Power Glove... as a mouse?

So everyone remembers the Power Glove, right?

 

Well now some genious is trying to turn it into a computer mouse...

Yeah so this thing is going to fail... it just will. The Ion Wireless Air Mouse Glove is going to be a faiulre, what were you thinking Bellco?

Yet another alternative to the conventional computer mouse is being marketed, this time a pull-on glove that behaves as a mouse. The Ion Wireless Air Mouse Glove is from a Cocoa, Florida-based company, Bellco Ventures, which describes itself as specializing in new product development and marketing. The mouse glove can serve up functions carried out in the conventional mouse—right click, left click, scrolling, and more.

Read more HERE

Bootleg Toys

Yesterday http://www.bootlegactionfigures.com/ was brought to my attention and today I'm sharing it with you. It's a blog with fantastic pictures of bootleg toys.

 

For exmaple.

Robert Cop

 

Super S Hero and other Superman variants

 

Spader-Man and other Spider-Man variants

Certainly go check the site out... there is a lot more fun just like this over there. Ah, and yes if you have any bootleg toys yourself that are quite comical do send them over to that blog. Thereis a link right there on the blog to do just that.

Indiana: State House Considers Critical Castle Doctrine Legislation for Homeowners!

Second Reading Vote Could Take Place as Soon as Tuesday! 
Please Contact Your Representative TODAY!

Hoosiers across Indiana were outraged last spring when the state Supreme Court ruled in Barnes v. State of Indiana (2011) that declared force against a police officer is NEVER justified. While no one supports our nation's law enforcement officers more strongly than the NRA, this court decision created a dangerous carve-out from self-defense rights, by prohibiting use of defensive force by a person even in the unlikely case of a violent, unjustified attack by an officer acting completely outside his lawful duties.
 
Senate Bill 1, authored by state Senator Michael Young (R-35) and sponsored by state Representative Jud McMillin (R-68), is the product of much discussion and debate on this matter. The Indiana General Assembly has been working for months on this legislation which would re-affirm the Castle Doctrine in Indiana and allow law-abiding and reasonable people the right to a defense if ever they find themselves in such a position. However, your state lawmakers have suffered constant and heavy pressure to maintain the spirit of the Barnes decision and tolerate an erosion of self-defense rights of Indiana citizens.
 
The NRA has maintained the position that until the Barnes decision, the touchstone of the law of self-defense (in Indiana and elsewhere) was good faith action in response to a reasonably perceived threat of illegal action or harm. The NRA has therefore been involved throughout this legislative process in order to protect these self-defense rights of law-abiding citizens in Indiana.
 
The state House of Representatives is set to hear SB 1 on its second reading as early as Tuesday, February 28. This second reading vote provides an opportunity for the addition of a critical amendment to restore pre-Barnes decision self-defense protections, while also preserving the legitimate safety interests of law enforcement officials who act within the boundaries of the law.
 
Time is of the essence! Representative McMillin’s proposed amendment to SB 1 could be voted on as early as this Tuesday. Your state Representative NEEDS to hear from you TODAY in support of the proposed amendment to SB 1 to protect your civil liberties!
 

Contact information for your state Representative can be found by clicking here.

This week in space: special post

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Distant 'water-world' confirmed

This is just cool, so many exciting things about this.

Astronomers have claimed the existence of a new class of planet: a "water-world" with a thick, steamy atmosphere.

Read more HERE

"GJ 1214b is like no planet we know of," Berta said. "A huge fraction of its mass is made up of water."

The ground-based MEarth Project, led by CfA's David Charbonneau, discovered GJ 1214b in 2009. This super-Earth is about 2.7 times Earth's diameter and weighs almost seven times as much. It orbits a red-dwarf star every 38 hours at a distance of 2 million kilometres, giving it an estimated temperature of 230 degrees Celsius.

In 2010, CfA scientist Jacob Bean and colleagues reported that they had measured the atmosphere of GJ 1214b, finding it likely that it was composed mainly of water. However, their observations could also be explained by the presence of a planet-enshrouding haze in GJ 1214b's atmosphere.

Also, read more HERE

 

 

Space roomba

 

The Swiss have a plan for cleaning up space junk currently in orbit, they have made an annoucement about a debris removal device which is hoped to be launched in in three to five years. The first objecting of the program will be to capture two Swiss owned sattelties.

There’s a space junk issue in orbit. In fact, NASA tracks a half-million pieces of orbital debris... more generally gets added with new launches, and there is always the possibility current debris could be fractured in to more from objects reentering orbit and hitting ones there. Cleaning that up does sound like a good thing. The plan is to detect the offending item, match its trajectory, grab it somehow (which includes halting any spinning that it’s doing), then encapsulating everything for an eventual re-entry. Looks like they plan on the whole robot burning up along with the junk during that final stage.

 

Swiss scientists said Wednesday they plan to launch a “janitor satellite” specially designed to get rid of orbiting debris known as space junk.

The 10-million-franc ($11-million) satellite called CleanSpace One — the prototype for a family of such satellites — is being built by the Swiss Space Center at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne, or EPFL.

EPFL said Wednesday its launch would come within three to five years and its first tasks are to grab two Swiss satellites launched in 2009 and 2010.

Read more HERE

Eisenhower and aliens

This isn't the first time such claims have been made in regards to Dwight D. Eisenhower and aliens.

Former American President Dwight D Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens from another planet, a former US government consultant has claimed.

The 34th President of the United States met the extra terrestrials at a remote air base in New Mexico in 1954, according to lecturer and author Timothy Good.

Eisenhower and other FBI officials are said to have organised the showdown with the space creatures by sending out 'telepathic messages'.

The two parties finally met up on three separate occasions at the Holloman Air Force base and there were 'many witnesses', it is claimed.

Conspiracy theorists have circulated increased rumours in recent months that the meeting between the Commander-in-Chief and people from another planet took place.

But the claims from Mr Good, a former U.S. Congress and Pentagon consultant, are the first to be made publicly by a prominent academic.

 

Read more HERE

Invisibility could protect from earthquakes

Anti-Earthquake Invisibility Cloak of the Day

Researchers at the University of Manchester’s School of Mathematics think the same technology used in light-bending “invisibility cloaks” could be used to protect buildings from earthquakes.

Invisibility cloaks, like the one recently created by University of Texas scientists, scatter waves of light away from an object using metamaterials. The earthquake-stopping technology would use specially-treated rubber to disperse seismic waves in the same way, scattering them away from a building.

The seismic waves would be converted into sound and heat energy, the researchers explained in a paper submitted last week.

“Five or six years ago scientists started with light waves, and in the last few years we have started to consider other wave-types, most importantly perhaps sound and elastic waves,”

said William Parnell in a press release.

“The real problem with the latter is that it is normally impossible to use naturally available materials as cloaks. We showed theoretically that pre-stressing a naturally available material – rubber – leads to a cloaking effect from a specific type of elastic wave.”

The next step for Parnell and his team is to put that theory into practice. The technology could eventually be used to protect sensitive buildings like nuclear power plants from earthquake damage.

 

 

That is just fun. Heh.