Samsung has introduced it’s first laptops with new Hybrid HDD built in. The first to get this Hybrid HDD upgrade is 15.4″ Samsung R55 multimedia notebook.
The Samsung R55 includes a 80GB Hybrid HDD (5400rpm + 256Mb OneNAND Flash), nVidia GeForce 7400 Graphics card, 15.4" WXGA Widescreen TFT Screen with SuperClear Technology.
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Samsung R55 Hybrid HDD Laptop
Ion Technology Clothes Hanger Removes Cigarette Smoke
With ion technology, this portable device removes cigarette smoke in a convenient, timesaving and cost-efficient manner. It's gentler on clothes than dry cleaning and no more costly bills. It's ideal for freshening clothing after you leave a smoky bar or restaurant. It takes the ordinary clothes hanger to a completely new level - no more harsh dry cleaning to remove smoke or odors from clothing.
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Building with 7000 Solar Panels
The facade of this Manchester skyscraper (owned by CIS, an insurance company) was original covered with small mosaic tiles, but after only six months, they began to detach and go down. A solution was needed, and a company called solarcentury came up with a clever idea replacing the failing tiles with solar cells.
Not only do the solar cells provide a weatherproof barrier, they also generate about 390kW of power for the building. In total, 7,244 Sharp 80W modules are used to cover the entire service tower (but apparently only 4898 of these modules are "live" the others are "dummy modules" strange). The building also has 24 wind turbines on the roof, which provide 10% of the total power used by the building.
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Hands-Free Jump Rope Machine
Hands-free machine turns the rope automatically, so, parents will have more time for others things! Just tie one end to a stationary object, attach the other to the machine and jump! Kids can adjust the speed and timer to just the right setting; also you can even switch modes to spin the rope at ground level. Kids can use it as a skip-jumper, too. 45" tall. 6 “D” batteries not included. (6 years & up).
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Parrot Teaches four year old Boy To Talk
Dylan Hargreaves, four, is autistic and suffers severe learning difficulties. Until recently, he never uttered a single word. But several few months ago, his parents added a three-year-old blue-and-gold macaw to the family. They named him Barney, and suddenly, Dylan began to speak, repeating words that the parrot said.
After being tutored by Barney the parrot, Dylan says "Night, night", "Dad", "Mum", "Ta", "Hello" and "Bye".
"Barney has changed our lives. Before he arrived, Dylan would try to speak, but the sound came out as a noise," said Dylan's mother, Michelle.
Michelle believes that her son will soon be saying "Barney", because he loves his companion so much.
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Discover Islamic Art - Museum With No Frontiers
Discover Islamic Art is the most ambitious and exciting project conceived by Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF), within the first phase of the Euromed Heritage programme.
For the first time physical exhibition venues located all over Europe and the Mediterranean come together to create a joint virtual museum thus establishing an authentic museum with no frontiers of Islamic art in the Mediterranean where visitors will be able to discover more than 1,000 monuments and archaeological sites from the Umayyad period up to the beginning of the Ottoman Empire in Egypt, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey.
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Widescreen MP4 Player Watch with 1.8 Inch Display
The first ever MP4 video player watch made. This China Made 2GB MP4 Watch features a expanded 1.8 Inch TFT screen, MTV format movie player, built-in FM radio, built-in speaker, with 2GB Built in Memory, Lyrics Display, Photo Slideshow and much more.
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Barbecue without electric energy
Now you can barbecue without electric energy, only with sun energy.
With the Solar-Grill you can barbecue fish, chicken, vegetables, juicy steaks or other tasteful meals.
The Solar-Grill has a flexible mirror, which focuses the sun beams on the barbecue cup allowing it to heat up.
Your meal is cooked in the self contained barbecue cup an heated evenly from all sides, without direct irradiation by sunlight.
Solar-Grill is ideal for camping and spare time, in the garden, on the balcony, at the swimming pool, beach or lakeside resort. Anyplace where open fire is forbidden or clouds of smoke are not welcome.
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Titanic Passenger List Online and Free
The original passengers list of Titanic is now available on the internet!
Fully digitised images of the RMS Titanic's original 34-page passenger list are now available for the very first time online.
Its addition completes the set of passengers lists for the ships leaving the UK furing the decade 1910-1919, recently added to the ancestorsonboard.com collection. These images are available only at http://www.findmypast.com/, and are presented in association with The National Archives.
The original Titanic passenger list records the names, port of departure, occupation, nationality, age, class of travel, destination and country of intended future permanent residence of all who sailed on its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912. Usually it costs up to £3 to view a single passenger list image (subscription access is available), but for a limited time only visitors will be available to view, print, save and download the Titanic passenger list free of charge. That's £100 worth of free images for all our visitors.
Marking the 95th anniversary of the ship's tragic loss, the online release brings the original documents together for the first time online and in print, as there are no images of the originals published in any media elsewhere.
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You can read more about the Titanic passenger list here.
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Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 billion
Google Inc. announced yesterday a definitive agreement to acquire DoubleClick Inc., a global leader in digital marketing technology and services, for $3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management. The acquisition will combine DoubleClick's expertise in ad management technology for media buyers and sellers with Google's leading advertising platform and publisher monetization services.
"It has been our vision to make Internet advertising better - less intrusive, more effective, and more useful. Together with DoubleClick, Google will make the Internet more efficient for end users, advertisers, and publishers," said Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Google Technology. "
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Pieces of Titanic transformed into luxury watches
Geneva watchmaker Romain Jerome has built a watch with steel and coal from Titanic.
Romain Jerome said it purchased a piece of the hull weighing about 1.5 kg (3 pounds) that was retrieved in 1991, but declined to identify the seller. The metal has been certified as authentic by the Titanic's builders Harland and Wolff.
To make the watches, which were offered for sale for the first time in Basel for between $7,800 and $173,100, the Swiss company created an alloy using the slab from the Titanic with steel being used in a Harland and Wolff replica of the vessel.
The gold, platinum and steel time pieces have black dial faces made of lacquer paint that includes coal recovered from the debris field of the Titanic wrecksite, offered for sale by the U.S. company RMS Titanic Inc.
The company will make 2,012 watches to coincide with the centenary anniversary of the Titanic's sinking in 2012.
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Bright Door Handle
Today I have found these attractive doors handle. They indicate if the room is occupied or not. These door handle can be very useful for toilets or any kind of rooms.
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IBEO Smart Car
This car has laser sensors that act as "eyes" linked to an intelligent computer brain controlling its movements and has designed to cope with frenetic inner-city driving.
The laser-scanner eyes feed the electronic data of what they "see" around them into an on-board "black-box" computer.
This is linked to satellite navigation software and maps out a picture of the car's surroundings in a 200 yard radius - including road conditions, buildings, other vehicles and pedestrians.
Scanning the road ahead and behind, it can brake, accelerate, change gear and steer itself around rush hour traffic and obstacles, even reversing to get out of a tight spot.
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Toshiba Qosmio G40
Shower with colored lights
This shower designed by Signorini Design uses ultra slim metallic blocks and attached lights to rain down the water in color, illuminating the streams in yellow, red, blue, or green.
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Website is selling four of Michael Schumacher's most significant F1 cars
Cars International website is selling four of Michael Schumacher's most significant F1 cars, they all fully restored and operational.
Jordan 191 / Ford HB chassis 01
The car that started it all – first Grand Prix
Benetton B191 / Ford HB chassis 05
First world championship points
Benetton B194 / Ford Zetec R chassis 05
First world championship
Ferrari F2002
The car that settled it – total domination
Price: $6,500,000 USD
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Rare Faberge miniature chair
A very rare Faberge miniature chair is seen at Sotheby's auction house, in New York, April 10, 2007, prior to going on public display tomorrow. The chair is being sold along with Russian paintings, sculpture, silver and porcelain at auction on April 16 and 17 and is expected to bring between $1-1.5m.
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Walt Disney's passport for sale
The Walt Disney's last passport just a year before he died, is up for bids on eBay.
Estimate:
US $14,400.00 - US $21,600.00
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Sony Walkman NW-E
Sony has developed new series of MP3 players with 1GB, 2GB with capacity of upto 1300 tracks, direct USB plug for ease of use, Lithium-ion rechargeable battery with great Stamina of 30 hours, FM tuner, LCD Color Screen display for easy navigation and to see CD cover and ATRAC* , MP3 , AAC (non DRM) and WMA (non DRM) compatible.
*ATRAC
(Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) is a data-compression process developed by Sony for MiniDisc use. Only the sound components detectable by the human ear are recorded, enabling a 64 mm diameter disc to store 80 minutes of high-quality stereo audio.
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