World's first electric powered all-terrain endurance bike ..

When ever i used to watch an e-bike(An Electric gear-less scooter actually) on road i always thought of possibility of having an actual bike with complete gear and acceleration system as that of original bike .

And now KTM an austrian firm the world's leader in sales of all-terrain motorbikes and Europe's second biggest motorbike constructor after Germany's BMW has said that it actually had produced a prototype of electric-powered all-terrain endurance bike which is very quiet and could develop up to 35 horsepower, weighed 90 kilos (200 pounds) and could run for 40 minutes before recharging. It was designed for off-road sporting use. It has a sales target of 95,000 machines for this year.

Google releases Android as opensource .

Google which previously conducted Android developer challenge now has released Android as an open source for developers to modify and add new features to the existing one's.

It is a complete end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations.

The phones, which cost 179 dollars, 20 dollars cheaper than the iPhone 3G, go on sale in the United States on Wednesday, in Britain in early November and in other European countries served by telecom carrier T-Mobile in early 2009.

Open source project link

Source : AFP

Chinese surfers fury over Microsoft @!#$%@#

Chinese Internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft's launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting computer users to ensure they buy genuine software.

The "Windows Genuine Advantage" program, which turns the user's screen black if the installed software fails a validation test, is Microsoft's latest weapon in its war on piracy in China, where the vast majority of 200 million computer users are believed to be using counterfeit software.

While most of the people argue that Microsoft should have violating people's rights by trespassing into their computer a few of the lawyers termed Microsoft as the biggest hacker in China with its intrusion into users' computer systems without their agreement or any judicial authority.

Source : Reuters

Wow a house that can walk !!

An ultimate solution to beat floods have been designed by art collective N55 in Copenhagen, Denmark, who worked in conjunction with engineers in Massachusetts, US.

Like normal homes, it comes equipped with a living room, kitchen, toilet, bed and wood stove.

But how can it walk?

The property has been built on six hydraulic legs which are powered by solar and wind powered and can stroll at walking pace across all terrains.

A mainframe computer present inside the house controls the house .

The prototype cost £30,000 to build, including materials and time, but the designers believe it could be constructed for a lot less.



Source : Dailymail

When Youtube Beats Yahoo..

When Google is on the verge of acquiring shares in Yahoo, Google's very own Youtube beats Yahoo in comscore's 2008 search engine rankings.

YouTube fetched over 2.6 billion search queries for the month of August trumping Yahoo's 2.4 billion queries

Google still stands on top with 7.6 billion queries.

So the rankings as follows :
#1 Google (As Youtube is a part of Google otherwise it would have been in #2 n Yahoo 3rd)
#2 Yahoo
#3 Microsoft

Rankings

Free download Area 51 game

Midway’s Area 51 is a (FPS) first person shooter game which is completely free to download now.
You take on the role of a military squad commander sent in to investigate a base contaminated by an alien mutagenic virus.

I've played the game its like okay okay in (FPS) first person shoot category. Personally i liked the graphics and in a few instances the route was really not clear but is a very nice concept.

Try it guys its gonna cost u nothing its completely free to download ..

Download Game

Source : Newdaily

Gaming James Bond's Quantum of Solace

The demo version of Quantum of Solace, the game based on the upcoming James Bond 007 movie has been released. The game’s release is to coincide with the release of
James Bond : Quantum of Solace.

This would be the first James Bond game created on the current generation console and also the first to feature Daniel Craig’s voice and likeness, as well as those of Judi Dench, Eva Green, Mads Mikklesen, Olga Kurylenko and Mathieu Almaric. Wow

And ofcourse the core gameplay in Quantum of Solace will be that of a FPS(first-person shooter)


Link : Quantum of Solace

Download the game : Quantum of Solace trail

Blackberry Storm coming this holiday season

Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) which manufactures Blackberry's is all set to release touchscreen Blackberry Storm before this holiday season .

The Storm resembles the iPhone but its color touch-screen differs in that it is "clickable" -- the screen depresses slightly when touched like a typewriter key. This Storm's whole screen is backed by springs, and when pressed, it gives under the finger which ofcourse was the major drawback of the iPhone's Touchscreen , iPhone's glass screen was too much awkward to type on because its virtual buttons provide no tactile feedback .

This mobile ofcourse will be available only to Verizon Wireless subscribers in the U.S. and Vodafone subscribers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

No Price has been disclosed yet..

Source : AFP , AP

Now Youtube goes with Advertising ..

Online Video sharing web-site Youtube now has introduced a new version of its home shopping network inorder to gain more revenue from its massive audience ..

This move justifies the $1.76 billion that Google Inc. paid to purchase this site two years ago.

In this new service unveiled in United States on Tuesday had buttons under the Youtube videos which offered viewers to purchase music, movies , TV shows , games and other products.

YouTube is selling songs only from two major labels, EMI Music and Universal Music Group, and video games made by Electronic Arts Inc at present soon it hopes to expand its advertising ..

Coke n Pepsi killing SPERMS !!!

Oh god gimme a break it happened with tech stuff n now even with edibles n drinks ..

Studies suggest that sodas such as Coke n Pepsi kill sperms.

Study-> A medical student Sharee Umpierre and gynaecologist, Joe Hill mixed four different types of Coke with sperm in test tubes.A minute later, they found that all sperm were dead in the Diet Coke, however, 41pct were still swimming in the just-introduced New Coke.

"It was believed that the carbonic acid in Coke killed sperm".

This research has won the lg Noble Prize for the year 2008.

More of the lg Nobel Prize winners 2008