В основном ерунда, но Facebook, Aibo, IPhone и GPS - это нечто.
http://gizmodo.com/5489233/17-modern+daw-gadgets-dragged-back-to-the-ussr
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Next generation blimp that looks like UFO
Eugene Kraizman forwarded me this link:
Russians are about to start building a new type of blimps in the city of Ulyanovsk. The program has been approved and they plan to allocate about 800 jobs for it, investing about 2.7 billion rubles (about $90M). The new blimp will use electric motors to hover around, will generate lift using helium and hot air. It should be able to lift about 600 tons of cargo. Two innovations in design - a special reservoir with heated/cooled air, which would help blimp to land and take off on its own instead of anchoring to towers and saucer-like shape to maintain stability in the air.
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/
The prototype was successfully demonstrated in 2009 (MAKS). It was about 7 meters (approx 23 feet) in diameter and was able to lift about 20 kilos (approx 44 pounds).
Well, this is a good news indeed. Considering that Brits are working on autonomous blimp already. We can hope to witness Fuller's floating biospheres some day.
Update: the company behind the UFO blimp is LocomoSky.
Russians are about to start building a new type of blimps in the city of Ulyanovsk. The program has been approved and they plan to allocate about 800 jobs for it, investing about 2.7 billion rubles (about $90M). The new blimp will use electric motors to hover around, will generate lift using helium and hot air. It should be able to lift about 600 tons of cargo. Two innovations in design - a special reservoir with heated/cooled air, which would help blimp to land and take off on its own instead of anchoring to towers and saucer-like shape to maintain stability in the air.
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/
The prototype was successfully demonstrated in 2009 (MAKS). It was about 7 meters (approx 23 feet) in diameter and was able to lift about 20 kilos (approx 44 pounds).
Well, this is a good news indeed. Considering that Brits are working on autonomous blimp already. We can hope to witness Fuller's floating biospheres some day.
Update: the company behind the UFO blimp is LocomoSky.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sink-the-Bismark beer
It costs like a Grey Goose, it kicks like vodka, and probably tastes like one. But it is beer.
http://www.brewdog.com/product.php?id=47
Michael Rogov, a great dude and also a beer brewing enthusiast, told me about Utopias. So I wonder what he says about Bismark...
http://www.brewdog.com/product.php?id=47
Michael Rogov, a great dude and also a beer brewing enthusiast, told me about Utopias. So I wonder what he says about Bismark...
Friday, February 19, 2010
Freedom, democracy and torrents in Russia
When it gets to bad stuff, Russia tends to follow the rest of the world with a delay of 6 months or so. Lately we saw a lot of movement around The Pirate Bay. I've been waiting for similar events around Russia's biggest torrent tracker, Torrents.RU. Not that I was amongst active torrent users, just wanted to compare. Few days ago it finally happened.
The fun stuff, however, is that Russian federals just skipped the whole thing with that redundant legal mumbo-jumbo and ordered RU zone registrar to "suspend" the domain, forcing the site to move to rutracker.org. The way they explained that is "they are preventing a crime from happening while investigation is in progress".
Nice work, fellas. Indeed, why bother with difficult legit stuff, debates and such, when you can just cut the wire? I think this pretty much follows the trends, especially how P&M "vertical government" solves the problems. They just do it because they can, and because there is no opposition out there to resist. It looks like just a matter of time before they start doing it to people. Hey, wait, they did.
The fun stuff, however, is that Russian federals just skipped the whole thing with that redundant legal mumbo-jumbo and ordered RU zone registrar to "suspend" the domain, forcing the site to move to rutracker.org. The way they explained that is "they are preventing a crime from happening while investigation is in progress".
Nice work, fellas. Indeed, why bother with difficult legit stuff, debates and such, when you can just cut the wire? I think this pretty much follows the trends, especially how P&M "vertical government" solves the problems. They just do it because they can, and because there is no opposition out there to resist. It looks like just a matter of time before they start doing it to people. Hey, wait, they did.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Yet another car-airplane hibrid
A friend of mine, Eugene Kraizman, shared yet another car/airplane link:
http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft.html
I think the breakthrough is the 20-hour flight course after which you get a license. This looks considerably better than few thousand hours at $90 per hour.
http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft.html
I think the breakthrough is the 20-hour flight course after which you get a license. This looks considerably better than few thousand hours at $90 per hour.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Mechanical ring
I wear three rings: the wedding band and two more. One is the mom's birthday present and the other one is rather old and has a prayer on it. I think three rings is enough for a guy. Too bad, otherwise I could get myself this one:
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