If you’ve ever felt insignificant, then you might want to consider how the little guy has stood up to the big guy. Like Ehud and Jael.
Just read Judges 3-4, 1 Corinthians 4, and then the entry.
If you enjoy the show Glee like I do, then you should know that there is an App for that.
Here’s the conceptual e-book reader from Fujitsu.
Check out this odd use for an iPad with the Sprocket Pocket.
Here’s a concept that some guys are working on called the Moject.
Welcome to what may be the first NES Emulator for the Kindle.
Here’s another concept with HP’s wrist-mounted e-ink display.
You may or not want to see this controversial Microsoft Kin Ad.
Now there is another in-dash iPad, with Soundman.
You could name HTC’s next phone. See here for more.
Google is developing a Search Engine for Twitter.
The iPad Camera Connection Kit could do USB audio.
This is the DP-SLR, made for viewing DSLR pictures.
This is the RED EPIC camera, on display at NAB this year.
Here’s the TVLogic LUM-560W Quad HD, it might be better than 3D.
This is the GPNC TV, another one that runs on Android.
The new BenQ line of TVs have a 12 million to one contrast, buddy.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from our government’s defense department seeks to add a vehicle capable of air and land travel to its repertoire of transport machines for better tactical defense. Their goal is to develop an aerial vehicle that can also travel on land without the need for takeoff from a runway, while being able to carry four people and be sturdy enough to endure a combat situation. DARPA wants this new type of vehicle to be invulnerable to the threat of explosives and surprise attacks. Furthermore, their intention is to use such a vehicle for raids, reconnaissance, insurgency, counterinsurgency, evacuating wounded personnel and delivering supplies on the battlefield.
DARPA calls this project “Transformer”. They also want this new vehicle to have the capability for VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing). Thus, it is meant to function like a helicopter, not needing a runway and being able to reach altitudes up to ten thousand feet. Meanwhile, their concept for this vehicle would also be capable of handling difficult road conditions during land travel in the same manner as an SUV, having four wheels for stability and heavy duty suspension. Of course, like the rest of the nation’s motorists, DARPA wants the vehicle to be fuel-efficient, requiring only a single tank of gas for traveling up to 250 miles. This past January, they introduced the Transformer project at a free Proposer’s Day workshop where some interested organizations were in attendance by DARPA’s invitation.
DARPA’s plan is to select the most desirable research companies for their project, based on proposals sent in by the companies themselves. Then DARPA will launch Transformer in three phases, sorting through all potential candidates until the winning proposal is chosen. In this competition, every company must present their proposal on a reasonable budget, determining what technologies are required to develop the vehicle and lastly, they have to build their own fully-functioning prototype for trial runs on land and air.
At this point, you might be wondering how we as taxpayers will be affected by this project. Well, the Pentagon currently has 54 million dollars invested in Transformer. Nine million was spent on phase 1, ten million was given for phase 2 and phase 3 received a total of thirty-five million. Of course, attempts at creating a land and air hybrid vehicle have been previously made. The company Terrafugia launched their vehicle called Transition last year but it fails to meet DARPA’s expectations since it needs a runway for takeoff. Other companies also created working prototypes of their own but this hybrid vehicle concept is quite far from being fully realized. As for DARPA, they want to have this vehicle concept in mass production by 2015.
Like most businesses, hotels commonly offer customers incentives and opportunities to save money to motivate them to become paying guests in their establishments. These incentives usually include special discounts, package deals you can customize and rewards for certain purchases. But what about free meals during your stay in the hotel? That kind of incentive would normally be part of a package deal, discount or reward for making a purchase. However, in Europe, guests in a hotel can get free food by bicycling indoors.
This unique incentive was found at one particular Crowne Plaza Hotel in Denmark. In this hotel establishment, guests can earn free food by spending fifteen minutes, pedaling on special bicycles designed to generate electricity. Fifteen minutes of pedaling produces ten watts of power, which is rewarded with a $36 meal voucher. This hotel also has solar panels on its roof as an alternative source of energy.
This free meal for indoor bicycling deal is scheduled to start on April 19 and it’s set to last for a whole year. Sounds like a pretty generous incentive for your hotel stay. You might even consider it a win-win scenario, getting free food for fifteen minutes of exercise. Hey, let’s hope that hotels in the United States will start using this incentive with customers too in the near future.
