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- Ejacket: Bandai’s E-Money Case Plays Kamen Rider Sounds Every Time You Make a Purchase (Video)
- Hit Video Game Professor Layton To Go Social On Mobage This Year
- Daily Crunch: Power Supply Edition
- Finally, A Solar Powered Netbook Comes To The US
- Those Black MacBook Airs? An Experiment Gone Wrong, Says Apple Source
- Acer’s 7″ Iconia Tab Appears In Walmart For $349
- Behind The Scenes At The Impossible Project’s Resurrected Polaroid Facility
- anaPad iPad Toy Teaches Children To Retreat Socially From Boring Situations
- Hackers Grab 1.3 Million Logins From SEGA
- No Native Email On Playbook Due To Blackberry Restrictions And Poor Planning By RIM
- Canon’s T3 Gets A Tiny Bit More Colorful With Red, Brown, Grey Options
- Are these Verizon’s New Tiered Data Plans?
- Apple, Samsung Patent War Begins To Bore Judge, Execs To Settle Out Of Court?
- Social Addicts Rejoice! HTC ChaCha Facebook Phone Headed For AT&T
- “The Best Chance To Beat Gasoline:” An Excerpt From Seth Fletcher’s Bottled Lightning
- Pre-order Your HP Touchpad Now, $500 And Shipping July 1st
- Tips My Dad Says
- The ZEHST Is The 3,000 MPH, Zero Emissions Airplane Of 2050
- Review Of The Cartier Calibre Watch
- CECH-3000B: Sony Announces Lighter, More Power-Efficient PS3 Model
| Ejacket: Bandai’s E-Money Case Plays Kamen Rider Sounds Every Time You Make a Purchase (Video) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 03:46 AM PDT
As far as distribution of electronic money is concerned, Japan is probably the most advanced country in the world. For years, millions of Japanese have been paying in supermarkets, department stores and other places with their cell phones or smart cards. Reason enough for Bandai to announce [JP, PDF] a very special solution for users of those smart cards: a case that plays sounds from Kamen Rider every time you make a purchase. For fans of the cult Sci-Fi series from the 1970s (who have no shame), the so-called Ejacket is probably one of the coolest gadgets out there. The case not only plays various sound effects from Kamen Rider but also lights up every time the user taps it against a reader.
You can pre-order the Ejacket on Rakuten (in English) for about $25 (it’s only compatible with the Suica and Edy smart card systems). The case will be sold starting July 23, but Bandai plans to roll out more versions, based on popular anime, soon. This video (in Japanese) shows the Ejacket in action: Via Hobby Media [IT] (thanks, Francesco Fondi)
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| Hit Video Game Professor Layton To Go Social On Mobage This Year Posted: 21 Jun 2011 02:12 AM PDT
Konami, Sega, Hudson, Capcom: virtually every Japanese video game maker these days is producing social games, too. The newest company jumping on the bandwagon is Level-5 whose mega hit series Professor Layton will be turned into a (mobile) social game in Japan in the fall this year. “Professor Layton Royale” will become available on Mobage, a popular mobile social gaming platform (which boasts 25 million users in Japan) run by Tokyo-based DeNA. The plan is to release the game for Mobage on Japanese feature phones first, followed by smartphones later. Level-5 is planning to release Professor Layton Royale in English as well, once DeNA starts offering Mobage (on smartphones) in markets outside Japan, too. While you can expect the launch of the Mobage platform itself very soon, I would guess Professor Layton Royale in English shouldn’t become available before winter this year. As a video game series, Level-5 has sold more than 12 million units globally, but what is Professor Layton Royale about? As with many social games, the title will be free to play (virtual items will be sold, too). The game assigns the player a different role as a Professor Layton character each time (detective, criminal or citizen). As a criminal, the player is supposed to avoid detectives, while detectives must find out who the criminal is (citizens collaborate with detectives in order to find out who the criminal is). Expect many more video game franchises from Japan to go social this year.
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| Daily Crunch: Power Supply Edition Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:00 AM PDT
Behind The Scenes At The Impossible Project's Resurrected Polaroid Facility
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| Finally, A Solar Powered Netbook Comes To The US Posted: 20 Jun 2011 06:26 PM PDT
Okay, maybe not. But this one from Samsung, which has no special specs except for the solar panel on the back, was originally not coming to the US. And now it is. For $399. July 3rd. Word to your solar powered mother. [via Laptop]
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| Those Black MacBook Airs? An Experiment Gone Wrong, Says Apple Source Posted: 20 Jun 2011 05:00 PM PDT
So much for that! No word on the rumor (solid in my opinion) that the new Airs are being held until they can ship with Lion.
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| Acer’s 7″ Iconia Tab Appears In Walmart For $349 Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:30 PM PDT
At $350 (with the stats you see there) it seems like a pretty good buy if you happen to be in the market. Apparently these things are actually sitting on shelves at some Walmarts, so it might be worth checking out… if, you know, you care about yet another Android tablet.
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| Behind The Scenes At The Impossible Project’s Resurrected Polaroid Facility Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT
It’s not as simple as turning the lights back on and buying the chemicals, though. The Polaroid process wasn’t included with the factory; most likely, it’s the property of whoever bought the company’s IP. So the developer, film, and all the little bits and pieces had to be re-invented, though the Polaroid cartridges could be imitated and manufactured easily enough. So far they have two varieties of film: silver shade and color shade. They’re not the same as the old Polaroids, but they’re working on replicating that as well as doing their own thing. The process isn’t perfect, either, so every cartridge is slightly different. Some like that, some don’t. At any rate, check out the video above if you’re a Polaroid fan at all. [via PetaPixel]
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| anaPad iPad Toy Teaches Children To Retreat Socially From Boring Situations Posted: 20 Jun 2011 03:17 PM PDT
Kindness, sociability, affection, appreciation of others: those are the things your child could be learning if we didn’t just slap down an iPad in front of them every time life gets a little crowded and they get a little bored. But what about the smallest of the younglings? What can they do to have a good time while we amuse ourselves into the sweet release of e-toxicity? Why not pick up the anaPad, a fake iPad with little magnet apps and a little pen for junior to write “MOME PA TENTSHUN TO ME” on. And, after all, don’t they learn these habits from watching us? Don’t they see us tapping away at Blackberries and iPhones and iPads in front of them and don’t they want in on the action? But there is something in the parent’s heart that says “No, don’t do this. Don’t give them Angry Birds. Give them something wholesome, something painted in lead-paint blues and reds, something that resembles something fun from our youth.” And a toy like this is seemingly a good trade-off: it’s not a real device but it’s still close enough that maybe the kid won’t care. But he or she will care. They’ll see that the real device is off limits because Dad says so. And because Mom needs it for work. And because sis is texting her friends. And they’ll see that the only way to communicate with the family is through the keyboard and through the ether and through the Facebook. And slowly, slowly, they’ll sink into the electronic miasma of modern life, brains stuck in sludge as they churn through value-less status updates and vapid media. And then they’ll be just like us. And then they’ll be just like us. The anaPad is $30 on Etsy.
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| Hackers Grab 1.3 Million Logins From SEGA Posted: 20 Jun 2011 03:08 PM PDT Games makers can’t get a break. First Sony had their buttocks offered up to them and now SEGA has lost 1.3 million sets of user data, a fairly large breach for a fairly small company. Names, birthdates, email address, and passwords (encrypted) were lost although no payment data has been compromised. The attack focused on the SEGA Pass service, which has been shut down until the hack can be cleaned up.
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| No Native Email On Playbook Due To Blackberry Restrictions And Poor Planning By RIM Posted: 20 Jun 2011 02:18 PM PDT
Business Insider was told no secrets, but the reasoning behind the exclusion is made clear: “The [Blackberry Email System] email server has the concept of one user = one device” — a deliberate design made for security reasons. But now that support is necessary for multiple devices, RIM faces “a lot of work to change something that’s pretty basic in the software architecture and design.” Indeed! Of course, the question is why didn’t they make these changes two years ago, when the tablet buzz was starting, and the idea of a Blackberry tablet ecosystem must have been discussed? Multiple devices, be they phones, tablets, or some other clients, were an eventuality RIM should have been prepared for. RIM is supposed to deliver a solution this summer, but given the speed of the market, that may already be too late.
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| Canon’s T3 Gets A Tiny Bit More Colorful With Red, Brown, Grey Options Posted: 20 Jun 2011 01:18 PM PDT
Yes, Canon’s entry-level DSLR now comes in three new and surprisingly tasteful colors. Sober grey, espresso brown, and wine red are added to the plain black version, though there are no lenses to match. They cost the same with the kit lens ($600), though right now the Canon store has them for $50 off. You can find it online for less, but it’s worth mentioning.
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| Are these Verizon’s New Tiered Data Plans? Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:31 PM PDT
Much like a great book, a roller coaster ride, or a Joss Whedon TV show, we knew that Verizon’s “unlimited” data plans were coming to an early end sooner or later. We just didn’t know when, or how much we (or, at least, those of us not on grandfathered plans) would have to cough up when the time came. Now, things aren’t official just yet — but thanks to the ol’ rumor mill, we’ve got a pretty good idea of what to expect. Read the rest at MobileCrunch, because we’d never try to charge you $15 per gigabyte.
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| Apple, Samsung Patent War Begins To Bore Judge, Execs To Settle Out Of Court? Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:30 PM PDT
The disclosure relieved no one more than U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, who has been asking the two tech giants to figure it out already. Read the rest at MobileCrunch >>
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| Social Addicts Rejoice! HTC ChaCha Facebook Phone Headed For AT&T Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:24 PM PDT
Luckily, HTC has created a way to keep you hooked on the 'book, instead of ween you off of it: the HTC ChaCha, photos of which have surfaced with an AT&T logo emblazoned across the front. Read the rest at MobileCrunch, and we’ll ChaCha all night. >>
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| “The Best Chance To Beat Gasoline:” An Excerpt From Seth Fletcher’s Bottled Lightning Posted: 20 Jun 2011 10:42 AM PDT
The book explores lithium from its earliest beginnings to its use in almost everything that we use today. Fletcher, a writer for Popular Science has done his research and although the topic sounds as dull as lithium-infused brine he keeps the book well-paced and interesting throughout. Unlike many single-topic non-fiction books (Salt,Cod,Adult Diapers), Fletcher tells us the history of a modern chemical that turned the lowly battery into a real powerhouse. Where will lithium take us next? Fletcher explores the future of lithium-air batteries in this excerpted chapter. In the quest to rid our cars of oil and our grid of coal and gas, battery scientists have at least two essential duties. The first is to continue to grind through the periodic table in search of the incremental advances that will steadily make the technology a little better every year. The second is to chase ideas that may be decades from commercial reality, because while everyone else is arguing about state tax credits for pack assembly plants and the price of separator material, somebody has to. Chief among these far-horizon ideas is the highest-risk, highest-reward battery technology of all: lithium-air. At the moment, lithium-air appears to be the best chance battery scientists have to beat gasoline. It is elegant in concept and, theoretically at least, extravagantly energetic. For the sake of comparison, consider that a lead-acid battery can store something like 40 watt-hours of energy per kilogram. Today's best lithium-ion batteries can hold about 200 watt-hours per kilogram, and lithium-ion has a theoretical maximum of 400 watt-hours per kilogram. Lithium-air has a theoretical maximum of 11,000 watt-hours per kilogram. Even after handicapping to take into account weight, efficiency, and other foreseeable technological obstacles—after assuming that, for the sake of argument, the lithium-air battery will be able to deliver only 15 or 20 percent of its theoretical energy capacity—it still approaches what gasoline, because of the poor efficiency of the internal combustion engine, can deliver. And that is why scientists have been dreaming about it for decades. "As with all things in life where there's a big prize, it's not an easy one to reach," Peter Bruce said. Lithium-air is probably the purest and earthiest battery chemistry possible, because in its simplest formulation it involves nothing but lithium, oxygen, and carbon—the lightest metal in the universe and two essential elements of all living beings. "You take the positive electrode of a lithium-ion battery and you replace it with porous carbon," explained Bruce, who today is one of the world's leading lithium-air researchers. "The electrolyte"—this could either be an organic solvent as in today's lithium-ion batteries, a combination of polymers, or maybe even something based on water—"floods the pores of the carbon. Oxygen comes in from the air." And then the lithium ions, the oxygen, and the electrons routing around through the external circuit all combine to form lithium peroxide (Li2O2), a solid. Then, as with any rechargeable battery, the whole thing happens in reverse. "When you charge up the battery, you actually decompose this solid material. It goes back to lithium ions and electrons and pumps oxygen into the atmosphere again." Mainly because of the signal it sends to the world—IBM is interested!—the highest-profile lithium-air project right now is probably Battery 500, a lab dedicated strictly to lithium-air research at IBM's Almaden Research Center. "A practical electric car will need a lot more mileage than is possible with lithium-ion batteries," said Winfried Wilcke, head of the project. "Five hundred miles is the target you really want." That, along with a nice resonance with the Daytona 500, is why IBM decided to call its lithium-air project Battery 500—"to differentiate this from incremental improvements of lithium ion." IBM is taking a supercomputer-driven, fundamental-physics approach to the problem. "Electrochemistry has had a long history of a very Edisonian approach," Wilcke said. "But for something as risky and difficult as a lithium-air project, that's not good enough." It's risky and difficult because "wherever you look there are challenges," he said. "It's like climbing Mount Everest." First there's the maddening difficulty of recharging. Getting the discharge reaction to happen once, to get the lithium to react with oxygen to form solid lithium peroxide—thanks to recent advances, that part is not a problem. What is a problem is getting that reaction to happen in reverse, to get the solid lithium peroxide to decompose into oxygen and then plate pure lithium back on the negative electrode with mirror-like smoothness. Power is another problem. The reaction between oxygen and lithium is intrinsically slow, far too sluggish to blast a car up the highway in a passing maneuver. Hope for the power problem comes in the form of nanotechnology, which, as it does for many other lithium-based battery technologies, increases the surface area of the individual electrode particles, thereby increasing the rate at which the battery can charge and discharge. (Catalysts can also help that reaction happen more quickly.) As with anything involving highly reactive metallic lithium, safety is a concern. (Today's lithium-ion batteries contain no elemental lithium, which is so reactive that it doesn't appear in nature in its pure form.) Still, Wilcke argues that we should first find out whether lithium-air batteries are even remotely feasible before worrying about safety issues. Dalhousie University professor Jeff Dahn, who experienced firsthand the hazards of batteries using lithium metal early in his career, is more cautious. "What Moli Energy found back in the late 1980s was that lithium-metal electrodes, just under normal use, led to cell failures that were at just too high an incidence rate to make it a viable business," he said. * As chief technology officer of the Berkeley-based company PolyPlus, Steve Visco is in charge of making lithium metal safe and usable. PolyPlus was spun out of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1990. "In many ways it operated as a kind of innovation center for batteries," Visco said. He told me that the company did "all of the groundbreaking work in lithium-sulfur chemistry," another promising high-energy battery candidate. As they were studying lithium-sulfur batteries, they found that they couldn't find a way to stop the sulfur from interacting, undesirably, with the lithium. "There was only one real way we could see to stop that, and that would be to somehow encapsulate the lithium with a conductive solid electrolyte, like a thin glass layer." After doing some basic research, they started looking for an existing material they could use for that protective layer. They were lucky. A company in Japan called Ohara was making exactly what they needed. "I called them and had them ship us some plates, and when I talked to their representative, he said, 'Well, I have some of these plates, but they've been sitting on my desk for a couple years.' " One of the major challenges with fabricating a material like this is making it stable enough to sit on a desktop without reacting with the moisture in the air and corroding. "And I thought, 'Wow, if they're that stable, that they can sit on his desk for two years without turning into a puddle, I want to look at those.' So I said, Fortuitously, PolyPlus had already developed a process for coating lithium with multiple layers of different materials that were designed to make otherwise unstable combinations of materials—combinations that normally react and corrode or melt or catch fire—stable. "Instead of lithium touching that white ceramic piece, we put something between the two that allowed lithium to move between the two but where nothing would react. We tried that and what we saw was, 'Wow, this looks really stable.' And then at that moment one of our electrochemists and I started talking and we said, 'You know, if this stuff is stable in air, we might be able to build a lithium-air battery.' " People had been talking about lithium-air for decades, but no one had ever figured out how to get around the fact that air contains moisture, and moisture attacks lithium. "All these discussions about lithium-air batteries, although interesting, had that basic flaw," Visco said. "That if you were to build something, it would be a bit of a novelty. You'd never have anything practical." To see if they did have something practical, they decided to subject their coated lithium metal to the most direct test possible. "We put water right up against it," Visco said. "And we said, 'Either it's going to get attacked and fall apart, or maybe we'll see something.' And it actually shocked us. What we saw was extreme, very stable electrode potential. So then we said, 'Let's see if we can move lithium in and out,' and it just worked like a charm. So we said, 'Wow, this is a big thing.' " That year, 2003, PolyPlus went into stealth mode, and Visco and his colleagues spent the year writing patents. When they came out of hiding, they began talking about some of the most interesting far-horizon developments the battery world had seen in a long time. Naturally, they applied for funding from DARPA, the Pentagon's advanced research agency, and got it. They began working on two different lines of research. First was lithium- seawater batteries, which could be used to power oceanographic research vessels or military craft. The second was lithium-air. Within the lithium-air program they began studying both primary (one-use) batteries, which today Visco says are working very well and delivering charge capacities of 800 milliamp-hours per gram, as well as the real prize, rechargeables. PolyPlus's lithium-air battery is based on an interesting tweak of traditional lithium-ion design. The negative electrode is made of metallic lithium, and the positive is air. Between the two is a ceramic barrier. "In our battery, things are switched around a bit," Visco says. "It almost looks like a piece of glass, but it's white." But the metallic lithium anode is encased in a series of ceramic barriers that allow it to engage in the right reactions while keeping it completely isolated from moisture. "You can hold it in your hand, you can put it in a glass of water, and it'll just sit there," Visco said. "It's completely stable. And as soon as you hook it up to a wire, it becomes active." To show exactly how stable the coated lithium electrode is, Visco's team built a lithium- water battery in which the water "electrode" is an aquarium inhabited by clown fish. The water in which those fish live acts as the positive electrode for the battery, which is connected to a green 3- volt LED. "In a sense they're swimming inside a lithium battery, and they're completely unperturbed." As always, there are hurdles to clear. Visco's team has the same problem as all lithium-air researchers, which is recharging—getting solid lithium peroxide to break back down to its constituent parts in an orderly fashion. And they have lithium metal to deal with. The way PolyPlus encapsulates their lithium-metal electrode makes it easy to handle, but that doesn't mean it will be easy to recharge. "No one has ever really shown [rechargeable lithium metal] to be doable yet," Visco said. And that, in part, is why it'll be a long time before PolyPlus's lithium-air batteries are driving our cars. "Even if we commercialize a lithium-air battery, it's going to take a long time before you see battery packs that are large enough and proven and tested enough that you would start thinking about transportation," Visco said. * Today, electric cars come with too many caveats. Unless it has a backup gas engine, an electric vehicle will probably be a second car. Only when cities have charging stations in every parking meter and every parking garage will electrics truly be practical. Even then, it might take a nationwide chain of high-power, fast- charging stations or battery-swapping businesses before you can take a road trip in a purely electric car. There are problems with waiting on the infrastructure, however. Consider fast charging, which would allow electric-car drivers to dump their batteries full of electrons in a matter of minutes, making a recharge only slightly more time- consuming than a visit to the gas station. The math isn't promising for the prospect of a major network of electron filling stations. "Let's say you've got a battery that holds 25 kilowatt-hours," said Elton Cairns of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "If you want to charge that in fifteen minutes, then you've got to have a 100-kilowatt substation. If you've got something like the Tesla, with over 50 kilowatt-hours, and you want to charge that in fifteen minutes, you're talking 200 kilowatts. Your house takes 1 kilowatt. If you want to have something like a gasoline fuel station that is all electrical, you're talking about multi-megawatts of power at that station. And I just don't see that happening." There are a couple of ways to react to this sort of discouraging calculus. One is defeatism. The other is research. "Infrastructure gains are the hardest there are," IBM's Wilcke said, "which is one reason [hydrogen] fuel cells haven't worked." That is exactly why Wilcke is now devoting his career to trying to find out whether the lithium-air battery can be made reality. With a breakthrough battery that can deliver a car five hundred miles on a single charge, only the most speed-addled road tripper would need fast charging or battery swapping. Everyone else will charge curbside at the hotel and then get back on the road the next morning. "I'd rather tackle a really difficult technical problem," Wilcke said. "It's confined to being a technical problem, and you don't need a zillion dollars' infrastructure." "Society needs higher-energy-density solutions," Peter Bruce said. "There aren't many options on the table. We have to explore the options that we have. Lithium-ion batteries will be with us for many years to come, and they'll be key technologies in vehicles." The reason Bruce and others like him have hope for the prospects of a livable, comfortable postoil civilization powered by electrons snared from the sun and generated from the wind is that, as grim as the cost estimates and think tank forecasts can sometimes be, we are just getting started. "I think the good thing about lithium-air, lithium sulfur is that at least there are some options," Bruce said. "There is somewhere we can go." Excerpted from BOTTLED LIGHTNING: SUPERBATTERIES, ELECTRIC CARS, AND THE NEW LITHIUM ECONOMY by Seth Fletcher, published in May 2011 by Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright (c) 2011 by Seth Fletcher. All Rights Reserved. Pick it up here.
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| Pre-order Your HP Touchpad Now, $500 And Shipping July 1st Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:40 AM PDT
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My own dad taught me a few things including that it’s OK to take things apart and that you should slap anti-seize lubricant on anything you plan on unscrewing later. What did your pops tell you when it came to DIY?
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| The ZEHST Is The 3,000 MPH, Zero Emissions Airplane Of 2050 Posted: 20 Jun 2011 07:39 AM PDT
Airbus’s parent company EADS just unveiled the Zehst concept plane at the Paris Air Show today and it is seemingly stealing the show in a big way — and it’s not going to be here for another 40 years. The Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation is being called “The Hypersonic Heir To Concorde.” Where in the ’60s-era Concorde did London to NYC in 3.5 hours, the Zehst can theoretically do it in just 90 minutes while emitting just water vapor and not causing a window-shattering sonic bomb. The crazy Mach 4 speeds are achieved through a three stage process. Conventional jet engines are used to allow the plane to takeoff from a normal airport runway and avoid the Concorde’s hated sonic boom. Once at the appropriate altitude, rocket engines would propel the aircraft even higher and faster allowing for the ramjet engines to takeover. These engines, which cannot be used from a standstill, are normally used for missiles and would, at least in theory, allow 100 passengers and crew to hit a cruising speed of 3,125 MPH six miles above the Earth.
This would allow for a London to southern Spain flight of just 20 minutes. London to Istanbul would take 30. London to Tokyo? A mere 2 hours. The plane is said to be fueled by seaweed-made biofuel, which is comprised of just hydrogen and oxygen and emits just water vapor. The Zehst is just a concept but one that’s been in the works for a while.
The plane is still a few years away — 40 years, really. That is of course if the suits or bean counters at EADS don’t kill the project before hand due to cost, limited market, competition, global recession, or the development of instant teleportation. What they should do is drag the Concorde’s engineers out of retirement, replace their slide rules with a server farm and have them develop the damn thing. If they could build the Concorde without the aid of computer design and virtual testing way back in the ’50s and ’60s, they could probably pump this thing out by Christmas 2011. [Photo EADS, Getty Images]
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| Review Of The Cartier Calibre Watch Posted: 20 Jun 2011 07:18 AM PDT
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| CECH-3000B: Sony Announces Lighter, More Power-Efficient PS3 Model Posted: 20 Jun 2011 06:58 AM PDT
Sony Computer Entertainment announced [JP] the CECH-3000B for the Japanese market, a new/modified version of the PS3. When compared with the previous model (the 2500B), the new PS3 is 400g lighter (it now weighs 2.6kg) and consumes 30W less power (200W now). Sony also said they will stop producing the 2500B series. Buyers in Japan will be able to lay their hands on the new PS3 model, which has a 320GB HDD, later this month (price: $436). On June 30, Sony also plans to ship the CECH-3000B as part of an “HDD Recorder Pack” (PS3+torne TV tuner), which is pictured below.
The Tales Of Xillia PS3 package (due out in Japan in September) will also come with the new model (160GB).
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