Car seats for your kids are never an exciting thing to purchase.  They rarely feature designs different from every other car seat developed in the past twenty years.  Yes, they might have more safety features, but usually you’re going to get stuck with some pastel car seat probably featuring Winnie the Pooh or some Disney princess.  Which seems a bit unfair once you think about it.  After all, your kid doesn’t really care what their car seat looks like till their later years of sitting in one.  So why not buy a car seat that will look attractive in your car.  Well one designer has decided to create a car seat inspired by racing gear.

The designer, Rory Craig will be pitching his design idea to Sparco Motor Sports.  They are known for their racing inspired seats and safety harnesses.  The car seat will work for your child through all three of the stages they will go through in a car seat.  Which means you’d never need to buy a new car seat.  The body of the seat is made out of carbon fiber which means it will be very lightweight and strong.  It took the designer $4,000 to create the seat, hopefully the next model he creates won’t be quite so expensive.

Source: OhGizmo

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Dear Mr. Sorrell [sic]

In these troubled times, Canon has decided to weather the financial storm with an innovative new pricing model. With the release of our hotly anticipated new EOS 5D Mark II, we intend to adopt what is commonly known as the "razor blade model". In the North American market, the 5D Mk II will carry an aggressive suggested retail price of $2700.

However, the accessories will be marked up to a rather higher price point. For example, the Car Battery Charger CBC-E6 will be listed at $270, fully $190 more than than the regular battery charger (actually included in the box with the camera). What do you get for this extra $190? A cable to plug it into your car.

Further, the Battery Grip BG-E6, which adds both bulk and battery life to the camera, will cost $380, which is just about the same as the cost of our DSLR, the Rebel XT, in many online stores.

As you can see, we are leveraging the excitement around our forthcoming new camera to improve revenue. We have a new name for this project which should be used in all discussion. It's called the "Nickel and Dime" initiative.

The imaginary email also had something about a Nigerian prince, but I left that out -- you get the idea. These prices are crazy.

5D Mk II Accessories [Canon via Photography Bay]

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Dubbed the Wind Neton, MSI's nettop is an all-in-one desktop, meaning the computer's guts (i.e., CPU, hard drive and memory) are crammed into its display -- similar to Apple's iMac. The main difference is that the nettops are running the low-powered Atom processors designed for mobile devices, meaning they're streamlined for web browsing and basic computing tasks.

The Neton prices will range from $400 to $800 depending on the screen size you choose (15.6, 18.5 or 22 inches). There will also be touchscreen options, according to Engadget China. No details on a ship date yet.

MSI All-in-one nettop look at a prerelease [Engadget China via Boing Boing]

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FROM GAMERTELL - Akihabara, the epicenter of all that is otaku, has got some stiff competition coming from a little place in the western city of Osaka named Nipponbashi, or now better known as Den-Den Town.
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FROM GAMERTELL - Akihabara, the epicenter of all that is otaku, has got some stiff competition coming from a little place in the western city of Osaka named Nipponbashi, or now better known as Den-Den Town.
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Yet, as with everything in this world, it has become a competition to have the fastest computer and this has been going on since computers began; in fact, even Romans competed over abacus skills.  In June, the Roadrunner which was built by IBM, became the fastest computer ever achieving a sustained speed of 1.026 petaflops.  FLOPS actually stands for FLoating point Operations Per Second, so 1.026 petaflops is 1 026 000 000 000 000 floating point operations per second which, in every sense, is a lot.

However there could be a new leader on the Top 500 list which is compiled by computer experts and is to be updated this week in a supercomputing conference in Austin.  This is Cray’s Jaguar XT, which claims to have reached 1.64 petaflops, a massive increase on its probable predecessor and is set to gain this prestigious honor.  It runs Linux and has a massive 362TB of memory which is spread out over its 284 cabinets, each of which holding 192 quad-core AMD Opteron chips.

This is a result of a $100 million upgrade, and it now takes up 5,700 square feet and if you add the interconnecting wires together you get an astonishing 6 000 miles.  This is one big mean computing machine.This may seem pointless, but discoveries made in this highly advanced field often trickle down to home computers, meaning you can always expect quicker computers.  However is it really worth hundreds of millions of dollars?  Your guess is as good as mine.

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