Winait CD130BT, Ultra-slim digicam

This digital camera, although it will not have spec magnificent to hi-end, extremely but, with design its make miss can't mention. Because, at important its price cheap more than design that see very much

Winait CD130BT, digital camera will to make you feels to are like is James Bond like that with that be luxurious compact, sexy and super-slim, with the thin thickness only 13.5 cm or a half-inch-thick digital camera that shoots 640x480 pixel, and internal memory 64MB (make you have can to pick a photo 52 pic) its tiny flash drive is full, and then you have to deal with its ancient USB 1.1 connectivity, making you wait for those low-rez shots to make their way to your PC or Mac. But the file size of the pics is probably not that big, so USB 1.1 might be limited to a minor annoyance.

Winait CD130BT, the price of a camera that 24.99$, convenient for buy to a gift


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this is a quick prelim ilustration i drew & colored in prep for the story "curt connor's in shed; prologue" writen by zeb wells and colored on the book by mat hollingsworth published in web of sipider-man #6

DP, you are NOT helpful

Dear Digital Project,

Thanks. Thanks so very much. No, really, I am truly in debt to you for providing me with such a wealth of information. Your communication skills are enviable. Dick Cheney would be proud of you...

Sincerely,
Nate

DP, you are NOT helpful

Dear Digital Project,

Thanks. Thanks so very much. No, really, I am truly in debt to you for providing me with such a wealth of information. Your communication skills are enviable. Dick Cheney would be proud of you...

Sincerely,
Nate

"Bank robots" to assist visitors in a big complex

Modern office is or a building complexes nowadays like to build have spreading invast area and allocate differ a room or an office is many room, sometimes like into virtual cities, many time might lose time with seeking room or division to will go, which often require proper assistance to trace and visit different counters or divisions. Thus then have one office has idea for solve this

"Bank robots" or "multilingual robots" from the Visitors Center in Madrid, Spain has come up with multilingual robots to assist and move visitors from one section to another stretched in a big complex. All the visitors need to do is access the mechanical swarm and select the desired language to type the desired destination on an integrated touchscreen to be passed on to an automated system to safely navigate them to their destination. Check out the video after the jump.

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Edi-Mobile concept

Here is designed a very original mobile phone that call "Edi-Mobile" or concept that Edison would have loved and it’s packed with the technology of 100 years ago

Edi-Mobile concept, have idea designing will that seem retro by compose the crank initiates the call and there’s a slide out numeric keypad, the old-school receiver and "mic". The wooden body also has its charm, while those two metallic "boobs" are the ringing bells that announce a phone call, probably. But the best bit is the 50 lb lead battery required to operate it. Unlimited text messaging not included.

Designer: Bill Gould

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Photo taken from the model

Photo taken from the model

Parti drawings (final)

The site is actually surrounded by the walkway that different views of Villa Muller would be caught from different points. Also, serise of opening on each facade provides beautiful views from interior. This interpretes the idea of "interection" within Villa Muller.

Within the design, it will be easliy found that there is a repeatable object appearing on each level. This built-in furnituure certainly refers to Adolf loos's architectural language which is the way of welcoming people into the building, especially at the entrance. Instead of putting door at the centre of the entrance, providing sitting there seems to be more invited from outside looking.

The stairs illustrates the idea of "connection" in this building. It links all parts of the building both horizontally and vertically. People would have choice to go up or down when they get into the building. I guess this is the reason why the main entrance of the building has been set up on the right in terms of the direction of the slope

From my point of view, level four might be thought as the most interesting level of all that the way of defining the space. As the biggest room been set up as a double height space, people who are seating in the dinning room could look down into the main hall directly and actually see what happening there. It creates the inner-relationship between the spaces. Also, people who are walking on the stairs could see through the colums along the side of both spaces. In addition, it is interesting to find the way Loos created that how people can go to the dinning room from main hall, which people have to walk out living room first then get into next room compare to the way how people could see directly from dinning into main hall.

On the roof, it is interesting to think about the reason which Loos wanted to put the walls on half way and tried to achieve the view area as shown above. It might be said that he wanted to hide something that he didnot really want to see at that moment. Because at the time this house been built, we are not really sure about wnat was actually surrounding the building.

Parti drawings (final)

The site is actually surrounded by the walkway that different views of Villa Muller would be caught from different points. Also, serise of opening on each facade provides beautiful views from interior. This interpretes the idea of "interection" within Villa Muller.

Within the design, it will be easliy found that there is a repeatable object appearing on each level. This built-in furnituure certainly refers to Adolf loos's architectural language which is the way of welcoming people into the building, especially at the entrance. Instead of putting door at the centre of the entrance, providing sitting there seems to be more invited from outside looking.

The stairs illustrates the idea of "connection" in this building. It links all parts of the building both horizontally and vertically. People would have choice to go up or down when they get into the building. I guess this is the reason why the main entrance of the building has been set up on the right in terms of the direction of the slope

From my point of view, level four might be thought as the most interesting level of all that the way of defining the space. As the biggest room been set up as a double height space, people who are seating in the dinning room could look down into the main hall directly and actually see what happening there. It creates the inner-relationship between the spaces. Also, people who are walking on the stairs could see through the colums along the side of both spaces. In addition, it is interesting to find the way Loos created that how people can go to the dinning room from main hall, which people have to walk out living room first then get into next room compare to the way how people could see directly from dinning into main hall.

On the roof, it is interesting to think about the reason which Loos wanted to put the walls on half way and tried to achieve the view area as shown above. It might be said that he wanted to hide something that he didnot really want to see at that moment. Because at the time this house been built, we are not really sure about wnat was actually surrounding the building.

Poche drawing (final)

Poche drawing (final)

Autopilot

You ever watch a movie or read a book and feel like the writer/director is just phoning it in?

I've been having that feeling a lot lately.

I think I first became aware of this as I was reading "Under the Dome" by Stephen King. I already went on a rant over his use of stereotypes, so I won't belabor the point. But lately it seems like whenever I try to read something by a favorite author, or even watch a movie by a director who is usually reliable, I am ho-hummed to death. Is it me? Or does it seem like once a certain level of success is achieved, people just stop trying?

I started musing on this topic after trying to read Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris. I've been a fan of Harris ever since her first Sookie Stackhouse book came out. She was one of the first to really tap into the paranormal romance market and Sookie is still a unique character in a market littered with spunky female heroines. Harris parlayed that success into several other directions with a cable television show and another series of books featuring another unusual lead character-- and I've been enjoying all of it; until now.

The Harper Connelly Mysteries, Harris' other paranormal series, is slightly controversial in nature in that the main character (spoiler warning) engages in a sexual relationship with her step-brother. I don't particularly object to this as a plot-line, I'm all for taking risks and letting the story go where the author wants it to go. But in reading this book I noticed that Harris has started treading familiar ground with her writing by letting religion be the requisite bad guy.

I have a real love-hate relationship with religion in fiction. I love it when authors play with biblical lore, but I hate it when authors use religious fanatics as the go-to villain; it's just too easy and it's been done to death.

Where Harris went wrong with her book is that she falls back on a bible-thumping relative to be the voice of disapproval when it comes to the step-sibling relationship when, let's face it, most people, regardless of religion, are going to raise their eyebrows when confronted with that information. No matter how you broach that topic, there is an ick factor that can't be denied. I'm thinking Harris could have found many diverse ways to deal with the prejudice the characters felt directed at them without even needing to deal with religious disapproval. I doubt it would have even been that hard to do.

And, the thing is, Harris has done this before. Anyone who has read her Sookie Stackhouse books, or watched the series "True Blood," knows that Harris worked in the religious-fanatic storyline by creating a church devoted to the destruction of the vampires who populate that series. And while I'm willing to acknowledge that that's a pretty realistic avenue to go down-- what church wouldn't declare vampires are an abomination? I'm probably considered a bad person by some just for reading about it. But I'm also willing to bet that the public at large would freak out if vampires and werewolves turned out to be more than figments of the imagination. I know sometimes I'm scared of swimming in the ocean because I'm not at the top of the food-chain when I tread those waters--so seeing fangs paired with human intelligence would worry me profoundly. But I guess dealing with those issues makes it hard for the vampire to be the romantic leading character doesn't it? I guess Harris' autopilot steers at religion.

But I can't fault Harris too much. She's got it right to a point. And she's not nearly as guilty as others when it comes to working on autopilot. I've really been enjoying the videos posted by Red Letter Media on YouTube that deconstruct the "Star Wars" prequels and movies like "Avatar." Those of us who grew up on the original "Star Wars" trilogy know that the prequel movies don't hold up and after watching the Red Letter Media critiques it's pretty obvious that George Lucas tried to get away with a re-hash of his earlier films with jazzed up visuals. James Cameron pretty much does the same thing with "Avatar"-- who needs more than a superficial plot when you have pretty pictures flitting across the screen?

Lately it's very hard to find entertainment by an established name that works as hard as they did when they were establishing themselves. Tim Burton barely seemed to lift a finger with "Alice in Wonderland"-- it's very Burton-ish in appearance but very forgettable. So I guess Lucas, Cameron and Burton all have autopilots that steer toward dazzling the eye but not the mind.

I could go on listing examples but something tells me that you know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm bored with the entertainment I've been presented with lately... I think I'll go watch "The Dark Knight" again and pray that Christopher Nolan keeps on caring about Batman.

The Vegas Experience

Las Vegas is one of those towns that has a mystique about it. It's Sin City for sure, but it also immediately brings to mind The Rat Pack and countless Hollywood movies like "Viva Las Vegas," and "Casino." So when my husband and his friend got a wild hair to go to Vegas to see Wayne Newton (I know, Wayne Newton) I decided I had to go.

Here's what I learned about Vegas.

It sucks a lot more to drive to L.A.

We decided to drive to Vegas and I was anticipating a 10 hour drive-- it's almost 600 miles to Vegas from where I live. We would have flown but tickets were ridiculously expensive (Spring Break no doubt) so we hit the road at 6 am and found out the drive is not as ugly as the drive to Disneyland. We drove an extra 150 miles in the same 8.5 hours it takes to make it to Disney.

The Tropicana is a dump.

We didn't research hotels when we booked our trip-- and we should have. We thought it would be less hassle to stay at the same hotel as the show we were going to see but had no idea that the Tropicana had not been remodeled since the 80's. In their defense they are remodeling right now, but currently the rooms have no mini-fridges or wifi and the televisions are tiny. Next time we're staying at Mandalay Bay-- we had dinner there the second night and it's nice.

The Hash House a Go Go is the best friggin' restaurant in town.


We love to watch Man vs. Food and my husband remembered a place that had been featured on the show called the Hash House a Go Go. Oh my lord. We had to walk almost 2 miles and wait an hour to eat-- it was worth it. I didn't want to eat anything too heavy (lost some weight recently and I don't want to gain it back) so I opted for a scrambled egg dish with sun-dried tomatoes and it was heavenly. My husband really went for it and had the signature Man vs. Food dish-- the fried chicken benedict, and it was something else. It goes something like this-- mashed potatoes, biscuits, fried cheese (it's actually fried on the grill), fried chicken, eggs, bacon, tomatoes, bacon and a chipotle creme sauce. Oh my. And to top it all off, the portions are huge and very reasonably priced. Best meal of the trip.

Wayne Newton has pretty much lost his voice-- but he can still play a mean fiddle.

I still have no idea why my husband and his friend decided they wanted to see Wayne Newton. But hey, why not? Turns out, it was Wayne's 69th birthday the night we went and saw him and it appears the years are catching up with him. Newton has had some well publicized financial problems, so I expect he's doing shows because he has to, not because he wants to, which is a shame. He mentioned in passing that he has asthma, so maybe we caught him on a bad night. But a lot of the show was choreographed so that Wayne didn't have to sing too much, so I think he's been struggling for awhile. They did play some old clips of him performing with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., which was fun and he showed that he can still whip out the fiddle, the guitar and the banjo and play them fairly well-- especially the fiddle. We had a good time and that's not the Long Island ice tea talking.

You don't want to bring your kids to Vegas.

Vegas is a party town, no doubt about it. So I can't help but wonder why so many people brought their kids. Seriously. Vegas is all about gambling, drinking, shows and pornography. At least that's how it seems to me. And the porn is kind of overwhelming. It's not just the magazine stands every few feet that have nude women proudly displayed up front, it's the people shoving pornographic cards in your face advertising "escort" services every time you turn around. I wonder what's it's like being a vice cop in Vegas? I mean, it's a futile effort at best. And it's really loud on the strip. I saw a lot of crying babies who didn't like the music that was blasting the whole time and a lot of bug-eyed adolescents trying to get a better look at the porn littering the sidewalk.

Once you've seen one casino, you've seen 'em all.

I don't gamble. I'm way too cheap. So we didn't hang around our hotel casino once we checked out the place. We didn't know what attractions were available elsewhere, so we walked, a lot, and we saw some cool stuff. There's a lion exhibit at one place and a gondola at another. But the casinos all look the same. And after awhile, you get tired of having to go through these massive casinos, and they are huge, just to get to the shops.

Vegas isn't glamorous.

Maybe I've seen too many old movies, but I thought Vegas would be a little more upscale. It's really like an old whore-- cheap and dirty. I'm sure it's not all like that. But the strip sure as heck doesn't seem like a place that Frank Sinatra used to frequent. Nowadays it seems like the shows consist primarily of Playboy playmates and magicians and the patrons are drunk frat boys-- though the crowd could be unusually skewed by the Spring Break crowd.

It's sucks going to Vegas with a cold.

I meant to write a post about Vegas right when we got back, but I have had a vicious head cold for the last week. Suuuucks to try to walk the strip when you're sick. But I did it. I walked my butt off. And my head has been paying me back for the last two days. Not fun to drive home with a stuffy head either. Maybe some good came of it though-- I didn't drink that much. My husband might argue that that is not a good thing though.

Anyway. I'm feeling better now and I'm glad to be home. Vegas definitely falls under the fun to visit but wouldn't want to live there category. Sorry I don't have some wild stories to tell, but I'm not a wild person I'm afraid. Seeing Wayne Newton is about as nutty as I get...