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more about #plans Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Poor dummy. They forgot to tell him he's flying Air Face-plant... #airplaneairbags more » FooSchnickens - Full of SCAR: Nuts to that! Install self-inflating pillows that activate when the passenger is feeling drowsy! Airplane ergonomics are probably the worst in the wo... more » curious-character: Doesn't anybody read the story before making snarky comments? These are only installed in certain locations where a passenger's head would smash into ... more » Canoehead: So THAT'S what they are - I have actually seen these belts on a few Cathay pacific flights. It just looks like a big piece of padding on one side of ... more » Curves: I hope they are detachable and can be used as floatation devices too. On the slimmmmm chance you survive the crash, of course. #airplaneairbags more » rivercat: Pointless! They'd do better to equip each seat with an ejection seat system. #airplaneairbags more » FriarNurgle: The cost of replacing all those "what to do in an accident" pamphlets is going to be astronomical. #airplaneairbags more » froggy: this is so silly on so many levels... a) do you really think an airbag is going to save you on a plane crash? really?; b) the weight added to the plan... more » Bricktop44: This is clearly for Woz's MP3 collection more » ScottRose: Amazon-style cloud services, or massive storage/distribution for iTunes content (HD video, etc) are my guesses. more » MrBlahBlah: hopefully it is to speed up the painfully slow mobile me. more » RoboBagins: For legal reasons in the movies the company was called Cyberdyne. But this is the beginning. Judgement Day is set. This will be Skynet's cradle. (... more » Duc: Its probably a huge data mine that Apple is putting together. Using data they gather from your iTunes habits they will.... I don't know, do something. more » Graverobber: They are building a Mac soooooo powerful that it will be able to run Crysis at 30 fps. In Windows. more » OMG! Ponies!: It's not a data storage facility. Apple is solving two problems at once. Apple is rounding up San Francisco's homeless, putting them into medically-... more » ltethe: Everything is going to the cloud. MobileMe, iLife, FinalCut, app Store. ALL software will be in the cloud, and Apple has to get on this wagon quick if... more » prsiii: WTH, I thought the days of building large centralized data centers are giving way to distributed (cloud) nodes in shipping containers? more » KTK1990: Here are some links to recent news stories about Apple in NC, from News 14 Carolina (my news station). [news14.com] [news14.com] [news14.com] (I tried... more » dosdelon: I know what they're really building there... more » m4ximusprim3: It was probably just time to upgrade, and if you're going to build an expansion, it's often a lot cheaper to go way bigger than you need rather than j... more » -
#airplanes
Your Next Plane Seat May Well Have an Airbag
This week, a long-brewing FAA regulation requiring planes to protect passengers from 16 G crash forces will come into full effect. What does this mean for you? Well, your next seat—or more accurately, seat belt—could have an airbag. More » -
#apple
Apple Building Secret Massive Data Center, Probably to Hold Steve's Electronically Cloned Brain
Apple is building a new data center facility in North Carolina. Nobody knows what is it for, but according to Data Center Knowledge editor Rich Miller, it will be one of the largest in the world: More » -
#tmobile
T-Mobile Loyal Customer $50 Unlimited Voice Plan Now Available Nationwide
Starting today, longtime customers of T-Mobile (22 months+) are being offered an unlimited voice plan just for $50 a month. Finally, something for enduring that long 3G wait! More » -
#tmobile
T-Mobile $50 Unlimited Voice Plan for Loyalists Kicks Off in San Francisco
That T-Mobile unlimited voice plan for loyal customers just went live in San Francisco—if you've been with 'em for 22+ months, you can talk ad infinitum for $50/month and cherry-pick your data plans. More » -
#diy
Build Your Own Large Hadron Collider in 1.62 x 10^28 Easy Steps
Want to build the most complex machine human kind has ever produced? All you'll need is €6 billion, enough real estate to hold your 17-mile-long ring, a staff of international geniuses, and these plans (free!). The 115MB of documentation just made available by the Journal of Instrumentation has all you need to understand the inner workings of all the major LHC components, from the EMCAL super modules to the ionizing gas straw tubes to the calorimeter end-caps. And the schematics within are, just like everything else large-hadron related, beautiful. More » -
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#robots
iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence
Noah Shachtman over at Wired has a very interesting look at iRobot's six year battle with Robotic FX, a company started by a former employee who allegedly (and probably) stole schematics and plans in order to build a competitor. There's too much detail to work into a short summary, but Jameel Ahed, the former employee, was caught by a private investigator deleting documents and shredding CDs containing data that belonged to iRobot. More » -
#iphone
Apple's Three Ultimate iPhone Plans
We covered Apple's three simple service plans this morning, but we didn't touch on Apple's top-tier voice plans. The only difference between these three behemoths and the ones we did cover are the minutes: 2000, 4000, and 6000, which go for $119, $169 and $219 respectively. You'd think for that price, Apple + AT&T would throw in at least some more text messages. Nope, still 200 base. This does change up the total cost of ownership a bit though. More »
