These 1GB lightsaber flash drives may have been imported from Japan and they may light up when plugged in, but they still don't feel quite right without some woosh-woosh-zzwoommm-zwing sound effects. Worth $20 without those? [ThinkGeek via Nerd Approved]
Honduras is one of the hottest regions on the island market, particularly among those who want a Caribbean island, without paying Caribbean prices on of the most interesting development in Honduras right now is Lime Cay.
The current offer includes both an impressive sea side estate and a private island. The estate known as Villa Royale, is a unique, sprawling property, offering the perfect vacation rental for family gatherings, corporate retreats, weddings, and diving/exploration groups. Truly amazing, the 12,000 square foot villa contains seven acres of lush tropical gardens, charming courtyards, breathtaking vistas of the Caribbean, beautiful beaches, and a private island. This luxurious villa can comfortably host 14 people.
The estate’s private island, Lime Cay, is only a short boat ride away. The cay has two quaint beach cottages and is an amazing place for secluded sunbathing, an afternoon picnic, or exploration.
For more information on this unique property visit Private Islands Online.
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There are reports of Google CEO Eric Schmidt forcing his mistress to take down her naughty tell-all blog. Whether that's the reason for its disappearance or not, we're glad that our Gawker friends preserved some of the amusing details.
Former Forbes journalist Kate Bohner is supposedly the gal behind the now-deleted "Recovery Girl 007" blog and as the former mistress of married Google CEO Eric "Dr. Strangelove" Schmidt she had quite some stories to tell. You can read them over at Gawker. The best thing on that blog though though, was a commentary about a prototype iPhone and Steve "Stephen" Jobs:
I haven't thought about Dr. Strangelove in such a long time-I try to sweep all of that data completely under the Persian carpet. That's a lie. I think about him every so often in these fleeting cinematic flashes...I have completely stopped sleeping. My friend Jason is so worried about it that he confiscates my Blackberry... I've been sleeping with my Blackberry just in case Strangelove might send an e-mail. If I was really smart I ditch the Blackberry for the iPhone he gave me – the prototype version. But I have yet to arrive. Stephen Jobs is not St. Stephen. He's just a stoned Jesuit priest lost in his garden. Strangelove still has his stranglehold on me and nothing is new under the sun.
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We are in manufacturing of Automotives locks. Curently we are using brass material for both Tumbler Disc & Key. We want to replce this material from Brass to any other low cost material. Can any ony suggest me which material will be appropriate for this purpose.
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This lady's walking between panels of thermally-bonded polypropylene filaments which I keep thinking are giant dryer sheets. Either way, her body's static charge is all that's required to make the panels jump apart.
There's no real purpose to this art installation set up by design group SpaceOperaFoam other than to use static charge for a pretty, dreamy effect. But that doesn't keep me from wanting to run between the sheets to make them dance. [Dezeen]
Concentrix Solar, a leading supplier of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) systems and a new division of the Soitec Group (Euronext Paris), the world's leading supplier of engineered substrates, announced today that it has signed a contract with Chevron Technology Ventures for the deployment of a one megawatt (MW) CPV power plant to be installed at a Chevron Mining facility in Questa, New Mexico, USA.
The 560 page digital publication also contains extensive tutorials on piezo motion technology, the fundamentals of nanopositioning, micropositioning and nanometrology.
Subatomic particles called neutrons are poised to play a big role in fighting HIV, slowing global warming, and improving manufacturing processes. The reason: They are the focus of a process called neutron scattering that provides unprecedented ways to study the chemistry of a wide range of important materials, including coal and biological cells.
Scientists are reporting an advance toward scavenging energy from walking, breathing, and other natural body movements to power electronic devices like cell phones and heart pacemakers.
University of Florida engineers have achieved what they label in a new paper a 'nearly perfect hydrophobic interface' by reproducing, on small bits of flat plastic, the shape and patterns of the minute hairs that grow on the bodies of spiders.
Using large-scale supercomputer calculations, researchers have analyzed how the placement of metallic contacts on graphene changes the electron transport properties of the material as a factor of junction length, width and orientation.
Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have obtained the first glimpse of miniscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super non-stick surface.
A group of Biophysicists at LMU Munich hav developed a unique technology called 'microscale thermophoresis' that allows to measure intereactions under close-to-native conditions, thus improving the decision making process in drug development.
Dartmouth researcher Ivan Aprahamian and his team have developed a new molecular switch that changes its configuration as a function of the pH of the environment.
This project to manufacture innovative drugs combating age-related diseases is based on pioneering work by V.P. Skulachev, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and director of the A.N. Belozersky Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology.
Digital Surf, the provider of MountainsMap surface analysis software announced that visitors to its web site can request a free surface analysis report based on their own measurement data.
Chemists at the University of Helsinki have managed to manufacture new polymer-stabilised silver nanoparticles. The result is significant because the antimicrobial characteristics of silver are used in textiles, floor coatings and paints even though the impact on health of silver nanoparticles are not entirely known.
A symposium which will reveal new methods for making future low-power, lighter, smarter and more economical computers and mobile phones will take place at the University of Southampton next week and has attracted almost 100 delegates.
