Fun Fact: Open Source Cars

Having an Open Source car sounds great!  Where can I get one?

EDAG’s Light Car EV is open source, doused in OLEDs

Gadget Wishlist

I came across this on this gadget on Engadget, and it caught my interest.  We have an old camcorder that has a battery problem.  It works great if you keep it plugged into the wall, but you can’t capture the moments well like that.  This might make a good replacement!

The price didn’t look too bad: $150 (from here).  It says that it takes up to a 32G card.  If it records at 20min per 1GB, the card would hold over 10 hours of video.  That would be plenty of time  for the things we would do: recording Christmas morning fun, kids programs/plays, ballgames, etc.

This comes out in April.  So, it’s not like we could go out and get it now.

If anyone has any thoughts or knows of other camcorders like this, please let us know.

Fun Fact: Facial Image Search

According to this article, you can use Google Search to search for just pictures with faces in them.

Here is another article along the same lines.

According to the second article, the option is in the advanced search options now.

Fun Fact — Wireless Electricity

It might just be possible!

I first read about it in this article:
‘Wireless power’ could save the day

Company web site:
eCoupled website

Is it possible that we won’t need batteries for our electric cars in the future? The cars will just have an antenna, and instead of stopping at the gas station, we’ll just pay the transportation electric bill.

This would be great for the laptop. I can access the Internet without a cord, but I still have to be close to a power outlet if I am going to be there for more than a few hours. With wireless power, the laptop would truly have no strings attached.