Ready to kick your running up to the next level? The New Balance 890 is a designed for neutral runners looking for a lighter, more technical shoe. It’s a lighter shoe than most too, thanks to unique Revlite foam which delivers the same responsiveness and durability of foams 30% heavier. Plus this shoe is handsome and sturdy enough for everyday wear.
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If novelty is your thing, then you’ll be pleased to discover that Coca-Cola has finally launched their Coke Zero Facial Profiler.
As you may recall, we covered the announcement of the facial experiment back in October, and were intrigued by the application’s premise: using Facebook to find your digital double.
Now that app is live, we put it to the test and found that it works as promised. Once you connect your Facebook account with the Coke Zero Facial Profiler, the app will scan your photos (you can also use your webcam to snap a beauty shot) and use facial recognition software to match your face against others in their database.
Once the matching process is complete, voilà, there’s your digital twin staring back at you. You can then share your match on Facebook or Twitter or grab a URL to share with your friends (here’s my match). Should you be so bold, you can also contact your match on Facebook.
While the premise itself is kitschy, the application experience is pretty slick and some of the matches are surprisingly so dead-on that you might even do a double take. Try it out for yourself, and let us know your thoughts.
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Chrome OS has only been “out” a short while, but due to its open-source roots, folks are already making it available for those hardy souls who want to give it a try. Dell has already put it out there for Mini 10v owners, but others were left to their own designs. No more, as a distribution, dubbed Diet Chromium OS, has been released, and reports have it working on just about everything out there.
The first noticeable change is the 300 MB download, down a far cry from the 8 GB that “real” Chrome OS consumes. That makes Diet Chromium OS much easier to get hold of as the download is quite manageable. This explains the distribution’s name. The real magic of Diet Chromium is that driver support has been extended for all sorts of systems. Users are reporting already that Diet Chromium works on everything from netbooks to quad-core powerhouses.
Our buddy Brad at Liliputing has put together a good tutorial for getting Diet Chromium running on a system near you. Brad’s method installs Diet Chromium on a USB drive, so no local system installation is required. You build the USB stick, boot from it, and off you go. I’m definitely going to give this a try.
Filed under: Humor, Videos, Music, Movies, Mash-Ups
This is a mash-up that takes the classic 'talking to the aliens with flashing lights' scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and replaces the repeating tones with 'Dueling Banjos.' The structure of the song is a perfect fit for the back-and-forth nature of the scene, and after some nifty editing by Marc Bullard, who created the video, the tempo of the song seems to match the blinking lights perfectly. Watch and enjoy:"
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc. debuted their Focus-Fusion-1 dense plasma focus research reactor in mid-October, after nearly 8 years of research and building. In the blink of an eye, this freezer-sized nuclear fusion demo machine can push more than 100 gigawatts of power through a space smaller than a pin point. By comparison, the entire U.S. uses about 430 gigawatts of electricity every hour.
Unlike standard nuclear fission — which involves bombarding a fuel, like plutonium or uranium, with neutrons to break it up into isotopes and releasing massive amounts of energy — the Focus-Fusion-1 bombards boron atoms with neutrons, turning it into helium and even more massive amounts of energy.
Then there's the price. A new nuclear fission plant costs billions, and requires a community willing to have one. Focus-Fusion-1 costs several hundred thousand dollars, and could shrink the land footprint of typical power plants from acres to basement-water-heater-size, while reducing the cost of electricity to 1/10th of our cheapest available power today.
And the end-products are way better. While the waste from fission will make the lab techs glow in the dark and die horrible deaths if exposed, Focus-Fusion-1's waste products will just make them talk funny.
