mystery

2012-04-21T01:07:00.001-07:00

Snoozebox is a portable hotel made from shipping containers

Doesn’t anyone just use shipping containers for shipping anymore? Lately, we’ve seen the tough, stackable, easy-to-transport steel containers used for everything from a traveling restaurant to a mobile classroom to an off-grid house. Now, British company Snoozebox has come up with yet another clever use for them – a modular, scalable portable hotel system made up of multiple tiered containers, that can be set up anywhere within 48 hours.

Top 10 Latest Inventions of April 2010

2010-08-28T19:11:00.001-07:00

. Piezoelectric Shower
A team of designers from Mexico, Finland and Germany created the shower that heats water by making use of the power of water running through it. By harnessing green energy you will be able to save more water. Read more …
2. Device that Identifies Fire Outbreaks
The device designed by a 24-year-old engineering student from Kenya, has the ability to detect fire outbreaks automatically. The gadget makes use of heat sensors that are automatically activated when the temperature exceeds 45 degrees Celsius. Read more …
3. Eco-Friendly Gadget with Flexible Screen
Developed by Hewlett-Packard, the lightweight computer with flexible display can be easily worn around the wrist. The portable computer also harnesses solar energy. Read more …
4. Gaming Vest that Makes FPS Games More Realistic
The vest was developed by a surgeon, whose initial aim was to help diagnose prisoners. His latest invention is called 3rd space first-person shooter (FPS) gaming vest. With its help the gamer can really feel explosions in a video game, falling, stabbing and more. Read more …
5. Device Spays Skin Cells to Heal Burn Injuries
This invention was designed by a team of scientists from the Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. You simply need to spray skin cells onto a burn wound and it will heal the injury faster compared to traditional methods of healing. Read more …
6. T-Shirt that Serves as Body Armor
The t-shirt was designed by researchers from University of South Carolina. Their latest invention is tough enough to be able to deflect bullets. Researchers mixed carbon in the cotton with boron, a hard material. Read more …
7. System that Finds Data on Objects You Look At
The system was developed by specialists from The Telecommunications Research Center in Vienna. They created an eye tracker to perform Web-use analysis on the street, thus allowing the user to obtain information on various structures by simply looking at them. Read more …
8. pCubee - Watch in 3D Without Glasses
This device was designed by researchers from the Human Communication Technologies Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, Canada. The cube allows the user to see 3D images without having to wear special glasses. To make it possible, engineers used 5 LCD screens. Read more …
9. RC Robotic Skateboard
If you want to move easily around car-stuffed city streets, or if you want to surf around the office, this remote-controlled robo-skateboard it just the thing you need. It would not be of surprise to known that the device was developed by Japanese researchers from the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo. Read more …
10. Porn Magazine the Blind and Visually Impaired
The idea to create a porn magazine is not knew, but Lisa Murphy from Toronto managed to come up with the idea of using raised images in a porn magazine, so blind people could not only read spicy stories, but also "see" sexy illustrations of nude men and women. Her magazine is entitled Tactile Minds. Read more …

Java founder Gosling launches T-shirt campaign for free Java

2010-08-28T19:07:00.000-07:00

java founder James Gosling's campaign for a "free" Java has extended to offering a line of T-shirts and other merchandise. In a blog post on Friday, Gosling, known as the "father" of Java while at Sun Microsystems, unveiled the shirts along with similarly themed buttons, coffee mugs, and a refrigerator magnet. He specifically takes aim at Oracle CEO Larry Ellison with the campaign. Oracle acquired Java creator Sun earlier this year; Gosling left Oracle shortly thereafter.
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The shirts feature the following comments: "Java," "Just Free It," and "Hold Oracle to Their Pledge!" One shirt features Ellison's picture with the phrases, "We're Long Past 1984" and "It's Time to Set Java Free." Gosling has been campaigning for Oracle to live up to a 2007 pledge to create an independent Java foundation.
"If you're attending JavaOne or OpenWorld, I'd appreciate it if you'd wear one, just to let Larry know that you care," Gosling said. The two conferences will be held in San Francisco beginning the week of September 19.
Gosling also advised that the shirts be worn by those in the neighborhood of the events, by those who will be spending "quality time with an Oracle salesperson," or for any other situation where the spirit moves them.
The merchandise can be ordered by phone from CafePress at 877-809-1659. Prices range from $2.99 for a single button to $24.99 for an organic, fitted T-shirt. Batches of buttons also can be purchased, in packs of 10 or 100.

latest processor

2010-08-19T18:39:00.001-07:00

Following AMD’s launch of its latest server chips last week, it’s Intel’s turn to be in the spotlight.
Intel plans to launch its newest generation of desktop processors on Monday. Called Core i7, the chips are aimed at the high-end desktop and gaming market.
The move puts Intel ahead of its rival AMD by more than a few months, as AMD’s comparable desktop processor isn’t scheduled to launch until early next year.
"AMD now just doesn’t have a competitive chip against Intel on the desktop," says Patrick Wang, an analyst with brokerage firm Wedbush Morgan.
And until AMD launches its product, Intel is going to be the only option for consumers who want the latest chips for their computers, says Wang.
The Core i7 will be almost four to six times faster than Intel’s current platform, says the company, and will have greater power efficiency than ever. It is based on the 45-nanometer production technology that first appeared in a server chip called Xeon (aka Penryn), which debuted earlier this year.
The 45-nm chips utilize smaller circuitry than the previous, 65-nm generation, making them faster, and also enabling Intel to manufacture them more cheaply.
The new Core i7 chips are based on a newly designed microarchitecture called Nehalem, which includes major design changes in areas such as power management and integrated memory control.
The first three quad-core Core i7 chips from Intel will reintroduce "hyperthreading" technology, which gives the chips the ability to execute 8 threads simultaneously on 4 processing cores, greatly increasing their processing power. Hyperthreading was seen earlier in Pentium 4 chips and some Xeon processors from Intel.
Core i7 processors are also different from their predecessors in that they have "QuickPath," a new microarchitecture that integrates memory controller into each microprocessor. QuickPath will replace Front Side Bus used in
Xeon and Itanium platforms.
The move increases the bandwidth directly available to the processor, reducing lag time before a CPU can begin executing the next instruction.
"Core i7 will be one of the first Intel chips to integrate a memory controller," says Shane Rau, PC analyst at research firm IDC, "though it is something AMD has had for a while."
Intel is taking no chances with Core i7. The company has spent millions to test the chips and ensure flaws in it don’t trip it up, says The New York Times.
In the past, both Intel and AMD have paid a big price for bugs in their chips. In 1994, Intel’s Pentium chips sported a tiny error in floating-point calculation that led to a product recall.
More recently, AMD’s Barcelona range of chips that launched last year were delayed by months after discovery of flaws that among other things caused systems to lock up and crash.

amazing facts

2010-08-19T06:57:00.000-07:00

The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.

There are two kinds of elephants: the African that is taller and has larger ears and the Indian that is small and has smaller ears.

The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.

word of the day

2010-08-19T06:45:00.000-07:00

Adorn ad – orn i.e adding ornaments to make something decorative. Usage: Their house is adorned with beautiful antique ornaments. Synonyms: array, decorate, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify, bedeck, deck, embellish, enhance, enrich Antonyms: damage, deform, hurt, leave plain, mar