I just saw the trailer in its full screen glory and wanted to share with the world. I’m looking forward to this (partial-)reboot of the Star Trek franchise. The trailer hints at a more edgy take on the characters. I’ve already said too much.
Star Trek Movie trailer (link is to the large one). Or better yet, head over to the main trailer page and view one of the HD versions!
Got a TiVo? Well now you can order Domino’s pizza in the US directly from it. Nuff said.
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Here’s a product we first featured back at 2007’s CES show. Since then Ecosol has updated their Powerstick product which is a portable USB charger.
It’s an energy cell that is a bit larger than a USB stick, that can be used to power your portable devices. For example, it can fully charge a typical Blackberry. To charge something, just plug it into the device’s regular power adpater interface via an adapter. The Powerstick itself can be recharged simply by plugging it into a computer’s USB port. It can be recharged up to 500 times.
Version 2 of the Powerstick gets to you to 90% of full charge in less than 90 minutes.
Price: $59.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
If you’re in the market for a Media Center and are not interested in either the Microsoft or Apple solutions, you will want to take a look at this amazing and thorough comparison of the available open source devices and software platforms. This was compiled by the Telematics Freedom Foundation.
Covered devices and platforms include Neuros OSD, Freevo, MythTV and LinuxMCE.
You can either download the PDF version of the doc or view it as a web page.
Bose has updated their popular iPod SoundDock. Now in the Series II, the SoundDock works with any click-wheel iPod or iPhone (including the 3G models). It charges it while playing, comes with a remote control, and offers that famous Bose sound.
But this is not a 1-trick pony. You can also plug in any other MP3 player other audio source into the SoundDock via the auxiliary input jack.
Price: $299.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
In a cool use of search data, Google’s philanthropic arm is tracking queries on illness and correlating it with geolocation data to trend flu activity in the US. The idea here is to try to predict flu trends faster than the CDC normally does based on their methodology. Google in turn works with the CDC to make this data available and useful.
You can find out how this all works by visiting Google’s Flu Trends site.
BTW, you can even download the raw data and toy with it yourself if you’d like.
The SenseWear from Body Media is an electronic gadget that you wear on your arm, that monitors your body’s main stats and gives you feedback on how you’re doing with your health and weight management.
In collaboration with the SenseWear website, users can track their nutrition and progress with up to date accurate information about their bodies - weight, metabolism, calories burned, sleep and more.
Key metrics tracked by SenseWear are Total Energy Expenditure (Calories burned); Active Energy Expenditure; Physical Activity Duration and Levels (METs); and Sleep Duration and Sleep Efficiency.
Gimme!
More info from the manufacturer
Price: $299.99 plus $19/mo for website subscription
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Most diesel vehicles, particularly trucks, manufactured after Jan 1, 2010 in the US will need to have a urea scrubber built in that will ’scrub’ the nitrogen oxide (NOx) from the exhaust.
The urea-based scrubber will reduce the NOx emissions by as much as 90%, and that in turn can be reduced to near zero levels when used with another filter.
Europe is already ahead of us in this game with already about 500,000 trucks having this technology.
Of course, there is already pushback from trucking companies in particular, but let’s face it - there is going to be some pain as we migrate industries and products to more environmentally-friendly systems.
Like linking or embedding YouTube videos in your blogs or web pages? But sometimes you just can’t find the right video that has the clip you want? So instead you link to the much larger video and tell your readers to skip ahead to a specific time in the vid.
Now there’s a better way. YouTube has just introduced a way to tweak the URL to get straight to the good part. All you need to do is append a time spot to the end of the YouTube URL.
For example, if you want to start a video playing at about the 1:03 mark (1 min, 3 seconds in), then you would simply append “#t=1m3s” to the URL.
Here’s a baby attempting to pet the fur out of his cat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vweh3hWrInM#t=1m3s
Panasonic Corporation of North America recently joined the growing list of environmentally conscious corporate citizens who have launched electronics recycling programs.
The Panasonic program began on November 1, 2008, with more than 160 recycling drop-off locations in 10 states, and is slated to expand to all 50 states, with hundreds more sites, over the next three years. For a list of current states and sites see www.MRMrecycling.com.
Good on you Panasonic! Check out other recycling efforts and resources by searching our blog.
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