Flying Car Gets Green Light From Feds Flying car company Terrafugia, whose website conveniently includes a pronunciation guide (say it with me: “Terra-FOO-gee-ah”), has announced that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has granted the company specific exceptions regarding their Transition vehicle. The Transition aims to fulfill the dream that we’ve been promised since the earliest days of prognostication: The flying car. Unlike other projects like the Skycar, the Transition is meant to function as both a street-legal car and a light aircraft. For Terrafugia, receiving these exceptions is a great accomplishment but it is by no means the last hurdle for the Transition. (Terrafugia via Geeks are Sexy)
Dz De Luxe - Timeline Comcast Is Bringing Skype to TV Soon you might be heading to the television to take a call instead of the phone. Comcast has partnered with Skype, a video-calling service that was recently purchased by Microsoft, to offer the service for TVs sometime next year. Subscribers who rent a video kit from Comcast will be able to use their TVs to make and receive calls from other Skype users — regardless of whether those people are also using a TV for the call. Although Skype-enabled TVs have been available since last year, this is the first time that Skype will be available to Comcast subscribers regardless of which TV they own. Comcast hasn't yet announced what it will charge for the kit, but presumably it will be less expensive than purchasing a Skype-enabled television. "Your television is ringing" might become a new household phrase. [via Associated Press]
Olivia Manning, 12 ans et déjà un QI plus élevé que celui d'Einstein ! Et si le prochain Einstein était une femme, et qu'elle avait douze ans ? Olivia Manning, une jeune fille britannique, n'en est peut-être pas encore là, mais toujours est-il que l'adolescente possède un quotient intellectuel supérieur à celui du célèbre physicien théoricien à l'origine de la théorie de la relativité. Le QI de l'Anglaise atteint en effet 162 points, soit deux points de plus qu'Einstein mais aussi que le cosmologiste britannique Stephen William Hawking. Olivia Manning a donc été acceptée au sein de la très prestigieuse Mensa, cette organisation internationale dont le seul critère d'admissibilité est l'obtention de résultats supérieurs à ceux de 98% de la population aux tests d'intelligence. Fondée à Oxford en 1946 au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Mensa a pour objectif affirmé de promouvoir la paix et faire bénéficier l'humanité des bienfaits de l'intelligence. La jeune Britannique originaire de Liverpool aura donc fort à faire. Ajouter au classeurLecture zen
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