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Nanotechnology | Waterproof Sand
German scientist Helmut F. Schulze worked seven years on this so called "Waterproof Sand". The large rolls sandwich the sand between layers of polyethylene and can be produced in lengths of up to 50 meters. "The coating is done in 30 or 45 sec," said Hareb. "We have the capacity of manufacturing 3,000 tonnes per day."
The plant is already in talks with potential customers such as the Dubai Municipality which has inquired about the product as it will work towards greening the Emirate. By simply laying down a 10-centimeter blanket of DIME Hydrophobic Materials sand beneach typical desert topsoil, the new ueber sand stops water below the roots level of the plants and maintains a water table, giving greenery a constant water supply.
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Kitegen – Wind Generator of the future ?
Based on Kitegen’s current evaluations, their wind generators would have a much lower electric energy production cost than any of the current wind farms and would be able to generate up to 250 MW/km2, (vs. the current 3 MW/km2).
Its amazing to think that kiteboarding kites could revolution the windpower future – but actually just a few years back when I was just learning how to kite, ant the kite went into the death spin – it was pretty clear to me how much power this kite technology is capable of. View the prototype test video.
Source: ( Kite Gen ) | Artist illustration out of scale (reduced altitude of the power kites and increased diameter of the lines).
Source: Kite Gen | Artist illustration out of scale (reduced altitude of the power kites and increased diameter of the lines).
Check out this post or visit Kitegen’s website for more videos and technical specificaitons.
TinEye – find out who is using your image
is an image search engine, still in beta & invite only. You are able to upload an image and find out who uses your image on the web. It is so accurate that it even is able to find images that are modified versions of the original one – pretty impressive.
YouTorrent – Hits 300,000 searches/day
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Wow, I was checking today if YouTorrent was still up since I expect this search engine to be shut down any day now, and then I saw a post on their site announcing "300,000 searches/day" – impressive. They mention that they will 500,000 searches/day this month.
I understand how people think that everything should be free but at the same time I really don’t, specially when I see my own software being downloaded and cracked. What is this human notion that effort and ambition should be paid off by just stealing your results – this has nothing to do with freedom of speech or your rights.
Clearly some of you will put me against the wall and mention CherryOS, and say what about that incident – "cmon" I say! I wish I could give you all the facts and you would finally see more then some amplified facts that make up your judgement but I have not the right to do so, not yet.
What I am trying to say is that it is not responsible to create search engines or torrent engines that allow users to grab a hold of anything they want, even if it is possible. You think you are born with a right that people owe you something? Again, I just don’t get it.
Don’t understand me wrong, I like the fact that 3rd world countries have an option to utilize amazing software and content – but be realistic, how many of the 500,000 searches a day are them – would love to see those stats being posted by YouTorrent, give me some demographics please.
Why not unite and force the big Ms to agree to a deal – a deal that gives free licenses and access to the none privileged? Use our strength and power not to boost our ego (that’s what I understand from the post below), but to actually heal it.
From their blog:
1. We have passed 300,000 searches / day, we are on course to hit 500,000 by the end of February (thanks for your support guys!)
2. We have made the Digg front page three times:
http://digg.com/software/YouTorrent_Great_New_BitTorrent_Search_Engine
http://digg.com/tech_news/YouTorrent_Give_It_A_Shot_Before_It_s_Shut_Down
http://lifehacker.com/350405/top-10-bittorrent-tools-and-tricks
3. We made TechCrunch:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/19/youtorrent-give-it-a-shot-before-its-shut-down/
4. We made the top 10 alexa movers and shakers.
As you can see, this is very exciting news for YouTorrent! As far as new features go, we have now added engine customization and improved a few things. Soon you will be able to group torrents by hash, as well as do much more advanced searching. Stay tuned folks.
P.S. If you thought the news above was good, we promise you there is some even more incredible news around the corner
YouTube – API is announced and welcome!
I really got exited last week when YouTube announced some "more open API’s" which will allow webdevs out there to upload videos and video comments from any where – sweet!
We try really hard to make YouTube as open as possible…Nevertheless, we worried that we weren’t open enough. So, we pulled some all-nighters and added some powerful new ways to integrate YouTube content and community into other websites, desktop applications, video games, mobile devices, televisions, cameras, and lots more.
For users, the exciting news is that they will be able to actively participate in the YouTube community from just about anywhere, including the online destinations and web communities they already love and visit regularly. For partners and developers, YouTube has grown into much more than a website. It has become an open, general purpose, video services platform, available for use by just about any third-party website, desktop application, or consumer device. We now provide a complete set of (CRUD) capabilities for uploading, managing, searching, and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube “cloud,” managed by us. We do all of the hard work of trans coding and hosting and streaming and thumb-nailing your videos, and we provide open access to our sizable global audience, enabling you to generate traffic for your site, visibility for your brand, or support for your cause….
The number of possible new applications is endless. Electronic Arts has enabled gamers to capture videos of fantastical user-generated creatures from their upcoming game, Spore, and publish these directly into YouTube. The University of California, Berkeley is bringing free educational content to the world, enhancing their open source lecture capture and delivery system to publish videos automatically into YouTube. Animoto enables its users to create personalized, professional-quality music videos from their own photos and upload them directly to YouTube. Tivo is providing its users a rich and highly participative YouTube viewing experience on the television.
Specifically, the new APIs allow Web developers to:
* Upload videos and video responses to YouTube
* Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc)
* Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international locales
* Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales
* Customize player UI and control video playback (pause, play, stop, etc.) through software