5:25 PM
Inventor has designed an escalator-like ladder to help firefighters rescue people much quicker than they can with the current ladder system. The hydraulic ladder lets the firefighter climb twice as fast as they do now on a ladder, but the big thing is that right now it takes 15 minutes to carry one person down a ladder from 10 stories high and the escalator can get *4* people to the ground in less than 4 minutes:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-12/invention-month-easy-way
AT&T had criticized T-Mobile for called HSPA+ a 4G solution...until this week, when AT&T has started calling its HSPA+ plans for the first half of 2010 its "4G" service. AT&T also had criticized Verizon for moving so quickly with LTE, saying that it would wait until a year after Verizon because there wouldn't be any LTE devices until a year after Verizon started its LTE service...until this week, when AT&T announced that it would accelerate the deployment of its LTE network and would launch LTE by the middle of this year instead of waiting until 2012:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/ceslive/story/att-accelerates-lte-deployment-will-launch-20-4g-devices-year/2011-01-05
When asked why they are claiming that their HSPA+ is 4G when they sharply criticized T-Mobile for doing so, AT&T basically said that they had to do it since T-Mobile did:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/are-operators-misleading-consumers-claiming-hspa-4g/2011-01-06
Japanese scientists found that tomatoes contain a nutrient which could prevent vascular diseases. Tomatoes also contain a compound that helps prevent obesity-related chronic diseases:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-tomatoes-nutrient-vascular-diseases.html
Interesting company has created a way to wirelessly charge an electric vehicle (monitored via an iPhone app) and to heat instant soup without a microwave or stove:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1101&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=00000&PRODLETT=AB&CommonCount=0
Legoland is really doing a great job of adding things every year--this year's big thing is the Star Wars miniland area:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jan/06/legoland-looks-star-wars-freshen-park/
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-12/invention-month-easy-way
AT&T had criticized T-Mobile for called HSPA+ a 4G solution...until this week, when AT&T has started calling its HSPA+ plans for the first half of 2010 its "4G" service. AT&T also had criticized Verizon for moving so quickly with LTE, saying that it would wait until a year after Verizon because there wouldn't be any LTE devices until a year after Verizon started its LTE service...until this week, when AT&T announced that it would accelerate the deployment of its LTE network and would launch LTE by the middle of this year instead of waiting until 2012:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/ceslive/story/att-accelerates-lte-deployment-will-launch-20-4g-devices-year/2011-01-05
When asked why they are claiming that their HSPA+ is 4G when they sharply criticized T-Mobile for doing so, AT&T basically said that they had to do it since T-Mobile did:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/are-operators-misleading-consumers-claiming-hspa-4g/2011-01-06
Japanese scientists found that tomatoes contain a nutrient which could prevent vascular diseases. Tomatoes also contain a compound that helps prevent obesity-related chronic diseases:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-tomatoes-nutrient-vascular-diseases.html
Interesting company has created a way to wirelessly charge an electric vehicle (monitored via an iPhone app) and to heat instant soup without a microwave or stove:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1101&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=00000&PRODLETT=AB&CommonCount=0
Legoland is really doing a great job of adding things every year--this year's big thing is the Star Wars miniland area:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jan/06/legoland-looks-star-wars-freshen-park/