This is a must see. It looks like a bat, flies like a bat, acts like a bat, must be a bat? No! Its a DALER. Introducing the Deployable Air Land Exploration Drone (DALER). Designed by researchers at a University in Switzerland (EPFL), this drone walks, hovers and can extract or contract its wings. Could this be a new gadget financed by Bruce's Wayne Enterprise R&D department or a real life miniature Batmobile for Batman? Imagination knows no boundaries but here is the real deal. Enjoy the preview.
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The Coolest Piece of Cardboard: Virtual Reality Headset
It looks like cardboard but it turns into a virtual reality headset. Google unveiled this gadget at their developer conference. Here is a link to the video on techcrunch:
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The Viaducts
Downtown Vancouver east arteries. During Canucks games parking lots fill up rapidly. Traffic slows down as the game begins. The sun sets and the city lights up. Telus science world goes off for Earth's hour. Game over: watch the spectacular traffic rush in the end.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Falling Down From Heaven
If you are not good enough to be in heaven, you get kicked out. A Russian space probe learned this the heard way.
On a serious not though, this space craft was heading to Mars but never made it past the Earth's atmosphere. A spokesman of the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces confrimed fragments crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
This mission had a price tag of $170,000,000.00. The space probe weighed 13.5 metric tons, of which 11 metric tons consisted of toxic fuel.
This must be great for the environment. Watch out, you never know what could be falling on your house.
On a serious not though, this space craft was heading to Mars but never made it past the Earth's atmosphere. A spokesman of the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces confrimed fragments crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
This mission had a price tag of $170,000,000.00. The space probe weighed 13.5 metric tons, of which 11 metric tons consisted of toxic fuel.
This must be great for the environment. Watch out, you never know what could be falling on your house.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
I Can't Wait to go to Mars
Hi,
My name is Curiosity and I am a high tech Geologist.
Guess who's going on a 354 million miles journey? Ouch, that's a long trip. However its certainly worth it. I am going to Mars!
My mission has people saying things like: "the next best thing is having humans on mars". On Mars, I will cruise around with my laser vapourizing tiny segments of rocks. I will take lots of pictures out there, especially in the Gale crater.
Care to see me take off from Cape Canaveral? At 7:02 AM PST on Saturday November 26th, watch me here. If only the weather cooperates.
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My name is Curiosity and I am a high tech Geologist.
Guess who's going on a 354 million miles journey? Ouch, that's a long trip. However its certainly worth it. I am going to Mars!
My mission has people saying things like: "the next best thing is having humans on mars". On Mars, I will cruise around with my laser vapourizing tiny segments of rocks. I will take lots of pictures out there, especially in the Gale crater.
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
Optimise Hockey Pool with Microsoft Excel
So, for a hockey pool at work I thought it would be fun to use excel solver to "optimize" my pool. Using last year's points I was able to pick 11 skilled forwards and 5 high scoring defence men. Here are my picks for the NHL Season 2011 to 2012:
Name Team GP G A Pts Salary Position pts/$
Henrik Sedin VAN 82 19 75 94 6,100,000.00 C 15.41
Steven Stamkos TAM 82 45 46 91 8,000,000.00 C 11.38
Claude Giroux PHI 82 25 51 76 2,750,000.00 C 27.64
Ryan Kesler VAN 82 41 32 73 1,000,000.00 C 73.00
John Tavares NYI 79 29 38 67 900,000.00 C 74.44
Matt Duchene COL 80 27 40 67 900,000.00 C 74.44
Daniel Sedin VAN 82 41 63 104 6,100,000.00 L 17.05
Martin St Louis TAM 82 31 68 99 5,500,000.00 R 18.00
Corey Perry ANA 82 50 48 98 5,375,000.00 R 18.23
Jarome Iginla CGY 82 43 43 86 7,000,000.00 R 12.29
Teemu Selanne ANA 73 31 49 80 4,000,000.00 R 20.00
Lubomir Visnovsky ANA 81 18 50 68 5,000,000.00 D 13.60
Nicklas Lidstrom DET 82 16 46 62 6,200,000.00 D 10.00
Dustin Byfuglien WPG 81 20 33 53 4,250,000.00 D 12.47
Erik Karlsson OTT 75 13 32 45 875,000.00 D 51.43
Kevin Shattenkirk STL 72 9 34 43 875,000.00 D 49.14
Total 792.00 1,254.00 65,825,000.00 -
For a total team budget of $69,000,000.00 I hand picked: a frnachise player Alexander Ovechkin, 2nd year with highest penalty minutes (PIM) in the league from Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Zenon Konopka (Now with the Ottawa Senetors and formerly with the New York Islanders), Jimmy Howard - Detroit Red Wings behind the net and from the greatest hockey team Hockey team, P. K. Subban of the Montreal Canadians.
Lets see what the season holds...
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Name Team GP G A Pts Salary Position pts/$
Henrik Sedin VAN 82 19 75 94 6,100,000.00 C 15.41
Steven Stamkos TAM 82 45 46 91 8,000,000.00 C 11.38
Claude Giroux PHI 82 25 51 76 2,750,000.00 C 27.64
Ryan Kesler VAN 82 41 32 73 1,000,000.00 C 73.00
John Tavares NYI 79 29 38 67 900,000.00 C 74.44
Matt Duchene COL 80 27 40 67 900,000.00 C 74.44
Daniel Sedin VAN 82 41 63 104 6,100,000.00 L 17.05
Martin St Louis TAM 82 31 68 99 5,500,000.00 R 18.00
Corey Perry ANA 82 50 48 98 5,375,000.00 R 18.23
Jarome Iginla CGY 82 43 43 86 7,000,000.00 R 12.29
Teemu Selanne ANA 73 31 49 80 4,000,000.00 R 20.00
Lubomir Visnovsky ANA 81 18 50 68 5,000,000.00 D 13.60
Nicklas Lidstrom DET 82 16 46 62 6,200,000.00 D 10.00
Dustin Byfuglien WPG 81 20 33 53 4,250,000.00 D 12.47
Erik Karlsson OTT 75 13 32 45 875,000.00 D 51.43
Kevin Shattenkirk STL 72 9 34 43 875,000.00 D 49.14
Total 792.00 1,254.00 65,825,000.00 -
For a total team budget of $69,000,000.00 I hand picked: a frnachise player Alexander Ovechkin, 2nd year with highest penalty minutes (PIM) in the league from Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Zenon Konopka (Now with the Ottawa Senetors and formerly with the New York Islanders), Jimmy Howard - Detroit Red Wings behind the net and from the greatest hockey team Hockey team, P. K. Subban of the Montreal Canadians.
Lets see what the season holds...
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Tianhe-1A
China, Supercomputer, 2.507 petaflops == 175,000 laptops, Nvidia Tesla, Intel Xeon, $88,000, Cray XT5 Jaguar, HPC 2010, October 2010
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