Hasta La Gadget!

Everyone’s in the studio this week as Donald shares a little too much about his wraparound interactive plasma screen marital aid concept, and a vision for a phone you wear on your face. Fan-created Disneyland blueprints potentially point the way to a secret drug den, and a watchmaker potentially rakes in the dough by making things crooked. At the end, we explore gastronomical extremes that have us reaching for the bucket.

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Episode 20

–Wraparound plasma

–Phones of the future

–Fan-created Disneyland blueprints

–Off-axis watch

Do not Crave

–Touch-screen HD radio

Why you’re fat


–Atlanta Exit Wound

–Easter Sundae

–All-bacon sandwich

MetroPCS updates its Samsung lineup with the Freeform II, a simple candy bar-style messaging phone.

Originally posted at Dialed In

There have been exotic hybrid cars, but nothing quite like this. Though still firmly in the realm of a concept vehicle, Phil Pauley’s Halo Intersceptor is not only an incredible looking machine, but also one that can travel across not only land, but sea and air as well.

Though the details on just how it does that are pretty slim, the car apparently can be modified through a series of attachments that allow it to take to the sea and sky. “The Halo Intersceptor project is a roadmap for boundary pushing Auto Manufacturers to follow,” explains Pauley. “You will see a shift towards this type of design by all sports models within the next decade. Air space is going to become a very competitive place as the global road
infrastructure starts to slow down.”

Via Inhabitat.

This article was written on October 19, 2006 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

Both Mozilla and Microsoft will both be releasing their new web browsers in the coming weeks (IE 7 was just released yesterday but won’t be available as an Automatic Update for a few weeks) and the thing we have to prepare for the most is incompatible websites. I have experienced some problematic sites in both Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 but there are only a handful from the ones that I visit.

This problem can often be fixed on your end by adjusting the user agent to match a browser that works with the site. It is really easy to adjust the user agent string in Firefox 2 and pretty easy to do in Internet Explorer 7, although IE users will have to download a small utility that Microsoft offers.

–Firefox 2 Users (changing the user agent to Firefox 1.5)–

1. Start Firefox.
2. In the Address Bar type about:config and press Enter.
3. Find the option that is named general.useragent.extra.firefox and double-click on it.
   
4. You will now be prompted with the window to change the value of the user agent. Instead of having it say Firefox/2.0 you might want to change it to Firefox/1.5 or Firefox/1.5.0.7 to make the websites think that you are using a version of Firefox from the 1.5 branch.

   

5. Restart Firefox.

–Internet Explorer 7 Users (changing the user agent to IE 6)–

Microsoft has put together this quick utility that you can download (I provided a direct link with no WGA validation needed) and install which will let you change the user agent in IE 7 to match the one in IE 6. That means any site that you visit will think that you’re still using IE 6 and will render the page accordingly.

After you install the program you will see a shortcut on your desktop and if you execute it you should be prompted with a window similar to this one:

As you can see in the screenshot you’ll be given the choice to only change the settings or to change the settings and email Microsoft about the compatibility problem. They are doing this because they are afraid that webmasters will not be adjusting their sites to ensure that they work properly with IE 7.

–Overview–

I know all of us would rather now have to deal with these hassles but they seem inevitable each time a new browser is released. Many sites that appear not to work actually work just fine but they haven’t been updated to officially support the browser. So probably for the next few months it may not be a terrible idea to use these settings until the webmasters actually realize that a new browser has been released and fix what is necessary.

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Google may be best known for its ubiquitous search engine, but the company is also making strides to invest in renewable energy as well. To that end, Google announced that it will be investing in the Atlantic Wind Connection, a transmission backbone that will utilize offshore wind energy to create enough power for 1.9 million homes. For Google, the decision to invest was made because it was “both good business and good for the environment.”

“We believe in investing in projects that make good business sense and further the development of renewable energy,” Rick Needham, Google’s Green Business Operations Director, wrote on the official company blog. “We’re willing to take calculated risks on early stage ideas and projects that can have dramatic impacts while offering attractive returns. This willingness to be ahead of the industry and invest in large scale innovative projects is core to our success as a company.”

Once complete, the Atlantic Wind Connection will be located on a 350 mile stretch off the coast of New Jersey and Virginia. No word yet on when it is expected to be fully functional.