Apple Loves Ya, Now Go Consume!

Big shock everyone, Apple is a for profit company. And while your taking notes, they know their user base very very well… They make it, you want it whatever the price.
So that little iPod Nano that your drooling over may cost you $200 bucks ( thats almost 50 trips to Starbucks people!) from the local Apple store, it may only cost Apple (praise be thy name) less than half that. From a profit margin like that I’d say that Apple is going to be around for quite a while, little change of them running out of money any time soon.

Your $200 iPod nano costs about $90 to make

ecoMOD Home

ecoMOD

For a school project this is pretty snappy. If I had the chance to buy one of these I would, I wonder what it would be like to live in one. The stress of keeping it clutter free might be overwhelming.

ecoMOD is a student design project at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. The aim is to design a house that is both affordable and eco-efficient. The first design they came up with is modular with an emphasis placed on melding indoor and outdoor space through passive design strategies.

[via Metaefficient]
ecoMOD

Synergy – The Soft KVM

Synergy

Wow! I saw this on CommandN yesterday and figured I’d give it a try. I have to report that I’m impressed with the software. The basic jist of it is that you use one keyboard and mouse between two computers. Works like a charm! I can even cut text from one computer to the other PC, a very handy thing while I sit here and toil away at the blog.
You should go download it and try it out. Next step is to try it on my Mac.

Synergy

Space Travel via Gravity Tunnel

SmallTug

This is great news, if the fuel cost of going between points in our solar system can be reduced there should be a greater incentive to commercialize it.

ANDREWS SPACE OF SEATTLE has awarded SpaceDev a contract to design a small spacecraft to travel through a gravity tunnel – part of the InterPlanetary Superhighway or IPS, a route that eats up less fuel than normal trajectories – to the moon, for the very first time ever.

Small spaceship to fly through gravity tunnel

The SpaceDev web site also has a lunar lander program that you can try out if your running Windows. Looks ok, think of the classic lunar lander game but with 3D graphics.