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lightning power

Lightning Power For Energy, Time Travel Another Story

Lightning. It just goes about it's business—mocking us. We have always known there is potential there for an alternative energy source, but harnessing that power has proven difficult. However, an inventor names Steve LeRoy may be on the brink of changing all that with a device that generates lightning then harvests the resulting energy. The prototype can generate bolts 3-feet in length, but that is only enough electricity to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb for 20 minutes. However, LeRoy notes that a full-scale version has the potential to power 30,000 homes for a day with just one lightning bolt. Impressive. With that kind of juice you could easily get a Delorean traveling through time. [Buisnessweek via Sci Fi Tech]

7:20 PM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By Sean Fallon
5,713 views, 19 comments

Latest by toyotaboy: I don't think the intention of this invention is to try to create energy by generating the lightning bolt, I think eventually it will be used to capture energy from natural weather (it's a little easier to test it when more »

back to the past

DeLorean Confirms: New Cars to Roll Out in '08

Just as we mentioned last month, the DeLorean sports car is indeed going back into production, and you won't even have to go back in time to get one of those vehicles so memorably featured in the science fiction movie Back to the Future. Our beloved blood brothers at Jalopnik spoke to one of the guys who's going to make this happen in 2008. More »

1:15 PM on Tue Aug 21 2007
By Charlie White
34,078 views, 34 comments

back to the present

DeLorean Going Back Into Production

The DeLorean, the car from Back to the Future with the gull wing doors and gleaming stainless steel finish, has come back to the future, going into extremely limited production thanks to a group of greasemonkeys in Houston who like to refurbish cars. They have about 200 of the original DeLorean 2.8 L V-6 engines on hand, and will start making the cars from scratch next year. More »

8:50 AM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Charlie White
22,022 views, 44 comments

jiggawatts

The DeLorean Watch: It's Retro Time

As famous as the DeLorean car is, you've probably never heard of the DeLorean Time watch—and for good reason. John DeLorean made this garish silver DeLorean-esque monstrosity for the sole purpose of raising funds for him to build a new sports car, the DMC2. More »

10:00 PM on Wed May 2 2007
By Jason Chen
4,686 views, 16 comments

load up the delorean

Retro Dealzmodo: HP Jornada UMPC PDA Thing

Remember the Jornada? We sure as hell do, and almost five years after we declared it dead it is still lingering. This time it is for sale at Geeks.com. They really aren't that terrific of deals—Jornada 720 for $190 and Jornada 728 for $250—but it is still interesting to see random stores finding boxes of the six-year-old Jornada still lying around. For reference, the prices pretty much match that of what they are going for on eBay. This really raises the question: Was the Jornada the original UMPC? –Travis Hudson More »

2:45 PM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Travis Hudson
2,785 views, 21 comments

Latest by bobdeloyd: Here's one you may have forgotten, the HP 95LX that came out in 1991. I bought my when it first appeared on the market. Later I got myself an HP LX200 and still use it today, but I lost the more »

gadgets

Purdue University Develops Mr.Fusion, Finally

A team of scientists and researchers at Purdue have developed a fully functional Mr. Fusion. (For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, go rent Back to the Future II asap.) This tactical biorefinery can munch up food, paper and plastic garbage and turn it into energy. This machine was commissioned for the U.S. military (so don't expect it on top of your DeLorean anytime soon) for use in the field to create energy. It is roughly the size of a small moving van, so there is still some work that needs to be done to make it a little more functional. This biorefinery can supposedly produce 90-percent more energy than it consumes, which is a damn impressive feat. Next step: flying cars, hoverboards and self-drying clothing. –Travis Hudson More »

2:29 PM on Mon Feb 5 2007
By Travis Hudson
2,279 views, 37 comments

Latest by Xenobiologista: @creatox: It makes more sense when you understand that a lot of scientists are closet pyros...I speak from personal experience. more »

mac mini

Top 5 Creative Uses for a Mac mini, Sort Of

TechEBlog's editors have put together a list of the top five creative uses for the somewhat underexposed Mac mini. While I suppose they're all creative, one of them is pretty useless, so it'd probably be more apt to call it the top four creative uses for the Mac Mini, since the word "use" implies that it has some sort of purpose. More »

6:05 PM on Sat Jan 20 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,519 views, 14 comments

gadgets

Back to the Future DeLorean Flux Capacitor on eBay

If you've got a DeLorean and a few extra hundred bucks lying around, get your bad self over to eBay and bid on this gorgeous flux capacitor. The seller/builder used real glass tubes, accurate to the one that appeared in Back to the Future and long out of production (i.e. rare), and the gold bases were machined out of aluminum to match the movie prop. It plugs into any car battery and is guaranteed to fit into a DeLorean. Oh, and there are no nasty strobe lights in this baby, only white LEDs that chase to the center. More »

11:31 AM on Fri May 5 2006
By gizmodo.com
5,518 views, 13 comments

Latest by Rooster: Wait wait wait, 49 bids means that there are at least 49 working Deloreans out there ... ! more »