Sony Global - Sony Design

Sony Global - Sony DesignCool as a cool thing!!! bendable computing!!! i envisage a pen like communicator with a roll out tft like screen with full video communication, humans kick ass when it comes to inventing stuff!!!

Dolphin skin key to subaquatic speed | The Register

Dolphin skin key to subaquatic speed | The RegisterYes but would you seriously get into a submarine that had skin technology that was based upon the principle of flaking off every two hours??? call me a scaredy cat but that sounds a bit dodgy!!

Work induces catatonia: official | The Register

Work induces catatonia: official | The RegisterIts finally official, work can induce catatonic states, these are usually found to occur in the afternoon in management type meetings??? shock horror at this annoucment then!!

Barcelona nightclub chips customers | The Register

Barcelona nightclub chips customers | The RegisterWave of the future, its only a matter of time before technology such as this becomes the norm, it is already used in the pet passport scheme sub dermal chips that can be read by bar code scanners at ports allow your animals in and out without a quarantine period. Why bother with the national identity card scheme, lets all get chipped instead!!

baltimoresun.com - A hand-held translator is boon to GIs in Iraq

baltimoresun.com - A hand-held translator is boon to GIs in IraqIts a universal translator!!! just like in Star Trek!!! only a matter of miniturisation and we're away i'm sure loads of the world's problems would be resolved if people understood each other!! General Custer had that problem at little big horn, he was saying 'look lads we just want to talk' which translated into cherokee turned into 'oi red face i'm going to kill you and feed your children to the old women' and look what happened there!!!!

Optical Camouflage

Optical CamouflageGotta love the Japanese, ingenious little bunch!!! and this tech is still in its early days (in the public eye at least) who knows where other countries are with this? battalions of soldiers in this gear remaining virtually invisible in the jungle............cool and the gang

Pulse Detonation Engine Technology Project

Pulse Detonation Engine Technology Project Check this out amigo, current thinking is that the military are always about 12 years ahead of current known technology, this pulse detonation engine is the engine meant to be powering the Aurora aircraft, consistently able to travel at plus Mach 6 effeciently and the main reason the SR71 was decommishioned

House Committee approves DOD budget

House Committee approves DOD budget
War Huh? What is it good for? absoute.......well its good for about 422.2 billion dollars in defence spending this fiscal year!!! not a bad little pay out for the army navy and airforce. Did you realise that they also compete technology wise against each other, each branch is developing its own UAV technology, madness!!! but strangely enough all this money is being spent, especially in the area of quick technology turnaround for the battlefield, and yet DARPA has had its money cut down by over a 100 million dollars, this to me is strange?? they are the cutting edge and if they aren't who is??

email posting

This is the first Magic Bullet posting to Blogger using the email facility.
This will make the placing of personal views and opinions really really
quick and easy, i'm not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad
thing.........................
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble sees 'planet' around star

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble sees 'planet' around starThis is pretty historic!!! this COULD be the first photo of a planet orbiting another star!!! we've discovered over a 100 thru indirect methods, i.e. light bending and warping cos of gravity, but this could be the real thing an actual planet orbiting a white dwarf star, and its 5 -10 times the mass of Jupiter!!! Tell you what we're living in the future

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Library of Alexandria discovered

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Library of Alexandria discovered The library of Alexandria has been found then? The original seat of human learning, the place was burnt to the ground but rumours persisted that the most precious items were smuggled out before the cataclysm, lost in the mists of time now though loads of work by Plato

BBC NEWS | Technology | Games giants in mobile battle

BBC NEWS | Technology | Games giants in mobile battleLook how fecking cool the PSP is and check out the DS from Nintendo, its going to revolutionise handheld gaming!!!

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Mexico pilots release 'UFO film'

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Mexico pilots release 'UFO film'Mexican ufo's eh???? living la vida loca!! the aliens are popping over the border for a spot of Tequila!!!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | X-Prize 'will be won this year'X prize stuff i love this!! private spaceflights within 20 years i reckon, suborbital travel to australia, you'll go up and glide round and down!! things are getting exciting!!

NTL to supercharge broadband speed

I can't help myself... the announcement's everywhere Lewis - unlike the cable provision in your area! Ha ha ha ha

What a surprise

[Via The Register]

NTL Cable broadband just got faster

NEVER MIND LEWIS!!!!!! Ha, ha, ha, ha.....

Telewest is to offer the UK's first 3Mbps cable broadband service, as rival NTL doubles the speed of its services.

[Via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mice created without fathersThis is a bit disturbing!!! mice eggs fertislised and grown into adults without any male chromosomes!!!! We are being made redundant, no longer will women have to endure the ignominy of going to a male 'sperm' bank to get knocked up they can just have an all 'girl' baby!!!!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband to reach million moreBroadband to reach a million more homes???? i bet they still can't connect 18 water rede though!!! the buggers!!! i'm living in the bermuda triangle!!

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | 'Naked sushi' restaurant finedThis is quite amusing, for a communist state the Chinese certainly are embracing all manner of curious Western practises. Eating sushi off naked women, what is a bizarre Japanese pasttime obviously doesn't go down that well in Bejing!! MInd you can you imagine it if they started in in the UK. Local variations include.... eating scampy and chips of a fat girl in the North, chicken tikka massalla off someone's thighs in Birmingham!!!! the list is endless (and to be honest quite grim!!!)

Hello and welcome to the first blog from the Emerald Isle, thought i might just jot down my thoughts while i'm over here, to remind myself as the days blur into one!! Staying at the Mont Clare which is ok, quite a nice hotel although the room's a little small. Have to run across the road to use the gym at the Davenport (and when i say gym i mean hotel bedroom with crap equipment in it!!) So far Dublin has been windy as hell, nearly got blown over walking to work this morning. Still its not all that bad at least Driver's here now!!!