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Top Gear Races Nissan GT-R Vs. Bullet Train In Japan
The Top Gear crew is in Japan for this week's episode and they've got another heated race for us: A Nissan GT-R R35, a gadget car by dynamic handling and Playstation inspired dashboard vs. a bullet train, running both from Japan's northern Hakui-Shi coast to Tokyo. With no surprise ol' Clarkson is driving the fiery beast while Hammond and May are left traveling Japanese public transportation. I'm not gonna spoil the race for ya though, but Jalopnik has the results for you. [Jalopnik]
speakers
Okay, okay: I know what they look like, but since the official description is "bullet-like," that's what I'm sticking with. These 7.5-inch tall, cylindrical, smooth-tipped speakers are USB bus-powered and have music-reactive color-changing LEDS in the top, making them "very nice to listen to your favorite music at night" apparently. They pump out 2 x 2W and 2 x 1W of sounds from 150Hz to 20kHz. Available now for a mere $20. [Gadget4All via Geek Alerts]
Glowing, Flashing USB Speakers are *Ahem* Bullet-shaped
Okay, okay: I know what they look like, but since the official description is "bullet-like," that's what I'm sticking with. These 7.5-inch tall, cylindrical, smooth-tipped speakers are USB bus-powered and have music-reactive color-changing LEDS in the top, making them "very nice to listen to your favorite music at night" apparently. They pump out 2 x 2W and 2 x 1W of sounds from 150Hz to 20kHz. Available now for a mere $20. [Gadget4All via Geek Alerts]
frozen ipods
Images of the iPod Frozen Popsicles Don't Excite Our Tongues But Tickle Our Ears
Remember that Unilever promotion that is giving away 10,000 iPod shuffles frozen inside $1 fruit popsicles? Well, we just got the pictures of how it actually looks inside: More »
for neo wannabes
How To Do Matrix-Like Bullet Time Video at Home
Head to Instructables for a tutorial about how to do your own spectacular Matrix-like ghetto Bullet Time videos for those lovely OMG-grandma's-is-frozen-in-time-and-space moments. Using nothing more than wood, tubes, a whole lot of digital point-n-shots, one external shutter trigger and a box full of relays, you will be able to play Neo in the hood, but without red pills, white rabbits and black shiny latex. Or maybe with all that too. More »
6:15 AM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Jesus Diaz
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Latest by ninjatales: I can't believe the Giz is finally starting to catch up with FOTC. Great show. Anyone seen the 2nd season? more »
transportation
It may be the world's fastest, a maglev bullet train capable of exceeding 500 kph (310 mph), but it feels like the world's slowest to arrive. JR Central announced today that it would deploy its maglev system in 2025 to carry commuters between Tokyo and central Japan (despite one test of the technology resulting in a crash, and the death of 23 people, last year). The cost will not be minimal either—$44.7 billion—which is why the company's stock fell nearly 9% after it made the announcement. And the Japanese government can't/won't bankroll it. In the meantime, the maglev train in Shanghai may get longer and faster, and proposed projects in Germany and even the US could take off too. [AFP/SMH]
JR Central Says World's Fastest Maglev Train Arrives in 2025
It may be the world's fastest, a maglev bullet train capable of exceeding 500 kph (310 mph), but it feels like the world's slowest to arrive. JR Central announced today that it would deploy its maglev system in 2025 to carry commuters between Tokyo and central Japan (despite one test of the technology resulting in a crash, and the death of 23 people, last year). The cost will not be minimal either—$44.7 billion—which is why the company's stock fell nearly 9% after it made the announcement. And the Japanese government can't/won't bankroll it. In the meantime, the maglev train in Shanghai may get longer and faster, and proposed projects in Germany and even the US could take off too. [AFP/SMH]
frozen ipods
Ice Cream Company Gives Away 10,000 Frozen iPods Inside Popsicles
After decades of popsicle promotions that included prizes printed on the stick, Brazilian ice-cream company Kibon has taken it to a new level by including the actual prize inside the popsicle: they will manufacture 10,000 specially made propsicles, identical in size and color to the actual thing, frozen with iPod shuffles inside. We talked to Mentor Muniz Neto—creative director for Bullet Brazil, the company who got the idea—about how they worked with Apple to achieve this.
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3:20 PM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By Jesus Diaz
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Latest by Jeffrey Powers - Geekazine: Was anybody around for the Coke cash fiasco? Coke put cash in cans - when you opened the can, cash would pop out of it. The coke was replaced with a liquid that wouldn't eat the bill. If I remember correctly, more »
safe books
These bullet-proof backpacks are claimed to offer as much protection from a shooting as police armor, but at one tenth of the weight. They're aimed at kids, to protect them from all the dangers that 21st-century schooling entails. One immediate problem I see is that it will only protect you if you're shot in the back, at just the right height. Check out a video after the jump.
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Ballistic Bookbag, Bullet-Proof Back-Pack
These bullet-proof backpacks are claimed to offer as much protection from a shooting as police armor, but at one tenth of the weight. They're aimed at kids, to protect them from all the dangers that 21st-century schooling entails. One immediate problem I see is that it will only protect you if you're shot in the back, at just the right height. Check out a video after the jump.
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n700
Despite its maiden voyage at 6AM on Sunday, the first public N700 drew quite a crowd. 1300 passengers enjoyed the 342 mile trip to Tokyo from Shin-Osaka Station, and in only two hours and twenty five minutes—five minutes shorter than previous trains. If that doesn't impress you, bear in mind the N700 covers the ground almost half as fast as an airplane. Without limiting its speed, the N700 is capable of 186mph. Come inside for some gallery love. We got a shot of the cockpit!
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Japan's Type N700 Bullet Train Almost Half as Fast as an Airplane
Despite its maiden voyage at 6AM on Sunday, the first public N700 drew quite a crowd. 1300 passengers enjoyed the 342 mile trip to Tokyo from Shin-Osaka Station, and in only two hours and twenty five minutes—five minutes shorter than previous trains. If that doesn't impress you, bear in mind the N700 covers the ground almost half as fast as an airplane. Without limiting its speed, the N700 is capable of 186mph. Come inside for some gallery love. We got a shot of the cockpit!
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bullet points
What's Actually New In Leopard?
Steve Jobs covered ten points about Leopard today, but it wasn't all technically news. In fact, we could count just nine true news items to come from the keynote. Let's recap what's really new about Leopard, right here in easily-digestible form: More »
faster than a speeding bullet
XFX Hits Mach Speeds with Overclocked 8800 Ultra
We all know that Nvidia's 8800 Ultra is the fastest card on the planet, right? Well, not anymore. XFX has become the first company to overclock an 8800 Ultra and they're calling their creation the XFX 8800 Ultra XXX. More »
portable media
iPod Slows Enemy Bullet, Saves Life
Kevin Garrad of the 3rd Infantry Division is an iPod user for life—which incidentally got extended thanks to Apple's little music player. He was on patrol in Iraq when he met an armed insurgent carrying an AK-47. Both opened fire, and the bullet heading toward Kevin hit his chest right where his iPod was, which was enough to slow down the bullet to not pierce entirely through the body armor. More »
cellphones
Pantech Slim Phone: Maglev Makes It Skinnier But Doesn't Make You Float
At 9.99mm (0.39 inches), Pantech's new slim phone is the skinniest slide-phone currently on the market, beating Samsung by 3mm. And, in a cellphone first, it's all down to Magnetic Levitation, the same technology that is used by
9:31 AM on Thu Mar 15 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
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gadgets
Heart-Shaped, Wireless Vibrating Panty Insert - Whee!
No Valentines gift this year helps you to better say "I'm completely and totally clueless as to who you are and what gets you off sexually" than the Panty Pal, a vibrating, heart shaped insert that promises to slip discretely into your lady-friend's panties and vibrates her lady-parts oh-so-vigorously. In reality, this is simply a bullet with a heart-shaped, Valentine's Day appropriate insert. More »
portable media
Bullet-Proof iPod Case
We've all been there at one time or another. You are in the middle of a gunfight and that iPod sitting in your pocket take a hit. Sure the bullet may have gone straight through the iPod and penetrated your leg. But a gushing bullet wound is the least of your concerns. Your $300 iPod has now been rendered useless. Enter the bullet-proof iPod case. More »
gadgets
Hell on Wheels: Japanese Bullet Train Billed as World's Fastest
As trains in the United States remain firmly planted in the horse-and-buggy era, the rest of the world leaps ahead, and here's the fastest wheeled train yet, the phallic-looking 224mph Fastech 360Z. The working prototype of the next-generation bullet train was unveiled to the press in Japan by the East Japan Railway. A company spokesman said the six-car land rocket was even capable of traveling at 310mph on a test run. More »
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