Official Cool Tech Thread.....

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:25 am

http://www.teslamotors.com/performance/ ... _enabled=1

ALL electric 2 seat roadster, gets 200 miles on a single charge, cost 0.01/mile to drive...... the rub, it cost 92,000

Its still fricken cool.

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:18 am

Tablet gadget turns any non tablet pc...into one

http://aving.net/usa/news/default.asp?m ... &SP_Num=66

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:32 am

How about an energy efficient house???

The house tracks the sun, so that its triple-glazed front can face the warming sun in winter and show its well insulated back in summer. The balcony rail is a solar vacuum tube to heat water. Photovoltaics on the roof rotate independently to track the sun, generating four to six times the energy needed for the house, making it beyond zero energy and into "das Plusenergiehaus" or a "Plus-energy House." If that is not enough, there is on-site composting, chemical free sewage treatment and rainwater catchment.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04 ... hs_hel.php

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:22 am

The house has been the personal residence of the Architect since 1994.

Free electric for folding anyone?

Dan

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:35 pm

Price: $8,922

PRICY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but cool

http://www.uberreview.com/2007/04/the-o ... hairs.htm/

vicaphit · Post by **vicaphit** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:39 pm

that looks really cool, but uncomfortable.

HONkUS · Post by **HONkUS** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:57 pm

That house looks like a wi-fi antenna gone horribly wrong.

Alathald · Post by **Alathald** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:15 pm

bubba wrote:http://www.teslamotors.com/performance/ ... _enabled=1

ALL electric 2 seat roadster, gets 200 miles on a single charge, cost 0.01/mile to drive...... the rub, it cost 92,000

Its still fricken cool.

Yeah but with current gas prices it may pay for itself...lets see, at Xmpg and $Y/gal, you'd have to drive ($92000)(X mi/gal)/($Y /gal)=92000X/Y mi, so an average sports car gets what, 15 mpg if you're lucky and with premium gas at ~$3.00 (its a sports car, must have premium

)you'd have to drive 460000 mi. OK most cars only last about 200000mi but that still brings the end price to about $50K~60K, which is an average sports car price...and with gas prices going like they are, the end price may go down even more...I know, I left out the electric bill but thats what your neighbors outside electrical outlets are for, right?

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Mon May 14, 2007 7:33 am

Rotating Towers:

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB ... ionallinks

vicaphit · Post by **vicaphit** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:28 pm

I wonder how stable that tower will be. It would be cool to face a new direction every day, but I wouldnt want to work there if a strong gust would knock it over

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:52 pm

or they could just not waste the money and make a normal building, shows that folks controlling the oil have way to much friggen money.

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Mon May 14, 2007 6:47 pm

From, the video on the article, there are turbine fans between each floor so the idea is that it can generate elctricity.

Dan

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Mon May 14, 2007 8:09 pm

Yeah but they can do that in a normal building too, and then they wouldn't have to worry about figuring out how to run the plumbing. I just don't see the point in the whole building rotating, other than bragging rights.

vicaphit · Post by **vicaphit** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:08 pm

I have an idea for the plumbing... I got the idea from medieval castles... just let the toilets flush to holes in the side of the building!

TristanM · Post by **TristanM** » Tue May 15, 2007 3:05 pm

bubba wrote:Yeah but they can do that in a normal building too, and then they wouldn't have to worry about figuring out how to run the plumbing. I just don't see the point in the whole building rotating, other than bragging rights.

That's pretty much what all ground-breaking technology is about, isn't it? I have the best, the biggest, the most powerful, the most efficient... Without people willing to go for the bragging rights, nothing (including architecture) would ever advance...

Outdoing the last guy is the driver for most, if not all, advancement by human beings.

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:08 pm

ehh, the most efficient is the one that doesn't spin. The power that would be required to make it spin could be directed elsewhere.

Build the same building but keep the floors from rotating, still have the windmills/turbines between floors and while they're at it slap some solar panels on the sides. They now have a efficient building that can serve as a power plant.

Sorry, just see it a massive waste to have the thing spin. Don't see any techno gains from it.

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:34 pm

It says that one building can power 10 others, so they are allowed to be a little extravagant on using electric in that tower. I wonder if you have to have stuff locked down as when it spins it will knock everything over.

They can chase the sun all day, or hind in the shade all day too. So maybe they should have solar panels on one side and do that anyway.

Dan

Alathald · Post by **Alathald** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:35 pm

bubba wrote:Sorry, just see it a massive waste to have the thing spin. Don't see any techno gains from it.

What's the techno gains from having those little lights in your case? How about the windows that seem to be in every case? Here's the klinker...whats the techno gains from dressing up in a dog outfit?

J/k dude...

As human beings in general, our response to 'why did you do it?' is
'We do it because its fun; we do it because its cool; we do it because we can!'...and why not?

The one who says it can't be done should never interupt the one whose doing it

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:40 pm

http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00286

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:56 am

The ultimate camping piece of equipment!!

http://www.smarthome.com/597512.html

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