Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
But the three fossilized chimpanzee teeth identified in Kenya by a San Francisco-based anthropologist tell a tale that is 500,000 years old, back when early humans and chimps lived side by side in the woods on the edge of an African lake.
BBC – First chimpanzee fossils found
MercuryNews – Chimpanzee fossils fill gap in ancient primate record
Not something that your going to find an application for in most homes, but it is pretty cool if your thinking of setting up a lot of computers at a business.
Chip PC continues to lead the thin-client technology market, now unveiling the ground-breaking Jack-PC, a versatile thin client computer fully integrated into the existing wall LAN jack. This unique concept of “Ccomputer in-the-wall” unfolds important advantages to enterprise IT managers and decision makers. Neatly embedded into enterprise LAN infrastructure, it is fully managed with new Users easily and quickly added and configured remotely.
These panoramic images of the English country side are hauntingly beautiful.
Holy crap! Its a 40(!) DVD boxed set of all seven seasons of the series. You get some extra documentries for your $200US, but you have got to be a serious Buffy fan if your going to buy this.
BTW, if you are a serious fan, get the boxed set, it should save you a lot of shelf space
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Buffy-licious Box Art for Complete Collection
Finally! Clever looking USB memory keys that are over 256MB! I wonder if I could open a store here in Phoenix that sold stuff like this and actually stay in business…
Agent Greg has this to say:
25 watts is pretty impressive. Three of them could run a 75 watt light bulb.
I’m looking forward to an LED light powered by methanol. Just the thing for camping.
I believe this will be the future of electric cars, by the way. Methanol fuel cells with regenerative braking and eventually battery banks and some solar assist.
Some info from the article:
Fuel cell developer UltraCell has come up with a new fuel cell power source for portable electronic devices that it says has twice the energy density of lithium batteries. That’s potentially very good news for power-hungry mobile gadgeteers…
UltraCell’s reformed methanol fuel cell, or RMFC, technology uses a micro reformer to generate fuel-cell-ready hydrogen from a highly concentrated methanol solution. The new portable power system has the density of a hydrogen fuel cell but uses readily available, low-cost methanol fuel in a compact package.