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Even the most basic of things, like the flickering lights of a bustling city, look totally different when viewed from above, and that's why we've rounded up some of the most stunning examples of bird's-eye view photography for your viewing pleasure. Click here to view the first image in this gallery. Continue reading for a video of a surreal roll cloud.

Most helicopters are boring (news traffic, etc.), but these three futuristic helicopters are not. While helicopters are smaller than its fixed-wing counterpart, they definitely do not lack in fun factor. Continue reading to see more.

One of the reasons we have the technology we currently do, like MP3 players, smartphones, PCs, and a great deal more, is because semiconductor transistors were developed to replace bulky vacuum tubes. While semiconductors allowed technology to drastically shrink in size, their use does not come without some costs. High-radiation environments, such as space, can damage semiconductors, and electrons travel slower in them than in vacuum tubes. Of course we cannot go back to classic vacuum tubes, especially with some modern computers components having billions of transistors, but researchers have devised a vacuum channel transistor which combines the best of both technologies.

As reported in the American Institute of Physics' Applied Physics Letters journal, researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center, and the National Nanofab Center in Korea have designed a vacuum channel transistor that is roughly 150 nm long and can be made with current fabrication methods. At 150 nm long this is obviously a much larger device than the 22 nm and 32 nm transistors we see in current CPUs. Its current size does allow it to operate on less than 10 V though, and the researchers believe they can improve the design to operate at about 1 V, which would put it in competition with modern semiconductor transistors. Once that is achieved, it will probably start appearing in places modern semiconductors just do not survive or are not always fast enough.

It sounds like the Battlefield Premium service is no longer a rumor, as multiple sources have told Battlefieldo it will arrive on June 4th. Previously Battlefield Premium was thought to be a subscription service, but now it is looking more like a DLC bundle containg all five pieces of Battlefield 3 DLC. Battlefield Premium will also include the camo and in-game items mentioned previously, but anyone who purchases will also gain access to future BF3 map packs. The more and more is leaked about Battlefield Premium makes it sound all the more like Call of Duty ELITE, especially with future map pack access. Once upon a time DICE did not want Battlefield 3 to become another Call of Duty with $15 map packs and even urged EA to steer clear of it. If these features of Battlefield Premium turn out to be true (and the $50 price), we could be looking at another CoD feature clone.

A bento box simply refers to a single-portion homemade or take-out meal that consists of rice, meat or fish, and vegetables in a square container. They are readily available throughout Japan in convenience stores, bento shops, train stations, and even some department stores. We've rounded up ten ultra creative and geeky examples for your viewing pleasure. Continue reading to see them all.

Two materials that may be very influential in the future of technology are graphene and quantum dots. Both of these materials have special properties that can be controlled by manipulating their size and shape. The characteristics of a sheet of pure graphene are defined by its edges and quantum dots have their optical properties defined by their size. Obviously then, there has to be a way to precisely control the creation of graphene quantum dots, which researchers at Kansas State University have achieved.

The researchers use a diamond knife to cut apart a piece of graphite into graphite nanoblocks. These nanoblocks are then exfoliated to create ultrasmall sheets of graphene of specific size and shape. This is not the first method to make graphene quantum dots, but it is more efficient than others as it can create large quantities of the dots with controlled structures.

This research could lead to many developments in electronics and optoelectronics, by making graphene quantum dots so accessible to other researchers, and eventually the consumer. Quantum dots can be used in communication systems as a laser-light source, in solar panels as the photoelectric element, and in displays as the sub-pixels, to list just a few examples.