Thanko’s Laptop Table Bag stores your laptop, hides a table, saves your lap
November 2, 2010 No Comment
We’ve all ready the scary reports of what happens when a laptop makes your lap top a little too toasty . The solution? Buying a desk, obviously, and now Thanko has one that you can take with you. It’s called the Laptop Table Bag and it looks like a surprisingly normal, if decidedly corporate-issue, laptop bag. But, out of the bottom pivots four legs to hold your mobile device at what may or may not be a comfortable height. The 5980 yen ($75) contraption weighs about six pounds empty, making it a poor companion for your ultralight, but if your machine is more of a luggable — or if your manservant does the carrying for you — you may not even notice the extra heft. Gallery: Thanko Laptop Table Bag Thanko’s Laptop Table Bag stores your laptop, hides a table, saves your lap originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Continue reading …LaserMotive’s unnamed quadrocopter hovers for 12 solid hours using lasers alone
November 2, 2010 No Comment
Protip: $900,000 goes a long way, particularly when you’re dumping practically all of it into a single investment ( Hello Kitty lap warmers notwithstanding). LaserMotive, the company lauded for bringing home nearly a million bucks in the 2009 NASA-sponsored Space Elevator Games, has just broken an endurance record for laser-powered hovering with its unnamed Pelican. This here quadrocopter is designed to get energized by converting beams into power via a set of photovoltaic panels on its underside, and in a recent test, lasers were able to keep it afloat for over 12 hours. It never hovered much higher than 30 feet, and it barely moved from left to right while in the air, but we’re guessing it was marginally more interesting than watching paint dry. All jesting aside, the milestone makes it a lot more feasible for the company to get this technology into UAVs used in the miliary — “for example, laser-powered copters could perform on-the-road reconnaissance missions when convoys travel through a combat zone.” And if you’re looking to take home something similar on a far smaller scale, there’s always the AR.Drone . Continue reading LaserMotive’s unnamed quadrocopter hovers for 12 solid hours using lasers alone LaserMotive’s unnamed quadrocopter hovers for 12 solid hours using lasers alone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Motivated by the rash of gay teen suicides, a recently divorced megachurch pastor shared with his congregation a long-kept secret about his own sexuality. (Nov. 1)
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Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, fighting for a fourth term, is leading Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in various polls. However, as the AP’s John Mone reports, the surveys still point to a sizeable chunk of undecided voters. (Nov. 1)
Continue reading …The US military’s ban on openly gay troops will remain in place while the Obama administration challenges a court ruling overturning the policy, a US appeals court has ruled. Monday’s decision means that the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” law will remain in place for the duration of a landmark legal battle that saw the policy briefly dropped before being re-instated. In September, a US district judge ruled that the law infringed on constitutional rights of gay men and women serving the US military, prompting the Obama administration to appeal. Barack Obama insists that he supports ending the “dont ask, dont tell” rule, but argues that Congress, rather than the courts should make the…
Continue reading …For those of you who may still be Eeyores expecting everything to go wrong tomorrow, Nate Silver has the post for you.
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Catholic groups are less than thrilled at the prospect that Uncle Sam might get into the contraception business. Nonetheless, a panel set to convene this month could decide that preventing unwanted pregnancies qualifies as the kind of complementary preventative care for women required by Obamacare. AP via SFGate: Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the United States, thanks to the new health care law. A panel of experts advising the government meets this month to begin considering what kind of preventive care for women should be covered at no cost to the patient, as required under President Obama’s overhaul. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the Democrat who is author of the women’s health amendment, says the clear intent was to include family planning. Read more Related Entries November 1, 2010 The World Is Safer Without a Republican House October 31, 2010 The Phantom Left
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Charlie Sheen has filed for divorce from his third wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen. He is seeking joint custody of the former couples’ twins while Brooke Sheen filed her own petition for divorce, seeking sole custody and spousal support. (Nov. 1)
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