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It looks like a child’s toy from the 70s, but this new high-tech camera can record more than a simple Polaroid. It can create a 3D image of almost anything, and you can take it almost anywhere.
Developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena, Germany, the Kolibri CORDLESS is the size of a shoe box and it weighs a little over 2 lbs. No cables required, you just point and click. Several seconds later a detailed 3D image will appear on a laptop. From there you can analyze and use the digital model.
By Noelle dEstries •
August 23, 2007
Holy crap, did you know that your average U.S. soldier in Iraq uses 88 AA bateries during a five day mission!?! The U.S. Military blows through 2.4 million gallons of fuel every day in Iraq and Afghanistan and 2/3 of the stuff soldiers carry in combat is fuel.
All political issues aside, that is a terribly inefficient way to run an army. The military needs to get way more aggressive about embracing renewable energy. Soldiers, [...]
By Noelle dEstries •
August 15, 2007
At least they are printing on both sides of the page, right?
Who is the mental giant who is responsible for this?
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I finally got my first bill from AT&T in a cardboard box containing 300 pages of it. Apparently, they give you a detailed transaction of every text message sent and received. Completely unnecessary.
I weep for the trees lost due to this stupidity.
By Noelle dEstries •
August 13, 2007
I’m putting this on my Christmas Wish List.Via Ecofriend via Coolest Gadgets, a crank powered MP3 Player ($340) that gives you 40 minutes of listening time for every minute cranked…
The inventor of the Free Play Wind up radio, Travor Baylis is back again and this time with a much better earth-friendly gadget. The device known as the Eco Media Player requires you to wind it up to play music, watch videos, listen to radio, view photo albums and even read eBooks and all that will not require you to pay for electricity.
The player supports media and data of all types on its 2GB internal memory or via SD cards. The media player is so robust that it does not require you to sync it with a computer as when connected to a PC or a Mac it’s seen as an external drive which allows for easy “drag and drop” of all media files.
The device can also function as its own record and tape ripper to capture a large record collection into portable MP3s, it also comes with a microphone for recording voice memos. Another great feature of this device is that it can also act as a cellphone charger.
Hug your Sysadmin today for it’s System Administrator Appreciation Day.
Our designer/sysadmin Noel kicks much ass and everyone at Planetsave and Green Options appreciates all the hard work he does having to deal with us non-coder types who sometimes break things when we shouldn’t.
I found this slightly juicy green news item over at Valleywag the other day. GigaOm, the well regarded tech blog, just introduced a new green tech site Earth2Tech. Om Malik, the founder and big cheese at GigaOm hired Adena DeMonte away from struggling tech mag Red Herring to run the site. I guess Om has poached a few other Red Herring writers (he used to write for them back in their golden days) and RH [...]
Via Got2BeGreen