For those who need to use the Internet while your on a vacation, fear no more! Well… assuming that you get a Tech Chair from PC World. While relaxing on the sand, you can access your favorite gadgets with the Tech Chair.
So how does it work? The Tech Chair’s energy is sourced from no other than the sun. Yes, it uses solar energy to function. It also has a few sockets to charge up your MP3 player or your notebook, along with a built-in monitor and a sound system.
If this idea was to really be produced, people will be able to be connected to the Internet world while they’re enjoying a nice sun tan!
As the Tech Chair also emphasizes mobility, it is meant to be very light and also small (when folded).
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Recently, these images were released on the net and has caused quite a buzz among people. What is this thing?!
This mysterious monster resembling a tadpole is actually a photo taken back in 1965 at Stonehaven Bay, Hook Island, Queensland. It was originally taken by a photographer named Robert Le Serrec. It was originally spotted by Le Serrec’s wife and estimated as about 30 feet long. However, when Le Serrec and his friend Henk de Jong went underwater to film it, the length is reported to have seemed to be about 75-85 feet.
However, many people are already proposing that this is just a long time hoax, with Le Serrec placing a long piece of plastic in the water and stabling it with a bit of sand on the edges.
During the 1960s, there was also a report of a huge sea monster resembling an eel and a tadpole. But again, no one knows whether this is real or not.
Is this amazingly huge eel/tadpole-like monster real? It’s up to you to decide.
Source: ScienceBlogs
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Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) reported that they discovered a fossil dating back to 500 million years ago. It is a fossil of the stromatolite, one of the earliest known life forms, and has a 1.5 meter in diameter and weighing in at over two tons. This fossil is now seen by experts as one of the most intact and complete head of the stromatolite.
The fossil was found by Boxley employees who were moving a pile of rocks when they discovered this mysterious looking “rock.” An immediate call was made to a Boxley professional geologist, who first suspecetd ti as a stromatolite and later called the VMNH to inspect the discovery. The VMNH verified it as a stromatolite fossil.
“Education about the Earth and its geologic wonders is something we feel strongly about at Boxley,” said Jeff Perkins, a Boxley representative commented. “We feel the best place for the stromatolite is at the Virginia Museum of Natural History where it can be viewed by the public and accessible to scientists who are seeking to unravel the mysteries of our past.”
This recent discovery will definitely play a big role in better understanding the Earth in its early days.
Source: VMNH
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Today, more people are interested in getting their skyscraper up as high as possible. Well, Australia’s EnvironMIssion thinks otherwise. They think that their Solar Tower needs to go higher rather than some skyscraper!
According to recent reports, the company has goal of setting up a Solar Tower as about 1 km high in the southern part of USA. This tower would be surrounded by a 2.5 km radius panel that would receive the sun’s energy and convert it so it can be used for heating homes.
Basically, the tower renews the energy through the use of the temperature difference between the bottom and the top of the tower. The difference in the temperature between the bottom and the top is approximately 50 degrees. As hot air tends to rise up, the hot air from the panel will go through the tower. Calculations show that the speed is approximately 15 meters per second.
The rising air will then turn the 32 turbines, creating 200MW, which can heat about 200,000 typical households while preventing about 900,000 tones of greenhouse gases from being released into the environment.
This tower will be way higher than the Burj Dubai (approximately 650 meters) and be nearly as tall as twice the Empire State Building. The EnviroMission team believes that this can play a key factor in solving the issue of the depletion of fossil fuels.
Source: EnviroMission
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Did you know that our planet Earth makes weird sounds that, just maybe, aliens can tune into?
This mysterious sound that humans cannot tune into on Earth is created outside of Earth. While it has been known since the 1970s, only recently was this “horrendous” sound recorded. Simply the sound is created by the clash between the charged particles of the solar winds and the Earth’s magnetic field. According to the experts, it is similar to origin of auroras.
These radiowaves are actually blocked by one of the charged layers in our atmosphere known as the ionosphere. If these waves ever were to come in, they would completely disrupt and overwhelm the radio signals and stations, as they are 10,000 times stronger than the strongest military signal!
Known as the Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR), this wave could potentially be tuned in by aliens as it is do-able, as the recent data from the European Space Agency’s Cluster mission shows that these waves were being sent off to the cosmos in a beam-like fashion.
Who knows what beings might actually be listening to our pale blue dot?
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