Year: 2007


  • Nike + The Nike+ add-on for your iPod Nano is not just some fancy gimmic that iPod developers want you to buy. It’s a seriously cool, accurate and informative running […]

  • Nice one Steven Floyd & co. that is. A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing a robot that will be able to walk on water. The robot […]

  • We Irish could do with a bit of help from our fellow planet dwellers in China at the moment. Absurd as it may sound the Chinese are investigating plans to […]

  • Hook Head

    Hook Head Originally uploaded by jbwan. A great structure – A Juliet tower to be exact, atypical of lighthouses across the globe. Hook head is a stronghold as well as […]

  • Before this weekend I had been to Hook Head lighthouse in Co. Wexford tonnes of times as a kid. Up until recently however (approx. 6 years), you were not permitted […]

  • Al-Qae-phone

    With tongue firmly in cheek, a piece of humour from the good folk at the Reg. Just why have Al-Qaeda been so quiet about the launch of the iPhone when […]

  • Flock It!

    Now that Steorn have gone and done a nice big bellyflop in the pool of science it’s time to examine another zero-point effect. Flock zero point 9 to be exact. […]

  • Steorn demo update: I’m sure that this will be rectified soon but I’m a little disappointed to say the least having clicked on the link to the video that I […]

  • Thanks to Brian W for providing me with this link. Those magnificent men with their perpetual motion machines are out and about again. The Steorn crew, Ireland’s answer to an […]

  • … no actually that’s not right. If somebody wrongs you then you make a complaint and it should be dealt with, especially if they are a professional services company. Sadly […]