Posted by: edwinoa09 on: March 31, 2009
A team of industrial design students from the University of Louisiana have put together a railway that wouldn’t need stations to pick up passengers. Instead, system features driverless pods that are mounted to an elevated rail on an arm, which can lower the cabs down to pick up or drop off passengers anywhere along a route. [...]
Posted by: edwinoa09 on: March 26, 2009
1. apportion: distribute proportionately 2. arbor: shelter under branches and vines 3. lookout: one who watches 4. halfwit: foolish person 5. invalid: one chronically ill
Posted by: edwinoa09 on: March 25, 2009
There are tons of USB devices, some more useful than others. Many force you to waste a valuable USB port to use them too. This one is different. This is a four-port USB hub with a battery-powered clock, but the best part is the cup warmer. I can’t be the only one with a warm [...]
Posted by: edwinoa09 on: March 18, 2009
1. infidel: one who does not believe in a particular religion 2. measly: contemptibly small amount 3. nonce: occurring, used, or made only once 4. tarnish: make or become dull or discolored
Posted by: edwinoa09 on: March 17, 2009
Sometimes there’s a clever idea that comes along and makes you wonder why nobody has thought of it yet. These P-Hook Bookmarks fit into that into that kind of category, serving as placeholders in your reading materials, and providing small handles to pull those books and mags out of a tight stack. And these little [...]
Posted by: edwinoa09 on: March 11, 2009
1. accumulate: to collect or pile up 2. adduce: to offer as proof 3. babel: a noisy confusion 4. crescendo: growing louder 5. dexterous: skillful with the hands
Posted by: edwinoa09 on: March 10, 2009
Who ever says that solid-state drives (SSD) aren’t fast? Even though this is a marketing stunt by Samsung, we are still impressed with it nonetheless. These so called geeks hooked together 24 solid-state drives into an array that totaled 6 terabytes(TB), but the impressive part of this is was that they achieved a speed of 2 gigabytes(GB) per second. That’s amazingly fast, people! [...]
Posted by: edwinoa09 on: March 4, 2009
1. attune: bring into harmony 2. awe: respectful fear or wonder 3. bawl: long loud cry 4. choler: bad temper 5. eerie: weird
Posted by: edwinoa09 on: March 3, 2009
Because there are barely any arcades here in the US, pinball enthusiasts have had to take matters into their own hands and do something about it. There is one pinball enthusiast called BadBoyBill, the administrator of the HyperSpin forums, he used an HDTV, an LCD monitor and a 3D pinball simulation program called Future Pinball to build his [...]
