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Italian IT Engineering student Danny Benedettelli has built a two part solution to automatically solve that 80’s puzzle sensation the RUBIK’S CUBE.

 

OK… so you will go "WHOLLY COW….!!!" within the first minute of this video. It’s impossible not to. We’ve brought you helicopter articles before here on WD, but nothing will prepare you for THIS. You KNOW this RC helicopter is super hard-core when you hear it start up. It sounds like a real one the way the engine whines to life. But the instant it takes to the air, any and all shreds of reality go flying out the window. I don’t have any details about the specs or the type or any of that techno guff. I just know that if ANY real helicopter I’m in EVER does ANYTHING resembling the things the RC one in this video does, then I’m asking for a refund. 

 

  

As awesomely spectacular as the RC helicopter itself is, you have to hand it to the "pilot" driving the thing. AMAZING skills I think best describes the way he manoeuvres the craft about.  If you think I’m building this up too much… just watch and judge for yourself. New Super Motor…?   Vote #1 Super Motor…

 

Previously here at WD we brought you the golf-ball episode of Will It Blend. Today we have a special and spectacular double dose of WIB.  Our first contestant is the venerable JesusPhone from Apple. At a cost of US$600 this is definitely NOT something you’d want to try at home.  I really enjoy watching this over and over. Makes up for the saturation coverage this half-baked device has been receiving.

 

 

Next we have a solution for those nights when you’ve been out drinking and you get home and find yourself fumbling about in the dark for the house keys (assuming you’re allowed back in the house).

 

 

 

 

The most over-hyped, over anticipated, over the hill… I’m over it already, mobile phone in history is due for release into the wild this Friday 29th June in the USA. Never before in tech-gadget history has so much been rumoured, speculated, written and talked about a device that is not even available for sale yet.  Since it’s announcement at MacWorld in January 2007, the Apple Inc share price has risen over 30%, mostly due to the promise of the mystical, magical, mythical iPhone.

 

I‘m not going to add too much to the melting pot here at WD.  As a mobile phone, the iPhone is overpriced and uses the old-hat 2.5G mobile network. The largest mobile phone markets in the world have all long since moved up to 3G technology. (Europe, Asia, Australia).  As a portable consumer device that plays videos and music (iPod) it shows extreme promise of things to come. As a smart-phone portable computing internet device…  we’ll wait and see how the touch screen interface translates across to that realm of user happiness.

 

Whether you like it or not, make no mistake… You WILL be hearing lots about this phone, so you need to be informed and make up your own mind about it’s worthiness.  Click the picture to open the page and play the video.  Or click this link to download the full-screen version (175MB).

 

 

Dutch artisit Theo Jansen calls himself a kinetic sculptor (what ever THAT is… ) who builds mechanical works of art that are self-powered by the wind. Whatever it is he does, Theo is a very clever man with an amazing "da Vinci" like vision for the structure and movement of the natural world. The results are spectacular…

 

THE STRANDBEEST 

 

BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP… That should be the thought running through your mind everyday if you own a computer. If your not doing it now, then you will. I’m not going to be too preachy here because I believe that the critical importance of GOOD data back is one of those things in life that has to be learnt, rather than taught. People only implement a solid data backup solution AFTER they have lost critical data at some point in their lives. I know that’s what happened to me many years ago.

 

Loosing mission critical data at some point in your life is not a matter of IF, but WHEN.  If it’s already happened to you, then you know the pain and loss involved. You’ve just lost years worth of irreplaceable digital photographs, or weeks worth of school assignments, or the last four years of your company finicial records and employee data, or ALL of the above if it’s all on the one machine. You already know that when it  happens, you would pay just about anything to have that data back.  Unfortunately this is more than often not possible. And in cases where it is possible, recovery requires the services of specialised data recovery firms, using highly specialist equipment, working in clean-rooms, to recover the data. This level of service will typically cost several thousand dollars just for them to take a look and give you an assessment. Then add many many thousands more to actually recover your data.

 

ENTER DROBO.

 

Drobo is the first consumer device of it’s kind to hit the market and has the potential to bring affordable enterprise level data security to the home user. Despite it’s name, Drobo is not a robot of any kind. It won’t walk around your computer desk searching for errant 1’s and 0’s. It’s just a box. But a very useful and clever box. I won’t explain it all here because the video does a much better job.

 

 

The good folk from Redmond who just finished shipping Windows Vista have today revealed details of a new computing concept to replace the traditional desk bound computers, and even the mobile and convenient laptops. Simply called SURFACE I have to say it looks very awesome and I can see Apple Inc just saying "Damn, I wish WE invented that first"

 

 

 

To best see what it’s all about you need to watch the three videos over on the the SURFACE website.  There are several moments, esp in the second two, that make you go "WOW… that is just extremely cool…  I want it NOW !!!" 

 

And if you feel the burning urge to be just like Tom Cruise in Minoritory Report, you can indeed buy it now for a lazy USD$10,000. Expect to see units appearing in "public spaces" towards the end of 2007. Places like shops, restaurants, bars etc. Very Cool…

 

 

It’s called FlexibleLoveâ„¢ experimental furniture and was conceived as a way to seat between 1-16 people cheaply and quickly.  Made from 100% recycled wood and paper materials to keep it low cost, and using pre-existing manufacturing techniques to keep it simple.

 

 

 

 

            

 

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