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Mint Cleaning Robot: the Next-Gen House Cleaner
Now a day for keeping your house neat and clean, Maids and house cleaning devices like mobs and handheld vacuum cleaners etc have become out dated and technology is in. Now whenever you see or feel your house has become quite dirty, you dont need to do anything in rush, just sit back relaxed and to press the start button of this Mint. Yes, its just as simple as pressing a button because this “Mint” is the smart robot floor cleaner for keeping your house spotless.
Evolution Robotics have launched Mintcleaner, an automatic floor cleaner for busting out the dust from all the hard surfaces in your house like floors, tables etc. No need to worry about the tricky spots like corners, edges and places under furnitures because of the latest technology used in this robot enabling it to sense whenever it comes near a tricky spot. Just place a swiffer brand cloth and pledge on the underneath and just push the start button to allow it to start its work.
This compact machine uses the latest navigation technology in which a small separate NorthStar Beacon projector is kept. It releases infrared light spots on the ceiling that the robot detects and instead of moving in a random pattern, Mint knows the tracks where is has already cleaned. When the cleaning is complete the Mint returns its starting place and turns off to save batter until you asked for new place to clean.
It has already won the hearts of people and introduced at CES 2010 and now it will be soon released to win your hearts and keep your hearts up to date. If you want to know more information, then do visit the site and see how it works and you can even e-mail to know them about this product’s information.
You can see some more geeky gadgets like is also participating in CES 2010 like Jelfin ball shaped gel Mouse or you can see the home gadget likeHidden Wall Safe Socket too.
This is a post from Walyou, who bring you the best New Gadgets gadgets, Cool Gadgets and Hi Tech News.
Mint Cleaning Robot: the Next-Gen House Cleaner [CES 2010]
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Roboni-i is the World’s First Programmable Gaming Robot
There are several cool robotic toys in the market but many do not offer the ability to play against your friends nor do the robotic toys can play as a team in most of the cases. If you were looking for a robotic toy that you could play solo, online, as a team and also against your friends, the Roboni-i could just be what the doctor prescribed!
ZigBee (RF) technology allows you to use the Roboni-i in team based games, and the infrared sensors help the R9oboni-i to interact with other robots. There is no information about the price, but you could certainly try and get one from their site. You could also try other robotic toys that we have written about earlier, like the USB Powered Snowbot or the Robot Fingers, which shall surely kill your boredom.
This is a post from Walyou, who bring you the best New Gadgets gadgets, Cool Gadgets and Hi Tech News.
Roboni-i is the World’s First Programmable Gaming Robot [CES 2010]
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Sherwood INET 2.0: A Multifunctional iPod Dock
Sherwood, a giant name in the Home Electronics recently revealed a multi-functional iPod dock, the iNet 2.0. Due to the boon of advance micro and mini circuit systems, multi-functional devices like the Sherwood iNet 2.0 are on the increase, to help us keep up with the increasing needs.
Being an iPod dock, the iNet 2.0 is capable of playing music and that too with comparatively a bigger set of speakers. The most attractive part of the device is its large touchscreen display of 8-inch. But this is not everything, as this device is capable of performing multiple tasks. You can connect the iNet 2.0 to the Internet using its Ethernet Port on the back or WiFi to turn it into an Internet radio. Moreover, you can even select songs of your choice by the facility of Audio-On-Demand from Rhapsody and Napster.
Furthermore, the device is equipped with additional features to act as an Alarm Clock and also as a Digital Photo Frame. The 1GB on-board memory of Sherwood iNet 2.0 can be further increased by complimentary SD cards or USB thumb drives. The Sherwood iNet 2.0 in every way can be a very useful and necessary device in our daily life, but you still have to keep it in your watch list, as theres still no news of its release date and pricing yet. Some of the equally geeky iPod docks that might interest you are the iPod Bathroom Dock and the Eye Pod Victrola iPod Dock.
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Sherwood INET 2.0: A Multifunctional iPod Dock
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Frigid Farewells: 10 Vanishing Tropical Glaciers
Going, going, gone. Glaciers have been beating a steady retreat as global warming accelerates, and for some it’s a journey of no return. The most vulnerable mountain & highland glaciers are those in the tropics and their loss could be devastating for the local environment, not to mention the plants, animals and people who have depended on their life-giving water for thousands of years.
Qori Kalis Glacier, Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru
(images via: WhyFiles and PNAS)
Qori Kalis glacier in the Peruvian Andes is retreating at a faster rate than at any time in the past 50 centuries. It’s estimated that the glacier will vanish entirely within the next 5 years. Qori Kalis, the world’s largest tropical glacier, is one of many ice tongues extending down from the Quelccaya Ice Cap, the largest body of ice in the tropics.
(image via: WhyFiles)
Besides the dramatic retreat of the Qori Kalis glacier itself, the most worrisome aspect of the above photo is the new glacial lake that has formed from meltwater. Such high-altitude lakes are often unstable and sudden events such as earthquakes and/or the calving of large icebergs can send huge tsunamis of frigid water cascading down into the populated valleys below.
Glaciers of the Rwenzori Range, Uganda and DRC, Africa
(images via: U of Toronto, SkiMountaineer and Touring Zanzibar)
The snow-capped peaks of the Rwenzori Range soar up to 16,761 ft (5,109 m) high and were referred to by the ancient Romans as the Mountains Of The Moon, source of the Nile River’s water. Their great heights have not protected the Rwenzori glaciers from the effects of global warming, however. A survey taken in 1906 showed 43 named glaciers with a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.5 sq km) of ice spread across 6 of the range’s tallest mountains. Approximately half of Africa’s total glacial ice was locked into these frozen rivers. A century later more than half of the ice has vanished, leaving a mere 0.6 square miles (1.5 sq km) of ice on just 3 mountains.
(image via: U of Toronto)
The Elena Glacier on Mount Stanley, tallest of the Rwenzori peaks, shows the dramatic shrinkage documented over the past century but which has accelerated alarmingly in the past several decades.
Glaciers at Iztaccíhuatl, Mexico
(images via: Life In Small Bites, Globalize-Peace and Mapa-Mexico)
There aren’t many glaciers in Mexico… and soon there will be none. “We estimate the glaciers could last another 20 or 30 years,”says Hugo Delgado, a glaciologist from UNAM university in Mexico City. Twenty years ago glaciers existed on three Mexican volcanoes: Popocatepetl,Iztaccihuatl and Pico de Orizaba. By the year 2000 Popocatepetl’s glaciers had vanished though a series of eruptions in the 1990s certainly hastened their demise.
(image via: Treehugger)
38 Snowmen Nightmares: Calvin and Hobbes In Real Life
If you are not a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, then you may not know that Calvin was an imaginative little boy who created snowmen and put them in scenes that would be straight out of a snowman’s nightmare. Little Calvin would have the snowmen in scenes where the snowmen would die horrible, mostly painful, deaths. For ten winters, Calvin and Hobbes created entire worlds of snowmen living or dying in unhappily ever after ways. Here are some of the best snowmen nightmares, where fans of the comic strip created tributes to Calvin and Hobbes snowmen in real life.
Snowmen Nightmares
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If you decide to build a snowman, then perhaps you should startle your neighbors and people who drive by. The first thing you should know is that the snowman should not be set in a smiling and happily ever after scene. Think along the lines of what would be a snowman’s worst nightmare. If you have a dark sense of humor, then it will be easy. If you need some ideas, take a look at the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips and snowmen below.
Snow Monster
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The man-eating snowman is a giant snowman with a huge toothy mouth. Calvin once placed himself in its mouth to create the impression he was being eaten alive. This snow monster above is into cannibalism, catching and eating other snowmen. When Calvin’s dad saw the scene, he said, “I don’t think the schools assign enough homework.”
Repent. The End is Near
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The “Snowmen Prophets of Doom” proclaim that spring is near and the snowmen are melting. Calvin made snowmen and then gave them all signs like,”Repent all sinners,” “The end is near,” and “Spring is coming!”
Snowman House of Horrors
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Calvin created many depictions of snowmen in his “Snowman House of Horror.” Among the snowmen created, a specific snowman had been chopped in half with a sled driven by a baby snowman, the horrified headless snowman, and the snowman with a tree staked through its heart. People have gone with this theme, maiming, stabbing, and killing their snow-people. Calvin said to his mother, “You don’t like my snowman house of horror, do you?”
Snow Sharks
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Hobbes asks, “Snow sharks?” Calvin replied, “That guy’s a goner.” Snow snarks have popped up all over the world to eat snowmen since that time. There were also snow snakes, same idea, the snowman is about to die a horrible death.
Snowman Car Crash
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Perhaps the most famous snowman gag involved Dad’s parked car. Several snowmen were are gathered around with their mouths gaping in horror while they look at the trisected body of a snowman “hit” by the car. Dad then stated, “I think we’d better get that kid to a psychologist.”
Snowmen Slowed Down Traffic
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Modern Trolls: Bridges as Homes & Mini-Cities
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Remember the fairy tales featuring scary trolls who lived under bridges? We were terrified of them as children, and many of us still get a strange, subconscious feeling of danger when approaching the underside of a bridge. But there are people all around the world who really do inhabit bridges. In fact, inhabited bridges were once extremely common in Europe, with France alone boasting some 35 bridges with buildings on them. While they don’t exactly lurk in the dark spaces under bridges, these quirky, unusual homes, shops and cities still bring to mind the magic of fairy tale dwellings.
Krämerbrücke
(images via: Wikipedia)
Krämerbrücke, in the German town of Erfurt, is a bridge that has been inhabited continuously for some five centuries. Even before it was covered in houses, it was used as a footbridge and a trading place for grocers. Today, nearly all of the buildings on the bridge are municipal property and used for retail space. The bridge’s long history as an architectural landmark has afforded it special funding for its maintenance and preservation. It has been repaired and reinforced in modern times so that it can now support the weight of cars.
Old London Bridge
(images via: London Bridge Museum and BBC)
The London Bridge hasn’t always been the plan, bland bridge you see in the City today. The first iteration of the bridge was built around 80 C.E., and since then it has been built, destroyed and rebuilt many times. The first version of the bridge that featured houses was built in 1209, and rent paid by the occupants of those houses was used for the upkeep of the bridge. After the Great Fire of 1666, homes on the bridge were rebuilt into modern block homes with roof gardens. But by 1763, all of the houses were demolished. The bridge has since gone under several more reconstructions, but none of them have included houses. If architect Boris Johnson has anything to say about it, though, future iterations of the London Bridge will again be habitable: he wants to build an 80 million replacement bridge lined with shops, cafes and homes.
Ponte Vecchio
Literally translated to “old bridge,” Ponte Vecchio spanning the Arno in Florence has an incredibly rich history stretching all the way back to the year 996. Like many other centuries-old bridges, it has been destroyed and rebuilt many times since its original iteration. The current bridge is all stone and is one of the few in the area that still feature shops built along the top. The buildings on top of the Ponte Vecchio have always been dedicated to merchants, and they are still occupied by shops today: mostly art dealers, jewelers and souvenir shops. The bridge was famously spared in WWII following a direct order from Hitler, despite all other bridges in Florence being destroyed. He had spent many pleasant visits to Florence walking along the Corridoio Vasariano and admired the bridge so much that he demanded it remain standing.
Bridge House
(image via: Visit Cumbria)
This quaint two-room house in Cumbria, England was built in the 16th century as an apple store for the nearby orchard. It’s said that the owners built it over Stock Beck to avoid paying land tax for it. Over the centuries, it’s been used as a residence (a family with six children once lived there), a gift shop, a weaver’s workshop, an an information center. Today, it’s a cozy National Trust Shop.
Ponte di Rialto
(Images via: abmiller99 and DIWI-SINZIG)
Another Italian treasure, the Ponte di Rialto (Rialto Bridge) spans the Grand Canal in Venice and is home to numerous shops. After many collapses and fires, the bridge was rebuilt entirely in stone in 1589-1591. At the time, the architecture of the single-span, double-inclined bridge was said to be so bold as to be foolish, and critics of architect Antonio de Ponte predicted that it would be a disaster. The bridge has stood the test of time, however, and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Venice.
Pulteney Bridge
(images via: Wikipedia)
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