New Project Joins London And New York Visually
The Telectroscope is 11.2 meters (37 feet) long by 3.3 meters (11 feet) tall allows people from diametrically opposite sides of the Atlantic to look into Telectroscope’s lens and see each other thanks to a brand new tunnel running under the ocean.
The realization of the project was accomplished by a British artist. His great-grandpa started rummaging the project, and fortunately he decided to finish what his ancestor had started.
Today at night, massive metal drill bits appeared on both sides of the Atlantic to accomplish the final sections of transatlantic tunnel: one near the Tower Bridge by the Thames, and other by the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.
Right now the drills are being replaced with Telectroscopes at both ends and now Londoners and New Yorkers can look over to the distant shore and glance at each other. Unfortunately, there is no vocal communication, just visual.
Yeah, nice story with the previous century smell. Nowadays things like that are made much simpler due to the technology growth. In fact, the project is a trans-Atlantic broadband network with HD cameras on each end.
So no tunnels under the oceans!
The project will be displayed until June 15th in both cities.
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One crazy laptop, now available on eBay
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a Xentex dual 13.3-inch screen laptop. Yes, dual screens. They’re side by side and can be rotated or folded down independently for some crazy reason. And now it can be yours on eBay!
Digifire, clean-burning fireplaces for the 22nd century
Okay, fellow firebugs, here’s the epitome of fireplace tech. Digifire uses continuously-fed ethanol for a clean-burning fireplace, and these babies are so steeped in forward design, they could be right at home on the set of a science fiction movie.
Sarotech’s Wizplatz W-31 looks like a book, isn’t it?
If you felt like your Western Digital My Book hard drive went too far — or didn’t go too far enough — in looking like an actual tome, Sarotech is here to turn it up a notch.
OLPC XO officially gets Windows XP, children of the world to be assimilated
It’s been a controversial decision, but it looks like the OLPC XO has completed its transition from revolutionary education project to just another tiny Windows laptop with a useless keyboard — albeit one with a pleasantly whimsical design.
Samsung’s 82-inch QuadHD LCD: Now with 120Hz
Samsung’s stream of 82-inch monsters packing the company’s latest technology continues unabated, this time a minor update to the QuadHD behemoth we saw at CES brings so-outdated 120Hz motion processing and LED backlighting to keep blur and judder far, far away.
Giant wooden sphere speakers are surreal, vaguely naughty
After a hard day causing problems with his Myst books, Atrus likes to relax with Sound e-Motion’s M100-20 BF, a set of giant wooden balls with speakers in them. The curious design is claimed to “minimize baffle distortions” and offer uniform “polar sound distribution,” but it’s the looks that people will love.
GRADED: The Worst ‘10 Worst Consoles’ List of All Time
We wish we could have left it well enough alone. Certainly, in the Journalistic Special Olympics of blogging, criticizing another web writer’s wordsmithing is a slippery slope ending in a pit full of our own weasel words, forced metaphors, slapdash punctuation and dangling participles.
5 Gadgets That Will Make You a Super Hero
You, too, can be a Lycra-clad superhero — all you need is a grappling hook, a jetpack and three other real-world gadgets you can buy today. Your shopping list starts right here, in Gadget Lab.
Sex Drive: Social Media Eat Porn’s Lunch (Again)
Newsweek sparked a conflagration among conservative Christians last week by pointing out that Christian dating site BigChurch.com is owned by Penthouse Media Group.
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Introducing Flame, world’s most advanced walking robot
“Flame” from Dutch PhD student Daan Hobbelen might just look like A.N. Other humanoid, but it’s so not.
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What else to expect from WWDC besides the 3G iPhone?
With the WWDC a few scant weeks away, the updates and rumors posted to cryptomacology blogs have come so fast and furious that some have simply blinked out of our reality, having consummated their union with the Speed Force.
Ubanana uCan - Waterproof MP3 Player
Waterproof devices are becoming more common in the recent years, be it phones, portable media players, or any other thing you can think of. With that being said, MP3 players that can resist to water, like the uBanana uCan, are always welcome.
Samsung shows off sexy OLED laptop, coming in 2009?
We don’t usually follow what all the other blogs are doing, but in the case of this Samsung OLED laptop prototype, there’s good reason why everyone’s jaws seem to be dropping.
Sanyo’s LP-XC55 and LP-XC50 projectors fitted with Active Maintenance Filter system
Sanyo’s got a new duo of projectors hitting the Japanese market today, the LP-XC55 and LP-XC50.
Sarotech’s Wizplatz W-31 looks like a book, isn’t it?
If you felt like your Western Digital My Book hard drive went too far — or didn’t go too far enough — in looking like an actual tome, Sarotech is here to turn it up a notch.
OLPC XO officially gets Windows XP, children of the world to be assimilated
It’s been a controversial decision, but it looks like the OLPC XO has completed its transition from revolutionary education project to just another tiny Windows laptop with a useless keyboard — albeit one with a pleasantly whimsical design.
Shinoda Plasma showcases 125-inch curved PTA display
Surely you remember Shinoda Plasma and its obscenely large PTA display, right? Unfortunately, this one’s no 142-incher, but 125-inches of curvaceous screen real estate still isn’t anything to sneeze at — especially when we’re talking about an actual prototype
Rohm Circuit Kills Vampire Power, Pulls No Electricity On Standby
Japanese semiconductor maker Rohm is looking to vanquish vampire power, the energy wasted by tech on stand-by, with its new LSI circuits
World’s First High-Def Train Simulator Makes Train Operating Uber-Realistic
Train operators-in-training will no longer have to deal with plain, unrealistic, standard-definition simulations thanks to a new system that uses full HD video.
BlackBerry Bold (aka 9000) Officially Official
They said RIM’s BlackBerry 9000 would be formally announced on the 12th. They said it would be called the Bold.
Vatican Buys Palm for $800 Million
ROME (Agencies) - The Vatican has bought Palm Inc. in an $800-million cash, stock, and souls deal, a move that analysts are calling a bold bid to reconvert the Catholic Church into the number one mobile operator for communication with God.
The Top 15 Vaporware Products of All Time
These big ideas were supposed to revolutionize technology, but beyond a few prototypes, they never actually appeared. In a few cases, you’ll probably be glad they didn’t.
Microsoft Prepares Touchwall Low-Cost Solution
Russ Burtner, Microsoft user experience designer, tests out TouchWall right before CEO Summit with Bill Gates’ Wednesday keynote. The touch screen is the research prototype with 4 feet by 6 feet dimensions.
If you watched CNN’s election coverage lately, you should have noticed the channel’s Magic Wall touchscreen. So Microsoft came up with it’s own board version - a Surface flipped on its side and mounted. The TouchWall combines finger-friendly prototypes by Microsoft Research, as well as a spherical unit to be used mainly for world domination campaigns.
The wall uses a rear-mounted camera and not expensive infrared sensors with the capability of adding to a various surfaces, thus creating the hands-on experience. It is meant to be a low cost intelligent whiteboard solution, and maybe they’ll be used in small businesses, offices, or schools.
Microsoft didn’t provide any details about when TouchWall will be available commercially
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Next rash of Dell Inspirons surprisingly svelte
Rather unexpectedly, leaked images of the next batch of Dell Inspirons are somewhat exciting. Even more impressive: is Dell actually thinking of building a laptop that will not weigh so much as to be capable of crushing a large wharf rat when dropped upon it from a height of a few inches?
Under-the-desk machine charges batteries with your idle pedaling
Although its taking a bit of a drubbing as it passes through the chuckling locker room of gadget blogdom, this pedal-powered charger isn’t as daft as its out-of-fashion powder blue design might imply.
Verizon Wireless debuts the Samsung Glyde
Samsung and Verizon Wireless on Thursday announced the Samsung Glyde (aka the SCH-U940), a touch-screen cell phone based on the Samsung SGH-F700.
LG claims Scarlet 42LG61 is world’s thinnest LCD HDTV, is very wrong
Maybe our math is off, but we’re fairly certain 44.7-millimeters equates to around 1.76-inches. Strangely enough, LG is claiming that its Scarlet 42LG61 is actually the world’s thinnest LCD HDTV, and we all know Hitachi’s definitively thinner 1.5-inch family just started shipping to US consumers last week
Humanoid learns to cook breakfast, fend for himself
Never mind getting tesla coils to fix your supper, just hit the on switch on your own personal humanoid. Reportedly, the creature you see above has been loaded with learning algorithms that enable it to repeat actions that it learns.
NTT Docomo to offer cell phone smell-o-vision
Continuing to push Japanese cell phone customers to the edge of weirdness, NTT Docomo recently tested what it calls Mobile Fragrance Communication (Kaori Tsushin Mobile). The service combines animated visual gifs and olfactory stimuli, via downloads of “Fragrance Playlists.”
Egg-shaped phone: a design that really cooks
Though it’s called the Egg phone, this design concept better resembles the fried variety than a shell-covered ovoid. Designer Roman Tubl set out to conceive a cellphone that’s easy to use and a pleasure to hold.
Sony Canvas Online CP1 digital picture frame rocks the wireless connectivity
Sony’s already into the digital picture frame biz, but now it busts out one that’s truly useful. The Canvas Online VGF-CP1 leaps into the next level with its Wi-Fi connectivity
10 gadgets you should NEVER buy your mom
Mother’s Day is Sunday, and if you haven’t been thinking about it for months, you’re probably scrambling for gift ideas now. Fortunately, the Web is full of suggestions for gifts for Mom. Unfortunately, many of them are bad, bad ideas.
Phoenix Enables Users to Remotely Track, Disable and Erase Data From Fujitsu Drives
Phoenix Technologies has announced that they are currently working with Fujitsu in an effort to bring users equipped with Fujitsu’s new full disk encryption (FDE) 2.5″ 7200RPM SATA hard disk drive the ability to remotely track, disable and even erase their drive in the event that the laptop is ever stolen.
Dell Goes Urban With Mike Ming’s Art House Laptops
What’s the best way to make kids who are all hopped up on Apple’s MacBooks to get excited about your laptops? Hire Mike Ming, a Brooklyn-based artist, to decorate up the backs of your laptops in graffiti-like designs.
Canon’s Printer-in-a-Bucket Selphy CP770 is One For The Kids
Canon’s new dye-sublimation photo printer is a departure from the boring old box designs: it’s basically a bucket, and is aimed at kids. The bucket part unclips, and is supposed to store wires and accessories rather than sand and a collection of worms.
Cake Royale USB Drives Are Delicious, But Deadly For Children
Not since the USB Food Hub from Solid Alliance have we seen a peripheral that made us actually want to put it in our mouths and swallow. These Cake Royale series drives range from chocolate, to some yellow looking one, to a white one with strawberries on top, and finally a fruity one.