Boeing’s unmanned A160T Hummingbird helicopter takes flight
Not the first Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made. But the Boeing A160HT Humming Bird should be one of the best once further tests and simulation in combat missions is completed.
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Boeing's unmanned A160T Hummingbird helicopter takes flight –Filed under: Transportation
It’s been a few ticks since we’ve seen Boeing send an atypical aircraft into the friendly skies, but the firm’s latest helicopter has successfully completed a 12-minute test flight without so much as a pilot on board. The A160T Hummingbird unmanned rotorcraft is a turbine-powered “warfighter” that aims to provide “intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance coverage” in locales that could make even the most calloused veteran queasy. During its time in the air, it reportedly met every objective set for it, and while we’ve no idea how soon this thing will be lifting itself up, it’ll eventually reach speeds of up to 140 knots and stay airborne for up to 20 hours before returning to base for a pat on the wing.
[Via The Raw Feed, image courtesy of SkyControl]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
[EnGadget]
Universal Network Boot Disk with over 92 different network cards!
Very useful utility, especially if you need to use ghost on a network with non-standard hardware and network cards.
http://www.netbootdisk.com/
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The Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk is a DOS bootdisk that provides TCP/IP networking support. It’s designed for use in Microsoft networking environments, on either peer-to-peer or domain based LANs. Currently 92 different network card drivers all included, all on the single 1.44MB disk! Most people use this bootdisk for “Ghosting” PC’s over a network connection. This disk will provide the DOS networking and drivers to allow the mapping of a network drive containing your imaging software and files. TCP/IP based image transfers, like GhostCast is also supported. About the Disk, Feature List…
Microsoft changes their mind about allowing virtulization of Vista Home and Premium
No virtualization for home or premium? Is a ploy to take more money back from the consumer to buy the “super-duper-more-expensive” version so that you can do virtualization?
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Microsoft ditches about-face on virtualization restrictions at 11th hour –Microsoft this week was about to relent and allow the (legal) virtualization of Windows Vista Home Premium and Home Basic. Then the company pulled the plug on the announcement, but there are signs that a change is still possible.
[Ars Technica]
Error’d: Crashing Las Vegas
This is awesome. I recently took a trick to Las Vegas, and wondered about all of the the neat hardware that runs the screens and lights.
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Error'd: Crashing Las Vegas –Surely, you’ve seen the commercials and are familiar with Las Vegas’ First-Commandment / Clever-Marketing-Tagline: What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas. I suppose we can bend that rule today and share a couple pictures that Christopher Kimbell snapped while he was walking down the strip…
… and later that day …
As for the rest of the pictures that Chris found on his camera after his vacation? I think we’ll just leave those in Vegas…
[The Daily WTF]
iriver’s UNIT2 detailed on teaser site
One of the sexist and functional MP3 devices I’ve seen yet. The iPod had its time, and even the smallest iPod is really sexy. But this is just over the top.
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iriver's UNIT2 detailed on teaser site –Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Mmm, there’s nothing like fragmented high-resolution photos of a lust-worthy device to get us salivating, and iriver‘s marketing department has done an exquisite job figuring that out. Shortly after unveiling the sexiest e-dictionary known to man, the much anticipated UNIT2 conglomerate received its own teaser site, complete with photos and a few extra details you should know. While it has yet to lose its mystique, we now know (officially, at least) that the base will act as a DVD player, TV tuner, access point, charging station, hard drive, and a speaker station. Aside from sporting an SD slot and USB connectivity, this beauty will handle music, movies, photos, eBooks, and WiFi streaming without breaking a sweat. Mechanically, you can expect an automatic sliding door, detachable display, slot-loaded CD / DVD deck, and a 78-key controller to manage the fun. No word yet on the price, but be sure to peek the additional photos below.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
[EnGadget]
Site dedicated to the collection of LOL/LULZ/LAWL Cats!
I found this site through Hoose, who should be posting on this site anyways. This site houses submitted LOL Cats from users on the web, there are some already famous ones located on the site already. They have a random page, that will display random LOL Cat’s.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
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Top 40 Drupal Projects and Modules
A great list of modules that you can use to make your durpal shine. This site at the moment uses quite a few of them with further modiciation.
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Top 40 Drupal Projects and Modules – Angie Byron, Robert Douglass, Jeff Eaton, and Jeff Robbins celebrate the 40th podcast with cake, champagne, and a countdown of the top 40 Drupal Projects. Here’s the list (Many thanks to Greg Knaddison for the linkifying!).
Kitty Photo Craze
I got the following from a friend, thanks Hoose. It’s an article in a newspaper in regards to the cat craze that is spreading. Click on the image for the full resolution picture.
Guru3D Driver Sweeper 0.4.5
Driver Sweeper is a fast tool to remove driver leftovers from your system. It’s very important to remove your drivers on a proper way, because driver leftovers can cause problems like stability and startup problems. You can use it if you want to update/remove drivers from your system.
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800 Break-ins at Dept. of Homeland Security
Wow, this is not cool at all. And to think how much information could already be floating around the internet. “Im in ur Homelands Sekcuritys looking at ur filez”.
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800 Break-ins at Dept. of Homeland Security – WrongSizeGlass writes “Yahoo is reporting about the computer security nightmare going on at the Department of Homeland Security. Senior DHS officials admitted to Congress that over a two year period there were 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and in one instance, hacker tools for stealing passwords and other files were found on two internal Homeland Security computer systems. I guess it’s true what they say … a mechanic’s car is always the last to get fixed.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.
[Slasdot]