Future, Frivolity & Folly — By Jay Oatway
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Future Files:
In celebration of Earth Day 2008 (W00t! We survived another year!), here is the Portension guide for green living this year:
Step 1) Do Whatever Al Gore Tells You
Yes, …
Airlines are searching for ways to go green. (Virgin is even trying biodiesel)
But none match Reaction Engines’s A2 concept, a Mach-5 (3,400mph) craft for 300 passengers funded in part by the European Union’s Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project (Lapcat). Lapcat wants an airliner that can fly from Brussels to Sydney in less than four hours. If built, …
There seems to be a lot of excitement about Prince Charles saving about 15 tons of carbon dioxide by not attending The World Future Energy Summit 2008. In his place, he sent a hologram.
Of course, it wasn’t actually a hologram — not like the, "help me Obi-Wan Kenobi…" transmission you might imagine.
The hologram is based on a 19th century trick, called …
Our relentless dependence on oil has made an absolute mess of things.
Fortunately, we have the hugely funny Robert Newman to help us laugh as we learn just how it all went wrong. (This is way more informative than The Daily Show’s investigation of An Inconvenient Truth and way more British fun than Spamalot). Enjoy the frivolity while you still have …
Nothing reveals the true spirit of Xmas quite like battle toys. And when it comes to battle toys, nothing beats a laser attack helicopter [via Geekdad]
One of the biggest selling toys last year was the mini RC helicopter. As mentioned at Geekdad, they are …
The starting gun fires and all you hear is the snick snick snick snick of the cyborg legs scissoring down the track. Forget testing the limits of a natural athlete. We know that we’ve reached the pinnacle for meat and bones. But we are just getting started at testing the techno-doped athlete. …
Not since Jimmy Hendrix lit his guitar on fire at Monterey has the world seen such a visual display on the face of the trusty rock’n'roll axe — presenting The TV-Guitar <natch>. The invention of Ben Lewry of Lewry Guitars, builds a laptop -esque visualizer display …
While there is no shortage of video sharing services, Google will no doubt be the Grandaddy of them all. So the clever services now are the ones that are tapping into the Google archive, like DownloadGoogleVideos.com :: Easily Watch, Search for and Download Google Videos. Here’s a quick taste: DownloadGoogleVideos.Com …
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