Tesla Roadsters cover 10M miles, American Chiropractic Association members laugh maniacally

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• Tesla Roadsters cover 10M miles, American Chiropractic Association members laugh maniacally
• Facemood for iPhone [App Of The Day]
• Facemood for iPhone [App Of The Day]
• Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look
• TRIM Enabler Increases Solid State Drive Performance in OS X [Downloads]
• Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development
• Grab The Darkspore Beta Through Steam Now [Blip]
• Students build self-balancing TIPI robot, plan new world order (video)
• Altoids Tin Radio
• Final Fantasy III Is The Best And Most Expensive Final Fantasy On The iPhone [Kotaku]

Tesla Roadsters cover 10M miles, American Chiropractic Association members laugh maniacally Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:01 PM PDT If you've been following the development of Tesla's first production car, the Roadster, you probably already know that it can do up to 240ish miles on a charge -- or an awful lot more in perfectly ideal conditions. Cumulatively, though, they can go much, much further. Tesla has sold around 1,500 of the things since they were introduced in 2008, and the company is able to keep track of just how far each has covered. Together that first batch of cars has just covered its 10 millionth mile, which is probably enough to drive to Pluto or to some other arbitrary feat that usually gets bandied about when these sorts of milestones are achieved. Suffice it to say it's a long way. Tesla says roughly 500,000 gallons of gasoline were saved compared to what would have been burned in conventional supercars, but given the pretzel-like contortions required to climb in and out of these things we're left wondering just how many backs were broken in the process. Continue reading Tesla Roadsters cover 10M miles, American Chiropractic Association members laugh maniacally Tesla Roadsters cover 10M miles, American Chiropractic Association members laugh maniacally originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

Facemood for iPhone [App Of The Day] Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PDT Facebook isn't just made for stalking hot chicks, you can keep up with your friends too! But friends make it tough when they start posting cryptic, emo status updates—what do they really mean? Facemood for iPhone reads those updates and gives their updates a happiness and sadness rating. More »

Facemood for iPhone [App Of The Day] Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PDT Facebook isn't just made for stalking hot chicks, you can keep up with your friends too! But friends make it tough when they start posting cryptic, emo status updates—what do they really mean? Facemood for iPhone reads those updates and gives their updates a happiness and sadness rating. More »

Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PDT While not a game per se, I found Mitoza intriguing enough to spend quite some time with it. You start off with a seed, and are then presented with two choices: you can either click a flower pot, or click a cute little birdie. If you click the flower pot, a flower pot appears and the seed is planted inside. You're then presented with two further choices -- a water can or a bottle of fertilizer. Each choice you make causes your creation to morph, and presents you with two other choices. There's no winning or losing, really. Each "game" usually lasts around four or five choices, at which point the plant/animal dies in some creative (but not too gruesome) way. At this point you instantly start over with a new seed. The graphics are captivating; the whole thing has a cinematic feel to it, with a bit of artificial camera shake added for style. All in all, it's a fun, peaceful way to spend a few minutes, and it might even make you think a little bit while you're at it. Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments

TRIM Enabler Increases Solid State Drive Performance in OS X [Downloads] Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PDT TRIM is a command that lets you take advantage of your solid state drive (SSD), it isn't available in OS X by default. TRIM Enabler patches Snow Leopard systems to take advantage of it and get better performance out of their SSDs. More »

Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:57 PM PDT Hugh Pickens writes "Ted Dziuba has an interesting and amusing post on how he made a big mistake when he was offered a choice for his company laptop. His options were a Lenovo Thinkpad or a MacBook Pro, and he picked the Mac, thinking it would be closer to what he was used to. So what's wrong with using the Mac as a development machine for Milo, a Python application backed by PostgreSQL and Redis? 'I've only poked around a little, but so far I've found three separate package managers for OS X: Fink, MacPorts & Homebrew,' writes Dziuba, adding that when you are older, you will understand the value of automated version dependency satisfaction. Next is that your development platform should be as close as possible to your production platform, but 'OS X and Linux have different kernels, which means different I/O & process schedulers, different file systems, and a whole host of other implementation details that you'll write off as having been abstracted away until you have your first serious encounter with "It Works On My Machine.'" Finally, he says, Textmate sucks. 'Sooner or later, you have to face facts. Man up and learn Emacs.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Grab The Darkspore Beta Through Steam Now [Blip] Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:40 PM PDT Steam makes it easy to get into the beta program for Maxis' Spore spin-off Darkspore. Just head to the Steam web site and install. Darkspore was recently delayed until the end of April. More »

Students build self-balancing TIPI robot, plan new world order (video) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:32 PM PDT Remember this guy, the QB robot that was priced at a whopping $15 grand? Seemingly, the webcam wheeler inspired a team of young minds at the University of Waterloo, who've unleashed the DIY in themselves to build one of their own. TIPI, or Telepresence Interface by Pendulum Inversion, was designed to give humans the feeling that they're not actually talking to a six-foot tall cyclops cyborg with an LCD face and webcam eye, but rather, evoke the emotions drawn when speaking the old, conventional, face-to-face way. Thanks to this team of mechatronics engineers, the low-cost TIPI uses an accelerometer, gyro and pendulum to balance by itself and can be remotely controlled while communicating via its Beagle Board and Polulu Orangutan SVP brain. Head past the break to see the robot struttin' its stuff -- oh, and get ready to rave. You'll see what we mean. Continue reading Students build self-balancing TIPI robot, plan new world order (video) Students build self-balancing TIPI robot, plan new world order (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Make  |  Project TIPI  | Email this | Comments

Altoids Tin Radio Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:30 PM PDT The awesome Craig Smith is at it again. He continues to explore the venerable crystal radio, now focusing on miniaturization. And that, of course, means on thing: Mint Tin Crystal Set! Craig writes… I’ve made a half dozen battery-free crystal radios in about eight weeks. But I always wanted to try to stuff one inside of an Altoid tin for on-the-go. The short ground wire and long antenna wire that connect via an RCA plug, store neatly inside the tin. The 2000 ohm crystal earphone would fit in the tin if the long tube was chopped off. 200 turns of a 27 gauge wire on a 5/8" cylinder gets me tuning in the upper AM band. Perhaps I need to include a 3" copper ground spike to get a good ground in the field. Or would clipping onto a damp root be a better ground? Input? Input? More: Lovely junk-built crystal radio Firefly Workshop X-Wing Mailbox How-To: Hack a Magic 8-Ball Flat-pack observatory roof prototype Piecing together a vintage Radio Shack 150-in-One kit Three-stage brush cleaner

Final Fantasy III Is The Best And Most Expensive Final Fantasy On The iPhone [Kotaku] Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:20 PM PDT Final Fantasy III was released in 1990 in Japan for the Famicom, not to be confused with North America's Final Fantasy III, which was actually Final Fantasy VI in Japan. Final Fantasy III introduced many new features to the franchise… [Kotaku] More »

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