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The Hyanide - Your Very Own Personal Tank: “You may not have room in your garage (or budget) for a dirt bike and a snowmobile and a four-wheeler. But what if one vehicle could take the place of all three? ”
Off-Road Segways: “Thanks to minor design modifications, the Segway has gone off-road — or […]
Eurotech have announced a wrist-worn PC (WWPC), which can run either Linux (yay!) or Windows CE (boo!) from 32MB of flash memory, has 64MB of SDRAM, and can be expanded to 1GB of storage space through an SD-card slot.
The nifty looking device also features WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, GPS receiver, motion-sensing standby mode, built-in speakers, […]
I might be receiving a free (as in beer, but probably not speech) USB drive from Microsoft, assuming that they hold up their end of the bargain since by now they’ve probably received thousands of requests per minute for the damn things. Go to this page and jump through the hoops to get one […]
Broadband Networking Via Human Skin
“NTT, the Japanese communications giant, has recently developed a technology called RedTacton, which it claims can send data over the surface of human skin at speeds of up to 2Mbps — the equivalent of a fast broadband data connection.
To work, a transmitter is attached to a portable device, such as […]
Google has mapped the moon with data provided by NASA, marking the 36th anniversary of the Moon Landing. This amusing little experiment also serves the purpose of giving some publicity to the Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (or “G.C.H.E.E.S.E” for short), their planned* lunar base apparently dedicated to discovering the […]
This is pretty bloody cool - Jeep’s Hurricane concept vehicle.
For starters, it’s got TWO 5.7 litre HEMIs putting out a combined 740 lb-ft of torque, 20-inches of suspension travel, 37-inch tall tires, carbon-fibre chassis … and oh yeah, it’s a crab; all four wheels can turn in the same direction in order to move […]
We saw this car at a local classic car show on Sunday; apparently the owner built it for McLaren but they rejected it for some reason. Saw a whole bunch of great stuff there, watch out for more photos soon…