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Meer Foto,s Komen Binnenkort 🙂
Concepto:
Parco acquatico indoor e outdoor in fase di realizzazione a Concorezzo, Monza.
L’apertura è prevista per la fine del 2010/inizio 2011. Il prossimo inverno tutti in costume da bagno a Milano :banana:
La superfice occupata dalla struttura coperta sarà di 9.000 metri quadrati su un’area di 35.000.
L’investimento di circa 40 milioni di euro compreso il palazzetto dello sport che verrà ceduto all’aministrazione comunale.
sarà il primo parco acquatico indoor in Italia.
La capienza massima prevista si aggira sui 1.500 ospiti.
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We believe that Sony showed off their final version of the wraparound style Active Shutter 3D glasses at CES 2010 in black, pink and teal colors – they should be available for consumers to purchase in mid-2010. I believe that the this is the final version of the glasses because they will be offering the 3D capable BRAVIA LX900 series TV’s to consumers in about 3-5 months and it would be pretty absurd to do a total redesign at this point. Plus the LX900’s I saw on the show floor had these exact glasses. I asked high level Sony representatives to offer any pricing information and other details on how much seperate Active Shutter 3D glasses and emitters would cost but they were not able to comment. I honestly believe that it will cost quite a bit of money – it wouldn’t be totally unreasonable to assume that the glasses alone could cost $200-$400 each – or more. Before you balk at the price, you must understand that is very low pricing for this technology and adoption will only drive the price down further.
Here is a video by Sony Corporate:
My apologies for the glass reflection in some of the pictures.
The New York Times takes an interactive look at what Netflix users are watching in a dozen U.S. cities, including my backyard, Boston. My neighbors are watching what now?
Oh, just Mad Men, it seems, with a sizable pocket in Cambridge. We’re so liberal.
And why the heck was Eagle Eye so popular on the North Shore last year? Anyone? [New York Times via Slashdot]
How do you deal with it ? Glasses don’t work since the focal point is dynamic.
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When the SyFy channel unlocked the door to this year’s annual New Year’s Day marathon with the key to imagination, my two teenage sons finally accepted the invitation to accompany me inside. So you can imagine how the World Wildlife Fund’s green decision to spin their sci-fi/fantasy/horror global warming yarns during commercial breaks of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy/horror yarns made me see red…until, that is, I recognized the teaching moment presented by crossing over from the Twilight Zone’s land of both shadow and substance to the equally fantastic Climate Alarm Zone.
Submitted for your perusal: The time – a frost-nipped and early Friday afternoon on the first day of the first month of the first year of the new decade. The place — a quintessential vinyl-clad house set back obliquely on an icy-tree-lined suburban street, whose doors open invitingly to sights cast from a glowing High-Def television set, the scent of a split cedar log smoldering in a brick fireplace, and the sounds of frozen-rain pelting a shingled roof, assuaging any thought of outdoor activity.
Inside, my boys had just witnessed a terrifyingly young Billy Mumy wishing his tortured victims away to the cornfield for the very first time. And then the shocking twist-ending of Donna Douglas’s eleventh and final facial surgery in her desperate struggle to look “like everybody else.” And Telly Savalas discovering how dead-wrong he was to pay the words “My name is Talky Tina, and I’m going to kill you,” spoken by his step-daughter’s new doll, no particular heed.
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Un buzz auto de la semaine en deux parties cette fois, pour cause de soucis informatiques. Dans cette première partie, pas de problèmes de conscience au niveau CO2 pour les camionneurs canadiens, ni pour les propriétaires de GT russes, et encore une bataille pour la Cadillac CTS-V, cette fois face à la Mercedes E63 AMG.
On commence tout en finesse avec ce rodéo de camions québécois…
Dans un esprit différent, direction la Russie, avec l’Unlim 500, sorte de Cannonball local:
Si vous voulez voir les deux autres parties du reportage: C’est par ici!
Pour finir cette première partie, les duels continuent pour la Cadillac CTS-V, opposée cette fois ci à l’ E63 AMG:
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January is a good time to turn to simple food as we seek balance after December’s excesses. One of my favorite cookbooks to consult right now is Good Food from a Japanese Temple. And one of my favorite recipes from that book is Horenso no Neno Goma-Ae or Spinach Crowns with Sesame Dressing.
Você foi um dos que foi ao litoral do Piauí neste período de férias de fim de ano e sofreu muito, sem energia elétrica, sem água e sem um mínimo de estrutura que uma região turística deveria oferecer?! Leia esta reportagem e guarde-a com carinho: todos esses problemas prometem acabar!!
O 180graus traz, em primeiríssima mão, a planta com a fachada do que vai ser um símbolo do desenvolvimento e da evolução do turismo no litoral do Piauí: Shopping Amarração, que será construído em Luís Correia, cidade que tem as principais e mais movimentadas praias do Piauí (como Atalaia, Coqueiro etc).
A obra está em andamento desde o ano passado em ritmo acelerado e é um projeto pessoal do empresário e advogado Valdeci Cavalcante, atual presidente da Fecomércio. Ele é um entusiasta do litoral do Piauí. Comandando o SESC (Serviço Social do Comércio) no estado, tornou a sede desta entidade em Luís Correia, o SESC Praia, uma referência em hospedagem turística e prometeu que não ia parar por aí.
Crítico do projeto de desenvolvimento do estado, ele afirmou certa vez que o atual governador do Piauí, Wellington Dias (PT), nunca criou um projeto que estruturasse o litoral do estado. Disse que iria fazer mais coisas que o próprio governador, que entra em 2010 no seu oitavo ano de administração. É uma obra que não tem nada a ver com SESC. É uma obra que eu, como empresário, investi e estou colhendo os resultados. A obra gerará 500 empregos diretos e 1.500 indiretos, além de trazer mais investidores ao Piauí, afirmou.
Valdeci Cavalcante garante a entrega da obra em junho de 2010, pertinho das próximas férias, em julho. Enquanto estão pensando que a obra nem começou, eu já estou é terminando. Quem foi a Luís Correia nestas férias viu a obra sendo erguida. Vai ficar bem localizada, entre as duas principais praias, num entroncamento entre as praias de Atalaia e do Coqueiro. Já fechamos com a maioria das lojas. Já garantiram espaço no Shopping Amarração o Armazém Paraíba, a Panificadora Ideal, Pintos e muito mais.
O empreendimento terá uma área total de 14.046,69m² e o terreno; 12.118,76m² e vai funcionar de 08h as 22h. Serão cerca de 70 lojas, farmácias, restaurantes, boutiques, supermercados e bancos em dois andares. O Banco do Brasil também já tem seu espaço. Ou seja, não vai ficar devendo a nenhum shopping. Para se ter uma idéia, é maior que o Shopping Riverside, de Teresina. Não será apenas um centro de compras que vai funcionar só em período de férias não. Será um espaço a mais para quem está curtindo nossas praias. Luiz Correia terá uma época antes e outra depois da instalação do shopping.
A reportagem abre um parêntese: Enquanto a obra do Shopping Amarração está a todo vapor, o Porto de Luís Correi está as moscas. Ninguém trabalha no local e não se vê máquinas. O jornalista Pedro Alcântara, apresentador da TV Antena 10 e articulista do 180graus e do jornal Diário do Povo foi até as duas obras e informou: Fomos ver de perto a tão falada e decantada obra do Porto. Tudo está parado. Não existe máquinas e nem homens trabalhando. E não se trata de recesso. É parada mesmo. Enquanto isso, a obra do Shopping Amarração em Luiz Correia está a todo vapor. A estrutura interna está com 60% concluída.
LITORAL SEM LUZ, ÁGUA ETC?
Voltando ao tema desta reportagem, o Shopping Amarração, Valdeci Cavalcante explica porque essa falta de estrutura, citada no início da matéria deve deixar de existir com a construção do empreendimento. Teremos um gerador de energia, mas isso não é suficiente. Vamos continuar cobrando do Governo mais estrutura. Luís Correia é uma das cidades litorâneas mais bonitas do Brasil. Nossas praias são belas, o clima é delicioso e mesmo assim ainda não somos campeões em trazer turistas do resto do Brasil e do mundo inteiro. O shopping vai fazer o poder público (leia-se Governo Federal, Governo do Estado e Prefeitura Municipal, incluindo aí Cepisa, Agespisa, secretarias do Turismo e etc) se planejar melhor. O que não pode mais é o litoral do Piauí não suportar a grande demanda de turistas e ficar sem energia e sem água em pleno período de férias.
VEJA FOTOS DE COMO DEVE SER O SHOPPING
Fachada da frente do Shopping Amarração
Fachada por trás do Shopping Amarração terá um mega-estacionamento
Até neste período de recesso, obras estavam a todo vapor
Obras em andamento: já começa a ganhar cara de shopping
Learning a language is something a lot of us want to get around to doing, but software like Rosetta Stone and regular old books are boring to use. Instead, how about having a robot teach you a new language? Talking Robo is a personal robot that can teach you to speak a new language, and it will even speak to you like a native speaker. This little bot features speech recognition and it understands natural language when you speak to it. It will also suggest what topics to talk about for practicing. On top of that, Talking Robo also features face recognition so that when the robot converses with a user, it will recognize the user’s face and be able to understand the user’s profile in order to converse with the user more appropriately.
This robot is so smart that it can even recognize images. So if you show it an image of an airplane, it will provide you with the correct pronunciation of the word airplane. Last but not least, the Talking Robo features a Beam projector for displaying novels and even watching movies, it also has an English dictionary and Encyclopedia, the ability to connect to the internet for updates and making calls, and you can even use it remotely to keep an eye on your home and kids.
Talking Robo is available in many different shapes and sizes, including a Panda type design named Anthony, a robot named Samuel an much more. Unfortunately, Talking Robo is not out yet and there is no word on his release date.
Still way down from the peak, almost 10 years later …
Bubbleheads II – Grasping Reality with Opposable Thumbs:
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Science grad students can still register for my science writing workshop. Course outline and registration here: http://bit.ly/6lh3B8 It will meet 1/25 and 2/1. The workshop will be at Yale, but non-Yale grad students are welcome to get in touch about attending, too.
With the first week of 2010 in the books, we thought we would take a look at the most popular posts of the new year in this week’s weekly wrapup. In this edition we’ve got tips for funding advice, keeping organized and building loyal communities, but be sure to check out the newest post in our new series “Never Mind the Valley,” highlighting thriving startup communities outside of Silicon Valley.
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In a world where emails, phone calls, texts, and Tweets constantly bombard us, it is getting harder and harder to manage the firehose of data and information being thrust our way. For young companies to succeed this environment, it is imparitive they become organized and efficient lest they fall behind and quickly become overwhelmed.
While there is no shortage of online solutions, it can be hard to know which one is the right tool for the job, so here’s a list of five web applications to help kick-start your company and keep it organized without breaking the bank.
The best advice we can give you is to know your audience. You don’t try to sell booze to pregnant women, you don’t make God-jokes in Utah and you don’t get a term sheet without tailoring your pitch. Investors are already blogging about what they want from potential portfolio companies, so if you’re looking for funding you should be reading their blogs. While we know there are plenty of useful investment-related blogs, here’s a list of five to get you started.
So you’ve got a fabulous idea for a startup? That’s great, but before you get wide-eyed and start thinking about wireframes, venture capital and moving to San Francisco, get your feet wet first by beginning to build your community.
Having a strong and loyal community behind you is an important step in the startup process. After all, it will be much easier to convince a potential investor of the viability of your product if there is a thriving community eager to get their hands on it.
Best known for its movie stars, sun and surf, Los Angeles probably isn’t the first place you’d think to breed technology. But when you consider the influence of investors like Jason Calacanis and Mark Suster, in addition to the fact that companies like Demand Media and Docstoc call Southern California home, it’s not surprising that the community is emerging as one of the country’s hottest startup hubs. ReadWriteWeb caught up with some defining characters of the LA Tech scene to find out why they’ve made their homes away from the traditional tech haunts of Silicon Valley.
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made last Tuesday and hardly anybody noticed, which was City Hall’s goal.
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It turns out that not even BMW’s spokespeople know that its Roundel emblem wasn’t inspired by a spinning propeller. It’s a common misconception, one that’s finally been cleared up by BMW spokesman Tom Plucinsky, who explained that the company used to think its recognizable logo was tied to its aeronautical history. Plucinsky’s colleague Dave Buchko had initially told the The New York Times that the logo was intended as a stylized image of a spinning propeller before being corrected by Anne Schmidt-Possiwal of the BMW Museum in Munich. To his credit, Buchko did correct the error himself once the real story came to light.
So what’s the real origin? It turns out the blue-and-white logo was used in a 1929 ad that placed roundels in the rotating propellers of an airplane. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. The blue and white quadrants at the heart of the logo are actually intended to signify the state colors of Bavaria, and this isn’t the first time the logo’s origin has been examined in detail – historians have traced the logo’s evolution from the Rapp Motorenwerke all the way through today.
[Source: The New York Times | Photo: BMWClub.ro]
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Synaptics came to the Consumer Electronics Show to show off Fuse, a new way to control a cell phone through the combination of touchscreens, force feedback, tilting, and 3-D graphics. It also showed off Scrybe, a new set of gestures that you can use to make things happen on your computer quickly and easily.
Apple got us all used to the touchscreen swipe and the tilting control mechanisms with the launch of the iPhone. But now it’s time to move beyond that, said Andrew Hsu, technology strategist at the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which makes touch pads, touch screens and other sensors.
With Fuse, you can control a phone with a number of different methods, making it much easier to handle a lot of functions with just one hand. You can swipe across the multitouch screen. You can squeeze the side sensors to make balls come out of the middle of the phone, and the graphics show you the effect of squeezing the sides. Tilting lets you roll the balls in different directions. And swiping your finger across the back of the phone also lets you control things. This is what Synaptics calls a “multi-modal interface.”
Moving beyond the touchscreen, Synaptics is introducing a new user interface for mobile phones dubbed Fuse — combining touch, force feedback, 3-D graphics, and grip and proximity sensing.
Fuse is a result of collaboration between Synaptics and four partners: TheAlloy, The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), Immersion, and Texas Instruments. TheAlloy led the user experience and overall product design efforts. TAT enabled the effective 3-D environment and helped with the user interface. Immersion made possible the tactile feedback. TI’s OMAP 3630 processor provided the processing platform to handle things like graphics and imaging features. Synaptics, meanwhile, used its ClearPad, NavPoint, and TouchButtons sensor electronics in the design.
Scrybe, meanwhile, is a collection of finger gestures that you can use as short cuts to get things done with your computer. It’s akin to fingerpainting. First, you tap on the touch pad to get a touch canvas on the computer’s touch screen. Then you can use your fingers to draw gestures to control functions on the computer. You can, for instance, draw an “@” symbol on the screen to launch your email. It’s another cool way that you can use simple gestures to replace lots of keystrokes. These aren’t products per se, but expect them to inspire the creation of a whole new generation of cool phones, computers and other gadgets. I wouldn’t be surprised to see something like Scrybe on Apple’s upcoming tablet, or on all of the other tablets that were displayed at CES.
Check out the video with took at CES with the Synaptics crew.
Synaptics Fuse and Scrybe — new ways to control phones/PCs from Dean Takahashi on Vimeo.
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Here is another cool gadget to come out of CES. evoMouse has announced two new devices that bring wireless mouse and keyboard support to Windows Mobile.
The evoMouse Pet is the simplest, and resembles a small dog. It uses two infra-red sensors to track your finger on a table, allowing you to use your finger to simulate a mouse. You can click, double-click, right-click and drag with particular gestures,and on operating systems that support it even use multi-touch gestures.
evoMouse Cube, the more advanced version, also includes a projected keyboard, which cope with up to 400 characters per minute. It also supports handwriting recognition.
Both devices work over Bluetooth, charge via USB and supports a variety of operating systems, including Windows Mobile. The input devices can last about 2 hours per charge.
Pocket-lint gave the devices a try and found they performed pretty well. Read more there for more pictures and their impressions.
