Tony Alleyne spent £100,000 he borrowed with 2 big loans and 14 credit cards to turn his flat into a Star Trek home. His idea was that other Star Trek fans would then pay him to do the same thing to their homes. Unfortunately, he went bankrupt doing this.
Tony, who split from his wife Georgina after he replaced their fridge with a "warp coil" said: "I was convinced Trekkies all over the world would want a house like mine and pay me to do it.
"But I was wrong and just overstretched. Building it in my apartment was the enjoyable and easy bit. But then I got hooked up with marketing and merchandise people here and in America and it all got out of hand.
"I’m still proud of what I created but it’s been a financial disaster."
German Zoo officials have a problem: they want their Humboldt penguins to mate and reproduce, but there are six penguins are gay. They even refuse to mate with specially flown-in Swedish females!
The zoo has 10 male penguins of which six have shown strong signs of preferring male company and formed couples among themselves.
The initiative to "turn" the penguins and make them mate had prompted a furious response from gay rights groups.
Posted by Alex in Toys on February 8, 2006 at 2:23 am
This cute dino toy has 8 microprocessors that control 14 servomotors and respond to signals from 38 sensors. The dino also moves fluidly – it’s destined to be the must have toy of 2006!
Caleb Chung unveiled a lifelike toy dinosaur named Pleo that senses its surroundings, reacts to touch, walks about on its four legs and shows emotion.
The robot, about the size of a toy poodle, expresses sadness and disappointment by gently lowering its head and tail when it’s ignored. Rub its rubbery back or poke its feet, and the 3.5-pound dinosaur springs back to life just like something made of flesh and blood.
David Tschumperlé’s GREYCSTORATION is a very cool (and free) image processing algorithm.
Our algorithm can also be used to perform image inpainting. It consists in filling image regions specified by the user (through an inpainting mask image), by non-linear interpolation.
Sun pillar seems to be vertical rays of sunlight, but it’s actually caused by falling ice crystals. This photo is taken by Jim Kirkpatrick & Brigitte Heiter-Kirkpatrick – see more at the always awesome Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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