Month: March 2008

  • The Mazda Furai explodes my face.

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    Paris Vega
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    Check out this wild concept car: The Mazda Furai. The Mazda Furai concept car [1] is a beautifully designed piece of machinery that will melt your face. The swooping curves built into the exterior, the lighting in the grill, and the overall shape of the car shocked me when I first saw it in TopGear magazine. The…

  • Scientists Invent Holodeck!

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    FINALLY! Every gamer has dreamed of the day of real virtual gaming. Well, my cheeto-loving friends, our day has finally come. The VirtuSphere let’s you run around in what looks like a huge plastic soccer ball that sits on rollers. With a headset over your eyes and a gun[1] in hand, you can literally run,…

  • Myspace Sucks

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    I think all designers would agree that Myspace sucks. A usability nightmare, Myspace is the perfect example of those money-hungry banner-ad-loving sites that cares more about squeezing pennies out of pixels than creating a sane user experience. I know they’ve got to pay the bills, but… they suck. Appropriately, Myspace recently got #1 on PC…

  • The Father’s Love Letter

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    Growing up without a father in my home, I eventually viewed the Christian God of the Bible as my father. I looked to the Bible’s principles for wisdom. It helped me avoid many pitfalls in life, and make better decisions. This “love letter” from God based on verses from the Bible is an interesting way…

  • Open source software in schools could save taxpayers billions

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    Paris Vega
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    Open source software is all over the place. Google Apps being a prime example. If schools switched from paying for software to these open source alternatives, the savings would be substantial. It could also provide enormous opportunities for the home-grown technology sector based around open source software. So contact your representatives and let’s change the…

  • Solar and Wind Leaf Photovoltaic Shingles

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    While the future of solar technology seems to rest on nanotechnology innovation, these GROW panels by SMIT[1] are fairly remarkable. Inspired by leaves, these tiny generators do one better than their biological counterparts, drawing power from the sun, but also capturing energy from the wind as they are jostled by the breeze.   Footnoteshttp://blog.makezine.com/2008/03/03/solar-and-wind-leaf-photo/ ↩Back…