Tags: news
Tags: news
India gifts rickshaw transport to the Pope
Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 2:34 am, Over one day old at Gadling
Filed under: Asia, India, Italy, Video, Transportation, News Looks like the " Pope-mobile " is changing from a Mercedes Benz to an Indian rickshaw! An auto-rickshaw, a black and yellow 3-wheeler that can seat no more than 3 people, is India's most used form of private transport.
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Balloon lawn chair guy to take flight once more
Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 2:34 am, Over one day old at Gadling
Filed under: Arts and Culture, Stories, United States, News A year ago, Justin revealed his fear of heights and told us about Kent Couch who has a thing for tying helium balloons to a lawn chair so he can float across the sky. This time he wants to fly from Oregon to Boise, Idaho.
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Recon 2008 recap
Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 1:55 am, Over one day old at hack a day
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The Really Slow Download Squad: 62% of dialup users don't want high-speed
Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old at Download Squad
So, trying to imagine a time when we felt like a dial-up connection would suit our needs is pretty difficult. But that's exactly how 62% of U.S. dialup users feel, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life project.
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Virtual exhibition: Calling all Paolo Coelho fans
Posted Thursday July 3, 2008, 2:48 am, Over one day old at Gadling
Filed under: Arts and Culture, Blogs, Books, Internet Tools, News If you've read the The Alchemist and want to be a subject of a virtual art exhibition hosted by the man himself -- Paolo Coelho -- the process couldn't be easier. If you don't have the Alchemist on hand, any of his books will do.
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Spirit Airlines to start charging for MIDDLE seats!
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 2:04 am, Over one day old at Gadling
Carriers have done this before -- many current legacy carriers charge extra for sitting in an aisle or window near the front of the plane or in preferred seats. But what Spirit is proposing is to charge for ANY seat selected online before departure -- even the seats that most people don't want.
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British Airways buys L'avion, transatlantic business class market successfully monopolized
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 2:04 am, Over one day old at Gadling
Filed under: Business, Airlines, News British Airways just announced that it was buying L'avion, the struggling business-class-only carrier that has recently been operating flights between New York 's JFK airport and Paris 's Orly.
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Look out! The terrorists have curry!
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 2:04 am, Over one day old at Gadling
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Time Magazine's favorite robots
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 1:41 am, Over one day old at hack a day
See some of these Hack a Day veterans after the break. One of the ones that caught our eye is the Shadow Robot Company's The Shadow Hand we first posted in 2005. Despite its name, this robot was not designed for evil, but to be the best available robot modeled on the human hand.
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SSD hard drives tank laptop battery life
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 1:41 am, Over one day old at hack a day
Their results were quite definitive: not only are they not as energy efficient, SSDs actually use more power than conventional hard drives. Most SSDs on the other hand, only have two states: on and off.
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