Mark Willis [DeathMark | DrMong]

Aston Martin’s £1m car…

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

The world is apparently in financial crisis... car companies are apparently struggling (even though they've all been making vast profits for 10-50 years)... shops are pulling the 'administration scam' BUT ASTON MARTIN, who usually slap a £120,000 price tag on their cars, have unveiled a £1,000,000 car called the 177 ...

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The Google Carbon Cycle

Monday, January 12th, 2009

"A google search produces 7g of carbon dioxide" Two search requests on the internet website Google produce as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle, according to a Harvard University academic. US physicist Alex Wissner-Gross has conducted research into the environmental impact of "googling". A recent study estimated the global IT sector ...

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Gears of War & Cannon FS100.

Friday, October 31st, 2008

A few weeks ago I treated myself to a Cannon FS100 camera. It's a lovely little camera with a powerful 45x optical zoom (some "smart zoom" feature - it's only actually 39x optical) and 2000x digital (which is just stupidly pixelated). It records onto SDHC cards, and comes with some software to ...

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‘GTbyCitroen’. A concept car from Citroen.

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Citroen brought 4 concept cars to the Paris motorshow 2008. One of them is very 'un-citroeny'. Citroen’s star exhibit is a car so fast it doesn’t even have time for spaces in its name. This is the “GTbyCitroen”, a brand new concept, designed in conjunction with Polyphony, the people behind ...

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Carbon Fibre Nokia 8800

Monday, September 29th, 2008

We at TechRadar have always struggled to understand why Nokia makes a phone that has gems encrusted into the enter button. But yet people buy it. And Nokia thinks "Hey, let's relaunch it made of the same stuff those fast cars are made of. Then people will think it's super-cool again!" So, ...

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ICare MotorBike concept.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Something you'd expect to see in a film like iRobot, the iCare motorbike concept is a brand new aproach to the widly accepted motorbike design. There is no news yet as to whether or not this bike will actually go into production. I guess alot of sci-fi fans that ride bikes are ...

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The PS3 has lost Sony 351 Billion Yen.

Friday, June 27th, 2008

... or $3.3 Billion USD. In the company's fiscal 2008 annual report, Sony revealed that they've now lost roughly $3.3 billion (that's billion with a B) on the Playstation 3 since its launch. That breaks down to $2.16 billion in 2007, followed by a notably smaller but equally daunting $1.16 billion ...

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Oh hi! I’m 7 miles above Earth.

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

American Airlines says customers will be able to test in-flight Internet access on two flights beginning Wednesday, with broader service expected to begin in the following couple of weeks. Once it's running, AA says it will cost ~$10/$12 depending on flight length to connect to the internet. Say on a Trans-Atlantic Boeing ...

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The Large Hadron Collider | END OF THE WORLD?!

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise ...

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3D TV!

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Japan, the land of KILLER ARMY ROBOTS and the home of unique TV... has allegidly come up with this, the 3D TV! Imagine their gameshows in 3D! Hyundai is offering -- in Japan only -- the first product for watching the 3-D programs that cable stations in Japan now broadcast about ...

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