LHC Works and Here’s The First Picture!

Written by Jay Garrett on September 10, 2008 in: General Interest, News, science | Tags: , , , , , , ,

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), better known as the Black Hole Maker was switched on a couple hours ago, everyone survived and the first beam of protons made the 27km sprint smashing into an absorbing doopher called a collimator.

And this is the first pic from the thing :)

Apparently, and more to the point, worryingly, the LHC worked like a charm to the surprise of the present physicists.

Makes you feel nice a secure doesn’t it? 

Read more at the NewScientist.

TAG Heuer Meridiist; the 21st Century Pocket Watch

Written by Jay Garrett on July 13, 2008 in: General Interest, Mobile Phones, News, Portable Media, fashion, watches | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

TAG Heuer MeridiistWe’re all now getting quite used to the fashion label/phone mash-ups so seeing known watch-maker TAG Heuer’s name attached to one didn’t even cause me to raise an eyebrow.

To be honest, the design is quite interesting but not enough to get my want-juices flowing.

The specs include a Bi-directional hour display dedicated to time with chronograph measuring the 1/100th of a second, a Lap-timer, Perpetual calendar, Countdown (not the word and numbers game), World Clock and an alarm.

The Meridiist aims at being the 21st century pocket watch, in fact the direct quote is:

“pocket-watch with a phone complication”

TAG Heuer Meridiist 2
………….Hmmmm……..but pocket-watches were quite stylish on the end of chains.  Besides, how many people have waistcoats with watch pockets these days?

The watch/phone does have a unique secondary top screen that displays the time and the easy-to-use UI has only 5 entries in the start up menu.

Apparently the design has been inspired from the Microsplit and Monaco products if you’re familiar with the range - personally I’m a RADO man.

The phone has been Swiss engineered and hand assembled from 430 components and constructed from corrosion-resistant watch making 316L steel.

The dual displays have been crafted from scratch-resistance 60.5 carat sapphire crystal.

It has a 28-day standby time and 7 hours of talktime.

Via - Gizmodiva

NOVA - World’s Largest LED Display

Written by Jay Garrett on May 1, 2008 in: General Interest, Hardware, News, Television/TV | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

NOVAThe Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has unveiled NOVA, a 3D LED display to mark its 150th anniversary.

It is the world’s largest 3D display measuring 5 x 5 x 1 metres and weighing a not unconsiderable 3.3 tons!

It is made up of 25,000 lightballs, each of these contain 12 LEDs.

It’s capable of displaying 16 million colors and 25 images per second. It lives in the main hall of Zurich’s trainstation and it will be there ’til September 2009.

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