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apple

iPhone Officially Coming to Spain

Spanish site Apple Weblog has discovered a hidden iPhone page from Movistar—Telefónica's mobile arm. The page officially confirms what we already said two weeks ago: Telefónica will sell the new JesusPhone. The launch day was not mentioned in the site itself—which was supposed to be secret, and has been taken down already—but the date that we announced remains the same according to my friends in the company. More »

5:21 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Jesus Diaz
5,226 views, 14 comments

Latest by RebootEDC: ¡Al fin, cojones! We seemed a third world country or something, didn't we? I just hope this mobile goes under Movistar's points program. more »

green energy

World's Largest Solar Farm Opens: A Billion Trees Probably Died to Build It

A solar farm has opened in Spain that consists of 120,000 solar panels over 100 hectares (247 acres). It also has a peak capacity of 20 megawatts and it can power up to 20,000 homes—making it the world's largest solar farm to date. The farm is expected to generate an estimated annual income of $28 million and reduce CO2 emissions by about 42,000 tons a year. More »

6:10 PM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Sean Fallon
20,604 views, 82 comments

architecture

Madrid's 'Air Tree' Creates Its Own Energy, Oxygen

In Madrid, Spain, a unique, hulking structure is currently being built. An "Air Tree," it's designed to both affect the surrounding environment and act as a social center. It's loaded up with solar panels that create electricity that's sold to the local electric company. It's completely self-sufficient, powering itself and using the money it makes from selling excess energy for upkeep. It also produces oxygen like a tree, hence the name. And as for it being a social center, it's designed to be a public gathering place. It's really pretty cool, a completely unique idea and one that, unlike most out-of-the-box ideas like this, is actually being made a reality.

[Platforma Arquitectura via NotCot.org]

12:59 PM on Wed Dec 19 2007
By Adam Frucci
8,546 views, 31 comments

Latest by n/a: Please forgive my ignorance, but how do the trees get any light once you wrap the whole thing in foil and cover it with a white fabric canopy? I have to assume they convert the natural light to electricity and then more »

useful modding

Scientists Hack CD Player, Transform It into Lab Scanner

When researchers at the Universidad Polit cnica de Valencia needed a lab scanner, but didn't have the cash to pay for it, they didn't panic. Instead, Angel Maqueira and his colleagues bought a bog-standard CD player &mdash and hacked it, saving themselves a potential $70,000 in the process. More »

8:23 AM on Wed Sep 26 2007
By AddyDugdale
14,400 views, 22 comments

galactic peeping tom

World's Largest Telescope Opens its Eye in Canary Islands

It has taken seven years to construct, and at a cost of almost $180 million, but the Great Canary Telescope - now the world's largest stargazer - is up and running. Situated on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria Las Palmas, off the African coast, the GTC is 4 per cent larger than the Keck telescopes at Mauna Kea, in Hawaii. Wanna look inside? More »

4:29 AM on Fri Jul 13 2007
By AddyDugdale
14,819 views, 18 comments

Latest by fastm3driver: Is this it? [maps.google.com],+17%C2%B052%E2%80%B2W&ie=UTF8&ll=28.756462,-17.891925&spn=0.001488,0.001816&t=h&z=19&om=1 I feel like god would feel if he had googlemaps more »

tagging

Graffiti Research Lab Draws Rude Things on Buildings

The Graffiti Research Lab has been to Spain for its holidays. Packing their Mobile Broadcast Unit—nice, isn't it?—the crew headed off to Barcelona for OFFF, the International Festival for Post-Digital Creation Culture, and this is what they did, Art Terrorists that they are.
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5:09 AM on Wed Jun 20 2007
By Addy Dugdale
4,730 views, 11 comments

solar shrine

Spanish Tower Draws Solar Energy from 600 Mirrors

It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. Six hundred mirrors reflecting sunlight onto a massive 40-story tall tower out in the Andalusian countryside. Yet as eerie as it looks, this is Europe's first commercial solar power plant being operated by a company called Solucar. The structure generates 11 Megawatts of electricity—enough power for 6,000 homes. Here's how it works. More »

6:25 PM on Fri May 4 2007
By Louis Ramirez
12,896 views, 44 comments

portable media

VW Golf Renamed in Honor of the iPod (We Assume)

Introducing the Volkswagen iGolf. It is the exact same thing as the VW Golf, but it has a fairly convenient iPod dock and a big, fancy, pretty advertising campaign to go with it. We have seen companies of all shapes and sizes slap a lower-case i in front of a product name and the product is usually an iPod accessory, but a car? Seriously, are we in a world where the car is now an accessory to the iPod? More »

5:00 PM on Fri Mar 30 2007
By Travis Hudson
5,421 views, 30 comments

Latest by tagtab: Yeah, why should there be a need to have an iPod if there exists a better stereo system in a car. Golf has quality parts like its VW head gasket, making it famous for its performance. It shouldn't have any more »

gadgets

GPhone Kinda, Sorta Confirmed by Google Spain, But Not Really

It wasn't the kind of grand announcement we were expecting, but Isabel Aguilera, CEO of Google Spain and Portugal, has supposedly spilled the beans on the GPhone, confirming for the world that our favorite search engine is indeed working on a mobile. She also mentioned they were working on 18 other projects, many of which could initially appear strange, but would ultimately be in line with Google's whole innovation motto. Why Aguilera would bypass Google HQ and release info on the GPhone is beyond me, so we're not 100% convinced yet, and you shouldn't be either. Call us skeptical, but we'll become believers once there's an official announcement, not a thread of "could be" quotes. – Louis Ramirez More »

3:56 PM on Thu Mar 15 2007
By Louis Ramirez
8,886 views, 8 comments

Latest by ANoel: Not my fawlty strider! Manuel more »

cellphones

Imaginarium Cam1 Kids Phone Doesn't Completely Suck

Unlike the previous Mo1 Imaginarium Mobile Phone for kids, the Cam1 phone is actually one your children would want to carry around. The Cam1 features a 2-megapixel camera, MP3 player, and GPRS triangulation—stuff that's usually found in more expensive phones. More »

8:30 PM on Tue Feb 6 2007
By Jason Chen
691 views, 6 comments