"Houston-based start-up announces onseeker™ music is now available - free to consumers at the iPhone App Store. The new iPhone app connects fans, artists, and venues in ways never experienced before. onseeker™ music is the 'how' to the 'who, what, when, and where' for music and entertainment. Using the mobile platform, onseeker™ music provides the unique benefit of real-time interaction between fans, artists, and venues using full multimedia profiles, status updates, location-based content, and more."
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By Clara Moskowitz
updated 1:31 a.m. CT, Sat., Nov . 7, 2009
A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.
The homemade cable-climber built by the LaserMotive team climbed a 3,000-foot (900-meter) tether suspended by a helicopter at a speed of 8 mph (3.7 meters per second or 13 kilometers per hour) during a Wednesday attempt.
LaserMotive's robot climber managed to get all the way up the cable four times in two days, with a best time of about 3 minutes and 48 seconds (translating to a speed of 3.9 meters per second).
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I thought this was a massive amount of money to be spending - similar to a film until I read the rest of the article on Digitalspy:
""There are other games that cost more," he told AutoWeek. "Considering the size and scale of the game, I think it's probably a fairly small amount."
It has been speculated that the most expensive game was Grand Theft Auto IV at $120 million (£72m), while Dreamcast adventure Shenmue was reported to cost $70 million (£42m)"
Shenmue must have hurt as it couldn't have sold many units.
"With a circular design, meaning easy transportation, this Rolling Fireplace "can easily face any direction to turn any room into a comfy cocoon for the winter." No word yet on pricing.
Just roll it where you want some warmth. Beyond turning up the temperature, this fireplace will turn up the heat with its sophisticated, eye-catching design."
This has to be one of the most stupid contraptions I have ever seen. Luge boards are scary enough but attaching a jet engine that can get it to 100+ mph is just plain stupid.
Favourite bit from the video has to be: " Bob stops the luge with his feet". From that speed?
Drawdio is an unusual invention, it turns almost anything into a Theremin. Attach Drawdio to a pencil and the drawing becomes an electrical circuit. Touch one end of the drawing with one hand and as you draw the pitch of the sound changes. Drawdio can be connected to anything as long as the object conducts some electricity, meaning it should probably contain water or metal.
"Simply making the most of modern technology" says the Danish government, on the introduction of the internet during educational exams. Danish schools are to give students the previlege of being able to access websites for research information, as long a they do not coverse wih others online for answers -- For the first time in my life, I would probably be tmepted to cheat; they're just asking for it!
We worried about the rise in dumped TVs when the switch to digital in the US occurred back in June. The UK is also switching to digital and figures show a frightening rise in dumped TVs, rising by 70% in the past year, with over half of them being upgradable. But they were dumped instead. As more areas switch to digital over the next two years, including London, just how much more of an impact can we expect, and can citizens be convinced that they don't need to dump their TVs at all?
The Guardian reports that the digital switch happened yesterday in the north-west of England. "This year, the council has recycled 50,000 analogue TVs thrown away by households, of which 30,000 could have been upgraded to receive digital TV signals with a simple £20 set-top box."
As in the US, most TVs don't need to be replaced - only a new box is needed. Yet many consumers are upgrading to new TVs anyway. Simon Birch, who is investigating the environmental impact of the digital switchover for Ethical Consumer magazine, blames Digital UK for the crush of discarded TVs, saying it isn't doing a good enough job telling consumers that they don't have to toss their televisions.
The eco-impact of televisions is under debate, though, as the Energy Saving Trust notes that a TV with a built-in digital tuner requires only one power supply and can save £7 and 20kg of carbon each year compared with an equivalent analogue TV combined with a set-top box.
However not factored in is the environmental cost of recycling a television, or worse, seeing it head to landfill, or worst, seeing it head to e-waste dumps in developing nations. In the US, only about 18% of the 23.9 million toxic CRT TVs thrown out in 2008 were recycled. And Sarah Westervelt, a Basel Action Network official, said about 80% will actually be shipped abroad to be "recycled" in China and Africa - and that is a violation of provisions of the Basel treaty that ban the shipment of toxic waste from the rich countries to poor ones. The same problems are to be expected in the UK, where e-waste in landfills is already a significant problem.
Over the long run, it is likely better to have an extra set-top box and not a new TV. It's just a matter of actually telling people this, and encouraging them to keep what isn't broken.
Al Gore, the former American vice-president, yesterday hit back at critics who are labelling him the first "carbon billionaire" from his earnings as an investor in green technology, dismissing them as "global-warming deniers".Al Gore, the former American vice-president, yesterday hit back at critics who are... more
With support from the three largest BitTorrent sites and many other well known file-sharing partners, the VODO project offers a novel distribution platform for indie filmmakers. Today VODO presents its second release, the world premiere of In Guantanamo, a critical film about the U.S. detainment facility in Cuba.
Might the Droid invasion be making Apple and AT&T afraid? If sources prove correct, AT&T could be dropping an 8GB version of the iPhone 3GS in time for the holidays to compete with Droid.
News on Microsofts DSi beater has been thin on the ground recently until this concept picture cropped up. Lets see if Microsoft can get this one right.......:
"When closed, this Xbox 360 handheld concept slightly resembles the Motorola DROID, but when slid open, you'll find a secondary touchscreen display, a directional pad, and 6-buttons.
The console is being termed as the 180, as it would be "half of 360" if that makes any sense to you. Moreover, the screen slides in a 180 degree angle which makes it pretty close to its name."
You've got the huge LCD, the PS£ and the Xbox 360 but what you really need is a cool table to put your cans of Re Bull on for those late night Halo sessions:
"What do you do when you've got loads of unused CDs and Intel processors? Build a coffee table of course. This fine example was built by a talented Russian carpenter living in Israel."
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