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Uniross Announces Rechargable Product Line
We normally don’t cover a lot of product announcements here but from time to time there will be something interesting that pops across our desks that we want to share. Uniross, rechargable technology company, issued a press release for a few new products 1 of which is a solar-powered battery recharger… how cool is that? So [...]
Continue reading...Antro Solo Human-Solar-Gas-Electric-Hybrid Does 150mpg
1. July 2008
The Antro Solo, pictured above, is a Solar-Gas-Electric and “Human” powered hybrid vehicles that came out of design shops in Hungary. The car is designed to go 150mpg and is planned to enter the market in 2012 at a $20,000 price point. The entire car, chasis made out of carbon fiber, weighs less than 600lbs but [...]
Continue reading...Wisdom of Crowds… By Yourself
1. July 2008
Quick “interesting news” post, scientists have found that the “wisdom of crowds” effect that is so commonly referenced with Web 2.0/social networking sites actually exists within each of us (assuming you are atleast of average intelligence). More specifically, if you take a crowd of people and ask them a question, the average of the answers is [...]
Continue reading...If You Had 24hrs To Take Control of Your Life or Die, What Would You Do?
29. June 2008
Imagine you are sitting on a park bench, in the middle of the day and a stranger sits down next to you. He then turns to you and says: You have 24hrs to take control of your life, or you will die. What do you do? What does that phrase, “take control of your life”, mean to [...]
Continue reading...Long Tail Theory Under Fire, Not Profitable After All
29. June 2008
For the business folks in the ground, a recent Harvard study has come out that is declaring the much-referenced Long Tail Theory is infact false, and in most markets the “long tail” is not profitable after all or has very little room to profit from, where as attacking the “big hits” are much more profitable [...]
Continue reading...North Pole to be Completely Melted by September
28. June 2008
News is trickling out that scientists believe the North Pole will be completely ice-free (melted) by September… and not September 2050… or September 2020… they mean this freaking year. Can someone fill me in when this happened? I know global warming is just a hoax, George Bush told me, but when did we manage to melt [...]
Continue reading...Brookstone Tranquil Moments Sound Therapy Machine Review
23. June 2008
Summary [8 out of 10] At $99, the Brookstone Tranquil Moments Sound Therapy Machine is a safe buy for anyone that is entertaining the idea of a sound therapy (aka “dream machine”) device. While the build and sound quality at it’s price could be better, for some reason… it just works, and that is all the [...]
Continue reading...Hang-Up Calls from 1-314-963-8895 or “News”
11. June 2008
At first, I thought it was just me… getting multiple calls a day, at 7am to 7pm calls from “News” and the phone number 1-314-963-8895 popping up on my Caller ID. No problem, I’ll just ignore it… 6 months later, it’s still happening… all the fucking time. I decided to finally Google this number and see if [...]
Continue reading...Anti-McCain Video, Contradictory Statments Galore
9. June 2008
Business as usual in politics… a Paul supporter put together a pretty aggressive compilation of contradictory statements from McCain. What’s new though? That’s been pretty much a summary of the entire Bush reign… video compilation after video compilation, Hollywood movie after movie of contradictory statements from Bush, all his cabinet. Check it out (load times were a [...]
Continue reading...Video of a Crazy Guy Flipping Out at Work
5. June 2008
These videos are always morbidly interesting, click to watch the security video and cell-video of a guy flipping out at work. Update #1: Eugene gave us the heads up that this is actually a viral video for the upcoming Angelina Jolie movie “Wanted”, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FT7JEpkQf4 Thanks Eugene!
Continue reading...Time Warner US Broadband to Compete with India
3. June 2008
In a move that will advance fuckup US broadband deployment Time Warner has decided to trial a bandwidth-capped consumption model starting in Texas. The gripe most people have with their solution to the problem of being unable to grow their network at the same rate as some 3rd world countries is to make their top-tier 15mb/down [...]
Continue reading...Sweden Processing Sewage Into (Methane) Biogas
30. May 2008
Sweden is currently leading the charge in processing sewage, using bacteria, into methane gas that is captured from sewage processing facilities and delivered into the natural-gas grid to filling stations that biogas-enabled cars can use to fill. While other European countries are also on the biogas bandwagon, there are huge commercial backers to the ethanol [...]
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