Yes, it does back flips. It is a Eurocopter BO-105 CBS 4 Twin engine helicopter. Stock model with a Rigid Rotor system, the fixed rotor is why it can do aerobatics.

I love mobility in terms of tiny devices that I can bring with me everywhere. I don’t go far without at least having my mobile phone with me and most of the times I also bring my mp3 player. I walk around in my own little world with my favourite tune playing in my ear and just a push of a button away from talking with my friends or checking my e-mail. Then it happens… my mp3 player runs out of battery and I’m stuck on the subway listening to all kind of stupid conversations people around me are having on their phones. I fetch the phone from my pocket to call some friends, but WTF the phone is out of battery too!

How could situations like this be avoided? Off course I could remember to charge all my devices before I leave my apartment but I seldom do. I don’t like the fact that I need to connect all my devices/gadgets to the charger. It’s a mobility killer! Wouldn’t it be fantastic to never need to worry about running out out power? This could be reality, the only question is when will it happen?

I have known about the nanotechnology for a while but only for a few days ago I read some articles stating that this might be possible in the near future.

Zhong Lin Wang has done some experiences with creating a nano-generator. He found that when disturbing zinc oxide nanowires, they give off a tiny electrical current, a phenomenon called piezoelectricity. Lately they (researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology) have been able to increase the amount of power produced by their nano-generator. Still it’s only a very small amount of power that can be produced but they are getting there.

A single nanowire can only produce around half a picowatt, or one hundred billionths of a watt. But 200 nanowires can be squeezed into a 10 square micron area, to produce 10 picowatts. That is enough to power a nanoscopic device like a nanotube-based gas sensor, the researchers say.

Hopefully sometime in the future they will be able to generate enough power so that a nano-generator could be placed in devices like mobile phones and mp3 players.

According to HitFix, workprint of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” has allegedly leaked online.

The movie won’t hit theaters until May 1st, 2009 and bad news for 20th Century Fox, people can now watch the workprint on several kinds of websites out there.

The bootleg is purportedly a DVD quality video of the Fox blockbuster without a timecode or studio watermark, but with several visual effects shots unfinished.

The only missing elements to the pirated copy seems to be scenes from director Gavin Hood’s recent reshoots of the film, which, according to actor Hugh Jackman, was the result of scheduling conflicts with the cast/crew, and not problems with the movie itself.

At the moment, Fox Legal is no doubt sending their legal troops throughout the web trying to pull the movie down, but at this point, gentlemen, good luck.

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With all the work to be done, it is often difficult to sleep at night… Some Russians decided to create the keyboard-pillow. Now, you can work, then stop for a nap in your office and wake up to return back to work!