“An elegant vertical-axis wind turbine, quietrevolution has been designed and developed by XCO2, an established low-carbon energy consultancy and engineering practice.
Virtually silent and vibration free, quietrevolution is ideally suited to both urban sites and exposed locations.
The simple and robust design (patent pending) has just one moving part, maximising reliability and minimising maintenance requirements.”
Vertical-axis wind turbines not only look very sci-fi, but when you add LEDs to the border of the turbine you can use them as a display:
So I leave you with a patent pending revolution which produces power and is virtually silent…whatever that means.
Source: http://www.quietrevolution.co.uk/
This is what is called the first official screenshots of a Playstation 3 game…:
Well… that looks a little bit different from the pre-rendered screenshots we where shown earlier… the final devkits will be available in June… Launch in November… Blue-Ray drive…Cell Processor… 60 GB hard-disk… what’s this thing going to cost? My first born? A 1000 Euro? In my opinion the only reason why Sony does not allow a closer look is, because people would see what die PS3 really is capable of…which is in no way more than a 360… I for myself expect exactly the same graphics and features the 360 delivers today… but when I look at the screenshots… well – maybe I was to optimistic with the graphics….
Source: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/695/695890p1.html
patented isolatr technology: Helping you find where other people aren’t…great idea in fact not new 
Thanks to wiseguy for the tip…
Source: http://isolatr.com/
Martin pointed me to this promising company which is out there to bring us great Portale Media Players…but at the moment… no real information is available on their website…but the start is done…international blogging…good way to start…
Source: http://www.venzero.com
That’s great “news”. There will be at least one new Sam & Max game and I really hope it’ll be as good as the original-Lucas Arts one… I loved to play that game…
Source: http://www.telltalegames.com/sam_and_max
Rumors and more rumors about the IBM eFuse circuits in the XBOX 360 CPU… Funny if it’s true and I can think of funny things to do with the CPU when modding is detected… B-)
(IBM)
“Some may say that I should strap on my tin foil hat, but in fact VID data is stored in the eFuses, it may be possible to shut power off to the CPU permanently or increase the core supply to the point of self-destruct.
Remember that VID “111111″ or “111110″ (VID order 4,3,2,1,0,5) indicated “NO CPU” therefore no supply power to the core.
This is just one possible scenario and may give new meaning to “FRAG your opponent”.
Source 1: XBOX CPU Design
Source 2: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=efuse+IBM
Source 3: http://www.xbox-scene.com/tech-info-xbox360.php
That looks like the first serious Super Mario Brothers game for years…
And if it’s true what I’ve seen in some gameplay movies… I really really would like to play it.
Oh well that’s not really news. Some say that Google utilizes the “big harddrive” that’s inside our planet earth… and some say that even gravity does not apply for google employees….
In fact… that’s all bullshit. Please Google. Be careful with words like “unlimited” … more text over here
Source 1: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1113
Source 2: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/669.html
I am not that much into VWs but this site is really great. You can configure the VW Golf and then view a video of that particular car… and the video is worth the watching…oh I love that german accent…
Source: http://www.vwfeatures.com/
hmm… is it just me or is there a Mac GUI shown on the desktop in this mysterious project origami ad:
Whatever the GUI might be… I want one of those ultra portable “notebook-desktop-inbetweens”
Source: http://www.origamiproject.com/
Vor eininger Zeit habe ich schonmal einen Beitrag zum Thema Technologietransfer und die Blauäugigkeit europäischer Konzerne in China verfasst. Jetzt gibt es erneut einen dramatischen Ideenklau.
Da haben die Strategen bei Siemens und ThyssenKrupp gedacht, mit dem Transrapid das große Geschäft gemacht zu haben inklusive Teststrecke. Die Eurozeichen in den Augen haben alle Beteiligten aber mal wieder blind vor Gier gemacht. Außer 1 Mrd. € Kosten gesellte sich jetzt nur noch die bittere Erkenntnis hinzu, dass man niemals etwas in China verdienen wird, denn die Chinesen bauen mittlerweile (wen wunderts) ihre eigene Magnetschwebebahn (natürlich billiger).
Der nächste Über-den-Tisch-Gezogene steht übrigens auch schon fest: Airbus. Erst bauen die ein Werk, dann bauen die Chinesen die Flugzeuge.
Quelle: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,401081,00.html
Jens Heymann
I really really hate those moments. This morning around 0100 AM the server that hosts schrankmonster and some more websites crashed after more than 200 days of flawless operation. I arrived at the server room at around 2 and rebooted the machine – but it did not boot – instead it kept rebooting and rebooting…
I turned it off and decided to come back after some hours of sleep with fresh diagnose software and a just-in-case operating system install cd…
Well I turned the machine on, booted into memtest86 and no errors were found… I rebooted and voilá – the machine came up and everything worked.
What the hell was that? 
Any hints? (no there is nothing of interest in the system event logs)
That’s exactly what I was frightened off. If it’s true – what are those morons thinking?! (are they?)
Anyways – they have to fill at least 9 Gbytes of space. And in times of MPEG4/AVC/WMVHD when 720p movies with full 5.1 sound are only around 4-5 Gbytes… you have to find a way to fuck the customer.
So – expect great MPEG2 HDTV movies with 3-4 times the size of their current-generation encoded equivalents… and all that just to fill the space… What’s the point in having the space and the technology when we’re not going to use it?
Source: the news
We all know that some of the newer Pentium 4 processors have the EMT64 extensions – which are just the licensed AMD64 commandsets poorly emulated by the Intel processor.
Now the news came up that the current “Intel Core Duo” Chip – whose codename is “Yonah” also has such a EMT64 extensions. That would make it quite interesting to see how some of the 64 bit operating systems perform on the chip…I doubt it would be faster than the 32 bit – but at least more features means more fun for the geek.
Source: Intel Yonah hidden features exposed
I just updated the warfare website… go and have a look – and subscribe.
Source: http://www.thesuck.de
This picture is from march 2005…. you see: the fusion is almost done.
What’s that supposed to be? Some days ago one of the XBOX 360 wireless controllers made a lightshow every 15 seconds or so…
What was it that he wanted to tell me?
Well, recently a friend of mine took this foto with the camera of her mobile in Canada…
So… they are really back? Where have they been? And what it’s supposed to mean anyways?
it’s the 23! all the time it’s the 23!!
We all know the Xbox 360 Ring-of-Light green circles logo below. It’s just everywhere these days. So concentrate on the Ring-of-Light and scroll down:
Xbox 360 Ring-of-Light
So since this weekend the CES 2006 website of Sony is online. At the CES 2006 Sony is supposed to show details and in-depth information about the upcoming Playstation 3. And well the site looks more like if they have to tell us something about the Xbox 360:
Rings-of-Light?
This is quite funny – I wouldn’t bet it’s not a marketing gag but if it’s not it’s funny and stupid. Please Sony! More information on your vaporware!
Source: http://www.sony.com/ces/index.shtml
I read and heard this many times:
“Before the opening of the Tokyo Game Show in Japan, Microsoft will say that it plans to launch the Xbox 360 on Nov. 22 in North America, on Dec. 2 in Europe, and Dec. 10 in Japan. Mitch Koch, corporate vice president of global retail sales for the Xbox division, said in an interview that the company’s contract manufacturers are on schedule to simultaneously launch in all markets worldwide, something that has never been done before in the video game industry.”
So WHAT exactly is simultaneous about November 22th, December 2nd and December 10th?!
Wikipedia says:
“Simultaneity is the property of two events happening at the same time in at least ONE Reference frame”
It wouldn’t be that big problem for my understanding when they just won’t even pinpoint on the fact that “this has never been done before”… They are probably right: Never before a company managed to make us believe that November the 22th, Devenmber 2nd and December 10th are the exact same day.
nuff said.
Mape2k pointed me to this cool article about a company that advertises on speed camera fotos. How cool is that
cheaper pictures….
Source: Riesenmaschine
“Click here to search a HDR capable cable on amazon.de”
hmmkay… what kind of wire would that be?
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