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Eco Factor: Zero emission concept car powered by magnetic field.

With concept designers crafting their fantasies into a consumable form, we believe that the era of tomorrow would be completely different than present days. Harsha Vardhan, a car designer, thinks that apart from the cities, cars too would be completely different and powered by technologies no car manufacturer has tried till date. He fantasizes a car powered by magnetic field generated by on-board electricity powered systems.

The Transporter TW (Twin Wheel) is based around an electric engine which produces a magnetic field to drive the large wheels. The wheel rims are suspended over a superconducting fluid where the changing magnetic field produces the motion needed to propel the vehicle. The power generator and motion is thus smooth, nearly noiseless and green. The occupant of the vehicle sits perched in a cockpit and operates the vehicle. He sits in a swivel seat, and he enters or leaves through a port at the rear of the cockpit.

Thanks [ Eco Friend ]

Smokers are usually confined to enclosed areas, away from the rest of us. This FRESH concept, designed for airports and other high-traffic areas, uses a “wall” of air to stop the carcinogen-laden smoke from reaching us normals.

The wall is actually created by colliding high and low air pressure in a spherical shape, keeping any harmful smoke within its boundaries. Fresh air is continually cycled through the interior of the FRESH unit so the smokers don’t hotbox the thing. It was designed by D.K. Wei, and doesn’t seem to be in the running for production, but it is definitely a cool-looking, functional way to reduce secondhand smoke as well as making smokers feel less like herded cattle.

[ Yanko Design ]

All of us do some fixing at home and sometimes the fix really is worth laughing even if it works. As you can see in the photo above a lot of fixes show the person’s ingenuity or stupidity.

There, I Fixed It takes user submissions of the most inspired fixes-and the utter brain farts-and the result is a catalogue of impending disaster that’s perfect for a few minutes of cyber-slacking.

This respirator mask design by Elijah Stillson is meant to have comfort and function, ensuring that when a biological attack does hit, you won’t even notice that you’re wearing a mask. You will notice the dead bodies, however.

[ Yanko Design ]

You might have noticed that when you insert a software CD or a game cd the cd drive icon shows the game or software logo as icon. Ever wanted to do something like that? Well, here’s a short and easy tutorial to do so:

First of all find an icon. I suggest [ Icon Finder ]. Once you found the icon you want copy it to the root of your USB flash drive.

Now create autorun.inf on your USB flash drive (also in the root folder) and put this code in it:


[autorun]
ICON=name-of-icon.ico


Here’s my USB flash drive:

To add the custom icon to your new burned cd’s make sure you save the icon and autorun.inf on your computer and add them to the files waiting to be burned.

An old man dead 28 years ago got back through the locals of Vacaresti, Dambovita Romania. Not alive but his body was incredibly conserved.

This video is in romanian but the translation is below:

His relatives decided to exhume his body to make room for a descendant. When he saw his body, the gravedigger was speechless. He is working for decades in that cemetery but never saw anything like this. Arrived in a great hurry his relatives immediately recognized “nea Gheorghe” who died about 30 years ago.

“This is Gods work” his son said remembering that his father cried when his son read him from the Bible before he died. For hours, on a very warm day people couldn’t leave the cemetery. They were staring at “nea Gheorghe”’s mummy.

The weirdest thing is that the mummy had no smell. Specialists say that this could happen if the tomb was ventilated so the water could easily evaporate from the body. Another possibility is that of a perfect embalmment but it’s hard to believe that it was made to a poor old man from a small village in Romania almost 30 years ago.

Nea Gheorghe’s mummy was buried again, not in the tomb but directly in the ground.

With the new LaCie PassKey, you can easily recycle your old microSD cards and turn them into USB Flash Keys. Additionally, by using the PassKey, you can choose your own capacity for your new USB Flash Key, helping you customize the USB keys that you create. The fast transfer rate ensures that you can quickly and effectively bring new life to your old microSD cards, saving you time, money, and resources. The LaCie PassKey comes with Push/Push microSD connector, making it one of the most reliable options on the market. A product of the 5.5 Designers firm, the LaCie PassKey fits conveniently on a key ring, helping you take it with you wherever you go. The second in a line of new products produced in conjunction with 5.5 Designers, the stylish PassKey is a practical tool for your home or business, but its sophisticated and inventive design differentiates it from other card readers.

Specifications

• Interface: USB 2.0 (backward compatible with USB 1.1)
• Supported Formats: micro Secure Digital (including SDHC)
• Transfer rate: up to 40Mbits/s
• Dimensions: 62 x 30 x 11 mm / 2.4 x 1.2 x 0.4 in.
• System Requirements: Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista™ Mac OS X v10.3.5 or higher

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It’s out of stock at the moment but you can get notified when it arrives from [ Lacie ].

Does it happen to you as well ? As soon as you get used to a program an update occurs. Nothing goes wrong - the update shows no errors, it finishes making the changes and starts the program again. The program works just fine but nothing is at it’s place. A lot of things changed including the position of some toolbars, the menus are different and so on.
If you hate these “changes” as much as I do then you’re gonna love this post. It’s about the Classic Menu for Office 2007. As it’s name says it it restores the classic menus for Microsoft Office 2007. A lot of us got used to Office 2003 and 2007 was a pain and you needed some tutorials to get used to it. Classic Menu for Office 2007 bring back the classic style menus and toolbars. It will be much easier for you if you used Office 2003/XP/2000 before.

Some other great features of the program is that it’s also easy to enable or disable the menus and toolbars, quickly find and execute the commands you want, keyboard shortcut and a small size of only 3.8 MB.

Not used to english ? No problem because it supports all languages that are supported by Microsoft Office 2007.

You can try it for free or buy it for only 29.95 USD. If you decide to purchase it you will get 2 years of updates and support. And the best thing - if you don’t like it you get a 60 days money back guaranty.

Get the cute tool to use Microsoft Office 2007 without any training and tutorials.

Product Description

• Manufacturer / Model - Buffalo / RF2-P
• Interface - USB 2.0 / 1.1
• Memory - 16 GB
• Driver - No installation necessary of a specific driver, as it is USB bus-powered
• System requirements - PC with Windows Vista®/XP/2000 / Me or Macintosh series PC with Mac OS X (10.2 to 10.5), and USB2.0/1.1 Interface

As you can see from the product description above Buffalo just upped the capacity of their itty-bitty 5mm Thumbkey USB flash drives from 8GB to 16GB, making them the perfect way to easily lose a big chunk of data.

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You can preorder one for ~ $136 from [ Geek Stuff 4 You ]

This conceptual gel remote from Panasonic lays limp when not in use, pulsating with a soft light. But when its sensors detect a hand coming, it stiffens, ready for action!

Constructed of a soft, flesh-like gel, the remote appears cold when off. Once turned on, however, it seems to come to life. A soft light emanates somewhere from within as the center of the device begins to slowly rise and fall, mimicking the tranquil motions of breath. Left undisturbed, the remote will slumber peacefully. But should a human hand approach, sensors inside alert it to the imminent touch. It stops breathing, grows rigid - the light from within is extinguished.

Thanks [ cubeme ]