Sometimes, you just want to practice your putting. If you’re near a woman wearing Triumph’s new golf outfit, and you can convince her to take it off, you can putt to your heart’s content.
Yes, this ludicrous item consists of a green bra that transforms into a putting green, with the cups turning into holes. Sink a putt, and a speaker says “Nice shot!” There’s also a skirt that turns into a flag that says “Be Quiet” on it, for keeping onlookers hushed while you golf next to a naked woman.
Okay, so we’re reading this puff piece in the Miami New Times about would-be Mac cloner Psystar, and while we’re somewhat willing to dismiss author Tim Elfrink’s various mischaracterizations of the law and what Psystar is actually doing as just laziness and / or ignorance, there’s a quote here from Psystar founder Rudy Pedraza that simply leaps off the page:
Rudy scoffs at the idea he borrowed from the Hackintosh scene. “The first thing you have to do is unlearn everything you’ve read online about how to make this work,” Rudy says, “because it’s all wrong.”
Really? Because we think there’s a very large, very active hacking community out there that would disagree with you, Rudy.
P.S.- A full list of every other mistake in this piece after the break.
Think about your workspace and imagine if your furniture or your desk or cubicle could automatically reconfigure for different applications with a simple wave of the hand. Now check out the reality of Clemson’s Animated Work Environment (AWE).
Essentially, AWE is a programmable wall with varied displays that can switch between six configurations just by activating a proximity sensor. For example, when the wall is hanging overhead like a ceiling, the act of standing up triggers the sensor and instructs the wall to move out of the way. The project is in it’s infancy, but it is easy to see how future applications could lead to a whole range of dynamic, multi-functional furniture that automatically reacts to its environment. [AWE Project via IEEE Spectrum via BotJunkie]
It’s basically a ritual now: Fresh feature debuts on new Android phone; hack-happy G1 owners see new feature, develop seething jealousy; said owners work tirelessly to steal new feature. Last week, Google Maps Navigation hit the Droid. Today, the G1.
Google Maps Navigation will be part of Android 2.0, and Android 2.0 is expected to come to most—if not all—Android handsets on the market eventually, so given how complicated this hack is (fairly!), and that it requires a rooted phone, it’d be prudent for most folks to just wait this out. That said, there’s no saying how long it’ll be until Eclair seeds out to older handsets, and there’s no guarantee that the G1—and old fart in its little corner of the universe—will ever get it. Anyhow, here’s what you need to do, from XDA:
Make sure you have CyanogenMod 4.2.3.1, by the way.
1) Unzip zip to desktop 2) Run Part 1.bat 3) When prompted to press any key, do so; the phone will reboot 4) When your phone is running again, run Part 2.bat 5) When prompted to press any key, the installation process is done. 6) Make sure GPS is enabled 7) Open Maps and press OK Press Menu 9) Press Directions 10) Enter an end point 11) Click Go 12) Just under “Show on map”, click Navigate. 13) When prompted to install the voice codec, do so.
If you go to Tokyo, you may want to check into 9h—Nainawasu in Japanese—a luxury capsule hotel that is 9 stories tall, storing 125 capsules that use Panasonic’s environmental and lighting control system.
According to Panasonic, their system controls lighting to guarantee “good sleeping.” I don’t know about you but, to me, “good sleeping” means a large bed, a good duvet, and someone special to spoon with all night. Still, if you want to get close to the experience of hibernation in a deep space vessel, this is the place to go. [9hours via 9h]
This is the Carl Sagan deep exploration vessel, created by Ed Diment and Ralph Savelsberg—an expert in all things aircrafty and Lego. And while it’s not big enough to hold a team of astronauts in search of alien civilizations, it’s larger than its creators. And it just plain kick ass, even without auto-tuning. [Flickr via Brothers Brick]
This Product Tank concept employs an innovative solution to the problem of toastables that are oversized in either length or width. There are no slots, and the walls close in like your bread stumbled into a booby trap.
Of course, instead of crushing or impaling, these walls toast your bread to death. The crumby lifeblood falls into the pan below, and can be easily removed and cleaned for the next victim. Again, Product Tank is only a concept, but it has potential. [Product Tank via Core77]
Here’s hoping you held off on purchasing that Core 2 Duo G51 just a few months ago, ’cause ASUS has just pushed out the exact same laptop with a Core i7 within and a price tag that’s $200 skimpier. The G51J-A1 was launched alongside Windows 7, and the crew over at Hot Hardware managed to toss it on the test bench to find out what kind of gains could be expected when going from Intel’s last-gen CPU to the newly-announced Core i7-720QM. The long and short of it is this: the new CPU enabled this machine to smoke the C2D sibling in every test, with graphical performance being nothing short of astounding. ‘Course, the omission of a Blu-ray drive was somewhat of a bummer, but for just $1,499, it’s not like we really expected one to be included. Hit the read link for the full skinny, but only if you’ve got some disposable income that you don’t mind parting with.
Sometimes, you just want to practice your putting. If you’re near a woman wearing Triumph’s new golf outfit, and you can convince her to take it off, you can putt to your heart’s content.
Yes, this ludicrous item consists of a green bra that transforms into a putting green, with the cups turning into holes. Sink a putt, and a speaker says “Nice shot!” There’s also a skirt that turns into a flag that says “Be Quiet” on it, for keeping onlookers hushed while you golf next to a naked woman.
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