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Friday, October 14th, 2005Yamaha are showing 9 world premiere models at the 39th Tokyo Motor Show coming up later this month, including this little beauty.
It has:
a vehicle-to-vehicle distance warning system,
a “cornering light system” for a little night time knee-scraping action,
a noise cancellation system which is said to allow for an intercom,
voice navigation,
hands-free cellphone calls,
and music player
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Jay Leno’s new car
Tuesday, November 9th, 2004a 190-in. wheelbase and an engine from an M-47 Patton tank
This story is about a hot rod powered by a Patton tank engine, an AV-1790-5B and it’s 1792 cu. in. It has overhead cams and Hemi heads. Since it was designed to move a tank, it puts out 810 hp and makes 1560 ft.-lb. of [...]
meep meep
Tuesday, September 7th, 2004where the Future is Being Made Today
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the Muppet Show, but I was a big fan of Muppet Labs, where the Future is Being Made Today, with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his faithful assistant Beaker.
Well, they’ve just won “favorite TV scientist” in a poll conducted by the British [...]
Lorem Ipsum
Monday, September 6th, 2004Its all latin to me
Everything you’ll need to know about Lorem Ipsum.
This text, or it’s many variations, has been the typesetter’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
The reason for it’s existence is that a reader [...]
Clive Woodward resigns
Friday, September 3rd, 2004WTF ?
Via the BBC:“I love football and I go to as many games as I possibly can. I never had that passion for rugby I have for football.”PS in this context, football means soccer.
Offical statements from Woodward & the English RFU here.
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DVD Burner Recomendations
Friday, September 3rd, 2004backup media that matches your hard disk
Suggestion; The Pioneer DVR-A08XL 16x burner, OEM version, for as little as $A159. It burns Double layer disks, but can store up to 8.5GB of data on a single double-layer disc; provides an even more compelling solution for things such as hard disk images and back-ups.
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Rolltronics – cheap programmable displays
Sunday, August 15th, 2004Rolltronics Display Backplane Technology Could Put a Holodeck in Your Bedroom
We’re talking not just about displays that are cheaper to make (perhaps a third the cost of current technology), but that are flexible and paper-thin. Lower prices can lead to market acceptance, but what people really like is something that looks brand new and opens [...]
IceTV – Aus TiVo
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004CNET.com.au is reporting that a TiVo-like service will be available in November this year. Dubbed ICE (“Intelligent Content Engine”) and developed by Peter Vogel, the technology will be built into set top boxes and personal video recorders to skip ads or lower the volume, view electronic program guides, etc. The article states that the service [...]
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