(images via dartmouthwaveenergy.com) A horrible name and simple design for pumping water (which can then drive turbines) via wave action on a buoy tethered to the ocean floor (via Treehugger). Not suddenly solving all the world's energy woes, but large numbers of this relatively simple, DIY-friendly design could have a nice impact towards sustainability... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Green | Digg this!...
The Samsung Style Report has a horrible name, I think we can all agree on that. It also, however, highlights some tech that Samsung should consider bringing over to this hemisphere. Showcased recently at KES2008, we have little doubt that the Style Report will only be released in the Asian region but this is the kind of handset that could really do well here, if well-subsidized. Sure, we don’t have DMB here which would greatly detract from one of the biggest selling points of this handset - the external touchscreen capable of displaying videos and DMB TV - but...
From Serious Eats: New York M. F. K. Fisher's Pad: Visitors can check out the cottage in Sonoma, California, that M. F. K. Fisher, “the author who helped liberate the American palate,” once called home. Russian Collective Farms, Hot Property: A decade after capitalism arrived in Russia, agricultural revolution is finally sweeping the countryside. As food prices soar, buying and reforming old collective farms looks to foreign investors like a smart business move. A Spanish-Style Peasant’s Feast: In Brooklyn, Manny Howard cooks up mean paella over an open fire. Cooking During Crisis: When Russian troops attacked Georgia, Stephanie Gruner got...
Another one’s going to bite the dust. I mean, why bother? No search engine is going to beat “The Google“as President Bush lovingly calls it anytime soon. Sure competition is good; but this is just unrealistic and foolish competition. For God’s sake Google is a verb how can “cuil” expect to dominate it in search when it has such a horrible name (Yes, it is a horrible name). “Cuil” is a new search engine which claims that it can “index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google“. Cuil may be powered by past Googlers, but that still does not...
Hey, friend! Want to make perhaps about $10,000? Why not try selling bare-bones Intel PCs and claim that they can run OS X or even, dare we say it, Ubuntu. Following in the footsteps of Psystar and iOpenTech, RSOL is offering an OSless PC, called the Jive, for $628 that you can then install OS X onto. How? They won’t say. They will say: Due to the complex configuration of the RSOL PC Multi-Platform Desktop computer, installing or reinstalling the OSx86 operating system should only be performed by users who have a thorough understanding of the open source technology...
The Magic Tricycle (horrible name) concept is designed around a reasonable idea. On the highway, you may want to drive a car. So the Magic Tricycle (horrible name) road rages through traffic with three wheels. But when you just want to cruise around town, it transforms into motorcycle mode: The designers claim that the top wheel adds stability to the 2-wheel mode, but we're not absolutely certain that we'd want more weight so high on the bike (then again, we're not engineers for a reason). And either way, it's a pretty neat idea—one the will lead many of us to...
