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Is it just me or does that aircraft look like a … chicken?! o.O
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The Coléoptère was a French experiment from the 1950s which aspired to make a vertical take off and landing aircraft a reality. It looks like something that was an iconic, indelible part of the Atomic Future. The only thing is that it was a complete failure. More »
from Gizmodo
It’s called Final Fantasy Dimensions, and it will be out for iOS and Android this summer. Looks like Final Fantasy IV or Final Fantasy V, no? It’s not: it’s a nostalgia-themed original game with touchscreen controls and some seriously classic gameplay. It was also released in Japan two years ago under the name Final Fantasy Legends. (Not to be confused with Final Fantasy Legend, which is the U.S. version of something that isn’t a Final Fantasy game at all, but let’s not get into that right now.) More »
from Kotaku
Oh, Montana, how we miss your speed-limitless ways of the mid-1990s. We were carefree and young then, driving a 10-year-old Chevrolet that in no way, shape, or form was designed to travel at its top speed for hours on end. But that didn’t stop us, we the “reasonable and prudent,” and neither did it stop our digital dashboard from just flashing “85” over and over and over again. We’ll never know how fast we were really going, but suffice it to say, we were traveling at the speed of youth.
Today, the search for fast, legal roads pretty much starts and ends in Germany, with Texas a distant second. But the one-time Republic may have just cut the distance between it and the Autobahn-wielding Germans by five miles per hour. A new toll road, part of State Highway 130, is under construction near Austin, the state’s notoriously traffic-clogged capitol, and it may have its speed set at 85 when it opens. The Texas Department of Transportation made the decision, according to the Fox News report, in the wake of the legislature passing a law in 2011 to raise the maximum limit from 80 to 85 mph on approved highways.
from Autoblog
Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety, Videos
If for some reason you still don’t think that texting while driving is a bad idea, here’s a story for you. Aaron Deveau, age 17, was allegedly composing a text message when his car crossed the center line of a Massachusetts street, hitting a car head-on. In that car was Daniel Bowley, Jr. and his girlfriend, Luz Roman. Bowley Jr. suffered massive injuries in the crash, and after spending 18 days in a Boston hospital, died as a result of the injuries.
According to Boston.com, a Haverhill, Massachusetts judge sentenced Deveau to “concurrent sentences of two and a half years on a charge of motor vehicle homicide and two years for a charge of negligent operation of a motor vehicle causing serious injury while texting” earlier this week.
After noting Deveau’s age and lack of any criminal record, the judge later ordered the 17-year-old to serve one year in the Essex County House of Corrections, suspending the other sentences. Deveau was originally arrested in 2011, following the crash that took place in February of that year.
“If I could take it back, I would take it back. I just want to apologize to the family,” Deveau stated during the trial. During his testimony, Deveau reportedly claimed that he was not texting during the time of the crash and could not recall texting while driving.
Luz Roman (pictured above), who survived the crash, spoke out during the hearings, and spoke to Boston.com after the sentencing, which you can see in the video below. “This has been giving me a lot of pain, there are no words to describe,” Roman told Boston.com. Scroll downfor the rest of her commentary, as well as some thoughts from Bowley’s son.
from Autoblog
Home Network security seems to be a simple thing these days. It is not difficult to set your router with the proper security measures to stop others from hopping on your WiFi signal and getting that internet service you are likely over paying for.
Of course this magical block that keeps out WiFi pirates really comes down to a password. It’s a tiny bit more complicated than that, but for the most part this is all it takes to make your home network private instead of branding it a hotspot and sharing it like the town bicycle.
But of course there are ways around these security measures, and if you want to keep signal thieves out of your network, here a product that will likely stop them dead in their tracks.
WiFi Blocking Wallpaper.
With all the logic of a giant wall of stones, the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble developed a coating of silver ink that can be embedded into a wallpaper to block out the electromagnetic frequencies of wireless networks, but still allow the signals of cell phones to pass through. No word on how windows would affect this technology (We found a hole in their security – literally!)
The ING researchers have granted Finnish company Ahlstrom exclusive rights to manufacture the wallpaper, and it is expected to go on sale in 2013. They explain that it should cost the same as a mid-range traditional wallpaper.
To me this seems a little extreme, but there are some conspiracy theorists out there who I’m sure want a more fashionable alternative than a tinfoil hat to keep those invasive wireless signals out. And if fashion is a big concern and you do not care for the patterns offered, painting over or layering different wallpapers does not affect its ability to block WiFi.
I am sure there will be some application somewhere to some organization where security is never enough and they need walls that WiFi cannot pass through. I just can’t see this being a regular household precaution.
Maybe if I sell my house to people that peeve me off, I can put this stuff up just to know that they are likely going insane trying to figure out why their WiFi works awesome inside, but not in the backyard. That might be fun.
It’s unclear how many user passwords were leaked, but the companies are advising to change them.
from News
