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Portable Elevator for Moving!

Posted on March 9, 2011 by max
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Last week I was over in South Korea and noticed one of these portable elevators from a moving company.  I don’t know if they have this in other parts of the world but I know they are not common here in the U.S.

I live in an apartment in San Francisco with majority students who move out every 3 months or so and it’s a pain when they start taking over the resident elevators.  Sometimes the students try to force their giant mattresses and couches into the elevator, causing havoc and 1 elevator for the rest of 500 people that live in my apartment.

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Motorola i1 Launched!

Posted on July 25, 2010 by max
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Sprint launches their newest push-to-talk Android smartphone (in fact, first ever) at Sprint Stores nationwide.

The Sprint Motorola i1 comes with an Android 1.5 platform, multi-touch screen, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and 4X zoom, and on iDEN 800/900Mhz network.

The iDEN 800/900Mhz is a lot slower than Sprint’s 3G or 4G but this phone’s main feature it that you can use the push-to-talk feature to other phones with that capability.

The Motorola i1 has a battery life of 210 minutes under continuous use and 100 hours in standby-mode from its 1400

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Warehouse Robots!

Posted on July 11, 2010 by max
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If you’ve worked in a warehouse before (like I have), you will appreciate having at least a forklift to do the work for you but even better than that would be having these warehouse robots from Kiva Systems.

One thing missing though that I’d like added to this terrific warehouse robot system is ability to use it with higher racks to take advantage of high ceiling walls of a warehouse. O

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The giant Swiss army knife

Posted on July 5, 2010 by David Allen
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The Swiss army knife is one of those items that most people know about, but very rarely get their hands on for one reason or another. However, this is a giant Swiss army knife, it contains eighty five tools, but they can be used for over a hundred different functions. The only issue with this version of the Swiss army knife is that it weighs over three pounds and is nearly nine inches wide.

These are the specs and features of the Giant Swiss army knife:

•Contains an incredible 85 tools built into a single knife [list]

•Guinness World Record holder for “the mos

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DIY EEPROM Tester!

Posted on June 1, 2010 by max
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EEPROM, a type of memory chip where you can store data, has limited number of writes.  Usually most EEPROMs are rated at 100,000 writes.

Well, if you wanna find out how much writing you can actually do, you can build yourself a DIY EEPROM tester and just keep doing re-writes until the thing stops.

How long will it take to complete a million write-verify cycles? The Flash Destroyer’s current top s

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Live In Hollywood – Literally

Posted on April 21, 2010 by David Allen
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It is shame how the world famous Hollywood sign is in constant need of renovation and therefore because of that the sign is constantly under attack from redevelopers of the land that it sits on.

So therefore Danish business Bayarch have a proposal that could satisfy both camps, it’s the Hollywood Sign Hotel, obviously this would be built from new, has 308 room on ten floors, bars conference rooms and everything else that you would expect from a top notch hotel.

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Solar Powered Street Signs

Posted on April 9, 2010 by David Allen
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Drive through any city or town at night and you will notice how many street signs there are and of course exactly how much power they are using.

One company, Enlight have produced a range of street lights that run on solar power, they are charged up during the day and use this stored power during the evening and night.

One day all street signs will be like these!

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Erosion Hack – How to Stop Landslides and Erosion!

Posted on April 1, 2010 by max
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While shopping for a new home, I found out and learned a lot about land erosion/landslides.  Where I am trying to buy home is near an active landslide, something that could be devastating for a homeowner.

So first let me explain how erosion happens.  Basically when the soil cannot hold more water than its weight, it can slide down to the slope.  On places where there’s cliffs like in Daly City where I am trying to buy a home, this can cause huge landslides.   When this happens to the land nearby your house, it can be devastating as you can easily lose your home.

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Japan Builds Super Trains

Posted on March 18, 2010 by David Allen
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One of the famous names in Japanese industry is Kawasaki, they build bikes and other heavy industrials, but one project that looks like it is going to put the Kawasaki name up in lights is the new design for a high speed train.

The company is preparing to build the fastest train in Japan that can reach a top speed of 350 KPH, currently the high speed bullet train the Shinkansen can only hit 300 KPH there is quite difference in speed.

The company is thinking that in around one and half years time the design will be ready to be made into the real thing and maybe even export the

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Riding Through The Air

Posted on March 18, 2010 by David Allen
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I am not sure if riding a bike fifteen feet above the road is much safer than actually taking a chance on driving on the road itself, but this is the idea of the Bike Line (Kolelinia) an idea by the architect Martin Angelov.

You can see the city from a completely different vantage point, with the bikes wheels fitting into a specially designed U shaped rail and the handle bar attached to a steel wire.

The rider will have to wear a harness for safety reason, although that is not going to help those below when the rider drops their apple core or spills their coffee!

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