One of the sticky points of the 100$ laptop being developed for emerging markets had has been resolved.
They’ve decided to do away with the hand crank in favor of a less strenuous pull string design.  In addition to it working out better overall, it also generates more power.
Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact

Maybe not air.  What I mean to say is that it’s full of hot gas.  See the quote referrenced below the link.  Instead of truly degrading the energy use in the house they simply offload it onto a natural gas line instead of the grid or local power generation and presto, you don’t need as […]

Armies of Japanese robots running the open source Linux operating system will now be marching through a town near you!
Or maybe not. But General Robotix has developed programmable software that runs on Linux for their towering 14 inch doom-bot.
How long until their (tiny) army is unleashed on the world?

Robot backers turn to Linux

Anytime I hear that someone’s mounting an automated lazer system to zap things out of the sky I always get a little worried.  The thought occurs, wrong though it may be, that an automated system fast enough to blast out things flying at the planes could either:
A) Be tampered with to blast the actual plane
or
B) […]

Nicholas Negroponte was previewing a working model of the 100$(USD) laptop for every child laptop.  Apparently it stole the MITX spotlight.. but with a feature rich laptop coming in at 100$, you can probably imagine why.
Now… why they can’t crank these puppies out mass-production style and use the sales to subsidize the cost on the […]

Now, I’m a little skeptical of some of the reasoning in this article about a new auto concept.
But the idea behind how the car is built is sound.  Even if their eye in the sky rhetoric is a bit goofy, the design ideas seem sound.
Basically, they’re going to lighten up the car, decouple the motivating […]