(CNN) — A Korean company has created a car engine that runs on air.
The engine, which powers a pneumatic-hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), works alongside an electric motor to create the power source.
The system eliminates the need for fuel, making the PHEV pollution-free.
Cheol-Seung Cho, of Energine Corporation, told CNN the system is controlled by a computer inside the car, which instructs the compressed-air engine and electric motor what to do.
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Forget Hybrids, Forget H2
March 31, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonXForms For The Masses
March 31, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonThe FormFaces project team announced their open source ECMAScript XForms solution today. The engine processes XForms entirely on the client side and runs on any ECMAScript and DOM Level 2 powered Webbrowser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Konquerer, Safari and others). All the author has to do is add one JavaScript include to her XHTML/XForms document: .
Filesharing Goes to Supreme Court
March 29, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonWASHINGTON (CNN) – High-tech reached the nation’s high court Tuesday as Supreme Court justices questioned whether online file-sharing networks could be held accountable for copyright infringement.
At issue is whether the entertainment industry can continue aggressively pursuing not only those who illegally download copyrighted songs, movies and photos, but also those who sell file-sharing software and services.
A San Francisco-based federal appeals court in August ruled those file-sharing companies were not responsible, since their products do not directly tell users where they can download protected material.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios sued the two makers of file-sharing software, Grokster and StreamCast Networks, claiming it has lost billions of dollars in revenue from the illegal distribution of its property, and has had to spend millions more developing anti-theft technology and prosecuting offenders.
Just remember this, nobody sues the gun manufacturer when their loved one is murdered. Just because something can be used to break the law, does not mean it will.
8.2 Earthquake Hits Indian Ocean
March 28, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonOfficials in Thailand and Sri Lanka report that residents are evacuating coastal regions in the Indian Ocean after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 8.2 struck off the coast of Indonesia Monday.
In Thailand, thousands of people in the six provinces affected by the December 26 tsunami were moving to higher ground or 2 km (1.25 miles) inland, the governor of Phang Nga province said.
Sri Lanka also issued a warning that the earthquake may spawn a tsunami that would reach Sri Lanka’s shores by about 3 a.m. Tuesday (4 p.m. ET Monday) and urged those living in low lying areas to move to higher ground.
'Hang-and-Run' Artist Strikes NYC Museums
March 25, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonIn a reverse-theft of sorts, a British artist has been sneaking his works into some of New York’s top museums.
Scientists recover T. rex soft tissue
March 25, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonA 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Paleontologists forced to break the creature’s massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead something looking a bit less like a rock.
Easter Traditions Stem from Paganism
March 25, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonEaster is the holiest Christian festival, celebrating as it does the resurrection of Christ, but oddly enough cute bunnies and chocolate eggs have become its most recognized modern-day symbols.
The roots of the holiest day in the Christian calendar appear to lie in a pagan spring festival that celebrated the Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility, known as Eostre or Eastre.
Heretical Weed Challenges DNA Rulebook
March 25, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonA dreary weed that grows in the cracks of parking lots has caused an uproar amongst biologists by challenging one of the basic laws of genetics.
U.S. researchers, reporting Wednesday in the journal Nature, say their lab samples of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) appear to bust a fundamental rule of inheritance.
Convention dictates that all of one’s genetic toolbox, for better or for worse, is handed down from one’s parents.
But in the bizarre case reported in Nature, the weeds seem to have genes that existed in their grandparents, but not in their parents.
A new approach to web applications
March 25, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonIf anything about current interaction design can be called “glamorous,“ it’s creating Web applications. After all, when was the last time you heard someone rave about the interaction design of a product that wasn’t on the Web? (Okay, besides the iPod.) All the cool, innovative new projects are online.
A new approach? WTF? This shit isn’t new. Get real! Yay buzzwords!. Yes, it’s cool. It’s been cool for years.
Here’s something else that is cool: BAM.
Faster XML ahead?
March 24, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonThe Net’s top standards body is getting closer to speeding up XML-based software, a move that could benefit everyone from cell phone carriers to television broadcasters to the military.
But critics say the group’s favored approach could cause major compatibility problems, among other things.
If you BIN it they will come (Mobile Apps).
Diner finds finger in chili
March 24, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonA diner at a Wendy’s fast food restaurant in San Jose, California, found a human finger in a bowl of chili prepared by the chain, local officials said Wednesday.
“This individual apparently did take a spoonful, did have a finger in their mouth and then, you know, spit it out and recognized it,” said Ben Gale, director of the department of environmental health for Santa Clara County. “Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited.”
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!! And apparently Wendy’s is serving it up.
Thieves make off with three-bedroom brick house
March 24, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonLINDALE, Texas -— When Smith County Constable Dennis Taylor got a call reporting a stolen house, his first question was, “Is it a trailer house, ma’am?”
“No, it’s a brick house,” the real estate company representative replied.
Board by board, shingle by shingle, for nearly three months, thieves dismantled a three-bedroom brick house in this East Texas town and carted it away until only a pile of rubble was left.
Authorities allege Brandon Ray Parmer, 29, and Darrell Patrick Maxfield, 44, both of Tyler, took the house apart and sold it for drugs, in plain view of everyone cruising by along Lindale’s main street.
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“It’s the strangest case I’ve ever worked in my life,” Taylor said. “Everybody drove by and waved at them.”Put a frog in boiling water….
News Agency Sues Google, Testing Fair Use
March 22, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonIn a case that could set limits on Internet search engines, the French news agency AFP is suing Google Inc. for pulling together photos and story excerpts from thousands of news Web sites.
Agence France-Presse said the “Google News” service infringes on AFP’s copyrights by reproducing information from the Web sites of subscribers of the Paris-based news wholesaler.
The issues raised by the case have profound implications for the Internet, where anyone can be a publisher and Web journals, or blogs, are becoming more frequent destinations for seekers of news.
This clearly could have a profound impact on the blogging world.
Iceland Grants Citizenship to Bobby Fischer
March 22, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonIceland, the country where Bobby Fischer won the world chess championship a generation ago, grants citizenship to the 62-year-old recluse. This was a boost to Fischer’s efforts to fight deportation from Japan to the United States.
VS2005 Pricing and Licensing
March 22, 2005 — Aaron FulkersonFirst off, only Microsoft would use the word “simplifies” in the headline of the press release that ultimately requires reading through a zillion Web pages and following flow charts to figure out. Having taken the time today to do just that, I hope I can save Larkware readers at least a bit of trouble. My guess is that a lot of your are already MSDN subscribers and Visual Studio users, and so you might well be interested in what’s coming our way whenever the next versions release.
