Remember Facebook’s Surround 360 , the company’s open-source, $30,000 360-degree camera?

The company has just released the parts list and assembly manual – which just so happens to look suspiciously like an IKEA one.

Lets take a look at some of the materials you you need.

Seventeen cameras? Well, it does cost $30K…

This part looks totally easy.

Ahh screw it, that’s way too many screws. Maybe next year.

The instructions are for the generic assembly of the camera, but Facebook says it hopes people will modify it to their liking, as its the “ first camera to be fully open sourced end-to-end .”

If you have tens of thousands of dollars lying around – not to mention an incredible amount of patience – you can check out the everything you need to build one over on GitHub .

Add up to 128GB storage to your iOS device with the iKlips flash drive

The wonders of modern tech advancement still carry a few pitfalls – namely, frustrating physical-space limitations on our phones and tablets. Sure, the cloud helps, but there’s often no substitute for physical media.

Now you can expand the capacity of your iOS gadgets and easily transport data between your devices with the iKlips Flash Drive . This compact solid state flash drive adds between 32GB and 128GB of extra memory to your gadgets when you plug it into your Lightning port.

The pocket-sized iKlips iOS Flash Drive is now on offer from $65 via TNW Deals .

The iKlips iOS drive has a USB 3.0 connector at one end, and a Lightning connector at the other. To make files available on your iOS device, simply plug the drive into your PC or Mac, and start transferring. The iKlips offers exFAT formatting, meaning it can handle individual files over 4GB.

To access and manage the files on your drive, you just download the free app. You can stream media straight from the drive, and the iKlips only uses a trickle of power from your iOS device. It is made from durable aluminum, and has Apple’s stamp of approval in the form of MFi certification.

You can currently order the iKlips drive in three color and capacity combinations: grey 32GB for $65 (17 percent off), grey 64GB for $79 (20 percent off), and red 128GB for $139 (22 percent off). All models come with free shipping to the continental US.

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BMW’s heads-up display for helmets could make riding a motorbike safer

At CES , you get to see a lot of crazy tech, some of which has a firm release date and price, and some of which is little more than vaporware at the point of announcement.

This year, towards the more ‘concept’ end of the scale, BMW showed off its plans to make riding a motorcycle safer by providing riders with augmented information via a heads-up display mounted inside a helmet.

It’s essentially based on the similar (optional) heads-up display tech that BMW offers in some of its cars, focused on displaying things like speed, selected gear, tyre pressure and other relevant information (e.g. speed limit and road sign recognition) without needing to glance down at your bike’s instrument panel.

BMW says the display is freely programmable, so the rider can choose to show the most relevant information before setting off. The display is also usable as a sat-nav.

The company also says that the helmet would be able to warn you of impending danger, once vehicle-to-vehicle communication becomes commonplace.

The concept helmet also packs in a “mini-computer” and speakers, and is controlled from the handlebars of a BMW Motorrad . This also allows control of an externally mounted camera on the front of the helmet, and allows the possibility of mounting a rear-facing camera for a pseudo-rear view mirror effect.

Best of all, BMW says that the heads-up display can be integrated into existing helmets without any hassle or compromising safety, and that the the system can run on two replaceable batteries for around five hours.

Now the bad news, there’s zero indication of how much it could end up costing to retrofit into your existing helmet, and that’s hardly surprising given that BMW says the technology is still a “few years” away from being production-ready.

➤ BMW Motorrad presents concepts for motorcycle laser light and helmet with head-up display. Innovative technologies for increased motorcycle safety [BMW Group]