Monthly Archives: August 2008

Intel’s UrbanMax slider laptop concept unveiled

Intel appears to be firing on all cylinders at IDF. Besides whatever surprised they have planned for tomorrow, the chip-maker rolled out a prototype of a convertible laptop / tablet / MID / UMPC / netbook / super-gadget called the UrbanMax. There’s not much in the way of specs on the device, but as you [...]

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Teens Arrested For the world’s fastest office chair

German police have confiscated the world’s fastest office chair and arrested its 17-year-old inventors. The duo added a lawnmower engine, brakes and a metal frame to the office chair and were reported to be driving it all over the streets of Gross-Zimmern. Police did not comment on the chair’s handling or acceleration but I can’t [...]

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Imagining the Tenth Dimension by Rob Bryanton

“Imagining the Tenth Dimension” is a book by Rob Bryanton where he explores the possibilities of going beyond 4 dimensions. He created an animated video for chapter one of the book illustrating his concepts behind moving from one to ten dimensions.

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Suspect Busts out of Police Custody — Heads to Wal-Mart — Gets Taken Down by Rodeo Clown

A shackled 17-year-old suspect who escaped from custody while making an appearance at the Douglas County Justice Center was found in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart Thursday afternoon. He was taken into custody without incident. Officers who had fanned out looking for the teen, and were tipped of by a Wal-Mart customer who spotted [...]

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51 GPU Folding@home setup

It really shouldn’t have come as a surprise to see someone take this new technology of high end GPUs and run with it, which is exactly what forum member nitteo has done over at overclock.net. With forty six seperate 8 series Nvidia GPUs, mostly 8800GTs and 8800GS’ running in a variety of quad, tri and [...]

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Target Gets 80 Yr Old Arrested & Sent for Psych Eval. for Wanting a Cash Refund

Christina Brown said she wanted her $30 back. The cops said she must be crazy. That’s how a 79-year-old New Hope woman ended up having her head examined when she asked the SuperTarget in Plymouth to refund the $30 she had paid for shirts that did not fit. When store workers offered her a gift [...]

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