Typing a text message on your cell phone while driving is even more dangerous than phoning at the wheel, as it requires that you take your eyes off the road. As some 20% of the drivers in the USA indulge in this unsafe activity, the state of New Jersey intends to pass a bill that will cost the culprits $100 to $250 if caught. Wouldn’t it be just simpler if drivers used their common sense and realized how much of a risk they are taking for themselves and for others

New Jersey drivers who insist on sending text messages on their cell phones or personal digital assistants may find themselves on the wrong side of the law if legislators approve a new bill.

Source: Reuters

The mass extinction that wiped out all terrestrial dinosaurs from the face of the Earth some 65 million years ago is commonly thought to have permitted the subsequent rise of the mammals and their evolution into their present form. However, a new phylogenetic study indicates that the ancestors of today’s mammals were most probably already present long before the event and simply survived it.

“What we’ve done is to present a hypothesis for testing, and it’s up to others now to verify our claims or to disprove them.”

Source: The Scientist

Sunnyvale, CA—March 29, 2007—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the latest addition to the award-winning OCZ NVIDIA® SLI™ certified series, the PC2-6400 SLI-Ready DDR2 modules. Optimized specifically for current and next generation nForce platforms, this series features reduced latencies and a 1T command rate for ultra fast memory accesses at 800MHz data rate.

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The most powerful non-nuclear bomb to date has successfully passed another round of tests recently and is planned to equip the US Defense Department arsenal in the very near future. Boeing’s 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is designed to destroy underground facilities deep under the surface, endangering any enemy’s vital military installations. You can run, but you can no longer hide!

Source: Gizmag

The winner of the ROBO-ONE 11 demonstration phase competitions is Takeshi Maeda’s OmniZero.4, which performed various feats that both astonished and pleased the jury. Read on to discover what these little technological wonders can do – you’ll be amazed too!

The practice session video we posted recently showing OmniZero.4 climbing a ladder was definitely impressive. But, what if that same robot could also dance around the ring like a professional boxer… And, what if the robot could actually jump rope - not just one lucky hop, but a whole series of jumps while managing the rope by itself…? And, what if the robot could get out a frying pan, crack some eggs, and fix your breakfast…?

Source: Robots Dreams