and now, barely more than a week later, comes news of another form of compact drive from Viking Modular. This one is much more consumer-friendly though; it’s designed to occupy one of the DIMM slots that would normally be used to house your desktop computer’s RAM. They call it the SATADIMM.

This is of particular interest to space-conscious hardware enthusiasts; a DIMM module is very compact, far smaller than a typical 3.5″ or even 2.5″ internal drive. It draws power from the DIMM socket’s motherboard supply, eliminating one cable connection while making use of a single SATA cable for the data connection as any standard drive would.

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It’s looking like Toshiba is getting ready to market 3DTVs that do not require glasses sooner rather than later. Toshiba themselves are refusing to comment, though given the public’s apparent lack of interest in 3DTV solutions that use glasses, it stands to reason that manufacturers will be rushing to push systems that don’t require them.

To accomplish this, Toshiba is using a new system that emits light rays from the screen at a variety of angles, enabling the eyes to see the different images required for stereoscopic vision.

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Responding to the mobile computing world’s ever-increasing need for more storage in less space, SanDisk has come up with the iSSD, or Integrated Solid State Drive.

Designed to be soldered directly onto the motherboard of a smartphone or tablet computer, iSSDs will initially be available in sizes from 1GB to 64GB, all crammed into a space of 16mm x 20mm x 1.85mm and weighing less than one gram.

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It’s not unusual for science fiction concepts to influence real world science and technology. It’s well known and documented that the writers of Star Trek in particular have had an enormous impact on the world; the latest example of this is the Star Trek Padd, a conceptual forerunner of Apple’s iPad. It’s far less common for Star Wars to predict working technologies since so much of the technology in those worlds resembles magic more than science.

That’s all changed now with Nexagon, a sort of gene therapy gel with the consistency of tooth-paste that accelerates the natural healing process to roughly 6 times the normal rate. It bears a striking resemblance to the Star Wars bacta gel, the life-restorative substance Luke Skywalker floated in on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back.

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It is with equal parts excitement and frustration that I let you know that the days of Android being TweetDeck-deficient are numbered, and that number is small. Excitement because TweetDeck is by far my favorite social media client on any platform, and frustration because I was given early access to a beta client, and it won’t run on my Android 1.6 phone. (I know, I know. I’ll update one of these days!)

The feature list they sent along is outstanding though. This is not simply a port of the existing iPhone/iPad client. This is an entirely new direction for TweetDeck, one that I can’t wait to get my hands on. Here’s the short list:

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It is with deep regrets that we must pass on word that the QUE is dead. Plastic Logic‘s beautifully designed but ill-timed electronic ink eReader had been plagued with bad luck since it was announced in January. Announced at $649 for a 4 gig Wi-Fi unit, it was shown up badly shortly afterward by a certain well-known competitive product which offered 64 gigs, Wi-Fi and 3G for roughly the same price.

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Rocket powered helicopters. Sounds like a ridiculous idea, doesn’t it? That’s exactly what the Dragonfly DF-1 is.

So how can such a device work? To start, you create the lightest-weight helicopter you possibly can. Lightweight materials and construction, no unnecessary parts. Then you attach rockets to the ends of the rotors; they provide the power that spins the rotors and allows flight. In addition to sounding unspeakably cool, the rocket powered design eliminates the need for an engine turning the rotors, which helps to increase the craft’s stability. An extra-stable helicopter is a much easier to pilot helicopter.

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Who among us hasn’t dreamed of becoming a cyborg? …

Anyone? Well, maybe it’s just me. If there are any more of us out there, you will soon be able to get a small step closer with the help of Bluetooth hearing aids.

ReSound’s next line of hearing aids, the Alera, has a pretty impressive list of features packed into a barely-visible package. For starters, they describe it as a surround sound system that can:

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