Playing with Fire Posted on September 25, 2006 by Robin Reply Burning Man festival always has a large geek percentage. They found some seriously imaginative ways to play with fire.
Car to car communication Posted on September 25, 2006 by Robin Reply This consortium has a whole load of car manufacturers in it trying to create a decentralised network of road cars which beam each other driving information using 802.11 built in networks. The idea is to beam information about driving conditions, accidents, traffic jams, etc to cars within a few hundred metres. Nice idea, but how are you going to limit the spread of messages between cars from the point of interest and limit the flow of conversation? Another one, considering the ease of hacking any 802.11, is how are you going to stop people with laptops from clearing roads for themselves by injecting “road closed for construction” messages into the network from a whole host of fictitious cars?
Bigelow aerospace space hotel Posted on September 25, 2006 by Robin Reply This guy allready has a test module in space – Genesis 1 and is planning to launch Genesis 2 soon. After that will come Galaxy, which will have some habitable space in it. Together with Lockheed Martin they’re designing a launch strategy to get people to the habitat. If this all works out, he’s going for the space hotel. Galaxy is slated for 2010. Private space exploration FTW!
DIY R2D2 Posted on September 25, 2006 by Robin Reply This site has instructions on how to build your own astromech – with galleries for all the different types of droids people have built untill now.
