The 60 mm rotor diameter, 3.3 grams Picoflyer is the smallest size electric powered contra-rotating coaxial-rotor RC helicopter ever built. It is battery powered and it uses the Proxflyer concept to give it inherent stability.
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Although Nintendo hasn’t announced a release date or price for its next-generation console video game, a company executive said Thursday that the “coming-out party” would be at an industry trade show in May.Some investors were hoping that details for the console, code-named Revolution, would emerge in a morning keynote address from company President Satoru Iwata [...]
A man in Illinois was parked in front of a home with an open WiFi signal borowing some Internet access when a cop stoped to ask him what he was doing. The war driver told the cop what and how he was doing it and got arrested for breaking a littel know law in Illinios.
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Laser weapons are still the stuff of science fiction, but the Pentagon is working to change that. One such weapon, now undergoing tests, is the Airborne Laser, a Boeing 747-400F that’s being modified to deliver a beam that can knock missile out of the sky.
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Need medicine to control your anxiety problem? Come to your neighborhood Walgreens. The friendly people there will lift your spirits with kind words like “CrAzY B****” and “psycho” stamped in your Prescription’s notes and posted in their national database. At least that’s how good Walgreens service has been in Florida lately…
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US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez backed angry protests by Apple Computer over a new French law that would throw open Apple’s popular online music store to competitors.
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While analysts and Apple rumor sites have been speculating, Benq confirms that an iPhone is in the works. Their suppliers who work with Apple have been requested to supply parts for the iPhone. Benq also states that the Apple iPhone is common knowledge in Taiwan. The iPhone is expected to be released [...]
Sony announced today that that they will continue to expand their succesful PSP and make a less expensive package. New games are also on their way such as: Daxter, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Essentials, Monster Hunter: Freedom, Me and My Katamari and more.
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“I built a 5-terabyte media server with 20 250GB hard drives–it uses a pair of 500-watt power supplies and has 12 fans running full blast to keep cool. It stores more than 500 of my DVDs, categorized by title, director etc., which it streams to my home-theater PC over a gigabit Ethernet connection.”
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Google has launched a long-awaited financial news site, which will compete directly with significant Web traffic generators for Yahoo! and Microsoft’s MSN unit. Google’s site, finance.google.com, will compile news, stock-price data, stock charts, company fact pages and other financial data, much like the offerings at other finance Web sites.
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