Gundam in Tokyo!
The Japanese have some great ideas...some are weird, others are just awesome.
Check out the full sized Gundam in Tokyo at night. Its an amazing sight when activated!
via [Pink Tentacle]
Interstallar GPS system ... something out of Star Trek
Someone's come up with a system to pin-point your location in the galaxy similar to the GPS system we have today. The signals from 4 pulsars form a natural GPS system that could locate any object in the galaxy to within a meter.
This would be handy when we develop warp drive to help keep us from flying into random planets in the way.
Link: Technology Review
F-35 makes for easy fighter combats
This is where all the US Department of Defense budget goes to.
Its pretty amazing stuff. The "Distributed Aperture System" allows the pilot to have 360 degree view of the battlefield. Best part I like is it can detect planes sneaking up to you and all the F-35 pilot does is shoot a missile (while flying away) and the missile will fly around to hit the target... how unfair is THAT!
Give it another 20 years and we'll see some of this technology in cars or something :D
R2-D2 flying the Enterprise in new Star Trek movie!!
Paramount has inserted R2-D2 into various scenes in the new Star Trek movie and is running a competition to spot where he is!
Picture from Gizmodo
If you believe you have spotted him you can enter the competition here:
Paramount facebook link
Wolfram Alpha launched
A new research search engine ("knowledge engine") has just been launched. Its called "Wolfram Alpha" and its meant to be the "Google" for science and research....give it a whirl and learn something new today.
Apparently Melbourne's population is 3.73m.
Note that Google announced that they will be launching a similar search engine later this year!
Check it out here!
Installing Windows 7 on your Mac
One of the nice things about having a Mac is that you can use Windows and not feel dependent on the buggy, ugly looking OS. You can run Windows in dual-boot mode via Apple Boot Camp, or even better virtualise it straight inside OSX using Fusion or Parallel.
Microsoft has just release Windows 7 Release Candidate 1. This meants its less buggy than Beta, but not ready for commercial release. The upside is, its free for use till Mar 2010 when it will start shutting down your machine every 2 hours. All indications is that Windows 7 is the OS Vista should have been...rather than the annoying anti-user Vista.
Here is a guide to getting it up and running on your Mac.
Gotta love the packaged drivers from Apple to help get your Windows environment going.
Talk about playing nice...
Installing Windows on Mac Guide
Vaccine drip to help your computer recover
What a cute concept! This drip-concept device gives your laptop some much needed love when its in trouble. It can recover corrupted files and provide vaccine software to clear up viruses.
Original post here.
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