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Zero Emission and Style!

Okay, this is a Zero emission concept vehicle I could really get into (assuming of course that I could afford it). The Morgan LifeCar is a concept car due to be launched at the Geneva Show in March 2008. The LifeCar’s purpose is to demonstrate that a zero emission vehicle can also be fun to drive.

The combination of performance, range (up to 200 hundred miles per tank) and fuel economy will allow a sporting driver of the future to demonstrate a concern for the environment.

SWEET! More information can be found on the Morgan Webstie here: http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/lifecar/lifecar.html

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Railguns: Not just for games anymore!

Until recently Magnetic Railguns were only available to players of games such as QUAKE 4; but not anymore! The United States Navy just tested its new railgun, and this 10 megajoule weapon may be the future of death-delivery systems. Rather than using gunpowder like most guns, this thing powers projectiles via magnetic waves, allowing you to launch stuff at enormous speeds over great distances and with extraordinary accuracy (or so they claim).

For more information on railgun technology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun

http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun.htm

http://www.railgun.org/

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Personal Jet Pack Anyone?

I’ve dreamed of getting one of these ever since I saw one used on Lost in Space when I was a kid. And just thin, I could own one this summer for only a 100 grand! Sure it only goes for seventy-five seconds on a tank of gas, um I mean fuel, but I bet it would be a heck of a minute and fifteen seconds! The Thunderpack model TP-R2G2, created by Thunderbolt Aerosystems

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W00t!

I got Call of Duty 4 today! Played the first two "tutorial" sessions and loved them. But, during the first "real" mission all the feelings I had while playing CoD2 and CoD3 came rushing back (only supported by better graphics)! I’m looking forward to playing this game! One tail-waggin happy wolf here

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Cool Factor Alert!

Okay, this gets marks just for the “cool factor” alone. At first sight I thought the lack of the usual number of ports (this has only one USB) was a real drawback; but it does come with 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.0 built in so it’s not as big a deal as I suspected.

You can check it out it out here.

Having been a PC junkie since the early x86 days I never thought I'd buy a Mac; but I might just have to get me this!

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Reminiscing about some old GREAT games!

I just joined 2old2play and have been reviewing a lot of the forum posts. This has got me thinking about the early PC games I used to play a decade or more ago (when Xbox 360 and PS3 weren’t even dreamed of yet). It occurs to me that the original PC games, while crude by today’s standards, were the stepping stones that got me hooked on the whole genre. I think they also provided the foundation that the current games and gaming platforms are all built upon. With this in mind, I wanted to reminisce a bit and pay homage to one of my all time favorite games System Shock (and of course System Shock 2).

For those who haven’t played the game, System Shock was a first-person computer game released in 1994. The game is set aboard the fictional Citadel Space Station in a cyberpunk vision of 2072. Assuming the role of a nameless hacker, your mission is shut down the station’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has had a serious breakdown after its “moral and ethical subroutines” are deleted. Unlike other first-person games of the time, System Shock featured true 3D environments, allowing you to look up and down, climb, duck, jump, and lean to the side. It also had primitive learning capabilities so it could begin to adapt to, and counter you based on your gaming strategy.

One of the best things about the game was SHODAN (Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network) the games AI and the main antagonist. I’ll just say that SHODAN was an AI with seriously bad attitude (and a sarcastic one at that)! Two of her most notable aspects are her malevolent personality and chaotic, stuttering speech. SHODAN was notorious for trying to get under your skin while you played the game. She often challenged you with comments like “look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?" Better yet, her tone and overall demeanor (as well as her verbal challenges) became much more aggressive and threatening as you got closer and closer to winning the game. Just reminiscing about the game brings back great memories of playing it along with several friends from work. That such good memories stick with you for more than a decade says something about the quality of the game and the experience you got from playing it!

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