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64 Photos from this year's toy fair (Jan 7-20), covering everything from collectable vinyl toy to robots to DIY plush toys and alternatives for your next skateboard. ....click the link
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Sunday 16 March, 2008 04:24 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The Cassini spacecraft which is studying the giant gaseous planet Saturn and its moons in a joint U.S.-European mission, flew as close as 30 miles from the surface of Enceladus (pronounced en-SELL-ah-dus) on Wednesday.
However, "an unexplained software glitch" occurred at a very bad time and prevented Cassini's Cosmic Dust Analyzer instrument from grabbing data for about two hours as it flew over the surface.
One of the main objectives of the fly-by was to analyze the density, size, composition and speed of particles erupting into space from the moon's south pole in a dramatic plume.
Whilst the analyzer malfunction was unfortunate, "The other four fields and particles instruments on the spacecraft, in addition to the ion and neutral mass spectrometer, did capture all of their data, which will complement the overall composition studies and elucidate the unique plume environment of Enceladus," NASA said.
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 12:08 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - China has overtaken the United States to be the world's largest Internet market by number of users, a research firm said on Thursday. The estimate by Beijing-based BDA was based on data from China Internet Network Information Center which indicated that the country's Internet users now totaled 210 million at end-2007.
"Based on these sources and the assumption that these markets have continued to grow in 2008 to date, at the same rates that they grew in 2007, we can conclude that China has by now comfortably surpassed the United States as the world`s largest Internet population," analyst Bin Liu said in a statement.
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 08:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - In Britain, researchers have developed a remote-controlled and almost silent miniature helicopter called “Microdrone”, that can capture images with both a video and an infra-red camera, thus helping the police to fight crime.
Almost 60cm (two feet) across, the tiny drone is armed to the hilt with crime-fighting technology, including a squirt-gun which can fire jets of a liquid called "SmartWater" , this can be then be identified by police.
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 04:03 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - with more and more people working from home, there is a huge market for nerds or computer Geeks who can keep this army of home workers "on line". One very successful company is called the "Geek Squad" - They claim they can help with almost any gadget, from iPhones to home cinema systems (and if they can't, they are sure to know a geek who can).
"We joke that our agents read manuals for stuff they don't even own," says the company's founder, Robert Stephens. "But that's actually what keeps them up on Saturday nights when everyone else is going out on dates. That takes a special kind of person."
The standard Geek Squad uniform is, black trousers, white shirt, black clip-on tie, white socks, black shoes plus a badge - gold and plastic, like a Toy Town policeman and its woe betide any Geek who doesn't adhere to these standards. If caught by the boss wearing colored socks, the punishment is push-ups and for or a more serious offense it might necessitate the tie being cut.
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Saturday 15 March, 2008 12:06 AM |
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