Friday, June 19, 2009

iPhone 3GS come with SIM tool

Nice! Now I have a dedicated tool to swap SIM: no strapless anymore.
Thank you Apple ;-)

Monday, June 15, 2009

INTRODUCING THE WARPSHIP

If you ever wondered how a faster than light speed trevel will look like. Check this out.
It is super cool and I can see myself on the bridge of this ship!
Beam me up, Scotty!

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Thursday, June 04, 2009

INVIZIMALS: innovation from Sony for PSP



INVIZIMALS looks like a pretty cool idea.

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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Air France flight 447 : missing plane

What we learned from this tragic event?

There is no GPS on Modern jets that can automatically talk back to traffic control.

That is both shocking and surprising: Apparently traffic control do not have much idea WHERE most of the planes flying most of the time: what coordinates, what speed and what height.

Why satellites failed to find missing plane

Another disturbing information is about Airbus A330-200 and it flight computer:

From "Qantas emergency landing" :

"The air data computer, which is supposed to correct mistakes by the pilot, sent the A330 into a very steep dive. The computer mistakenly thought that the pilot was trying to climb too fast. In fact the aircraft was level and cruising normally.
The pilot managed to regain control and pull out of the dive but not before all those not strapped in had been thrown around the aircraft."

Some attributes it to bug in algorithm/software that interprets "spikes" from 3 probably also faulty ADIRU sensors.

If some thing similar happened on flight 447 during a very bad weather and potential lighting strike, it may not be enough time for pilot to "regain control" before plane breaks apart by violent forces.

It is not very cool, but as they say, it will take a lot of time and money before it will be sorted out.

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Best parkour EVER!

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