Eco Factor: Zero-emission car powered by electric batteries.
The Micron is an all-electric four-wheeled vehicle designed by Exid for young individuals. The car is designed as a simple, smart, clean and economical answer to rising pollution levels and congested city lanes.
Eco Factor: Zero-emission trike harvests solar power.
Designed by Tim Tobola, the Urban Commuter Trike aims to solve the mains issues in transportation today, which include the over-dependence on polluting fossil-fuel-powered cars. The easiest way to reduce the carbon footprint of individuals is to reduce this dependence and increase the use of renewable energy powered vehicles.
Charlie Sheen’s Emmy-nominated CBS comedy is back in the No. 1 spot after the troubled star’s weekend collar on domestic violence charges.
A repeat episode of Two and A Half Men – the first to air since Sheen allegedly put a knife to his wife’s throat on Christmas Day — drew 11.1 million viewers on Monday night, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings. That was enough to make the sitcom the most-watched program of the evening. The real test for the show will be when new episodes return next month.
Sheen was arrested second-degree assault, menacing and criminal mischief, after attacking his wife, Brooke Mueller, with a knife during a family vacation in Aspen last Friday. Charlie and Brooke are the parents of nine-month-old twin sons, Max and Bob.
We tell ya — Ben Heck’s apprentices are the best. One techknott has just finished up his latest creation, a WVI (wireless visual interface) for Sony’s PlayStation 3 console. The purpose? To transmit signals to and from the PS3 by way of this handy handheld. A 1.2GHz wireless transmitter is used to get the controller commands to the PS3, and the same is used in reverse to get the video signals from the console to the homegrown device. The device itself utilizes a 5-inch LCD, 4,500mAh Li-ion battery (complete with a LED capacity meter), an AV input, headphone jack, USB port and a button for every last DualShock command. Hop on past the break for a video, and head to the source if you’re interested in making an offer for it. Yeah, we said it — dude’s going to be selling this!
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Ferrari once again decided to play hard ball in the Formula One Championship, only if the game is so far played in terms of bellicose declarations. Again, it was the company’s CEO Luca di Montezemolo who publicly asked the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone to make sure the environment within the Great Circle will improve in the upcoming 3 years.
Otherwise, Di Montezemolo revealed his company is considering quitting the sport – as if we haven’t heard that threat before. The argument backin… (read more)
Google is very protective of its name, logo and all the things that are closely associated with its brand. Having such powerful branding, which is actually about to undergo some major changes, this makes a lot of sense. In some cases, though, it may get a little overzealous and things may not go the way it intended, like the Groovle.com dispute which was very recently settled in favor of Groovle. The dispute was over the domain name which Google claims is very similar to its own and can be misleading. The fact that Groovle.com offers users a way of customizing their search experience, by enabling them to use background image on a page similar to Google’s homepage, certainly didn’t help.
The National Arbitration Forum (NAF), the organization which handled the dispute, found in favor of the defendant saying that the name is sufficiently different as to not cause confusion between the two. What it means is that Groovle.com gets to keep its domain name.
“Respondent [Groovle.com] contends that its alterations clearly transform the predominant word of the <groovle.com> domain name to “groove” or “groovy,” not GOOGLE. Respondent contends that these alterations are sufficient to distinguish its <groovle.com> domain name from Complainant’s GOOGLE mark. The Panel a… (read more)
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Demi Moore has spent the past several weeks embroiled in a He Said/She Said controversy over the alleged airbrushing of her cover shot on the Dec. 2009 issue of W Magazine, but the Hollywood actress proved her generosity recently by donating $100,000 to a California shelter that burned to the ground in a devastating fire earlier this month.
The Southwest Community Center in Santa Ana provided human services to impoverished children and needy seniors until it was destroyed in an electrical blaze Dec. 15.
Hollywood.com reports that after learning about the tragedy, Moore wrote a cheque to the centre to help replace crates of food and gifts that were lost in the blaze.
Eco Factor: Sustainable office building designed to reduce energy consumption.
Hufft Projects has designed a sustainable office building for R.B. Murray Company that serves to demonstrate the client’s values of ecofriendly architecture. The office building features various energy-saving technologies to reduce the ecological impact of the office building.
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Fantastic Video from Bill Whittle…
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BYD is indeed one of most optimistic carmakers in China as it continuously makes bright predictions and hopes to become a global player. After announcing that it is looking to become the world’s number one automaker by 2025, BYD is aiming to double its sales in 2010 to 800,000 units and thus grow even bigger to achieve the apparently impossible aforementioned goal.
Basically, BYD plans to boost its sales using a total of five new models, including a sedan, an SUV and an MPV. Accor… (read more)
Move over, Beyonce: Lady Gaga has SuBo Fever. The “LoveGame” singer has been a supporter of Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle ever since she heard the former spinster belt out the first note of “I Dreamed A Dream” — and she would love to collaborate with her.
“I love Susan Boyle. She is my woman of the year. She has achieved more in this year than most artistes will in a lifetime. Our styles are different, but it would be great to work with somebody of that talent…..”
Last month, hip-hop star 50 Cent also expressed an interest in sharing the stage with Boyle. May we suggest a SuBo Duets album?
Jay Leno participated in a series of pre-production tests of the supercar world’s new gem, the McLaren MP4-12C.
The editors at Auto Express followed him at the Dunsfold track in Surrey, UK – the same circuit that Top Gear uses, where the testing took place. Leno is no stranger to the McLaren brand as his immense automotive collection includes a McLaren F1.
Leno got a passenger ride along side McLaren Automotive’s Chief Test Driver Chris Goodwin. He told me the camo… (read more)
Acclaimed as one the Top 10 ‘green’ in America, rockers CAKE are doing their part to save the environment. They have converted their recording studio in Sacramento to a solar powered building. The studio is a hundred percent solar powered building and has no carbon footprint. According to the band’s front man, John McCrea, they aim to get people thinking using the Internet. Unlike the rest, this band’s website speaks about environmental issues and not just music. McCrea states that music is not enough to render a discussion on a webpage everyday and hence other issues should be addressed too. CAKE will headline the Bill Graham fund raiser event in San Francisco on the 9th of January and will release its sixth studio album soon. Not all bands address social issues as such and some fans are skeptical. However, this should set an example to people from every field to work towards building a cleaner and greener atmosphere.
so I was confused, I called DGF and her message says she is off till the 4th.
so when she got home, I asked if she was on vacation, she said she is.
is the fact that I did not know this a bad relationship sign?
furhtermore…yay!
but wierd DGF….
Before finding out the definitive decision of the Paris’ Tribunal de Grande Instance in his trial against the International Automobile Federation (FIA), Flavio Briatore spoke his mind about the most important topic of the day in Formula One, namely the return of his former pupil Michael Schumacher in the series.
Needless to say, his opinion is that Schumacher can return to winning in Formula One at any time, as Briatore argued the German already left the series prematurely in 2006… (read more)
Ford has a brand new V8 engine which was presented on the Mustang GT model. The powerplant will be built in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, at its Essex Engine plant. This decision is of great importance for the Canadian Auto Workers union, which hopes that production of the new engine will increase as time passes and that the engine will be fitted on other models.
The Windsor plant has been closed by Ford since 2007, while the decision to start production on the new V8 here came as a … (read more)
Leona Lewis is ready for her closeup — on the big screen. The “Bleeding Love” crooner is being prepped for her first Hollywood role by critically-acclaimed director James Cameron.
The 24-year-old former Pizza Hut waitress rose to fame after her powerhouse vocals helped her grasp victory on the British talent show The X Factor. Now Leona has caught the filmmaker’s eye after contributing the lead single on the soundtrack of his 3D sci-fi hit Avatar.
“James is well known for casting strong females in his films and he sees that quality in Leona,” a Hollywood insider told London’s Metro on Wednesday. “She has made quite an impression in Hollywood and James is one of a number of people interested in developing her performance skills for film.”
We’ve had plenty of discussions about Thomas Jefferson’s views on the patent system. He is, clearly, the father of the patent system in the US. While he was incredibly skeptical of the idea of granting any monopolies originally, he did come around to accept patents in very limited circumstances, and when he oversaw the patent system, he was careful to make sure that the downsides of such monopolies were limited. Separately, for many years, I’ve heard the story of how Ben Franklin purposely decided not to patent his stove invention, stating:
“As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.”
However, I had not heard of a similar story involving Thomas Jefferson refusing to patent certain inventions he came up with as well. Reader jprlk points us to a recent Straight Dope column, which is mostly about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson’s exposure to marijuana, but there is one interesting part about how Jefferson refused to patent his “hemp brake” patent, because he found the invention to be “too important”:
Jefferson invented a better “hemp brake” to separate the fibers from the stalks, something he thought was so important agriculturally that he refused to patent it.
Combined with the Franklin quote, this is quite telling. In both cases, they realized that the invention could be a lot more useful if it were not limited. This goes against claims by patent supporters that (1) an invention is not a “real invention” if it’s not patented and (2) the patent system is necessary for better dissemination of ideas. It’s nice to see (yet again) that Thomas Jefferson, despite overseeing the early years of our patent system, clearly was quite skeptical of the actual benefits of such a system.
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The best way to get something done best is to do it yourself. So true this is, little wonder then that the Solar-Powered Wooden Biplane Model is actually a Do-It-Yourself kit that we have to put together and with the help of solar panels on top of the wings, the plane actually propels itself. I have played with remote controlled and battery operated planes, but this light-weighted wooden biplane measuring 21cm x 19.5cm x 8.5cm, the model cannot just be placed as a decorative on the desk, but also be put to actual use. The small solar panels on the Solar-Powered Biplane Model are powerful enough to work even under lamplight. Suitable for children above the age of 6, it effectively explains and teaches the functioning and requirement of conversion of solar energy to electricity to the young kids.
