Fill My Room
Another day and another clone of The Million Dollar Homepage sees the light of day. Now some guy wants us to become part of the internet history by helping him fill his room from floor to ceiling. Different levels of sponsorship are available and an updated screenshot of the room can be seen on the homepage of Fill My Room!
TerraVision
TerraVision is a self-contained, virtual reality, 1-to-1 representation of our Earth. By means of a stylised globe users can zoom in on any location in the world and obtain minutely detailed pictures.The system offers not only satellite images and aerial photos but also geographically referenced data of all types – e.g. topographical or architectural schematic representations. It was conceived as a tool to generate knowledge about the condition and future development of our planet. The display and the resolution were only limited by the quality of the satellite aerial images of the corresponding location.
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From Earth To Mars In Three Hours
The US Government is currently working on a hyperspace engine that could allow interstellar space travel through other dimensions.
The hypothetical engine is based on a controversial theory about the structure of universe which could allow a spaceship to go from the Earth to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days.
The Million Dollar Home Page
It took a 21-year-old a few minutes to come up with an idea which has made him more than one million dollars in four months.With $999,000 banked so far, Alex recalls his thought process at the time. He says:
“I wrote the title to spark the creativity and then wrote down the attributes the idea needed. It had to be simple to set up and understand. It was selling pixels, the dots which make up a computer screen, as advertising space, costing a dollar per dot. The minimum purchase was $100 for a 10×10 pixel square to hold the buyer’s logo or design. Clicking on that space takes readers to the buyer’s website.”
Alex spent £50 on buying the domain name (milliondollarhomepage.com) and a basic web-hosting package. He designed the site himself but it began as a blank page. His last 1,000 pixels will be sold on Wednesday on eBay, in a clever and lucrative twist to the story.
The Groovetube
If there’s nothing interesting to watch on television, you can turn it into an amazing disco light show. The Groovetube is simply a translucent plastic box that suction cups to the screen of your television. It has a grid of dividers inside it that diffuse the colors from your T.V. producing an amazing colorful abstraction of anything you watch. It’s probably the best thing to happen to television since the remote.
Quanta Announces $100 Laptops
The world’s largest manufacturer of laptop PC’s, Taiwan’s Quanta, will manufacture an ultra-low-cost laptop developed by Nicolas Negroponte, the chairman of Massachusetts Institute of technology’s Media Lab. Barry Lam, Quanta founder and chairman, said:
“Quanta would like to contribute its industry-leading laptop technologies to the future success of the project, in hope of affording children worldwide with opportunities not only to close the ‘digital divide,’ but also to bridge the ‘knowledge divide.’ This project signifies a new stage and scale for the laptop industry by including those children never before considered to be laptop users.”
The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child.
SkyScout By Celestron
Learn the mysteries of the sky with this SkyScout which can identify and locate any celestial object visible to the naked eye. Point the SkyScout at any bright star and it will instantly identify the object and guide you through the discovery of the sky.
Radio Control Digital Camera Plane
The Estes XB 39 Eagleye R/C Digital Camera Plane isn’t just a remote controlled plane. You can take amazing digital pictures from an eagle’s eye view with it. The giant Eagleye has a wingspan of 55 inches, is 34 inches in length and has twin ducted fan jet engines. You can take up to 26 aerial photographs with a simple push of a button on the transmitter.
