Posts by SMK8

Sick of walking into things while gawping at your iPhone? Apple has a patent app. for that

Blackberry already has a solution...

Not that anyone cares...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bV7pM_HS70

-sean

Daimler hints at Android-powered telematics in future cars

QNX on MB units, Makes sense to add Android Runtime.

MB cars with Infotainment/telematics use QNX.

Makes sense that with the Androind Runtime found on the BB10 platform, that this would be brought to the Telematics/Infortainment platform as well.

-sean

New Nokia Lumia mobes fail to inspire investors

PLUMMETING: Thinking in SpaceTime rather than a paper chart.

I recall seeing a Herman Cartoon showing the stock plunge and needing some extra taped-on chart to show the graph.

In Nokia's sense, we should think in SpaceTime: Think of a rather nicely grown star the runs out of fuel, and then collapses upon itself -- forming a small; but vacuous Black Hole in its wake.

And that Black Hole has sucked in HP's WebOS division, (and mobiles, tablets) and may take a significant chunk out of Microsoft's Betelgeusean girth. Not to mention changing the orbit of RIM and likely pulling it in past the event horizon too.

I guess that is the way of the universe.

-sean

Reg readers ponder LOHAN's substantial globes

Conventional Helium Balloon, only the Mylar type instead of Latex.

Considering Bulgarian Airbags: Why Latex?

Why not Mylar? -- The envelope is much larger, similar if not same capacity as the Latex Balloon, and much tougher to destroy, and will achieve greater altitudes?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/162084.stm shows the effect of Several CF-18 Hornet fighters, RAF fighters, and Possible Incursion into Russian Airspace, and Still it don't come down...

Single Envelope, Lower hanging framework for Launch, and no Human Powered ornithoptics required...

Launch Framework for 68-degree launch orientation and Solid Rocket propellant from Cesaroni Technology Inc. (In Canada-land no less.) http://www.cesaroni.net/propulsion.php

I think this a doable project. See : http://www.pro38.com/ for consumer products.

-sean

World's first pedal-powered ornithopter takes flight in Canada

HPO -- ON gliding and sustaining.

This is not a Bicycle-pedal flapping machine, but uses a Rowing-Machine-similar method of flapping the Wings.

Todd and University Of Toronto Students Aerospace/Mechanical as well as students from France, and Holland participated in the construction of the Ornithopter and flew it in many trials.

The video does not illustrate what the FAI official confirmed in the record setting flight:

For 19.5 seconds, and a distance of 145 Meters; the Ornithopter Sustained and succeeded in maintaining Human-Powered Flight.

Even though the initial takeoff to 5-6 Meters of altitude under tow is used to get the Ornithopter to working (and Safe) altitude. When the Powered portion of flight occurred, the Ornithopter gained altitiude from its initial entry, and sustained altitude (and sustained flight) and airspeed, for the determined period, -- After it was released from tow.

Most Gliders are Auto-Towed, Winch -towed, or Aero-Towed to operational Altitude for Launch.

Most Gliders with "Sustain" engines cannot takeoff with the engine in the Glider.

The Ornithopter is a Sustain-type human-powered aircraft.

- Great Lakes Gliding - Member