Again, no photos...
This morning, I was out of time and could not prepare my photos to be uploaded, so I will make a post tomorrow (I promise) about my visit to Iasi this weekend. Let me just say for now that although the trip was planned at the last minute, it turned out pretty awesome.
This summer, on our way to @GT camping in Suches, Georgia, Kyle and I were talking about ecologically friendly ways to fuel cars. He mentioned something about engines driven by compressed-air, and since then it was like an itch in my brain that I could not get rid of unless I researched more about it. And today, I got rid of that itch.
These vehicles are called L'AIRPod, developed by a French company, MDI, whose research is supported by TATA. Amazingly, the only thing that comes out of them is air, cooler and cleaner than the incoming air. Air Cars are aimed to become available in 2009 for European countries, and 2010 for USA, priced around $17,800. Now I'm seriously considering.
And something else I found interesting...Chess-Boxing.
Apparently someone made up a new sport back in 2003, combining chess and boxing. Here's how the game works:
...competitors alternate between three-minute rounds of boxing and four-minute rounds of speed chess with one-minute breaks in between to get the gloves off and hunker down at the chess table. The winner is determined by knockout, checkmate, or referee decision.
Again, now I'm seriously considering.
This summer, on our way to @GT camping in Suches, Georgia, Kyle and I were talking about ecologically friendly ways to fuel cars. He mentioned something about engines driven by compressed-air, and since then it was like an itch in my brain that I could not get rid of unless I researched more about it. And today, I got rid of that itch.
These vehicles are called L'AIRPod, developed by a French company, MDI, whose research is supported by TATA. Amazingly, the only thing that comes out of them is air, cooler and cleaner than the incoming air. Air Cars are aimed to become available in 2009 for European countries, and 2010 for USA, priced around $17,800. Now I'm seriously considering.
And something else I found interesting...Chess-Boxing.
Apparently someone made up a new sport back in 2003, combining chess and boxing. Here's how the game works:
...competitors alternate between three-minute rounds of boxing and four-minute rounds of speed chess with one-minute breaks in between to get the gloves off and hunker down at the chess table. The winner is determined by knockout, checkmate, or referee decision.
Again, now I'm seriously considering.
posted by Masato at
10:51 AM
2 Comments:
whoa, those cars are awesome! if you get one, will you give me a ride one day? ha ha :)
A ride? We should plan a roadtrip! ;)
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