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WiTricity

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Imagine getting home after a long day and just throwing your coat down on a chair and putting your laptop case right down alongside it. Remarkable you might say.. what? No. That’s just something that happens. Why did I even say that?
Well, in the future I am thinking of, something remarkable would happen.
Imagine, a few [...]

Game By The Brain

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

“… a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.”
A team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a way of controlling simplistic computer games via thought alone.
The teenager who [...]

2 Kilometre Wide Magnetic Ring to Launch Satellites

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

A new study, funded by the United States Air Force has concluded that a huge magnetic launch ring could be used to accelerate satellites to incredible velocities before ‘flinging them’ into space, at which point only minor adjustments would be needed to ensure the satellite stayed in orbit of Earth. The launch ring would be [...]

The Internet - It’s not a truck.

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Theodore Fulton Stevens (born November 18, 1923) is an American politician from Alaska. He is currently the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate. In addition he has a highly avant-garde knowledge of the Internet. For example: did you know that the indeed is “not a truck”, and in fact consists of a “series of [...]

Ground Breaking News - Antigravity Technology Developed!

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

A major event on my own site, this post - the 200th post, is coupled with an extremely significant scientific discovery. Antigravity technology has finally been achieved. It utilises an advanced proactive combination of both organic and non-organic materials. Suprisingly, these ‘integredients-of-levitation’ are quite commonly found in the universe.
We asked the professor who worked on [...]

Microsoft Xbox runs as a University Web Server

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

“Public Universities are always running on a limited budget which means they sometimes come up with “innovative” solutions. A couple of years back, an X-Box with some variant of Linux installed had been put in the server room to support a subject designed to teach computer-illiterate Philosophy students how to build their own web pages. [...]

Invisibility Cloaks Are Coming Soon

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Well, I didn’t see this happening (sorry, I had to use that pun).
According to UK and US scientists working on meta-materials (materials which affect the curvature of light), the cloaking device or invisibility cloak will be a real possibility within four or five years. We are now finally reaching the stages where today’s science fiction, [...]

Touch-typing Test

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Can you type this sentence with your eyes closed?
Use comments to respond, and try to type the above sentence with your eyes closed.
What others are saying about: Touch-typing, Typing Tests, Tests

New Rig

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Finally, I have all my computer components assembled (well, excluding an I/O shield), and to be honest it runs fantastically.
Current specification:

CPU: 2 x Dual Core AMD Opteron 275 @ 2.20Ghz
RAM: 2 GB of ECC DDR VGA: XFX nVidia GeForce 7800GTX
M/B: Supermicro H8DCE OS: Microsoft [...]

EVE Offline

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

EVE Online is recently EVE Offline. After installing their new servers, releasing new patches and having many more members join (probably as a result of the previous two) the main ‘Tranquility’ servers have been collapsing.
Apparently, this is due to memory leaks which have been caused very systems to go into a vegetative state (New Calari [...]

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