Development of a hummingbird (pics included)
Bacteria Eats Chocolate And Excretes ElectricitySeeWindowsVista.com - A Look at Vista's Upcoming Programs
iPod click of doom solved by intrepid ownerNTU builds a better wheelchair June 5, 2006 Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has developed an innovative ‘gap clearing’ mechanism that could bring about long term convenience and benefits to physically disabled people in wheelchairs. This invention, called the Wheelchair Gap Enabler, allows wheelchair users to board a bus faster and easier and also clear low steps, such as roadside curbs, with ease and efficiency.
High performance electric-human hybrid bicycleMay 31, 2006 Electric bikes and scooters hold much promise in the future transport equation, particularly for short distance commuting, but one of the limiting factors is their rather sedate speeds and limited range. The Optibike is designed to overcome these obvious deficiencies with a range of 25 to 30 miles (40 to 48 km) and very clever microprocessor-controlled electronics and Shimano XT 7 speed Derailleur gears which enable the motor to be assisted by the rider at all speeds. This means the Optibike will run at 20 mph (32 km/h) on the battery alone, cruise at 25 mph (40km/h) with gentle pedalling and with some aggressive pedal assistance, run with the traffic at 35+ mph (60 km/h). For those who are prepared to settle for a shorter battery life of 30 minutes, the Optibike can have its top speed increased to 46 mph (75 km/h)...
The floating Nackros Villa We’ve been enthralled by Giancarlo Zema’s fascinating Neptus 60 Cliff Habitat and Trilobis 65 floating home and Marcin Panpuch’s Relocatable Amphibious Sphere House, and we have now found another wonderful variation on the theme of living in harmony with water – the Nackros Villa. Modern Marine Homes was established in 2002 with a vision of waterside living without compromise and within 12 months, the first habited show home was in the water in Varvsholmen, Sweden.
Seagate announced a boatload of hard drives today, with 10 rolled out in all. The highlight of the wave of announcements was the Momentus 5400 PSD, a 160GB hybrid drive that’s set to ship in the first quarter of 2007 and is destined for Microsoft Vista-running notebooks.
The 2.5 inch drive will spin at 5400RPM, and it will be available with your choice of 128MB or 256MB of flash memory on board. That flash chip will have often-accessed data on it, and Seagate says it will reduce boot times by around 20%. Another great benefit is that it will let your notebook’s battery last from 5% to 15% longer. Plus, the drive should be more durable because all those moving parts can be parked while the flash memory is accessed.
Other notable intros were an 8GB pocket drive, a 160GB drive with full disk encryption, a 750GB Barracuda ES, a 60GB 1.8-inch perpendicular-recording drive for handhelds, and the LD25.2, a 750GB disk destined for the HDTV media center market.
Seagate to offer hybrid hard drives for Vista notebooks
Kitty vs Frontrow, Round 1
Making your kids clean the pool won’t be such a chore with this remote control boat/pool skimmer. The boat, which runs for 50 minutes on a full charge, picks up debris into the removable net which can be emptied out when you’re done cleaning/playing. Pretty sweet toy for $139. Remote control boat…also a pool skimmer!
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The UK company Jade Integration is about to release a PC that is small enough to fit inside a standard wall power socket. Not only that, it can be powered solely over ethernet.
Called the Jack PC, the guts of it consists of two layered circuit boards and is powered by only 5 Watts. The face contains a VGA port, 4 USB ports, an audio and a microphone port. The CPU is an AMD RISC processor which is the equivalent of a 1.2GHz x86 processor (think standard Intel or AMD chips).
The main purpose of is to run a thin client to connect to a server so you can do most of the processing off of this device. Also, Internet Explorer 6 is included to access web applications such as your gmail or gcal. The Jack PC gets its official launch the 14th of June at the IT Works Show. UK firm to unveil wall-socket PC [ZDNet]
District 13 shows the boys in Hollywood how it should be done: fast, full-on, and frankly an amazing assault on the optic nerves. High octane Gallic cinema.
Pod2Go, the versatile information manager for your iPod, has updated to v1.6.4 with various improvements and a name change to Life2Go (Did Kevin get a call from Apple about his choice in application names?). A v1.0 is also available for Windows (traitor!), though I don't know if that is a recent development with this name change.
Updates to the application itself including switching to WeatherBug for all weather information, significant changes to the Notes output and Mail storage, more specific syncing progress and more.
A demo of Life2Go is available, while a full license runs for $12.99.
We wrote about Apple's recycling program when it was first announced, and now it is in full effect, yo. All you have to do is buy a new Mac and then you can participate in the program. You either get an email (if you purchased your Mac from the online Apple store), or you'll get asked if you want to participate at the store. You'll then get an email with instructions. Pack up your old computer (Mac or PC), take it to a FedEx location (with that email you got) and that is all!
Darn it all, here's another so-cool (yet shockingly useful) Japanese gadget that us round-eyes probably will never see. It's a one-cup rice cooker that goes neatly in the microwave, allowing you to make perfect rice without actually having to pay attention. I for one know I would eat way more rice if it was as convenient as ramen (there's nothing like ramen at 3am). Okay okay, so I could just do it with a regular rice cooker, but this is, you know, cuter. But also it probably does make better rice in small quantities. (via PopGadget)
Shredding Scissors
WoW Warcry now has it's extensive Recipe Database online; a very thorough collection of recipes for Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Cooking, Enchanting, Engineering, First Aid, Leatherworking, Mining, Poisons, and Tailoring
WoW Moviewatch: Guild Wars Vs. WoWWoW Moviewatch: Girls Gone WoW
The Scrutinizer. This fantastic tool is like a jumping-off point for all the various web tests. It consolidates all the tools I use on a regular basis, along with many I'd never heard of but will now make part of my regular page-test regimen.
The Scrutinizer automatically pulls in the URL of the referring page, or you can enter your own; from there, it's simply a matter of clicking the relevant links to run the various tests. There's also a bookmarklet for Firefox to make the process even simpler.
Alexander Wiethoff's Colour Vision, installed at the Museum of Perception, in Rohrbach (Austria), allows the visitor to change the room colour with the position of his body. Each posture symbolizes a different status like activity, calmness, reflectiveness and is visualized by different colours.
Featured Photo: June 2006 The Chalk is Mighter than the Sword
The table shows the top 10 selling PC games for the week of May 14 - May 20, 2006. from ( Top 10 PC Games )World Of Warcraft—Blizzard
Rise Of Nations: Rise Of Legends—Microsoft
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion—2K Games
The Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff—Electronic Arts
Guild Wars Factions—NCsoft
The Sims 2—Electronic Arts
The Sims 2 Open For Business—Electronic Arts
Age Of Empires III—Microsoft
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter—Ubisoft
Civilization IV— 2K Games
New Moto phone for T-MobileT-Mobile is now offering the Motorola V195. Inside its plain but compact shell, the flip phone offers Bluetooth, a speakerphone, voice-activated dialing, text and instant messaging, and quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) world phone support. There's no camera, but we don't mind that omission at all.
A new service, GotVoice, can fix this for you. This clever and free product will dial up your voicemail service periodically, record your messages, and both save them on its Web site and e-mail them to you. If you sign up for a premium (paid) account, you can bypass the advertising and get more control over when the service checks your messages.
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