Don’t Break The Bottle - The Vice
Protect your last bottle, before it’s too late. Place it in the Don’t Break the Bottle Puzzle and watch as your uninvited guest struggles with the tangled balls and blocks. When asked, deny all knowledge of a solution.
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Microsoft has announced the release to manufacturing for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) with a general availability to begin in March. Once available the update will begin with Microsoft Volume Licensing customers first. Current home Vista users should expect the update to be available during mid-March through Windows Update and have it become an automatic update in April 2008. According to Microsoft, Windows Vista SP1 will address key issues that customers have identified, as well as improve performance, reliability and compatibility.
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Victorinox is famous for its long line of army knives, and the latest is this Rescue Tool. Carrying more than enough functions to help you out of sticky situations, you will definitely find the £59.99 asking price well worth it especially when you’re in dire straits. I would’ve liked them to include a flashlight of sorts and maybe a built-in radio/MP3 player…it can get pretty lonely being stuck underneath earthquake rubble after a while. Just check out with the Victorinox Rescue Tool can do below.
Folding bikes are great for apartment dwellers, especially those without elevators. One problem, though, is that those tiny wheels don’t exactly soak up the bumps in city streets. Industrial designer Duncan Fitzsimons wants to change this with his Crossbreed, a full-sized folding wheel.
Ingeniously simple, the Crossbreed has a rim split in six places, allowing it to collapse when the two crossed spokes are scissored in on each other. The patent pending design hasn’t yet gone into production, but in an interview with Bike Radar, Fitzsomons says he’s in talks with manufacturers to build a bike with a carbon fiber implementation of his wheel:
The aim is to try to get a really high end city bike or courier bike that can fold up into a package like a golf bag, which could go into an overhead rack on a train or go into a plane locker.
The Crossbreed looks pretty solid, but I can’t help thinking that pinching the tire every time it is folded might cause some trouble with the inner tubes.
Project page [Duncfitz via OhGizmo!]
Could folding wheel solve commuters’ conundrum? [Bike Radar]
JVC has a new line of tiny camcorders that record directly to an internal hard drive and two new models in their HD hard drive camcorder line. The new models in the HD Everio line are almost half the size of the previous HD7. The new HD6 and HD5 feature a 120GB and 60GB hard drive respectively, full 1080P 60 fps high-definition video, high-quality Fujinon lenses, HDMI / FireWire / USB 2.0 outputs, MPEG2 compression and 2.8″ LCD screens. You’ll be able to pick up an HD6 for $1400 and an HD5 for around $1100 in March:
The Everio line of standard definition camcorders feature 30 or 60 GB hard drives, micro SD slots, 7 megapixel camera (in the GZ-MG730), MPEG2 recording and an impressive 30x zoom. At the highest quality setting, the 30GB model can record a little over 7 hours of DVD quality footage. The Everio line will be available soon for between $450 and $600:
Posted Feb 4th 2008 3:11AM by Thomas Ricker
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In hopes of reviving creating interest for its console in Japan, Microsoft just announced the March 6th launch of an entry-level Xbox 360 in the land of the rising sun. The Japanese equivalent of the Xbox 360 Arcade will sell for tax-inclusive ¥27,800 (about $260) and bundle an extra 256MB memory unit, wireless controller, and game pack. Hey Microsoft, that’s $20 cheaper than your Arcade sells domestically without factoring in the added tax. Discount please?
Apple iPod Video
iPod VideoNow up to 20,000 songs; put your entire music library into your pocket. Plus carry movies, TV shows, videos, games, podcasts, audiobooks, photos, and more.Your album art, videos, photos, calendars, and now games will come alive with vibrant colour thanks to the 60% brighter display. Enjoy up to 20 hours of audio playback or up to 6 ? hours of video playback between charges.New iPod software; now quickly find the songs, podcasts, or audiobooks you want to hear with the new search feature. And listen to music seamlessly with automatic gapless playback.30GB SpecCapacity: 30GB Songs: 7500 Battery life for music playback: up to 14hrs Connectivity: USB through Dock connector; composite video (with AV cable, sold separately) and audio through headphone jack or line out on the iPod Universal Dock (sold separately) Size (L x W x D in mm): 103.5 ? 61.8 ? 11 Colour Display: 2.5? Weight: 136 grams/4.8 ounces80GB SpecCapacity: 80GB Songs: 20000 Battery life for music playback: up to 20hrs Connectivity: USB through Dock connector; composite video (with AV cable, sold separately) and audio through headphone jack or line out on the iPod Universal Dock (sold separately) Size (L x W x D in mm): 103.5 ? 61.8 ? 14 Colour Display: 2.5? Weight: 156 grams/5.5 ounces
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This wooden phone charm is not there to decorate your phone only - instead, it is actually a tiny speaker that can also be hooked up to other portable electronics such as an MP3 player, iPod, or even DS. The sound quality is supposed to be loud and clear according to the product change, but I’d take that claim with a couple of grains of salt. It is powered by your electronic device of choice the moment it is plugged in, so don’t expect battery performance to remain the same. It retails for approximately $47 - pretty expensive for a tiny speaker if you ask me.
Pollution represents a perennial problem that can not be solved except by means of the collaboration of all the world’s nations. During some last decades a great attention was paid to the air pollution and Green House effect. Many people and scientists are unison in opinions that the airline industry is one of the major pollutants at all. So in order to decrease its impact on the environment some drastic measures like using other types of planes should be taken.
According to the recent news a new reaction engine was invented whose designers intend to solve given problem at least partially. This engine is a hydrogen-powered A2 aircraft concept that would be capable of hitting Mach-5 - five times the speed of sound (3400 mph), making it somewhat the spiritual successor of the Concorde. What makes it different is range and efficiency, capable of ferrying up to 300 passengers from Brussels to Sydney in less than four hours. It uses a 2-mode engine that makes it efficient at low speeds as well as hitting top gear with relative ease.
Thus, this concept represents an outstanding attempt to solve such a complicated problem. It would be great if in the near future we were able to see how these ultra-jet planes were put into operation. Yet, there is quite an important point that prevents companies from using extensively these engines: production of hydrogen fuel on a large scale (without emitting carbon dioxide) still remains a significant problem so there will still be danger to our environment.
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This is without a doubt the brightest flashlight I have ever seen. It is dangerously bright, using a pack of 54 batteries and a mercury arc bulb to shoot a beam of light up to four miles high. Seriously folks, this is something that you would have to use responsibly. If you can light up a cloud four miles high, it is certainly enough to cause problems for air traffic, not to mention the fact that it can actually burn skin.
This flashlight on steroids was created by a dutch optics engineer by the name of Ralf Ottow. He has been making his own lights since he was eight, he is forty-five now and my guess is that he has come a long way. I will be looking forward to seeing more of his work in the future. This thing is a work of art and I love the fact that it needs a key to work.
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