Knee brace on leg can produce enough power to run 10 mobiles!
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Cancer patient’s tumours vanished within two months after being injected with billions of his own cloned immune cells.
The latest version of the Firefox Browser exceeded 1 Million downloads in the first 4 hours according to Ars.
Mozilla foundation, the creators of Firefox browser, aim to make a world record of maximum number of software downloads in a 24-hour period with their latest release.
At the time of posting this blog entry, the count was 1.69 million, see the download map to check out the latest tally.
Update: Firefox’s official announcement says “more than 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in the first 24 hours”.
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GINA: Flexible thinking by BMW
GINA is a concept car by BMW where the car is made out of flexible material and can change shape according to the requirements. Fascinating and creative design.
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“When fully commissioned later this year, the £250m farm set on abandoned state-owned land will be twice the size of any other similar project in the world, covering an area nearly twice the size of London’s Hyde park. It is expected to supply 45MW of electricity each year, enough to power 30,000 homes.” – Guardian
EU renewable energy league
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- Sweden 2005 39.8%, target by 2020 49%
- Latvia 34.9%, target 42%
- Finland 28.5%, target 38%
- Austria 23.3%, target 34%
- Portugal 20.5%, target 31%
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- Cyprus 2.9%, target by 2020 13%
- Netherlands 2.4%, target 14%
- Ireland 3.1%, target 16%
- Netherlands 2.4%, target 14%
- Belgium 2.2%, target 13%
- UK 1.3%, target 15%
World’s biggest solar farm at centre of Portugal’s ambitious energy plan
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How to pronounce this word?
Occasionally I find myself in a situation where I pronounce a word differently to what my friend does. The solution? I look up theFreeDictionary.com or simply tfd.com. Two buttons right besides the word allow you to play recorded American and British pronunciations of words, a boon for my multi-cultural background and a need for improving pronunciations!
Note: You may not see the buttons if you have script block or flash block on firefox.
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UK’s ‘best’ 100 startups
Startups.co.uk presents Startups 100 – the “The ultimate hitlist of the UK’s best new businesses”.
In their own words – “Startups 100 is the definitive countdown to the UK’s most innovative, inspiring and ground-breaking new companies. As our criteria explains we’ve been unashamedly unscientific in our methodology – this is our list of who we think the best, most exciting, promising, disruptive new businesses and entrepreneurs are shaping the start-up market right now.”
Startups 100
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A Documentary on Net Neutrality
Watch a 5 minute documentary on Net Neutrality, explaining the past, present and the possible future of the way the Internet functions and is controlled/regulated.
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ipipi.com provides a low cost, reliable and easy-to-use service to send international text messages directly from the mobile phone unlike other services which provide a web interface to do so. The text message takes the following format – s <number> <message>, and the message gets relayed to the desired number via the online service almost instantly. I have been using it for a while and haven’t had any ‘lost’ messages and the delivery reports can be seen online. Another good part, the bought messages do not have an expiry period.
Paul Graham, co-founder of YCombinator, has written various thoughtful essays on topics such as ‘Why to not not start a startup’, ‘How to start a startup’, ‘A student’s guide to startup’ and ‘Good and bad procrastination’ among others. Of course, there’s no substitute to reading them, but if you want to take them around in your iPod, find them in MP3 format by clicking the link below.