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Inflatable Cars Comming Soon

June 5th 2008 17:24
[quoteIt's hard to say what the most intriguing thing about XP Vehicles' inflatable car is. Maybe it's that the car can travel for up to 2,500 miles on a single electric charge (the distance across the US is roughly 3,000 miles).

Or maybe it's the fact that you buy the car online, it gets shipped to you in two cardboard boxes, and the estimated assembly time is less than two hours. Perhaps it's that the car is made out of "airbags" - the same polymer materials used to cushion NASA's rovers when they landed on Mars. Then again, it could be the company's claim that you can drive the car off a cliff without serious injury, and that it will float in a flood or tsunami.


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Together, these features characterize the Whisper, XP Vehicles' solution to the oil crisis. The company doesn't expect the car to be in production until 2010 at the earliest, but when it is, it will hopefully be an extremely affordable $10,000 or less. XP Vehicles envisions four body styles, along with a special low-priced model for the Southeast Asian market.

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Oh wonderful, now cars need to be assembled.
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A Light That Lasts for 15 Years

May 20th 2008 16:42
So ecoble is running a story on a light source that can last 15 years.

glow in the dark suit


How about a glowing light source that lasts for 15 years instead of the typical 15 minutes of a glowstick? GlowPaint’s newest product does just that and is also non-toxic and inexpensive and doesn’t require a recharge via solar or electrical sources for its entire lifespan. According to the company, “This has potential to save billions in energy costs world-wide. Litroenergy™ surpasses all known available lighting options for cost/durability/reliability and safety.” Their products are expected to be used to replace other forms of safety, emergency and novelty lighting duties normally performed by glow sticks, LEDs and other light sources.


Umm, excuse me, ITS RADIOACTIVE!

I'd rather buy double AA's than grow a fourth arm (yes, I have three arms, failed super hero experiment).
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This is somewhat similar to Google Earth and even 'Megatextures' which are actually both more or less the samething. Basically this technology allows computers to deal with massive amounts of information through streaming data from the harddrive rather than having to store it in the RAM.


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There is no fancy name for this yet, Microsoft is waiting on Apples marketting department (comprised of its sleazy salesmen turned executives) to come up with a name and sucker the Apple fanboys to pay a nice premium for it.
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I just wonder if it's 3D or just a flat 2D image you can see from any angle.

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Small PC - Big Power
Sometimes I wonder why people buy expensive computers. I've brought it up many-a-times in the past, if cheap computers were made available (as new) they would sell bucket loads.

The new Wal-Mart PC costing less than $200 but being able to do the typical word editing/internet surfing has been a huge hit and the first batch has sold out. Why? Well trust someone to spin this against Microsoft but personally I think it’s all about price vs. feature ratio


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A Primitive Mind Reader

October 14th 2007 04:10
I could sure use one of these and not just because I'm into the whole 'lets read Ann Coulters mind to see if she's really human and not some alien life form in the vein of The Thing'.

This has far more interesting uses, not the least of which is it can tell you if you're having too much of any specific thing, namely work, boredom, fun etc


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US is Going Stalin!

July 1st 2007 02:49
The white house has erased the infamous 'Mission Accomplished' banner. To think this sort of behaviour was reserved for Soviet Russia, and here they are, at it again.


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Rotating Wall?

June 14th 2007 12:54
First time I saw this I thought it was just some clever photoshopping, but damn that thing is real, and about as useless as it gets.

It actually is a piece of 'artwork' (which explains why it is useless), built right into the wall of some old wine related building
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Classmate VS XO-1

May 21st 2007 16:31
This is quite an interesting battle, on the one hand we have Intel with its Intel Celeron M powered Classmate pitted against the XO-1 which is powered by an AMD chip. In terms of raw numbers it seems like Intel's Classmae is the clear winner.


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Anti-Rape Device My Sweet *cough*

March 22nd 2007 10:32
I hate feminist activists, they have no idea what they are going on about, ever. They claim they want equal treatment but are so vague on the terms they themselves don’t know how to say it equal or not.

So one particularly resourceful devil woman (I shall call her that) has invented an ‘anti-rape’ device. Of course in her little ideal world men are idiots and they won’t look before diving in deep


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Worlds Longest Bus

March 18th 2007 13:41
This is what happens when communism is mixed with capitalism:

Longest Largest Bus Ever

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GTI Tractor

March 10th 2007 15:35
Title says it all really,


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What N-Gage 2 Needs

February 7th 2007 07:47
N-Gage 2 prototype
N-Gage 2 Prototype?
The original N-Gage was (is) one of the biggest flops in gaming history, basically it demonstrated why it was foolish to try to push technology further than it can go for a certain time period.

So it is a little crazy reading about rumours of an N-Gage 2, complete with a proto-type photograph. Still, if lessons are learned (N-Gage name dumped) I think the N-Gage 2 could do heaps better than the first


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There are many myths surrounding the Apple vs. Microsoft war, trying to put Microsoft down, myths such as Macintosh running OSX being more stable than PCs running Windows or Microsoft copying Apple. Surprising how misguided these attacks are, but I guess we all need someone to hate.

Here are some popular myths about Apple, Microsoft and the General PC VS Macintosh debates that I will go through logically and let you make up your own mind on where you stand


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