Inspired by Mount Fuji, Taisei Construction Corporation has completed designs for construction of the world’s tallest building The X-Seed 4000 (no idea where that came from) would stand at approximately 13,123 feet (4 km), nearly 700 feet (213 m) taller than the real Mount Fuji The next tallest buildings don’t even break 2,000 feet, how puny! While likely to never be built, the
X-Seed would have up to 800 floors, and be capable of housing between 500,000 and ,000,000 people.Unlike conventional skyscrapers, the X-Seed 4000 would be required to actively protect its occupants from considerable air pressure gradations and weather fluctuations along its massive elevation. Its design calls for the use of solar power to maintain internal environmental conditions, Some estimate that the cost to construct the X-Seed 4000 structure may be somewhere between $300-900 billion US dollars.Now I’m no astronomer or anything, but if I learned anything in grade school, it’s that 13,123 feet is pretty much the distance to the sun. Which means that the top floor would be perfect for a natural sauna,You heard it here first, if they end up doing that I want credit.
Pillow with Integrated Speakers
From the “Everything must have Integrated Speakers” department comes Mi Pillows. If you haven’t guessed by now, they’re pillows that have speakers inside. They cost $60, and are available through Hammacher Schlemmer (pronounced Helter Skelter). You can hook them up to an iPod or any other audio device and, uh, listen to music while you’re trying to fall asleep. The sewn on control patches don’t work though, so that’s a sham. On a side note, be careful what you choose to listen to while sleeping. Because last night I fell asleep to Black Sabbath and when I woke up this morning I owed my soul to the devil and had bitten the head off my daughter’s parakeet.
If you’ve reached the point in life where you honestly think you need designer drain caps in your sink or bathtub then it might be time to step back and ask yourself if there’s something more productive you could be doing. Because quite frankly I don’t think there’s a single being on this planet who needs an analog clock embedded in the top of their drain caps. The ‘Watch Waste’ as it’s appropriately called is available from Murano House and each piece is hand made in Italy by the finest craftsman who are probably also wondering who’s actually going to buy these. The clocks even have precious stones inset into the face so if a visitor happens to take a close look at the bottom of your sink they’re sure to be impressed by your impeccable taste and attention to detail. As for the cost, well the website asks you to email them for a quote which roughly translates to “You’re charging how much for that?!”
Now I’m not a big fan of posting the latest camera or phone or what have you unless it has something real unique about it. And well, this one does (even if it is a sham and doesn’t work and is a lie and is stupid). The new Sony Cybershot DSC-T200 has a smile detector. Don’t believe it? You’re not alone. But Sony insists.
Using Sony’s proprietary algorithm, this innovative intelligent auto shutter system responds actively to smiling faces. To start, just choose SmileShutter from Scene Selection, then press the shutter fully on the subject to be taken; the camera automatically detects the smiling face and closes the shutter. To detect the different degrees of smiles by your subject, you can set Smile Level sensitivity to “high” (to detect a faint smile), “medium” (for a normal smile), or “low” (for a hearty laugh).
While this sounds like a very interesting feature, I don’t smile. The batteries will die in the camera and the earth will turn to dust before I do. Smiling is for the weak. Showing that much emotion in a photo basically means your mom dresses you and you’re a monster sissy.
Using Sony’s proprietary algorithm, this innovative intelligent auto shutter system responds actively to smiling faces. To start, just choose SmileShutter from Scene Selection, then press the shutter fully on the subject to be taken; the camera automatically detects the smiling face and closes the shutter. To detect the different degrees of smiles by your subject, you can set Smile Level sensitivity to “high” (to detect a faint smile), “medium” (for a normal smile), or “low” (for a hearty laugh).
While this sounds like a very interesting feature, I don’t smile. The batteries will die in the camera and the earth will turn to dust before I do. Smiling is for the weak. Showing that much emotion in a photo basically means your mom dresses you and you’re a monster sissy.
Can your backup solution do this? (DPM 2007)
DPM
Well then you need to head on over to the DPM Team blog or Jason Buffington’s blog and start learning about Data Protection Manager 2007 and the other magic he has up his sleeve. In fact, Jason just posted a nice screencast at http://blogs.technet.com/jbuff/archive/2007/08/20/how-dpm-filter-technology-really-works.aspx on the VSS writers that are used to backup the workloads they expect to be important to you. Check it out!
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