I got an OLPC XO-1 a few days ago in the mail as part of the give one, get one program. Hopefully some child out there is enjoying their new laptop–there’s a certain amount of opacity in the process so I have no idea even if this laptop went to some needy far-flung village in [...]
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Welcome to Living in the Whine Country. New design going on, so please be patient and let me know on any issues.
If you have never heard of Steampunk. It’s modern devices given a Victorian Steam run feeling. Today you may find computers with analog gauges with keyboards that look like typewriters. Or Motorcycles given a steam run feeling. Or perhaps you’ll find what you’ll see in this video.
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Well, at least the name doesn’t sound as goddamned sissy as most of the hybrids we’re able to buy back at home. At the Popular Mechanics blog, Brittany Marquis says:
The diesel-electric hybrid hype has met its match: the U.S. Army. After focusing on hydrogen fuel cells in its original version of “The Aggressor,” a high-performance, [...]
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Russia plans to build the world’s longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia.
The project, which Russia is coordinating with the U.S. and Canada, would take 10 to 15 years [...]
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OK looking at the video it took a lot to figure out they weren’t selling any product. There isn’t any products really shown. But it’s one of the longest running, Rube Goldberg Machines… It just keeps running and it kept changing things up.
As undergraduates we completed a project that attracted 100,000 downloads in [...]
The small size of Japanese living space is legendary - but Tokyo architecture proves to be a marvel of miniaturization
“Don’t expect too much from my apartment…it’s a glorified portapotty, basically”. So Lindy warned me in an email just before I arrived in Tokyo to visit her. This I could cope with - whether Lindy could [...]
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His X-48B blended-wing prototype, now on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, is only about a 10th the size of the 240-foot-wingspan craft he hopes to build. But the Pentagon is watching keenly. “Blended-wing technology can cost-effectively fill many roles required by the Air Force,” says Capt. Scott Van-Hoogen of the Air Vehicles Directorate. [...]
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When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of [...]
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The idea for the 2007 University of Illinois Girls of Engineering calendar was originally conceived by four students last year. The idea was to raise some money for charity, and to refute a stereotype that female engineering students aren’t beautiful.
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Some people at U of I took offense to the calendar, saying it was demeaning [...]
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“Doomsday” vault design unveiled
The final design for a “doomsday” vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.
The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.
The vault aims to safeguard the world’s agriculture from future [...]
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