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Ultimate keyboard?

Posted on January 15, 2007 by Robin

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This keyboard can be programmed so that you choose each key’s colour, turning into by far the coolest keyboard ever. Can you get it in programmers’ querty?

NB scroll down the link page for loads more images, including how you can program it.

You can save your skins, so you can open them for specific applications (read: games)

3D Printers for houses

Posted on January 15, 2007 by Robin

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This is one hell of a printer – you feed it with concrete and gypsum, you have one single operator, and like an inkjet it prints out your house, speeding up the construction time by a factor of 200 and dropping costs by four fifths. Anyone can become an architect and because bricks need to be layed in a straight line, architecture should flourish as wavy lines become easy.
The US has one they hope will be online in April, the UK one will take a few more years.

France under the British Queen

Posted on January 15, 2007 by Robin

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Documents have come to light showing how the then French PM, Guy Mollet, approached the then British PM, Sir Anthony Eden on 10/10/56 to ask if there was the possibility of a union between the UK and France. When this failed, he came back later to ask if France could become a member of the British Commonwealth.
These documents have been found in the UK, the French are looking into it, with big surprised expressions.