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    The Zero-Emissions One-Wheeled Motorcycle

    By Posted on 5.28.2008 53 Comments

    Uno Cost to Develop: $45,000 Time: 2 years Prototype | | | | | Product Just before his plane dipped into the clouds above Beijing International Airport two years ago, Ben Gulak caught the last clear view of the sun that he would see for two weeks. On the ground, the 17-year-old, who was on a family trip to China, quickly spotted a source for much of the thick haze hanging over the city: smog-spewing motorbikes. Thousands of them, everywhere. “Right then,” he says, “I decided that I wanted to create an alternative mode of transportation, something clean and compact.”

    5.13.2008 at 03:59pm - Comment by TAYV

    now this is cool. make it go to 150km/hr and I'll buy two!

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    The Anonymity Experiment

    By Posted on 3.3.2009 34 Comments

    In 2006, David Holtzman decided to do an experiment. Holtzman, a security consultant and former intelligence analyst, was working on a book about privacy, and he wanted to see how much he could find out about himself from sources available to any tenacious stalker. So he did background checks. He pulled his credit file. He looked at Amazon.com transactions and his credit-card and telephone bills. He got his DNA analyzed and kept a log of all the people he called and e-mailed, along with the Web sites he visited.

    3.3.2008 at 07:23pm - Comment by TAYV

    In the future everything will be monitored and no one will really have true privacy unless they choose to live as a hermit. The two big issues pushing this will be "national" security (although it will probably be considered global security) and a move towards cashless society where your identity will be tied up in everything you do (ex. fingerprinting and iris ID or even the use of RFID chips). Although we should all try hard to defend our privacy, we are fighting a losing battle and its a matter of time before true privacy will no longer exist.



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