Sunday, 30 September 2007
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Bose Electromagnetic Suspension System For Cars
This is very impressive!
Bose, the audio equipment manufacturer, also makes an active suspension system for cars. Unlike the hydraulics systems that are common today, Bose’s system uses electromagnets to raise or lower the wheels in response to bumps on the road.
Heck, it can even make your car jump or take a bow. See for yourself!
Bose, the audio equipment manufacturer, also makes an active suspension system for cars. Unlike the hydraulics systems that are common today, Bose’s system uses electromagnets to raise or lower the wheels in response to bumps on the road.
Heck, it can even make your car jump or take a bow. See for yourself!
Monday, 24 September 2007
Sunday, 23 September 2007
Saturday, 22 September 2007
War Robot Destroyed By IED
This shows how much damage those little roadside bombs can do in Iraq, even to the cold, metal exo-skel of a mil-bot.
Google To Lay Own Transpacific Cable, Furthering Benevolent World Domination
Google may be the ultimate do-it-yourself company. From the start, Google’s sense of its own engineering superiority, combined with a tightwad sensibility, led it to build its own servers. It writes its own operating systems.
It is now threatening to buy wireless carrier spectrum and it is getting ready to hire ships that will lay a data communications cable across the Pacific, according to a report from Communications Day, an Australian trade news service.
Google would plan to be part of a project called Unity that would also include several telecommunications companies. Unity hopes to have a cable in service by 2009, the publication wrote. It would own a dedicated portion of the multi-terabit cable, giving it a significant cost advantage for trans-Pacific data transmission over rival Internet companies.
Barry Schnitt, a Google spokesman, didn’t confirm the plan, but did tell the publication the company is interested in the area, saying, “Additional infrastructure for the Internet is good for users and there are a number of proposals to add a Pacific submarine cable. We’re not commenting on any of these plans.” Communications Day also noted that Google has advertised to hire people who would “be involved in new projects or investments in cable systems that Google may contemplate to extend or grow its backbone.”
Google has long been buying up data communications capacity. Its search engine works by making copies of nearly every page of the Internet in its own data centers. That requires Google move no small amount of data around the world on a regular basis. And its new plans to deliver applications over the Internet will use even more bandwidth.
Dave Burstein, the editor of DSLPrime, who tipped me off to the CommDay report, explained even though there is a lot of unused fiber capacity across the Pacific, there are few players, and prices are seen as unusually high. He adds that there is a glut of cable-aying ships, so the cost of building a new link to Asia has come down.
This new move puts Google in competition again with Verizon, which has fought Google’s approach to the new wireless spectrum auction in the United States. Verizon is part of a group of Asian carriers that is building a $500 million cable between the United States and China.
New York Times
Friday, 21 September 2007
Asus R3 UMPC
The new UMPC features integrated GPS, a 4.8″ screen with 1024×600 resolution, webcam, and a fingerprint reader. It is expected to ship in 2008.
What $207 Million Looks Like
Recently DEA agents raided a home of Meth dealers in suburban Mexico and discovered $207 million cash piled in a back bedroom. It was the largest seizure in history and is really amazing to see.
Stupid Actor Pretends To Choke, Nearly Choked To Death For Real
This ought to teach the dumbass actor a lesson.
Thursday, 20 September 2007
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Drink With Chill Factor
Drinks giant Coca-Cola has invented a bottle that chills on the inside when the top is twisted off.
Insiders have hinted that the technology will feature in a new drink called Sprite Super Chilled, which could reach the UK by next year.
The bottles do away with the need to add ice, which dilutes the liquid - but they must be put in a special vending machine to regulate temperature.
Bosses at the US firm hope to cash in on the "super chilled" drinks trend.
Coke and Diet Coke could be packaged in the new bottles if they prove to be successful.
Source
Insiders have hinted that the technology will feature in a new drink called Sprite Super Chilled, which could reach the UK by next year.
The bottles do away with the need to add ice, which dilutes the liquid - but they must be put in a special vending machine to regulate temperature.
Bosses at the US firm hope to cash in on the "super chilled" drinks trend.
Coke and Diet Coke could be packaged in the new bottles if they prove to be successful.
Source
Sunday, 16 September 2007
Saturday, 15 September 2007
Fox TV Reporter Slipped And Fell
What stupid people would do such act on a high platform? Pure retards.
Friday, 14 September 2007
Thursday, 13 September 2007
LEGO Towers Project
LEGO Towers is basically a "proposal for a residential, retail and hotel development in Copenhagen."
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Centraal Beheer Commercial - Acupuncture
The chinese man seems to be speaking a mixture of 2 chinese dialects, teo-chew and cantonese.
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Wasp Cookie
Food makers in Japan came up with a new product that will surely create a buzz in the marketplace: the jibachi senbei, or the digger wasp rice cracker.Wasp hunters from the village, who are mostly in their 80’s, catch them in nearby forests.
They are then boiled in water, dried and sprinkled over the cracker mix, which is then stamped by hot iron cracker cutters.
A bag of 20 crackers costs £1.60, but output is limited as the wasps are caught in the wild for optimum flavour.
Monday, 10 September 2007
Sunday, 9 September 2007
Ultimate Tribute To The Late Legend Luciano Pavarotti
Famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who appeared on stage with singers as varied as opera star Dame Joan Sutherland, U2's Bono and Liza Minnelli, died Thursday in Italy after suffering from pancreatic cancer, manager Terri Robson said in a statement. He was 71.
"The great tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, died today at 5:00 a.m. at his home in Modena, the city of his birth," according to Robson.
"The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterized his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness."
The portly singer retired from staged opera in 2004, but was on a "farewell tour" of concerts when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2006 and underwent emergency surgery to remove the tumor.
Although the remaining concerts of his tour were canceled, his management said that he hoped to resume the tour in 2007.
But in early August, Pavarotti was hospitalized in Modena with a fever and released 17 days later after undergoing diagnostic tests.
Pavarotti is survived by his wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, and a daughter, Alice, along with three grown daughters by his first wife, Adua Veroni, whom he divorced in 2000, and a granddaughter.
According to Robson, his wife, daughters and sister, along with other relatives and friends were at his side when he died.
Bono released a statement honoring his friend.
"Some can sing opera, Luciano Pavarotti was an opera. No one could inhabit those acrobatic melodies and words like him," Bono -- who noted that U2 wrote "Miss Sarajevo" for Pavarotti -- said. "He lived the songs, his opera was a great mash of joy and sadness; surreal and earthy at the same time; a great volcano of a man who sang fire but spilled over with a love of life in all its complexity, a great and generous friend."
Jose Carreras, Pavarotti's Three Tenors colleague and occasional rival, called him "one of the most important singers in the history of opera," according to The Associated Press. "We all hoped for a miracle ... but unfortunately that was not possible, and now we have to regret that we lost a wonderful singer and a great man."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/06/pavarotti.dead/index.html
Saturday, 8 September 2007
Friday, 7 September 2007
The Falling Man - September 11
September 11 2001 was a day of many incredible and shocking stories: stories of survivors, stories of heroes. But there was one story that people didn't want to face. The story of the people who began to jump from the World Trade Center just minutes after the first plane hit. Their images were caught on videotape and in photographs, but soon they were never seen again, as if they had never existed.
Among those pictures is one of the most unforgettable images from 9/11 - a photograph of a falling man, frozen in mid air, his body perfectly parallel with the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
Thursday, 6 September 2007
Chinook Power
A Chinook is tied down and set on full power for a ground resonance test. Those who know say they are more stable in the air..
Nano Guitar
Behold the world’s smallest guitar, made by Dustin Carr and Harold Craighead of Cornell University’s Nanofabrication Facility. The nano-guitar is 10 micrometers long, about the size of a single cell human blood cell. Each of the six strings are 50 nanometers wide, about the width of 10 atoms.
Wednesday, 5 September 2007
E-Book Demo @ CeBIT 2007
E-ink technology is awesome and it is about to replace the whole printing industry. The quality of this e-book is the same as printed text on white paper. Just imagine one sheet of paper that can load any of the worlds books digitized by Google Books, from Blogs, from online newspapers, from Wikipedia articles and other articles generated from user generated text content, as well as forum posts and more. There just needs to be some automatic selection of daily content as well as more features which this actual first generation e-ink product is missing like resume from ram and flash, pre-processing pages for faster page loading, currently there is about a second delay for pages to load and a slight delay for the WACOM magnetic touch-screen technology.
Banana Guard
Are you fed up with bringing bananas to work or school only to find them bruised and squashed? Our unique, patented device allows for the safe transport and storage of individual bananas letting you enjoy perfect bananas anytime, anywhere.
The Banana Guard was specially designed to fit the vast majority of bananas. Its other features include multiple small perforations to facilitate ventilation thereby preventing premature ripening and a sturdy locking mechanism to keep the Banana Guard closed. The Banana Guard is of course dishwasher safe for easy cleaning.
Banana Guard
Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Monday, 3 September 2007
Sunday, 2 September 2007
Saturday, 1 September 2007
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