Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Debunking the 'Patent Troll' Myth - BusinessWeek

Debunking the 'Patent Troll' Myth - BusinessWeek

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Antigravity Machine Patent Draws Physicists' Ire

Antigravity Machine Patent Draws Physicists' Ire: "A perpetual-motion machine may defy the laws of physics, but an Indiana inventor recently succeeded in having one patented.

On November 1 Boris Volfson of Huntington, Indiana, received U.S. Patent 6,960,975 for his design of an antigravity space vehicle."

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Trexa platform lets you develop your own damn electric vehicle! — Autoblog Green

Trexa platform lets you develop your own damn electric vehicle! — Autoblog Green: "Are you one of those people who believes that, when it comes to developing an electric vehicle, you could out-think Th!nk, have keener karma than Fisker or more focus than Ford's EV effort? Perhaps you're just tired of waiting for a product that keeps getting re-designed and re-delayed. Well, now you can build your own damn vision of automotive perfection starting with the new lithium-powered all-wheel-drive platform from Trexa. Heck, given the scalable nature of this substructure, you can develop a whole range of vehicles! The team that brought us the EDrive plug-in Prius has taken that whole skateboard thing, combined it with the iPhone app concept and voila!, a blank mobile canvas awaiting your imagination."

Thursday, January 21, 2010

YouTube - Tesla Roadster Roadtrip: Winning the L.A. - Chicago Challenge

YouTube
- Tesla Roadster Roadtrip: Winning the L.A. - Chicago Challenge
: "Tesla Roadster Roadtrip: Winning the L.A. - Chicago Challenge"

Vimperator :: Add-ons for Firefox

Vimperator :: Add-ons for Firefox: "Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in. For example, it has a special Hint mode, where you can follow links easily with the keyboard only. Also most functionality is available as commands, typing :back will go back within the current page history, just like hitting the back button in the toolbar.

But Vimperator is more than just a simple command interface to Firefox — it is a complete development environment as well. If you are a web developer, you can enjoy an interactive JavaScript shell — even with completion support. Or if you want to extend Vimperator, you can easily do that by just dropping a JavaScript file in its plugin directory.

Vimperator was initially written by Martin Stubenschrott but has found many other contributors in the meanwhile.

=== Features ===

* Vim-like keybindings (h, j, k, l, gg, G, 0, $, ZZ, , etc.)
* Ex commands (:quit, :open www.foo.com, ...)"