Today, i got a mail on my inbox :
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Category: Supercool !
Inspired by Mount Fuji, Taisei Construction Corporation has completed designs for construction of the world’s tallest building. The X-Seed 4000 (no idea where that came from) would stand at approximately 13,123 feet (4 km), nearly 700 feet (213 m) taller than the real Mount Fuji. The next tallest buildings don’t even break 2,000 feet, how puny! While likely to never be built, the X-Seed would have up to 800 floors, and be capable of housing between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people.
Unlike conventional skyscrapers, the X-Seed 4000 would be required to actively protect its occupants from considerable air pressure gradations and weather fluctuations along its massive elevation. Its design calls for the use of solar power to maintain internal environmental conditions. Some estimate that the cost to construct the X-Seed 4000 structure may be somewhere between $300-900 billion US dollars.
Now I’m no astronomer or anything, but if I learned anything in grade school, it’s that 13,123 feet is pretty much the distance to the sun. Which means that the top floor would be perfect for a natural sauna. You heard it here first, if they end up doing that I want credit.
From the “Everything must have Integrated Speakers” department comes Mi Pillows. If you haven’t guessed by now, they’re pillows that have speakers inside. They cost $60, and are available through Hammacher Schlemmer (pronounced Helter Skelter). You can hook them up to an iPod or any other audio device and, uh, listen to music while you’re trying to fall asleep. The sewn on control patches don’t work though, so that’s a sham. On a side note, be careful what you choose to listen to while sleeping. Because last night I fell asleep to Black Sabbath and when I woke up this morning I owed my soul to the devil and had bitten the head off my daughter’s parakeet.
Now I’m not a big fan of posting the latest camera or phone or what have you unless it has something real unique about it. And well, this one does (even if it is a sham and doesn’t work and is a lie and is stupid). The new Sony Cybershot DSC-T200 has a smile detector. Don’t believe it? You’re not alone. But Sony insists.
Using Sony’s proprietary algorithm, this innovative intelligent auto shutter system responds actively to smiling faces. To start, just choose SmileShutter from Scene Selection, then press the shutter fully on the subject to be taken; the camera automatically detects the smiling face and closes the shutter. To detect the different degrees of smiles by your subject, you can set Smile Level sensitivity to “high” (to detect a faint smile), “medium” (for a normal smile), or “low” (for a hearty laugh).
While this sounds like a very interesting feature, I don’t smile. The batteries will die in the camera and the earth will turn to dust before I do. Smiling is for the weak. Showing that much emotion in a photo basically means your mom dresses you and you’re a monster sissy.
It’s been two weeks since the Shift Linux team announced the “Shift Linux Art Contest”, and we’re proud to announce that it’s been a success! The Customization Center, our system that stores the entries whether they win or not, has been filled with great wallpaper packs, icon sets, and concepts of numerous types. And with that, the time has come for the Neowin community to start choosing the best of the best to brand our friendly little distribution.
I’ll cover the rules first, for those of you that missed them. First and foremost, everyone gets one vote in every category, so you can choose one wallpaper, one icon set, one splash screen, etc. Second, we’ll be accepting new entries until August 25th, about halfway through the voting. These entries will not be compensated for their late entry into the voting; rather they will try and muster up more votes in less time. So the earlier the better. Finally, voting ends on August 30th, with the winners being announced immediately after the voting closes.
So, get to it! The login system is Neowin-based, so there’s no registering, and it’s a pretty quick process to look through and pick your favorites.
Edit: We struck a critical bug, and as a result most people will have to recast their votes for wallpapers. In addition, Fluxbox themes and Gnome themes are now included in the contest.
View: Voting page for the Shift Linux Art Contest
View: Shift Linux Customization Center
View: Shift Linux Home Page
If Apple had held an iPhone design contest, this is what the device could have looked like — iPhone V.2 ?
In the future, robots may replace your cat, ones that can “playback audio, photo and video content from multiple sources such as PCs, Internet or other storage devices.”
iCat
The Philips iCat robot “interacts with the user in a natural way by understanding spoken requests, giving replies, recognizing faces or everyday objects and by using body language such as facial expressions, nodding and other head movements.” iCat can playback audio, photo and video content from multiple sources such as PCs, Internet or other storage devices. Its intelligence is made possible by an advanced software architecture.
Household Cat
This realistic cat robot made its debut at the 2006 Tokyo Toy Show and is looking to give all robotic pets a run for their money. It’s quite interesting to say the least.
Dynamizer’s Robotic Cat
Dynamizer demonstrated their robotic cat at the “Kondo KHR-1 Second Anniversary Celebration”. Strangely enough, the cat uses a bicycle headlight as its head/face. The robot’s legs have a basic cam design that enables it to move around in a very cat-like fashion. The legs are identical for each side, and mirrored for the opposite side. The four servos that drive the legs also form the cat’s body, while another servo mounted on top of the front pair of leg servos provides up and down motion for the robot’s head.
Pussy Cat: Robot Meets Mobile PC
The “Pussy Cat” mobile PC “can be a good home monitor and would have fun in role play with distant friends. A self-feeding system, automatically charges the device.” As a Personal Computer, all basic tasks: watching video, listening music, playing game, surfing internet, instant messaging, email, reminder, alarm, etc. As a Pussy Cat, an A.I. 4-legged robotic cat can move around home. It has face recognition technology that let it remember who is master.
