We have already told you that Peugeot is looking to adopt a new design line for its future models and here is the first product that comes to confirm this. The so-called S1 concept will be officially revealed at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show in March and comes equipped with several top-notch technologies aimed at cutting fuel consumption and emissions.
As you can see for yourselves in the photo gallery below, the concept is indeed using new design elements as compared to the existing… (read more)
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The digital build of the first new Focus made going global look easy and was an important step toward Ford’s new global manufacturing capability. That’s because plants around the world will build the new-generation global cars using shared processes, tools and technologies, the American carmaker recently revealed.
It was an exciting moment, Bruce Hettle, executive director of Global Manufacturing Ford Motor Company, said in a release. We built the car part by part from start to fi… (read more)
A model is threatening to sue Tila Tequila after the reality TV star posted a profane online rant about her.
Lawyers for Jasmine Lennard have slammed the unstable Tequila with a cease and desist letter demanding she remove a blog post, in which she brands the British model “an ugly devil” and a “bitch.”
In Nov., late Johnson & Johnson heriess Casey Johnson was arrested on felony grand larceny charges after she allegedly robbed Lennard’s Los Angeles home of clothes — leaving the model’s used vibrator behind as evidence.
Johnson was found dead in her West Hollywood mansion last week.
In a scathing blog uploaded last week, however, Tila alleges Jasmine was attempting to frame Johnson, writing: “Jazmine (sic) was supposedly the one who gave her (Johnson) the key to her place and told her to borrow whatever she wanted. Jazmine set her up on purpose, probably hoping that she would get millions off of Casey, but once she realized that Casey didn’t have that money, Jazmine, this devil – an Ugly devil at that – got p**sed (angry). And as soon as my fiancee and I announced that we got engaged, this bi**h would not stop harassing us!”
Lennard, the daughter of former Bond girl Marilyn Galsworthy, wants the post removed and her legal team is threatening legal action against Tequila if she refuses to take it down.
“Should you fail to comply with our client’s stipulations, you will be exposed to extensive liability in damages and legal costs in this jurisdiction,” the notice reads.
Sony’s presence at CES 2010 was quite memorable and they demonstrated a wide variety of new strategies for their product lines. Stan and I had a really good time covering some of the products, meeting with old Sony friends and meeting new ones. I cannot express to you enough how well we were treated by Sony, and I hope that through this pictorial and video you will feel like you were right there with us. I do want to express that these pictures and the video do not do the entire booth justice, as it was simply massive and had many more products than what you see here. Nonetheless, I still think you’ll enjoy some of the extra pictures that we couldn’t really fit in with any other entries.
And don’t worry, we still have a lot more to post. Here’s a video showing off Sony’s booth a little more:
I thought it was really neat how Sony had these looming displays of their latest 2010 Television line overlooking the entire booth.
Sony also had an interactive EyePet display, where one could sit down with a Playstation rep and learn about the augmented reality experience. The game should be coming to the USA very soon, which is long overdue as it has been available elsewhere (such as the UK, Asia Pacific) for a little while now.
Here’s the Alpha area, where two specialists helped visitors with their queries. They didn’t have the A450 on display and said that it would most likely never come to the USA.
A general area nearby –
I couldn’t resist..
Sony also had some props from District 9 in a glass case, such as this enormous gun and one of the alien hands and canister that started the whole mess in the colony.
Here is the NX series BRAVIA that sat in front of a couch – they had three separate couches with configurations like this in front of them. Sometimes you could catch people sleeping on the couch at various times, or simply taking a break from the stresses of a convention.
Here is the inside of a Ford Taurus SHO that had special Sony custom lettering and one of their latest head units.
This is the exploded view of a DSC-HX5V – I love it when Sony Japan puts something like this together for conventions. I’d love watch the whole process sometime.
This is the exploded view of the latest Wide Angle G Lens found in many 2010 Sony Camcorders.
This is a luggage tag being made for myself by a machine they had near some VAIO’s. It was pretty random, but attracted attention and was thoughtful. On the other side it mentioned VAIO, CES 2010 and Sony.
I just love everything about Hot Shots and had to take this picture, plus, the PSP Go won an Innovations award (amongst many other Sony products as well).
Stan had no problem working the desk. One of the most amusing pictures I’ve ever taken.
An outtake from the video above – there were many outtakes.
Sony’s Social Media Evangelist Sukhjit Ghag and I right before I left the show floor for good.
Here are some of the stories from CrunchGear’s CES coverage this week:
Best of CES 2010
An open letter to the creator of the pretzel dog
Review: WristOffice mobile device holder
And now you can fabricate objects in full color
The toys of CES Unveiled
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Michael Schumacher did not get any help from his long-time manager Willi Weber in Formula One-return negotiations with Ross Brawn. Although insisting that Weber continues to be his manager, Schumacher admitted that his contractual negotiations with Mercedes GP were handled only by him, this move saving him some 700,000 euro in the end.
I am now old enough to take care of a few things for myself, Schumacher was quoted as saying by Germany’s Bild newspaper.
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Last month, Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, demonstrated at the Computer History Museum the ability to search by using your location as the query. Starting today, you can try this yourself by going to Google.com in your iPhone or Android browser and clicking on “Near me now” once your location has been provided by your phone.
“Near me now” was designed to address two user problems. First, we wanted to make it fast and easy to find out more about a place in your immediate vicinity, whether you’re standing right in front of a business or if it’s just a short walk away. For example, you may want to know what other customers think about a restaurant before you go inside (see quick video below) or what they have been raving about on the menu before you order. By selecting the “Explore right here” option, you can find out more about a place “right here” with just a few clicks.
Check out the full post for more details, including a video.
The "loves me, loves me not" story between the Cadillac Converj and American manufacturer GM seems to have ended with a marriage proposal, as the carmaker’s vice chairman Bob Lutz announced at a conference of the Society of Automotive Analysts in Detroit the car will become the second extended-range electric vehicle to join GM’s lineup.
According to Lutz, cited by DetNews, the car has received the board’s approval and is now entering research and development. The closes… (read more)
Robert Pattinson will share an on-screen sex scene with acting vet Uma Thurman in his next film! The Twilight heartthrob has signed up to star in a big screen adaptation of French author Guy de Maupassant’s 19th century novel Bel Ami, in which Pattinson will play ambitious young journalist Georges Duroy who sleeps his way to the top.
According to several new reports, the script calls for Rob to bed Uma’s character Madeleine — but fans could also possibly see the hunk get X-rated with Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas, who are set to appear as Clotilde and Virginie, respectively.
Gregory T. Huang wrote:
Whatâs more annoying than a 24-year-old who sells his company to Microsoft for $265 million and never has to work another day in his life? Easy. When that same guy sells his next company to Amazon.com for more than $1 billion.
OK, so it took 10 more years of hard work, but Tony Hsieh, now in his mid-30s, seems to be in pretty good shape. The CEO of Zappos, the Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer bought by Amazon last summer, was the subject of a Q&A in the New York Times yesterday in which he talked about startup culture and hiring practices. In particular, Hsieh (pronounced âshayâ) touched on things like why he sold LinkExchange to Microsoft back in 1996 (âthe culture just went completely downhillâ), and the one question he would ask a prospective hire today.
I came away with two things from the interview. First, Hsieh has a very interesting hiring style. Assuming a candidate has the right skills and experience, then the most important thing, Hsieh says in the piece, is âare they going to be good for the culture?â CEOs always say that, but Hsieh seems to mean it in a more personal way. âWeâll invite them to barbecues on weekends and they bring their families,â he says—itâs a way to tell âwhether you feel like you can actually get to know them on a personal level or if theyâre very professional and standoffish.â
Whatâs interesting is that heâs trying to gauge âhow self-aware people are and how honest they are,â he says. âI think if someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If theyâre not self-aware, I think itâs harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.â To this end, the one question Hsieh says heâd ask in the interview is, âWhat would you say is the biggest misperception that people have of you?â
My second takeaway, related to the first, is that culture is everything to Zappos. The company values âa little weirdnessâ in its employees—something that works for some startups better than others. So Hsieh says he also asks candidates how weird they are on a scale of 1 to 10. The number isnât as important as âhow candidates react,â he says.
Just for the record, here are Zapposâs 10 cultural tenets, according to Hsieh (and there are typically interview questions for each one):
1) Deliver WOW Through Service
2) Embrace and Drive Change
3) Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
4) Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5) Pursue Growth and Learning
6) Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7) Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8) Do More With Less
9) Be Passionate and Determined
10) Be Humble
What Hsieh didnât talk about in the NYT interview was Amazon and the cultural fit there—probably because nobody seems to talk about Amazon after being acquired by the Seattle giant. Weâll be watching to see how the integration goes…
A couple of months ago, Google announced several promotions offering free Wi-Fi in airports and in some flights in the US. This was seen as a nice gesture from Google and a lot of people most likely appreciated the move when they were stuck in airports during the busy holiday season. Now though, it has become apparent that the whole free Wi-Fi thin… (read more)
As expected, McLaren Mercedes will also unveil their 2010 challenger ahead of the Valencia testing next month, as revealed by The Mirror newspaper on Monday. According to the British reporters, the Woking organization will unveil their new car in a little over a fortnight.
Until now, Mercedes GP, BMW Sauber and Lotus F1 Team have all announced official dates for their 2010 car unveilings (in Mercedes’ case, it was actually a leaked date to the German media). Most of the championsh… (read more)
MUNCIE — Can wind energy advocates count on Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels to support a renewable electricity standard (RES), which would require Indiana’s electric utilities to increase the amount of wind energy in their electricity portfolio until …
Elijah McCoy
The inventor was born in 1843, in Colchester, Ontario, Canada. His parents were former slaves, George and Mildred McCoy. At the age of fifteen, Elijah McCoy served a mechanical engineering apprenticeship in Edinburgh, Scotland. Afterwards, he returned to Michigan to pursue a position in his field. However, the only job he found was that of a locomotive fireman and oiler for the Michigan Central Railroad. The fireman on a train was responsible for fueling the steam engine and the oiler lubricated the engine’s moving parts as well as the train’s axles and bearings. Because of his training, he was able to identify and solve the problems of engine lubrication and overheating. At that time, trains needed to periodically stop and be lubricated, to prevent overheating. Elijah McCoy developed a lubricator for steam engines that did not require the train to stop. His lubricator used steam pressure to pump oil wherever it was needed and his lubricate was used all the way into the 20th century. The saying the real McCoy, meaning the real thing, has in some cases been erroneously accredited to Elijah’s invention. The theory is that railroad engineers looking to avoid inferior copies would inquire if a locomotive was fitted with "the real McCoy".[4] The original publication of this claim can be traced to a 1985 pamphlet printed by the Empak Publishing Company, who could not explain how they developed the theory.[5] Other earlier origins to the phrase are unanimously accepted by the writing community and The noted African American inventor, Elijah McCoy was issued more than 57 patents for his inventions during his lifetime.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was born in 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. The infant George and his mother kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and possibly sent away to Arkansas. Moses Carver found and reclaimed George after the war but his mother had disappeared forever. The identity of Carver’s father remains unknown, although he believed his father was a slave from a neighboring farm. America’s economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture during this era making Carver’s achievements very significant. Decades of growing only cotton and tobacco had depleted the soils of the southern area of the United States of America. The economy of the farming south had been devastated by years of civil war and the fact that the cotton and tobacco plantations could no longer (ab)use slave labor. Carver saves the south the very people who enslaved his people and kidnapped him and his mother. Carver convinced the southern farmers to follow his suggestions and helped the region to recover.
Carver also worked at developing industrial applications from agricultural crops. During World War I, he found a way to replace the textile dyes formerly imported from Europe. He produced dyes of 500 different shades of dye and he was responsible for the invention in 1927 of a process for producing paints and stains from soybeans. For that he received three separate patents.
Nigerian born Dr. Philip Emeagwali first entered the limelight in 1989 when he won the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for his work with massively parallel computers. He programmed the Connection Machine to compute a world record 3.1 billion calculations per second using 65,536 processors to simulate oil reservoirs. With over 41 inventions submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Philip Emeagwali is making big waves in the supercomputer industry, amazing achievements only surpassed by an even more amazing life.
NASA engineer, Jerry Shelby invented an engine protection system for recoverable rocket booster and received U.S. patent # 5,328,132 on July 12, 1994. Jerry Shelby rocket booster’s purpose is to propel an associated space vehicle to at least a desired first stage of travel. Shelby designed a rocket booster with improved protection for the purpose of making it reusable. Boosters fall back to earth after giving a space vehicle its boost into space.
Aprille Ericsson Jackson
Born in Brooklyn, NY.
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering; Howard University, Master of Engineering, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace option.
Career
Goddard Space Flight Center, engineer; Howard University, instructor; Bowie State University, instructor; lecturer.
While attending M.I.T., she was involved in several prestigious and important research projects. One of these projects, at the Applied Psychics Laboratory, allowed Ericsson-Jackson to assist in developing a fiber optic laser gyroscope, while a project at the Space Systems Laboratory involved creating a database for EVA neutral buoyancy data that was calculated at the NASA Johnson Space Center. For her Senior Project, Ericsson-Jackson researched Manned Mars Mission crew systems for interplanetary vehicles.
After graduating from M.I.T., Ericsson-Jackson decided to continue her education at Howard University in Washington, D.C. There she was awarded a Master of Engineering degree and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace option. Ericsson-Jackson’s research objective while attending Howard University was to develop practical design procedures for future orbiting space structures, such as the Space Station, that could be used along with optimal digital controllers. To fund this research Ericsson-Jackson received several fellowships and grants from many prestigious sponsors, including the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Coop, the NASA Center for Studies of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres, the Wright Patterson Air Force Laboratories, the Dorothy Danford Compton Dissertation, the NASA DC Space Grant Consortium, Patricia Roberts Harris, and the Pacific Telesis Foundation.
This guy didn’t invent anything great I just like the story anything to do with a creative person and entrepreneurship I really love this kind of stuff.
Renault has once again launched the "XV de France" limited edition of the new Megane hatchback, the new Megane Coupe, Clio hatchback and Clio Estate. Just like one year ago, the new range is a result of Renault association with France’s national rugby board (FFR) and with the French national site, so it is only available in France.
Pricing for the five-door Clio "XV de France" begins at 18,000 Euros, while the Clio Estate comes with a price tag of 18,650 Euros…. (read more)
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By Ki Mae Heussner
The porn industry peddles a product as old as Adam and Eve, and it’s always found the most cutting edge ways to do it.
It’s no accident that each year as the Consumer Electronics Show winds down in Las Vegas, the Adult Entertainment Expo heats up. Bespectacled techies cross paths with corseted porn stars selling high-tech sex toys and tools of all shapes and sizes.
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By David Reid, Reporter, BBC Click
From Britney Spears’s musings to the Tiger Woods scandal, information can take a life of its own once it hits the world wide web.
B-list celebs and brand-names bustling for public attention can be particularly vulnerable to people with a gripe against them.
Alberic Guigou from online reputation management firm Reputation Squad said many people were becoming public figures on the internet.
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