Swedish advertising agency Acne assembled this junkyard monster, a bus sculpture assembled from 50 cars, to make a point about C02 emissions.
As you’ll see in the clip below, the sculpture created a bit of a phenomenon, causing traffic jams and a small media sensation. But I included the video for the fun time lapse construction that you can see about a minute in. I just love watching a small army of people complete a several hour project over a matter of seconds. It feels like I’m getting a ton accomplished, just by sitting here. [CR Blog via The Daily What]
“I once caught a fish this big. It was so great. My dad took a picture and…wait, was that a yawn? Am I keeping you up Lieutenant White Castle??” [more shots at io9]
I have mixed feelings about the motorcycle terminators seen in Terminator Salvation. But if this concept art shows us anything, the bikes could be even less lovable. Here’s the final version for comparison:
As you’ll see, the design is a bit more alien-organic, with terminators more alluded to through part design than outright placed, doggy-style, on two wheels.
This and other Terminator: Salvation concept art can be seen in The Art of Terminator Salvation by Titan Books. We just hope that editors were kind enough to omit the rear angle shot. There are anatomical facts about terminators that we just don’t need to know. [flylyf via automotto via likecool via ubergizmo and Wired]
We’re not sure if Microsoft is winding down its Laptop Hunter campaign, or just decided to step off the class warfare a bit, but this latest ad is pretty hate free. Shelia, a filmmaker with a $2,000 budget, asks the hard questions like “is this graphics card going to be powerful?” and walks out with an HP HDX 16t (an upgraded version of Giampaulo’s kit of choice). The MacBook Pro’s mere 2GB of RAM at that pricepoint just didn’t fly, though we have to wonder which self-professed video editor hasn’t already picked a side in the age-old Avid vs. Final Cut Pro debate — which could’ve helped cut down on the soul searching. Video is after the break.
MaximumPC took a solid whack at explaining how dreaded Blue Screen of Death error codes work (pertaining most recently to XP, Vista and even Windows 7), what they mean and how to fix them.
A good deal of their article is aimed at overclockers—which isn’t so surprising given the audience. But there are some notable gems inside. For instance, does anyone know what “PFN_LIST_CORRUPT” might mean? The explanation is ironically shorter than that handy error code. Faulty RAM.
If you’re a Windows user, the link offers good read, and probably a decent bookmark, too. And if you feel like seeing one of the biggest BSODs of all time, you can check that out here. [MaximumPC and image]
We already caught sight of Fujitsu’s new 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook in Japan earlier this month, and it looks like the company has now gotten official with the seemingly identical M2010 model for some other markets, although it still hasn’t made it all the way over here. The netbook itself is about as standard as can be, and includes a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and built-in Bluetooth, among other not at all surprising specs — although you will apparently get a bundled DVD burner and wireless mouse with it, which makes the nearly $650 price tag at least a tad more reasonable. What’s more, while they didn’t get ton of time to spend with it, our pals at Engadget Chinese did manage to snap a few hands-on pics at the launch event, which you can check out by hitting up the link below.
I have mixed feelings about the motorcycle terminators seen in Terminator Salvation. But if this concept art shows us anything, the bikes could be even less lovable. Here’s the final version for comparison:
As you’ll see, the design is a bit more alien-organic, with terminators more alluded to through part design than outright placed, doggy-style, on two wheels.
This and other Terminator: Salvation concept art can be seen in The Art of Terminator Salvation by Titan Books. We just hope that editors were kind enough to omit the rear angle shot. There are anatomical facts about terminators that we just don’t need to know. [flylyf via automotto via likecool via ubergizmo and Wired]
While artificial muscles stand poised to bring a new world of tactility to touchable devices, there’s still hope they might fulfill some bigger, loftier goals — like helping to save lives. That’s a large part of where the research at Micromuscle is focused, creating a series of electroactive polymers that do impressive things when placed under small voltages, changing shape and even volume as demonstrated in the Engineering TV clip embedded below. In it you can see a few examples of these things folding into complex, golden structures on their own accord, but the main application seems to be things like catheters that can steer themselves through the bloodstream, drug delivery mechanisms that can deploy multiple substances on command, and even microscopic robots that can pick up tiny things and move them tiny distances. You know what this means: robot armageddon might actually start from the inside.
While artificial muscles stand poised to bring a new world of tactility to touchable devices, there’s still hope they might fulfill some bigger, loftier goals — like helping to save lives. That’s a large part of where the research at Micromuscle is focused, creating a series of electroactive polymers that do impressive things when placed under small voltages, changing shape and even volume as demonstrated in the Engineering TV clip embedded below. In it you can see a few examples of these things folding into complex, golden structures on their own accord, but the main application seems to be things like catheters that can steer themselves through the bloodstream, drug delivery mechanisms that can deploy multiple substances on command, and even microscopic robots that can pick up tiny things and move them tiny distances. You know what this means: robot armageddon might actually start from the inside.
Conficker spread via PCs that weren’t updated with security patches, and not wanting to be at fault for worldwide infections, Microsoft is going to supply security updates to pirated copies of Windows 7. [Maximum PC]
Swedish advertising agency Acne assembled this junkyard monster, a bus sculpture assembled from 50 cars, to make a point about C02 emissions.
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“I once caught a fish this big. It was so great. My dad took a picture and…wait, was that a yawn? Am I keeping you up Lieutenant White Castle??” [more shots at 
I have mixed feelings about the motorcycle terminators seen in 
As you’ll see, the design is a bit more alien-organic, with terminators more alluded to through part design than outright placed, doggy-style, on two wheels.
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