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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

California Mystery Missile [Video]

CBS affiliate KCBS captured a mysterious rocket being launched into the sky Monday night, while so far there is no explanation for the siting.

Sources: [CBS News] [SPACE.com] [Live Science]

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Google Car Drives Itself [Video]

Remember the cab in Total Recall and the beginning of the The Sixth Day, Arnold "The Governator" Schwarzenegger was being driven around in self-driving cars. Well guess what Google has been working on...

Google has been using a Toyota Prius to secretly develop a self-driving car that uses artificial intelligence and "vehicles that drive themselves."

From The New York Times

As Scene on G4's "Attack of the Show"

Source: [New York Times] [G4's Attack of the Show]

Monday, November 8, 2010

The Lexus Driving Simulator [video]

The biggest most expensive arcade game ever!

Friday, October 8, 2010

Cooking Tech: The Best of the Best

1st Place - Magic Bullet Set

The Magic Bullet is a home / dorm room cook's best friend. It does everything from make margaritas, milk shakes, sorbet, and any other mixed drink. Then it also slices and dices pretty much anything for you to use for cooking. With the entire set you could make salsa, guacamole, and nacho cheese all in 5 minutes. Then make cocktails for an entire party. I want to open up a food truck that mainly uses the Magic Bullet, but the menu would be endless.

Best Cooking Function:
Using it to make grilled chicken or steak quesadillas filling or the mint double chocolate milkshake, both scene in the video above.

Recipe Guide:
- Magic Bullet Recipes - Official Site
- Food.com - Magic Bullet Recipies

Cost: $100 [Buy Here]

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2nd Place - George Foreman Grill

The infamous George Foreman Grill lets you cut the fat as the angled grill plates allow the fat to fall into a nice little cup for easy throw-away or reuse. The grill is amazing, simply plug it in and cook pretty much anything form a grilled cheese or quesadilla to a porter-house steak or a grilled chicken breast. The machine works in rain, hail, sleet, or snow, just remember to make sure your roommates unplugged it after using it.

Best Cooking Function:
Favorite snack, a grilled cinnamon raisin english muffin with pepper jack cheese.

Recipe Guide:
- George Foreman Grill Cooking - Official Site
- George Foreman Grill Recipes .com

Cost: $20 [Buy Here]

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3rd Place - 2-Sided Cast-Iron Grill / Griddle

Though this is not encompass very much technology, being able to grill in your kitchen is an amazing advantage during the winter. This product is special because you can use the griddle to cook pancakes, omelets, and an entire pack of bacon on one side of the grill, creating enough breakfast to feed an entire family, then use the grill side of the pan to grill chicken or steak for lunch and dinner.

Best Cooking Function:
Being able to cook a full pack of bacon simultaneously with pancakes, or Canadian bacon and omelets at the same time, or any other combination of breakfast foods.

Recipe Guide:
- Food Network - Grill Central
- ifood.tv - Griddle Recipes

Cost: $24 [Buy Here]

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Jaguar C-X75 Electric Sports Car

Tesla... Look Out

0 to 60 in 3.4 seconds,
780bhp due to 4 electric motors and two of micro gas turbines
Top speed of 205mph

"There are four 195HP electric motors at each of the wheels, powered by an extended range system similar to the one inside the Chevy Volt." - Crunch Gear

"You can go for 68 miles just on electric juice or 560 if you let the gasworks recharge the Li-ion battery pack on the go." - Engadget

Sources: [Engadget] [Uncrate] [CrunchGear] [TreeHugger]

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

NFL FanVision

The new NFL FanVision allows in stadium fans to watch replays and the game from different angles. The device also displays real time stats and buzzes every time a team is in the red zone. It can also check your fantasy team scores and stats.

The device cost $199, so for those with season tickets this is a must, but for everyone else, it might be a little expensive a for a device that can only be used at a football stadium.

Source: [Engadget] [YouTube - FanVision]

Electric Heavy Duty Truck

This Electric truck is used in the Port of Los Angeles to hall containers short distances, as well as to near by storage facilities. It is a testament to how close the green technology is to creating full size electric 18-wheeler trucks, and how we will soon be able to make the entire US goods transportation system 100% electric [with some solar help].

Source: [Youtube]

A Closer Look at the GE WattStation

To see more GE videos on Electric Cars, WattStations, and an interactive guide to see if an Electric Car is right for you, click on this link.

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Wind & Solar Cell Phone Towers

Ericsson Wind and Solar Cell Towers

Ericsson is planning to power 118,000 mobile phone towers using renewable energy in the Developing world. The project is expecting to save 600 million gallons of diesel. Ericsson is using "vertical wind turbines [which] can have some noise-cutting, cost-cutting and reliability advantages over traditional spinning windmills and may be perfect for in-city wind electricity generation, as well as personal backyard installations." [TreeHugger] [Gizmodo] [TreeHugger]

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Motorola Solar and Wind Powered Cell Phone Networks in Africa

Motorola has installed solar and wind powered in Dordabis village in the Khomas region of Namibia. The green solar and wind toers will operate the MTC Namibia's GSM network. [TreeHugger]

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T-Mobile Solar Cell Towers in US

These solar cell towers are "... in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. The 12 panels are enough to take the tower off grid, and even occasionally add power back onto the electric grid." [TreeHugger] [Green Yahoo!]

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Monday, September 27, 2010

Electric Cars Are the Solution - GE WattStation

The new GE WattStation's are 10 years too late. Electric car charging stations are easy to place along side roads and allow for easy access. Companies should all be developing electric cars, and companies like Tesla should be excited for products like this to be installed in major cities.

Below is the new ad for GE WattStations

Sources: [TreeHugger] [YouTube]

Lockhead Martin HULC Exoskeleton PROMO Video

Source: [Youtube]

Mars 2025: The Quest to make Halo Suits

The Sarcos XOS 2 Exoskeleton

Mars, here we come!

This suit is the closets we have come so far to designing the Iron Man suit, but within the next few years a exoskeleton spacesuit will be developed.

Sources: [CrunchGear]

Blackberry News: The Blackberry PlayBook

At Research in Motions Development Event, RIM announced their new tablet and iPad competitor, Playbook. This full 1080p out device is scheduled to be released in early 2011. The new device is thinner than an iPad, has both a back facing and a front facing HD camera, offers flash, java, html 5 with a dual core processor and 1 GB of ram.

RIM has recently been in the news as Blackberry Bans were being discussed in Saudia Arabia and Dubai since the RIM network is encrypted.

Rim Stock - Over the Past Month [Google Finance]

When looking at the RIM stock over the past month, two things are clear. In the month of September 2010 the Rim stock reached a 1 year low. But as news of the devices launch has surfaced, the RIM stock has been improving after its Playbook release.

Specs From Gizmodo:
— 7" LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support
— BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing
— 1 GHz dual-core processor
— 1 GB RAM

— Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording
— Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV
— Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA
— HDMI video output
— Wi-Fi - 802.11 a/b/g/n
— Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
— Connectors: microHDMI, microUSB, charging contacts
— Open, flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL,Java
— Ultra thin and portable:
— Measures 5.1"x7.6"x0.4" (130mm x 193mm x 10mm)
— Weighs less than a pound (approximately 0.9 lb or 400g)
— Additional features and specifications of the BlackBerry PlayBook will be shared on or before the date this product is launched in retail outlets.
— RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.

The Blackberry Playbook also an open product, as the Blackberry Tablet OS is completely Open Source, allowing companies like Netflix and other major app companies to create software for the tablet.

Sources: [Business Insider] [Gizmodo] [Blackberry - North America] [Google - Finance]

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Pimp My Ride: Trailer Edition

Cost: $840,000

bedroom
kitchen
bathroom
jacuzzi
roof deck
car garage

Source: [Gizmodo]

Thursday, September 2, 2010

James Bond Tips of the Week via MythBusters

Motion Sensors:

Walk very slowly holding up a sheet in front of you, sounds crazy but watch, it works.

Lazer Security System:

You can use your own lazer to get around the system.

Finger Print Locks:

There are many ways to beat finger print locks... watch and learn.

Safe Cracking:

Water + Depth Charge = an Opened Safe

Maya Pedal - Making Rural Farm Equipment in Guatemala

Maya Pedal is an amazing NGO that uses old bikes and turns them into farming equipment for rural farms. This Guatemala based NGO is changing lives.

Part 2 of the Video

Part 3 of the Video

Source: [BoingBoing]

Samsung Galaxy Tab: I Really Want One

I know I wrote an article about the iPad last night, which posted today, but I just saw this commercial and I really want one:

Source: [CrunchGear]

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The Pros and Cons of Solar Energy

Now that four US states get 10% of their energy from solar power, it is clear that solar energy is picking up some steam as a considerable future energy source. But there have been some critics of solar who argue that individual solar panel units are not worth the bang for their buck.

Solar Criticisms:

The process of producing solar panels can be harmful to the environment and releases a large quantity of CO2 emissions.
Solar panels are only 12% efficient. [SolarExpert]
Government "feed-in tariffs" for solar energy and other micro-renewables are not as effective in lowering CO2 emissions as other forms as subsiding, "an army of caulkers, insulators and energy auditors to descend on every home..." to make every house as energy efficient as possible. [TreeHugger]

Recent Solar Advancements:

As most solar plants are in desserts, dust can be a major problem. Scientists have developed a self-cleaning coating for solar panels, used on the Mars Rover, that uses a electrically sensitive material deposited on glass or transparent plastic sheets and sensors to monitor dusk levels. When dust levels get too high, an "electric charge sends a dust-repelling wae cascading over teh surface of the material, lifting away the dust and transporting it off," the panels. [TreeHugger]
Photon enhanced thermionic emission [PETE] cells, developed at Stanford University, allow solar panels to harness light and heat from the Sun simultaneously, which could double the current rate of solar panel efficiency. [Engadget]

Social Advancements Due to Solar Energy:

MORE JOBS. England's first utility-scale solar plant was just announced, highlight government support for the solar industry. This government support has allowed Solarcentury, Britain's largest solar company, which was able to hire 150 new employees. [TreeHugger]

Development Achievements Due to Solar Energy:

SolarAid is an amazing organization that has been bringing solar power to rural Africa through micro-lending, giving villages and schools electricity for the first time. [TreeHugger]