By JamesW on Aug 12, 2008 in Auto, Environment | 1 Comment
How much gasoline could US citizens save by driving around in light-weight hybrid vehicles? Up to half what they currently use, say scientists at MIT.
The US consumes about 140 billion gallons of gasoline each year. A team of researchers led by John Heywood has completed a five-year assessment of what can be done to slash [...]
By JamesW on Aug 9, 2008 in Hardware, Software | 0 Comments
Need a computer that will match your new outfit? Help is on the way. Researchers are working on a low-tech computer that would cost as little as $12.
You can get these already in India. They look something like the original Nintendo console that many of us played video games on as [...]
By MaxW on Aug 8, 2008 in World | 0 Comments
To me, the presidential race reached a turning point last week when John McCain opted for a campaign of denigration employing racial stereotypes, sexualized talking points for surrogates (Obama as “internet date”) and copious ridicule. It’s made the curve that much of the media still uses to grade McCain’s more obvious shortcomings all the more [...]
By JamesW on Aug 8, 2008 in World | 0 Comments
I love it when someone with celeb status (meaning they get media attention more than anything), does something beneficial for our country. Right on Paris. But lets look a little deeper into this phenomena. What Paris gave as an “energy policy” seems intuitively obvious. In fact, it’s probably nothing that [...]
By JamesW on Aug 8, 2008 in Environment, Featured, World | 1 Comment
Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to sell its company-owned gas stations, saying they aren’t profitable enough even with gasoline selling at $4 per gallon.
The 2,220 stations make up about 1/5 of the Exxon and Mobil stations in the United States. The nation’s largest oil company, which earned nearly $41 billion last year, says [...]
By MaxW on Aug 7, 2008 in Hardware | 1 Comment
First ever PCs designed for amateur online videographers –
Capture, Edit and Post
El Monte CA - iBUYPOWER, know for it’s innovative and powerful gaming PCs, is excited to launch its new line of Video PC’s. The Video PCs’ are built with the amateur videographer on mind – individuals who [...]
By JamesW on Aug 7, 2008 in Environment, Featured, Is it Real? | 0 Comments
Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) expects to produce the world’s first air-powered car for
the United States by late 2009 or early 2010, and better yet, it is expected to be for sale for less than $18k. One of the planned Air Car models, reaches 68 mph, and goes for a range of [...]
By MaxW on Aug 6, 2008 in Rants & Raves | 1 Comment
Some people who have received the CNN daily top ten email spam have unknowingly downloaded the trojan get_flash_update.exe file. If you are among these people, your anti malware software may identify the threat as Win32:Trojan-gen (Avast); Trojan.Erotpics (Symantec); TrojanDropper:Win32/Nuwar (Microsoft); BackDoor-DNM (McAfee) and I-Worm/Nuwar.W (AVG).
If the get_flash_update.exe file is downloaded and installed on your computer, [...]
By MaxW on Aug 6, 2008 in Auto | 0 Comments
Today at 5pm on the 101 southbound between Oxnard and Thousand Oaks was a nice looking Blue Cadillac El Dorado burning to the ground…
The sad part about it was there was no firetrucks in sight just a ABC eye witness news cameraman filming the carnage. If i was in my Jeep i would have been [...]
By MaxW on Aug 6, 2008 in Environment, Featured | 0 Comments
There are battery powered cars, scooters, semi trucks, and now there is a battery powered plane.
The plane, that got its certification in April, features a 5.6 kWh lithium battery with a projected life cycle of 1,000 cycles (before the battery needs replacing). The battery has a max weight of 78 pounds and can be custom-built [...]