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slowfoxIt's the Frankfurt Motor Show, and everyone seems to be going electric crazy:
The Torygraph have a fun picture gallery of the show here.
In related news, Wired have an article about the Mission One electric motorbike hitting 150mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, whilst Engadget had an article on the E-Wolf e1 electric race car.
In *want* news, Dr Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators - Steampunk Ray Guns! Possibly one rung down on the desirability scale from a light-sabre, but worthily cool, all the same (y'see, the problem with light-sabres is that Tesco's don't like them, quoth the Telegraph).
The New York Times has this fantastic animated panorama of one of Grand Central Station's clocks. Neat.
As I've mentioned before, Castle Fox is a Linux domain, but work remains steadfastly Windows, so this list of 'actually useful windows keyboard shortcuts' is, uh, actually useful. And very comprehensive. Possible 'cut-out-and-keep' candidate.
The Times reports that astronomers have foundCaprica an Earth-like planet, Corot-7b: it's 500 light years away, so a bit beyond our range just at present, but encouraging stuff all the same. On the related subject of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, rather than just 'life', yesterday's XKCD is spot on! :D
The Telegraph has brought some quality pic-spam to the interwebs this week: computer generated digital flowers, storm-chasers' photos of tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms, weird animals from around the world and last, but by no means least, these unbelievable photo-realistic paintings by Alyssa Monks.
In further evidence that the digital event horizon draws ever closer, The Beeb tells us that the first ever video advert in a magazine has been published. Yes. A video advert (with audio), embedded in a dead-tree format magazine.
In pet news, Teh Grauniad had an article discussing the grand old theatre cats of the West End, whilst the Telegraph told us all about a dog that fell 180ft down a mineshaft and survived for six days. USA Today, meanwhile, had this awesome photo of Kai, an 8 year old Jack Russell Terrier competing in a Surf-Dog surf-a-thon in - where else? - California as part of their week in pictures.
No Texan news this week :-( But proudly flying the flag for Pennsylvania is this tale of a burglar who got caught because he logged on to check Facebook during the break in, and then forgot to log out. The victim noticed that the profile was still logged in when she returned...
Again forms_katonic, we have the Bugatti Blender and the Bugatti Digital Food Scale and toaster. Well, you want everything in your life to match, don't you? Of course, if the Bugatti's just a bit too in-your-face, you could do 'subtle' with the Lamborghini Coffee Machine.
It's been a quiet week for videos, but YouTube has this rather neat 3D visualisation of the Old City of Dubrovnik that's worth a look.
The next vid is rather long (4'), and really for geeks, but Deep Green is a pool playing robot, and the vid also demonstrates augmented reality pool. If you like the concept of pool+tech+pretty lights, GizModo had this $200,000 tricked out pool table to catch the eye, too.
To close, though, on the automative theme with which we opened, there are those who say that Top Gear isn't a proper motoring programme, and that they don't do 'proper' reviews. Well, here's Jezza to set them straight, with his in depth review of the Ford Fiesta. He goes to the shopping centre and takes a trip to the beach in it and everything :D
ETA: OK, this now rates video of the week: Ferrari have released a promotional video for the 458 Italia.
- Peugeot's BB1 is kinda cool - very, very small andfunky
- Renault announced a whole fleet of electric vehicles, although their Twizy looks particularly loopy
- Volvo didn't really enter into the spirit of the madness, with this rather tame golf-buggy
- Volkswagen's contribution was production-ready-staid in the form of it's E-Up, even if, as El Reg noted, the name seemed to be designed to appeal to Yorkshiremen
The Torygraph have a fun picture gallery of the show here.
In related news, Wired have an article about the Mission One electric motorbike hitting 150mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, whilst Engadget had an article on the E-Wolf e1 electric race car.
In *want* news, Dr Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators - Steampunk Ray Guns! Possibly one rung down on the desirability scale from a light-sabre, but worthily cool, all the same (y'see, the problem with light-sabres is that Tesco's don't like them, quoth the Telegraph).
The New York Times has this fantastic animated panorama of one of Grand Central Station's clocks. Neat.
As I've mentioned before, Castle Fox is a Linux domain, but work remains steadfastly Windows, so this list of 'actually useful windows keyboard shortcuts' is, uh, actually useful. And very comprehensive. Possible 'cut-out-and-keep' candidate.
The Times reports that astronomers have found
The Telegraph has brought some quality pic-spam to the interwebs this week: computer generated digital flowers, storm-chasers' photos of tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms, weird animals from around the world and last, but by no means least, these unbelievable photo-realistic paintings by Alyssa Monks.
In further evidence that the digital event horizon draws ever closer, The Beeb tells us that the first ever video advert in a magazine has been published. Yes. A video advert (with audio), embedded in a dead-tree format magazine.
In pet news, Teh Grauniad had an article discussing the grand old theatre cats of the West End, whilst the Telegraph told us all about a dog that fell 180ft down a mineshaft and survived for six days. USA Today, meanwhile, had this awesome photo of Kai, an 8 year old Jack Russell Terrier competing in a Surf-Dog surf-a-thon in - where else? - California as part of their week in pictures.
No Texan news this week :-( But proudly flying the flag for Pennsylvania is this tale of a burglar who got caught because he logged on to check Facebook during the break in, and then forgot to log out. The victim noticed that the profile was still logged in when she returned...
Again for
ms_katonic, we have the Bugatti Blender and the Bugatti Digital Food Scale and toaster. Well, you want everything in your life to match, don't you? Of course, if the Bugatti's just a bit too in-your-face, you could do 'subtle' with the Lamborghini Coffee Machine.It's been a quiet week for videos, but YouTube has this rather neat 3D visualisation of the Old City of Dubrovnik that's worth a look.
The next vid is rather long (4'), and really for geeks, but Deep Green is a pool playing robot, and the vid also demonstrates augmented reality pool. If you like the concept of pool+tech+pretty lights, GizModo had this $200,000 tricked out pool table to catch the eye, too.
To close, though, on the automative theme with which we opened, there are those who say that Top Gear isn't a proper motoring programme, and that they don't do 'proper' reviews. Well, here's Jezza to set them straight, with his in depth review of the Ford Fiesta. He goes to the shopping centre and takes a trip to the beach in it and everything :D
ETA: OK, this now rates video of the week: Ferrari have released a promotional video for the 458 Italia.
