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Similar to the exotic sports cars and luxurious ones in the automotive world, there are some cool laptops in the PC world. The sports cars are represented by the Asus Lamborghini or the Acer Ferrari, but these have been on the market for some time now. How about the luxurious sector? Here, we have the new Bentley laptop coming from Ego.

According to T3, each of these laptops is hand built, with authentic Bentley cross-over hand-stitching. The color schemes are said to really match those of the famous luxury cars. When you open up the laptop, you can see the shiny metal reflects the paint job on the outside, while the outer leather is taken straight from Bentley’s seats.

The metal carry handle is shaped just like the car's door handle. OK, what about specs? The Bentley laptop comes with preinstalled Microsoft Vista Ultimate and is powered by a 64 bit processor of your choice. It also comes with a 160GB hard drive and there are 12 direct access keys for quickly getting to the point. Presumably it comes with many more goodies like 4GB DDR3 and a SLI configuration and a 20” LCD maybe. I mean, how else would they justify the £10,000 price tag? No big deal if you already have a Bentley, anyway.

Remember Jurassic Park? The first film featured some cool Animatronics dinosaurs that were about 15” tall and were neatly combined with CG to recreate the fierce reptiles of the past. The next two films featured only CG dinosaurs, but this is not the point of the current article. What I want to show you now is some advanced Animatronics dinosaur, but I’m not referring to a toy-sized dinosaur, I’m actually referring to a T-Rex twice the size of an average man. The robotic dinosaur can be found at the LA Museum of Natural History. Check it out in this video:

Extinct, my ASS! from The Original Joe Fisher on Vimeo

Gizmodo says there are absolutely no computer generated effects in this video. The dinosaur you see is an Animatronics-like mechanical robot, but with more refined movements than those Jurassic park monsters. It looks pretty real, and it might even eat up your kids if you let them alone with the famished robot. Well, not really, but it sure can scare the living daylights out of a bunch of meddling kids that are ready to lay waste on your backyard. Or it could help you with those pesky trick-or-treaters that come around Halloween. Eheh, they would be in for a nasty trick… raaaaahr!

You think you need drugs to experience some out of this world hallucination? Sure, if you are in the Netherlands, you might want to use a bit of mescaline, which should be legal, but what about us people from the other countries? Isn’t there something similar that can open the doors of perception to a whole new Universe? You bet! Check out this video:

NOTCOT at GLOW: Usman Haque's Primal Source from Jean Aw on Vimeo

This clip was filmed in Santa Monica, CA, at Glow ‘08. Glow is an annual art and music festival with a bunch of cool events and attractions, and this year’s coolest event has been the "Primal Source," a gigantic fountain with projections on it built by Usman Haque. It looks like a gigantic drug-induced hallucination. Projecting laser stuff on walls would have been outdated, but projecting hallucinatory light patterns on veils of water is something you don’t see every day. The agglomeration of psychedelic lights really confuses and adds to the impression you’re being stoned.

Apparently, there was some pot and acid available for the people on the beach, but the light show on its own was enough to drive most of the people crazy. You can hear some of them reacting pretty weird to the psychedelic lights.

We were a bit sad 3 days ago when we had to talk about iPhone 3G’s sales that broke records, without having enough details from Sprint, to make a fair comparison with the Instinct. Fortunately, Derek Pruett from M80 send us a detailed price comparison fact sheet about Sprint’s Everything plans and AT&T’s Nation plans.
Let’s see what each of these provide!

The Simply Everything Plan costs $99.99 and packages unlimited talking, texting, emailing, web browsing, GPS navigation, picture messaging, video messaging, push-to-talk, NFL Mobile, NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile, Sprint TV, 150 radio stations and channels, and access to Sprint Music Store. All these with unlimited access, as i specified. The deal is that you won’t have to add additional costs for extras, but to reduce it if you don’ need all of those service. In other words, this plan allows you to make economies and pay only what you need to use. For example, when you go lower, at $89.99, you get 900 Anytime Minutes and unlimited access to messaging, Direct Connect and Group Connect, and Mobile Internet via Sprint’s EV-DO Rev A high-speed mobile broadband connectivity. According to Sprint, its EVDO Rev A network offers five times more mobile broadband coverage than the AT&T 3G network, based on square miles.

At $69.99 you have 450 minutes and access to all the other three services. You can do another smart thing if you like, to go for $89.99 choosing Unlimited Domestic Voice, messaging and Connect services, but give up to the Internet, or, if it’s in your advantage, at $69.99 you can also get the package containing 900 Anytime Minutes, unlimited messaging and Connect. For $49.99 you can opt for 450 minutes, messaging and Connect, with no Internet access.



All plans from Sprint Everything include Nationwide Long Distance, no Domestic Roaming Charges, unlimited nights and weekend minutes with nights starting at 7PM, and unlimited Mobile to Mobile.
The two cell phone plan comparisons show that the $99 Sprint plan provides unlimited voice, data and messaging, while AT&T’s plan costs $129.99 and includes only voice and data services.
You can send text messages on Samsung Instinct as many as you want, but if you have an iPhone subscribed as an individual, it will cost you $20 extra, and in case you have a family plan you can add $10 more.
Instinct comes with unlimited night & weekend minutes after 7PM which is annoying, but the iPhone will make you nervous and unpatient 2 hours more, until 9PM.

One last thing before showing you the chart received from Sprint:
The Sprint Samsung Instinct includes Blackberry Internet Service, Sprint Music Premier (50 commercial-free streaming music channels, 100 local stations), Sprint TV Premier (25+ channels of live TV, on-demand clips and full-length episodes), NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile. Guess what? -AT&T does not include Blackberry Internet Service, streaming music channels, on-demand full-length TV episodes, NFL Mobile or NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile. More money for less entertainment? Kinda sad.

And let’s not forget that iPhone 3G 8GB and 16GB costs $199 and $299. They are cheap but requiring a 2-year contract. If not, you’d find them at $599 and $699, respectively.



On the other side, its competitor can be purchased at $129.99 with the 2-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate, or at $449.99 with no contract.

The impressive Southern California Edison’s solar power panels project involves installing the panels on 150 Southern California commercial roofs. Now the company is working on attaching 33,000 solar panels to a 600,000-square-foot commercial roof in Fontana, California, which will generate 2 million watts of power to supply about 1,300 average Southern California households at a point in time.
The photovoltaics system is provided by First Solar, the winner of the bid, designer of a high-end thin-film photovoltaic technology.



“First Solar’s successful bid validated our cost forecast to regulators — SCE’s solar energy project will significantly reduce the cost of installed photovoltaic generation in California,” said SCE President John R. Fielder.
“We are pleased to work with Edison on a project we believe will demonstrate the solar PV system business model needed to dramatically reduce distributive solar electricity costs,” said Michael J. Ahearn, CEO of First Solar. “Edison’s project confirms the important role of PV solar power plants in delivering clean, affordable electricity to the nation’s fastest growing urban areas.”



SCE will continue to install 3.5 million advanced photovoltaic panels, translating to 250 megawatts of solar generating capacity, during next 5 years, which will provide power for 162,000 Southern California homes.
The current project costs $875 million, funds that came from the California Public Utilities Commission.

Among benefits we enumerate: direct connectivity to the nearest neighborhood circuit, reduced costs, reduced installation time which would have been longer if there have been building new transmission lines, peak customer demands matched, and the creation of new jobs in Southern California.



All these are accomplished base on solar power panels’ propriety of transforming sunlight into electricity via a chemical process: when light strikes the semiconductor layer that form an electric field, which is positive on one side and negative on the other side, electrons are knocked loose from the atoms of the material creating the current, while the wires attached to the positive and negative sides, will carry the electricity from the cell to the powered device.