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more about #record ripfire: Holy mother of fathers! That is light years ahead from the micromouse team we had back in school. Hell, we couldn't even get our team to cooperate, le... more » Monty: So, how long does it take this magical rodent to determine a course it has never completed previously? It is one thing to have a device that has alre... more » Kaiser-Machead: I need them to build me a few with six legs, and a little smaller, so I can um....yeah just give them to me please. more » Xagest: I didn't see any notion of a pathing algorithm. It looked like it already knew where the center of the maze was... more » OCEntertainment: He-hey Brian. Just wanted to let you know....folks have been racing robotic mice around mazes since 1987. Just...just thought you might be interested ... more » Noobs-R-Us: Way too expensive. #energy more » hoocli: how expensive is it though? #energy more » N@tedog: This post is completely wrong. [www.reghardware.co.uk] [www.mygreencar.eu] [www.leftlanenews.com] It only went 241 miles. Not 341. This is no where ev... more » Kaiser-Machead: Man do I hate those taillights, but man do I love this car. more » Dave Lindsay: Predicting remaining energy near the end of a battery's run is difficult, so the 38 miles remaining claim is dubious. On top of that, 241 + 38 = 279 m... more » macusernick: For all the haters out there, here is a small list of the 200 apps: Ableton Live Activity Monitor (duh!) Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe Flash Adobe Photoshop... more » soggy_cheerio: I suppose if one intrepid user wanted to end this utterly yawntastic pissing contest, one could install the entirety of the ubuntu repositories and wr... more » CraziestGadgets.com: someone should make an App that keeps a count of how many Apps you have open and what the current record is. more » AKAuser: Doesn't a typical Vista machine have at least 200 background services and applications running at start-up? more » discounteggroll: kernel panic could constitute #201 more » Lokno: How does that set a record, there'e no standard on the footprint of each application. I could go write a stub application that does nothing. I bet I c... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: I've been using macs since my first Perform 475, and I can't even think of 200 apps. more » -
#robots
Micromouse Finishes Maze in Record Time, Cares Nothing For Your Foolish "Cheese"
Meet Tetra, officially the fastest mouse on four wheels. Stuart Little's got nothing on this guy. More » -
#submersibles
Robotic Sea-Glider Achieves First Unmanned Underwater Transatlantic Crossing
Charles Lindbergh may have shown human fortitude by flying across the Atlantic in his "Spirit of St. Louis," but now he has robotic company when it comes to transatlantic records. More » -
#solar
Sharp Triple Layer Solar Cell Sets New Efficiency Record
The gauntlet has been thrown down yet again in the solar cell efficiency arms race. This time Sharp comes up with a cell that can harvest 35.8% of available sunlight. More » -
#tesla
Tesla Roadster May Set New Record for Distance on A Single Charge
Potentially setting a new record for distance travelled by a production electric car on a single charge, a Tesla Roadster finished the entire, 241-mile-long Rallye Monte Carlo d'Energies Alternatives without even draining its battery. More » -
#newrecord
Mac OS X Running 200 Apps Keeps the Race Going
In case anybody is keeping the count in this dumb bragging race, here's an image of Mac OS X running two hundred apps at once, breaking the previous 150-app record. More » -
#services
Cogi Writes Down Your Conversations So You Don't Have To
As a lazy writer who is occasionally forced to interview an actual person, I still haven't found the perfect solution to transcribing phone interviews without doing it myself. But a service called Cogi looks promising. -
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#e85
Ex-MS Employee Has the World's Fastest Ethanol-Based Car
Karl Jacob, an ex-Microsoft employee, has the world's fastest ethanol-based car. He took his run-of-the-mill Dodge Viper and had it converted from a regular gas guzzling monster to an ethanol chugger. While Jacob didn't drive the car himself, a driver from Super Viper hit 218 mph in July, a top speed record for an ethanol-based car during a standing mile. How much did this conversion end up costing Jacob? A paltry $200,000. [CNet] -
#audiocdcase
Talking CD Cases From Pre>Vu
These talking CD cases allow you to record a 60-second message, which can be played back to your heart's content. There's plenty of applications for this, like annoying marketing material, and, um... annoying marketing material. More »
