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• Silence Isn’t Golden: Audi ‘Composes’ Engine Noise for Quiet Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

  April 10, 2012 at 12:20pm

  The default engine sounds like one of the light cycles from the ‘Tron’ movies. I see that there could be a market for customized engine sounds, like the ringtones for mobile phones. anyone could customize their electric car to sound like any vehicle, past or present, real or imagined.
  The only problem I see would be bureaucracy. I can’t think of any government official who would appreciate the randomness of a Roman Chariot idling next to an X-Wing fighter

• N.C. Food ‘Inspector’ Sends Girl‘s Lunch Home After Determining It’s Not Healthy Enough

  February 15, 2012 at 7:59pm

  Would they have picked on her if there had been a lettuce leaf or a tomato slice on the sandwich or a pickle on the side? I think they may have.

• The Star Wars Theme Returns: Watch VW’s Super Bowl Commercial Teaser

  January 22, 2012 at 7:08pm

  Does anyone else have a bad feeling about how popular the marching song of a fictional totalitarian regime has become? I’ve heard this done with orchestra, with high school marching bands,on piano, on cellos, as heavy metal, death metal, and even hard drives. On a lighter note, the cantina music is almost as popular.

• Pilot Attempting Record-Setting Flight With Least Amount of Fuel…to Fight Global Warming

  January 10, 2012 at 10:37am

  Burt Rutan already did this, 25 years ago.http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/GENERAL_AVIATION/rutan/GA15.htm
  Of course, he didn’t make any stops along the way

• Israeli Bill Would Outlaw Comparisons to Nazis

  January 10, 2012 at 10:23am

  It sounds like they are trying to attach penalties to Godwin’s law of Nazi analogies, which states that analogies to the Third Reich are to be avoided as they tend to detract from the actual horror of the Holocaust,. For example, referring to the overzealous soup server in Seinfeld as a “Soup Nazi’ would be a violation, whereas forcibly removing people from their homes merely because they are Jewish would not be.

• Is Iran Trying to Launch Its Own Internet?

  January 6, 2012 at 10:24am

  In reply to KingCanon.

  It sounds like they are trying to set up their own hermit kingdom. The surest way to set up their ‘own’ internet would to cut off from the servers in the rest of the world.

• Look Familiar? First Class Cabin of Qantas Airbus A380 Reminiscent of the U.S.S. Enterprise

  January 3, 2012 at 8:46am

  What happens if they hit turbulence? From what I remember of the five series, Starfleet never put seat belts in any of its vessels

• Microsoft Co-Founder to ‘Push Boundaries of Science’ With Venture Into Commercial Space Industry

  December 16, 2011 at 8:09pm

  In reply to dbk4939.

  One of the original concepts for the shuttle was to have a piloted booster which would glide back to the launch area after it had boosted the orbiter. Apparently those who held the purse strings thought that the expendable tanks and SRB’s would be cheaper.

• Could New Riot Shield Technology Make It Hard for Unruly Crowds to Breathe?

  December 16, 2011 at 7:54pm

  Lord Vader would be proud

• Will This ‘OCCU(PI)’ Robot Replace People Protesters?

  November 26, 2011 at 4:35pm

  He’d be good to advertise a business if he were a little larger, say R2-D2 sized.