Coming soon, in a gallery far, far away (Australia), an exhibition is opening that compares the technology featured in the Star Wars films with real life scientific advancements.
More often than not, newcomers to Digg don't know the Unwritten rules of becoming someones friend on Digg. Here are 5 rules of etiquette for asking and accepting to be someone's friend.
GamePro unearths nearly twenty tips to staying alive (or undead) in the zombie-shooter, Left 4 Dead! In Left 4 Dead, it doesn't matter if you're playing as or against the walking dead--leadership is essential to your survival. It's a good idea if someone takes the lead at the beginning of every round.
According to our recent poll, only 12% of respondents blame Walmart for the tragic death of a 34 year old employee in the Black Friday rush. But when it comes to lawsuits, money talks. Naturally, the family of victim Jdimytai Damour is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Walmart, the adjacent Green Acres Mall, the company that manages the property and the company in charge of security. In their view Wamart was "engaged in specific marketing and advertising techniques to specifically attract a large crowd and create an environment of frenzy and mayhem and was otherwise careless, reckless and negligent." Despite his 6-5, 270 pound stature, Damour died of asphyxiation when trampled by the 2000+ shoppers that fled into the store that night. The amount that the family is suing for has not been disclosed, but I'm sure that they will get what they ask for. Not that money is much consolation mind you—especially when it appears that the shoppers involved will most likely get away scot free. [MSNBC Thanks Matt!]
These days people are looking everywhere to find new, cheap, and plentiful sources of electricity, and while you wouldn't call it new, the ocean is certainly cheap and plentiful. Plentiful too are the people attempting to convert its motion into power by tapping its waves or extracting its heat. But what about lesser waters moving at a leisurely 3 knots? Those lazy flows make up the majority of all currents and are exactly the target of VIVACE, a series of tubes (seriously) that relies on vortex induced vibrations (the VIV) to create clean aquatic energy (the, uh, ACE). The idea is that the cylindrical shapes create turbulence in slow-moving water, oscillating up and down in electricity-generating ways. It's all the brainchild of Michael Bernitsas, a professor at the University of Michigan, and is partly funded by the US Department of Energy -- your tax dollars at work, you eco-pioneer you.[Via inhabitat]Filed under: Misc. GadgetsVIVACE generates big power from small currents originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
