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After waiting for weeks, I have finally received my iRobot automatic floor cleaner. It is a very powerful little device that goes around the room and picks up trash and other pieces of garbage to give me a dust free floor! Come check it out and watch it in action!
Quote of the Day:
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
–Albert Einstein
By Bob Ewing
The world’s first commercial compressed air-powered vehicle is rolling towards the production line. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre, will be built by India’s largest automaker, Tata Motors.
The Air Car uses compressed air to push its engine’s pistons. It is anticipated that approximately 6000 Air Cars will be cruising the streets of India by 2008. If the manufacturers have no surprises up their exhaust pipes the car will be practical and reasonably priced. The CityCat model will clock out at 68 mph with a driving range of 125 miles.
Quote of the Day:
If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
–Mark Twain
Think your new $1,200 Vista-ready desktop is a bit pricey? Try this on for size: a keyboard that retails for more than $1,500. I’m not talking about your standard, plastic clickity-clak keyboard, mind you. Meet the Optimus Maximus, a much-anticipated—and long-delayed—masterpiece of a keyboard, which has tiny OLED displays on each key that change the layout of the entire keyboard depending on the application you’re running.
ON BOARD TGV V150, eastern France (AFP) - France’s TGV train set a new world speed on rails Tuesday, hitting 574.8 kilometres (357.2 miles) per hour on a stretch of track in eastern France.
The experimental version of the Traine a Grande Vitesse (TGV), equipped with two supercharged locomotives and extra-large wheels, easily beat the 515.3 kph set by a TGV in 1990.
The TGV narrowly missed the overall world train speed record of 581kph (360.8 mph) reached in 2003 by a Japanese magnetic levitation, or Maglev, train.
An Airbus A380 passes a media group out on a runway as it makes an inaugural visit to New York’s Kennedy International Airport, Monday, March 19, 2007. The superjumbo jet is 239 feet long, with a wingspan of 261 feet, a range of 8,000 nautical miles and room for 549 passengers.
With a touch of a button, anyone can locate you if you are wearing these shoes!
• New line of sneakers comes with an embedded GPS chip
• Sneakers work when wearer presses a button on the shoe
• Father came up with idea when his son went missing
• Sneakers will cost $325-$350; available in six designs
Isaac Daniel shows a sneaker he designed with a tiny GPS chip embedded in the shoe.
Quote of the Day:
Houses should be more like ovens. Self-insulating and self-cleaning!
–rdude
(while cleaning room)
NEW YORK - Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the city’s first robotic parking opens in Chinatown.
The technology has had a good track record overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical glitches.
Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown garage are confident with the technology and are counting on it to squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-building basement that would otherwise fit only 24, accomplished by removing a ramp and maneuver space normally required.
Quote of the Day:
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
–Publilius Syrus
The FedEx flight marked the start of operational testing and evaluation of the laser system designed to defend against shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles during takeoffs and landings.
Jet with anti-missile system leaves LAX
I’m not a big fan of mac, but from a design aspect, I feel that they come out with some of the best designed products.
They recently introduce the iPhone, a iPod/Telephone system and it’s design and function is completely revolutionary. It has one button, and an LCD screen. The screen functions as a dynamic screen based on the function of the phone. Check it out yourself!
This is simply huge!
GM is unveiling a car that has the capability of going over 600 miles on just 4 gallons of gas. They are unveiling a vehicle that is more electric than hybrid. The Concept car named “Volt” will have a very large battery and a small motor who’s sole purpose is to charge the large battery. The Volt can also be plugged in so that it is ready to go after a 6 hour charge.
Quote of the Day:
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
–Theodore Roosevelt