Oooh, this is a cool plane…

t the heart of the aircraft is the new radar, the APY-9, designed and built by Lockheed Martin Corporation. It can “see” smaller targets and more of them at greater ranges than the E-2C. The new rotodome, developed by L-3 Communications Randtron Antenna Systems, contains the critically important, continuous, 360-degree scanning capability, while adding an electronically scanned array. This system allows operators to focus the radar on selected areas of interest.

Check out these cool Container Home Kits from Lot-EK. These would be great for quick setup of your new vacation home while saving earth too by re-using.

Lot-ek’s scalable system can accommodate anywhere from 640-2560 square feet, and comes fully equipped and ready to plop on-site with built-in electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and fully insulated AND furnished. It’s fully-equipped conceptually as well, making practical use of the world’s surplus of ISO cargo containers while exploiting the inherent structural qualities of the containers themselves.

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Check out some of these cool house plans you buy before building your own vacation home! Above it my favorite, the Z-Glass House. It looks modern and very stylish yet retains a minimalist look. Nothing can justify minimal things especially in this material world we live in. (As a rule, I try to only have 2 glasses, silverware, and only 2 plates at my house)

Yes, one day if our blog network is worth $33 million like weblogs inc or somethin’, I will be able to afford a dream house, well small dream house, I just need somethin’ simple you know and build a homeless foundation in sf.

Thanks John C Donell for the link!

P.S. Soju helps you blog better on top of our other tips for blogging.

Oh yeah, make sure to check out brother-in-law blog, Bedzine for all your furniture stuff for your new vacation house and current house…

Here’s a great concept for re-using the wind generated from cars racing on the highways. Great idea! Save earth and peace!

Average vehicle speeds on the valley highways are approximately 70 mph. Using average annual wind speeds of 10 mph as a baseline, each single wind turbine will produce 9,600KwH of energy, annually (enough to fully power my 700 s.f. apartment). This power production estimate will increase exponentially with an increase in wind turbulence speed. I believe that the wind stream created over the freeways by our primary mode of transportation will create an average annual wind speed well beyond the baseline of 10 mph.

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Check out this cool new phone from LG that can you can place anywhere in your house to monitor stuff when you are away. It also supports IEEE 802.16e, which is basically wifi.

Here’s some more video phones you can check out:

• Ojo Personal Video Phone from Motorola
• Amazon has a good selection of video phones that you can actually buy right now.
• Beamer TV Videophones

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Check out this site for information on installation and the works behind solar hot water heaters that might actually save you big bucks and save the earth at the same time.

Some of the key benifits:

• Eliminate 80 to 95% of your water heating bill.
• Constantly increase savings in a non-taxable income.
• Your home’s equity value increases with your investment.
• Income generator that keeps producing a positive non-taxable cash flow to you.
• Uses non-polluting free solar energy.
• Doubles the amount of hot water available.

Yeah, if you live in California or any of the south-west states, go get it and start savin’

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Check out these guys makin’ some dinosaurs! Cool…

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Check out this cool human built UFO!

Here’s a really cool DAT backup tape loader robot that being worked on. This might be a great way to automate your server backups especially if you own a hosting company.

Thanks to D. Wilstar for the link!

This is another cheap project, useful to those peoples too lazy to change backup tapes every night (If You said “What’s Backup?” please stop reading! )
This project is less “art attack” than my homemade CNC. There is, indeed, a plan (well, sort of…) drawn with Google SketckUp (actually drawn BEFORE construction, and not AFTER, like I usually do ).
Almost all mechanical components used can be salvaged parts, or can be bought in a hardware store.