Invented by Dutch entrepreneur Anton van den Brink, Carver One steers like a car and banks like a motorcycle:
… what happens when you drive a Carver: you ‘carve’ corners. And even when there are none, you will be carving down the roads, carving your way through traffic, constructing your own track just like skiers carve down snowy slopes.
At low speeds and in reverse, the cockpit stays upright. As soon as you gain speed and turn the steering wheel, the cockpit banks, just like a motorcycle or, even better, an aeroplane, as the Dynamic Vehicle Control (DVC™) system automatically adjusts the tilt angle of the cockpit to the speed and acceleration of the vehicle, enabling a plane-like ’tilting before cornering’.
Some Orange County residents are still waiting for their loved one’s headstones. Customers said the headstone maker has been hard to find since a suspicious fire at his business.
Channel 9 went to his last known address, but didn’t get any answers. Instead, the person at the home threw a pitcher of water on WFTV reporter Leland Vittert.
Cruz Hernandez just celebrated her 128th birthday, making her the oldest person in the world:
According to national records, Hernandez was born on May 3, 1878, in one of the country’s central provinces, where she gave birth to 13 children. She now has 60 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren and 25 great-great grandchildren.
Gas Tank Orchestra features a wide range of instruments including strings, reeds, horns, and percussion, all constructed with discarded automobile gas tanks from the streets of New Orleans by Artist/Musician/Scientist Gregory John Wildes. GTO is an orchestra improvising with improvised instruments.
James Beaton-Johnson, Elias Fares and Amy Trottier, three J.L. Ilsley high school students discovered a cheap and effective way to clean up dirty water:
The trio got the idea from a documentary about a Japanese fish farmer who tossed oyster shells into a pond and found it cleared the dirty water.
The students at J.L. Ilsley high school began experimenting with scallop shells immersed in dirty dish water. The water cleared in 24 hours. Elias Fares, James Beaton-Johnson and Amy Trottier claimed second prize in the Aventis Biotech ChallengeCourtesy: BioNova
They discovered the shells’ shape and chemical makeup neutralizes pH and also helps filter out coliform bacteria, sediment and heavy metals.
Nearly 4,000 mothers in Manila, Philippines, set a world record for the largest number of women breast-feeding their babies at one time:
Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, whose city is one of the event’s organizers, said 3,738 mothers simultaneously breast-fed their babies for at least one minute, breaking the Guinness World Record.
The United Nations Children’s Fund said the previous record was held by the City of Berkeley, California, where 1,135 mothers simultaneous breast-fed babies for a minute on Aug. 3, 2002.
What do you get when you combine a keyboard and a mouse? Well, you get this weird gadget which purpose is to eliminate the needs to switch back and forth between the two devices (very useful for Exel spreadsheets, apparently).
The left unit is stationary and provides the function of the left hand side of a conventional QWERTY keyboard. The right unit has a similar mass and centre of gravity to a conventional mouse. It also has a similar grip.
The combimouse right unit is a mobile combination keyboard and mouse that can be moved around on a support surface like a conventional mouse. The keys are arranged in the fashion of the right hand side of a conventional QWERTY keyboard.
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