CNET News has photos of the Clever, a new three-wheel sub-compact vehicle released in Europe. It gets the equivalent of 108 mpg and it looks great, too! Where can I get one? (Photo courtesy of CNET News and The Clever Group)
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Photos taken by Raoul Pop
On-Off Alarm Clock
Engadget has a post about this, and I couldn’t help writing one either. This looks like a pretty cool alarm clock, and the price is very reasonable given that it’s made by a designer. The clock is angle shaped, and it has two positions. One side is for alarm-on, and the other for alarm-off. I have to ask the same question Engadget did. Is there a Snooze functionality?
Here’s the link to the designer’s site (Nina Tolstrup), and here’s the link to the Engadget post. Photo courtesy of Nina Tolstrup and GreenerGrassDesign.
New vistas in scientific visualization
From Apple Hot News: “UC Irvine’s HIPerWall, a new, record-breaking, 200-megapixel display system composed of 50 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays powered by 25 Power Mac G5s, allows scientists to visualize their ever-growing data sets with unprecedented clarity. [Apr 21, 2006]” This is pretty cool! Take a look at the photo. Unbelievable! 🙂 Here is the link.
Old postcard of armless driver
Boing Boing has a scanned in postcard of Frank E. Fithen, a man who lost his arms in a railroad accident as a boy. The postcard is from the early 1900s.
Quoting: “Mr. Fithen since that time has accomplished many difficult feats, such as writing, dressing and undressing himself, swimming, bicycle and unicycle trick riding, and above all he operates, drives and controls his own 6 cylinder 60 horse power ‘Oakland’ car. Fithen’s best time to date is 58 miles an hour.”
Wow! (Really, I’m serious! This is pretty cool!) Here is the link.
The Henri Chamoux Archeophone
It is because of Mr. Chamoux’s creation that we can preserve musical history, come down to us in the form of cylinders from the good old days. I just had a listen to a few MP3 files published by the good folks at the UCSB Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, and I am truly thankful to Mr. Chamoux for building the machine. I am also grateful to UCSB for taking the time to preserve an important part of our heritage. There’s a Wired article on this as well, written by Rachel Metz, which is where I found out about all this wonderful stuff. (Photo courtesy of the Phonograph Makers’ Pages)
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