I found this youtube video and I was just amazed!! This bot solved the 4×4x4 cube like it was nothing! Check out the video below.
“Possibly the first ever 4×4x4 LEGO Rubik’s Cube solver? This Rubik’s Cube solver was designed and programmed using a Nokia N95 mobile phone, a LEGO Mindstorms NXT and lots of LEGO technic pieces!”
Anyone who buys this is an idiot! Why would you buy a gold PS3? It doesn’t make any sense what so ever…I don’t know, I guess the rich have nothing else to spend their money on these days. What they should do is give me some money so I can advertise the blog! 
If even those aren’t exclusive enough, check out this gold NES cartridge, which sold back in July for a staggering $17,500. Now that’s what we call bling.
What do you get the gamer who has everything?
Answer: this 24-karat gold-plated Playstation 3, which comes complete with two matching controllers and a one-year warranty.
You might want to consider a second mortgage first, though: pricing starts at (yes, starts at) $4999. And we thought the PS3 was expensive when it launched at $500.
If that doesn’t quite do it for you, the same supplier also offers a mighty snazzy gold-and-black Blackberry Tour 9630, starting at a mere $899. There’s that worrying “starts at” again. The menu also includes platinum-plated iMacs — no home’s complete without one — and promises a jewel-encrusted limited-edition PS3 will be on sale in a few weeks.
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While it comes as no shock that everyone would like to make a little more money, it may be surprising to learn that 83 percent of working Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national mean salary was $42,270. Those surveyed in the study said that they would need to make $250 to $1,000 more per paycheck to live comfortably.
But what if you could increase your salary to $60,000 or more per year? If the mean national average just isn’t cutting it anymore, consider investing in online education or further career training to shift into a job with a higher income. Below are five diverse career options for those who want more out of their paychecks.
Postsecondary Education Teacher
Shattering the notion that teachers make poor salaries, this career offers a nice salary and much faster than average job growth, with 23 percent growth expected between 2006 and 2016. Postsecondary education teachers instruct in areas related to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, and English as a second language. Some teach exclusively while others do a combination of teaching and research.
Education requirements can vary widely based on specialty. A master’s degree will likely be required for university teachers, while those teaching at career institutes will mostly need to demonstrate experience and expertise in their field. If you have an inquiring mind and enjoy instructing others in your favorite subject, this may be a fulfilling career path for you to consider.
Mean annual salary: $60,080.
Registered Nurse
This is the largest health care occupation in the U.S., and the one expected to see the most job growth in coming years. Registered nurses help the sick and assist doctors and other medical professionals, usually in a hospital setting. You may be familiar with the basic duties of a nurse, from treating patients to recording health information to educating and supporting patients and family members. RNs often specialize in a particular area, such as geriatric or pediatric care. This is a vital career within the health care system, and a promising path for those who enjoy helping others.
There are several paths to becoming a registered nurse, from earning an associate’s degree in nursing (ADN) to a bachelor’s of science in nursing (BSN).
Mean annual salary: $65,130.
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Network and computer systems administrators can be found in offices, small businesses, and government organizations — really, anywhere where a computer system is vital to business operations. In today’s society, this is just about everywhere, perhaps explaining why this career is expected to see much faster than average growth over the next seven years. Network and computer systems administrators are responsible for designing, installing, and maintaining an organization’s computer systems. They usually need a bachelor’s degree in an area like computer science or information systems. Without a degree, prior experience in the field is considered essential.
Mean annual salary: $69,570
Occupational Health and Safety Specialist
These professionals enforce the rules for health, safety, and environmental regulations in the workplace. Their job description is primarily concerned with keeping workers and the general public safe, and may include designing work spaces, testing air quality, or inspecting machinery. Additionally, they aim to save the organization money by reducing absenteeism, keeping equipment running properly, and lowering insurance premiums.
Training for this career can vary from an associate’s to a master’s degree. Some employers prefer a bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety or a related field like engineering or biology.
Mean annual salary: $63,030.
Technical Writer
Putting technical or specialized information into understandable terms is the main duty of a technical writer. They make technical manuals, catalogs, and assembly instructions easily digestible for the general reader. Technical writers are mainly found in the information technology industry, planning and editing technical materials, and overseeing the layout of these publications.
A college degree is usually desired for writers, and for technical writers, a degree or certification in their technical area is becoming more of a standard in the field. It is common for scientists, technicians, and engineers with good writing skills to transition into technical writers.
Mean annual salary: $64,210.
Now that you have some ideas for exciting, high-paying jobs, consider how you can parlay your interests and talents into a $60,000 or higher paycheck. In addition to the financial cushion, you may find yourself more fulfilled in a career that reflects your true potential.
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This is sad…Keep reading to find out what I mean. We could cure so many kids yet we do nothing.
HANOI, Vietnam – Diarrhea doesn’t make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention.
Yet even though cheap tools could prevent and cure both diseases, they kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each a year globally — more than HIV and malaria combined.
“They have been neglected, because donor or partnership mechanisms shifted their emphasis to HIV and AIDS and other issues,” said Dr. Tesfaye Shiferaw, a UNICEF official in Africa. “These age-old traditional killers remain with us. The ones dying are the children of the poor.”
Global spending on maternal, newborn and child health was about $3.5 billion in 2006, according to a report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. That same year, nearly $9 billion was devoted to HIV and AIDS, according to UNAIDS.
Pneumonia is the biggest killer of children under 5, claiming more then 2 million lives annually or about 20 percent of all child deaths. AIDS, in contrast, accounts for about 2 percent.
If identified early, pneumonia can be treated with inexpensive antibiotics. Yet UNICEF and the World Health Organization estimate less than 20 percent of those sickened receive the drugs.
A vaccine has been available since 2000 but has not yet reached many children in developing countries. The GAVI Alliance, a global partnership, hopes to introduce it to 42 countries by 2015.
Diarrheal diseases, such as cholera and rotavirus, kill 1.5 million kids each year, most under 2 years old. The children die from dehydration, weakened immune systems and malnutrition. Often they get sick from drinking dirty water.
The worst cholera outbreak to hit Africa in 15 years killed more than 4,000 people in Zimbabwe last year. The country recently reported new cases of the waterborne disease, and more are expected as the rainy season peaks and sewers overflow.
Rotavirus, a highly contagious disease spread through contaminated hands and surfaces, is the top cause of severe diarrhea, accounting for more than a half million child deaths a year.
A vaccine routinely given to children in the U.S. and Europe is expected to reach 44 poorer countries by 2015 through the GAVI Alliance.
“Every child in the United States gets it, even though they have access to clean water and hygiene,” said John Wecker, of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, a Seattle-based nonprofit that is part of the vaccine alliance. “The only effective way to prevent these deaths is through vaccination.”
Diarrheal diseases received more attention in the 1980s and 1990s, he said, but interest has waned or been diverted elsewhere, allowing them to creep back.
“How did the leading killers end up at the bottom of the global health agenda? I don’t know,” Wecker said at a recent GAVI meeting in Hanoi. “We’ve got the tools. We’re not looking for the next technological breakthrough. It’s here now and it’s not being used.”
Death can often be prevented by giving children fluid replacement, a simple recipe of salt and sugar mixed with clean water to help ward off dehydration. Yet 60 percent of children with diarrhea never receive the concoction, according to a WHO and UNICEF report released last month.
“It is so preventable,” said Dr. Richard Cash, a Harvard University expert who helped develop the oral rehydration therapy 40 years ago. “Preventing the deaths is at the very least what we should be striving for.”
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This will be a very interesting concept.
A new law requires some airplane seats to be equipped with air bags tucked into seat belts.
Over at Gizmodo they have a post referring to Apple’s new iMacs benchmark.. Here’s THEIR post
Disclaimer: Our—and others—review units are not high end machines with Core i5/i7 with high end ATI graphics, so we can’t speak for the top end of iMacs. Also, the charts above are not indicative of anything, whatsoever.The 27-inch iMac we’re testing is a nice machine, but the specs—3.06GHz Core2Duo CPU with 4GB of 1066MHz RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics set up—are the stock low end parts for that size. And that chip is the higher end (built to order) CPU of the previous generation. (The graphics situation is weirder. The ATI card here is better than the stock 9400M NVidia setup of the old base 24-incher but not better than the built to order ATI 4850 option; the 4850 remains the top end choice for this generation’s iMac, too.) These quick test results show a few changes, but, well, there are plenty of issues that nullify any meaning that can be interpreted beyond “duh”. (Longer bars are better in both charts.)
First of all, XBench is just falling apart as a test these days, having being revised a long time ago and taking advantage of zero of the latest OSX technologies. Also, from what we’ve seen, XBench scores take a hit in the openGL rendering on Snow Leopard, compared to Leopard. The new machine seems slower than the old 2.66GHz iMac we tested last year (With OS X 10.5) in XBench in OpenGL and overall because of Snow Leopard, not the new computer. Plus, Xbench is just really, really old. I don’t really trust these results, especially running between two operating systems.
Secondly, we used Geekbench. Geekbench runs in 32 and 64-bit mode in Snow Leopard and has been updated to take advantage of varying number of cores. (It’s multithreaded better than most software and not surprisingly given the simple nature of a synthetic bench). As you can see, though, Geekbench only tests core system tests focusing around CPU/Math/Memory performance. And here, the faster chip has the advantage, apparently in 64-bit mode, too. This isn’t surprising either and the numbers don’t jump off the page.
So, you’ll have to wait for us to test Core i5/i7 machines with ATI 4850 graphics and—Apple willing— 16GB of RAM before we can comment beyond the fact that this machine is prettier by 45% than the last generation of iMac.
But, even if we had that machine, the quad core CPUs don’t have enough software beyond native Snow Leopard apps to really take advantage of the extra cores. There’s always turbo mode, which bumps utilized cores up in speed when software isn’t running across all four channels, but you’re talking about chips that run slightly slower clocks than Core2Duos, so its up in the air how turbo that turbo can get.
Point being: I have nothing for you. More soon.
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ou’re probably tired of hearing about the Blackberry Bold 9700 or Bold 2. This doesn’t just look fantastic. It is, but I’m not sure if it can replace my iPhone just yet.
Specs:
AT&T*, the choice for twice as many smartphone customers than any other carrier and the first U.S. carrier to offer BlackBerry® service, announced today that the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM; TSX:RIM) will be available for AT&T consumer and business customers in the coming weeks. The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 builds on the success of the original Bold model, introduced nearly one year ago, also on AT&T’s nation’s fastest 3G network. AT&T is the only U.S. carrier to offer the original BlackBerry Bold and will be among the first to offer the new BlackBerry Bold 9700. Customers can learn more about the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 by visiting www.att.com/BlackBerryBold9700.
The device is a beautiful combination of black and chrome accents that house a brilliant high-resolution display in a compact and lightweight package. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 features a 624 MHz processor with 256 MB of Flash memory, 3.2 megapixel camera and A-GPS to provide a faster location fix in support of AT&T Navigator with real-time traffic data. The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone also features an innovative touch-sensitive trackpad instead of the previous trackball for quick and easy access to email, messages, apps and more. It will also come preloaded with AT&T Visual Voicemail at no extra cost.
AT&T users of the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 can enjoy other benefits only available to them including the best coverage worldwide and access to the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network with more than 20,000 U.S. hotspots — including approximately 7,000 Starbucks locations. As with all other Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerry smartphones from AT&T, BlackBerry Bold 9700 users with a qualifying data plan, which includes all consumer BlackBerry unlimited data plans, get seamless and unlimited access to these domestic hotspots at no additional cost. When traveling outside the U.S., BlackBerry Bold 9700 users can enjoy wireless voice coverage in more than 215 countries and wireless data coverage in more than 185 countries. Of those, BlackBerry Bold 9700 users can access ultra-fast 3G mobile broadband services in more than 100 countries.
“AT&T was the first choice for BlackBerry in the U.S. and we remain the best,” said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president, Devices, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “When you combine the BlackBerry Bold 9700 with the nation’s fastest 3G network, access to the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network and best coverage worldwide, it adds up to an unparalleled customer experience. We are proud AT&T is ranked number one in customer satisfaction among smartphone owners.”
Mobile users will enjoy outstanding battery life, simultaneous voice and data capabilities and the ability to run multiple email accounts whether they are corporate or personal accounts. The device also affords power users the ability to edit Microsoft® Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® files and runs BlackBerry OS v5.0, which supports BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0, making it possible for users to add follow-up flags to emails, manage Microsoft® Exchange mail folders, forward appointments and view calendar attachments. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 can also be used as a 3G modem for a laptop computer with an additional data plan.
“The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 delivers state-of-the-art features and performance in a compact and beautifully designed handset,” said Don Morrison, Chief Operating Officer at Research In Motion. “This sleek and powerful 3G smartphone offers an incredibly refined mobile experience that is ideal for both personal and professional use.”
The BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone will be available in the coming weeks for $199.99 (pay $299.99 and receive $100 mail-in-rebate.) AT&T smartphones require the purchase of a monthly data plan. Other monthly charges apply.
For more information, visit www.att.com/BlackBerryBold9700. For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit www.att.com.
For more information and detailed disclaimer information, please review this announcement in the AT&T newsroom at http://www.att.com/newsroom.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
† AT&T Wireless imposes: a Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge of up to $1.25 to help defray costs incurred in complying with obligations and charges imposed by State and Federal telecom regulations; State and Federal Universal Service charges; and surcharges for government assessments on AT&T. These fees are not taxes or government-required charges.
When I saw this video I was just amazed…Technology that we have today; just keep getting better and better.
