On the Boardwalk, down by the sea. In a board game with Mario, that’s where we’ll be.Classic Monopoly with a Nintendo twist. Own your favorite characters, buy them power-ups and invincibility. Travel via Blue Falcon, pay your taxes to keep the Warp Pipes working, and eliminate your enemies! $34.99 Read Full Story

SHANGHAI, CHINA: In 2008, the sales revenue of PCB (Printed Circuit Board) products in Chinese market has achieved RMB118.8 billion, and the single sided printed board, double sided printed board, multilayer printed board, and flexible printed board account for the 2.5 percent, 6.9 percent, 73.8 percent, and 16.8 percent of the total market, respectively. Read Full Story

LIVONIA, USA: TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. announced its next generation Airbag Control Unit designed for maximum flexibility to allow the integration of a range of pre-crash occupant safety functions as well as inertial sensors for stability control. The Company has confirmed that the technology will start production with two major vehicle manufacturers in 2012. Read Full Story

TOKYO-23rd November 2009 Before making my trip to Tokyo, I dutifully researched whether my (unlocked) iPhone would work normally in the land of the rising sun. I read internet blogs, asked friends who lived in Japan and read various on- and off-line guides. The result was a set of conflicting viewpoints: no, it wouldn’t work at all; [...] Read Full Story

A leasing program for rooftop solar panels that made Connecticut a leader in green energy is being discontinued for lack of funds. Dale Hedman, director of project development at the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, which provided money for the program, said Friday that he was sending a letter to Connecticut’s burgeoning ranks of solar-panel installers saying his agency will stop accepting applications for residential users Dec. 31. The Clean Energy Fund is an independent state agency th... Read Full Story

There are two main criticisms of focus fusion. 1. Hydrogen-boron fuel allows too much x-ray cooling * The hot plasma of this fuel will emit x-rays too quickly, * the energy lost through the x-rays will always be more than the energy gained by fusion reactions.* the fusion reactions would not heat the plasma suffieicntly, * thus the very high temperatures required for burning hydrogen-boron completely would not be reached. * The rate of radiation depends on the square of the electrical charg... Read Full Story

Picture from 2006 tests of a DC-X like rocket Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, has a rocket company called Blue Origin The website for Blue Origin indicates plans for unmanned flights in 2011 and manned flights in 2012. Flight testing of prototype New Shepard vehicles began in 2006. Blue Origin expects the first opportunities for experiments requiring an accompanying researcher astronaut to be available in 2012. Flight opportunities in 2011 may be available for autonomous or remotely-controll... Read Full Story

There are some rare individuals with IQs in the 200’s and their brains are not larger than regular people. Highest IQs Ever The dominate, rigorously researched, and documented answer (who had the highest IQ) is German polymath Johann von Goethe (IQ = 210), second to Shakespeare in literature, with a vocabulary of over 90,000 words, inspiration to Darwin, with his theories on maxilla bone evolution, mental compatriot to Newton, with his theory of colors, and founder of the science of hu... Read Full Story

TAIPEI, TAIWAN: The second day of LEDforum is mainly highlighted on the exhaustive analysis of LED TV, automotive LED, and the global LED market reports, and will probe into China’s market in depth. Ruan Jun, Deputy Secretary of China Solid State Lighting Alliance, said that the Cross-Strait can develop standards mutually in the future, constructing a demonstration area of the semiconductor lighting project together. Today, Ruan Jun will do a specific presentation on China’s semicondu... Read Full Story

  Unp is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files in easy way. It support several compressors and archiver programs, chooses the right one(s) automatically and extracts one or more files using a single command. It supports rar, zip, tar.gz, deb, tar.gz2, rpm etc.. How to Install unp in ubuntu / Debian $ sudo apt-get install unp Usage Method 1 (unpack all archives in a directory) $ unp *.* Method 2 (unpack, for example, all .rar archives in a directory): $ unp *.... Read Full Story