Play Station Portable [P.S.P.]

Review - PSP

The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a handheld game console released and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment. Its development was first announced during E3 2003, and it was officially unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a Sony press conference before E3 2004. The system was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, North America on March 24, 2005 and in the PAL region on September 1, 2005. It is the first handheld video game system to use an optical disc format (Universal Media Disc).

A new slimmer and lighter version of the PSP, appropriately titled Slim and Lite, was announced on July 11, 2007, during Sony's press conference at E3 2007. It was made available in the US, Europe and Japan in September 2007 with various colours and a very different box packaging to the original PSP. Among these versions, three were physically shown at E3 2007: a white version with a Star Wars imprint, a piano black version and an ice silver version.

MacBook AIR

THINNOVATION

Presenting The World's Thinnest Laptop !


"THINNOVATION" is the latest trend followed by apple in designing the new MacBook Air. After a long wait apple releases the world's most thinnest notebook, which measures a stunning 0.76inch (1.94cms)in thickness and 3lbs (1.36kg) in weight.


A 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of memory, 80GB PATA hard disk drive, 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display, MacBook-style keyboard with backlighting, super-cool iPhone-like multi-touch trackpad, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+, and an awesome 5-hours battery life on Wi-Fi make the MacBook Air a Global Competitor.

The only drawbacks are the omission of the optical drive and the heavy price tag.
But the makers more than compensate the optical drive omission with some superb in-built wireless capabilities, and as for the price, well, apple products are never cheap, are they?!?!

North America's Oldest Primate Fossil

A team of scientists discovered recently North America’s oldest primate fossil! The newly found species seems to have been so small that it fitted in the palm of a hand.

Called Teilhardina magnoliana, the tiny animal is very, very old and scientists have also realized that it was related to similarly aged fossils from Europe, China, as well as from Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin.

"They are very, very primitive relatives of living primates called tarsiers, which live today in Southeast Asia," said Christopher Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum Of Natural history in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beard and his team discovered the fossils on the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi.

According to recent studies, it seems that Teilhardina magnoliana is 55 million years old. The age of the layer of rock in which scientists found the fossils also stressed on the fact that Teilhardina magnoliana’s fossil might really be North America’s oldest primate fossil.

The newly discovered animal is said to have weighed no more than one ounce. The discovery of its fossils proved that it had migrated from Asia to North America across the Bering land bridge. Then the tiny animal continued its migration to Europe across an Atlantic land bridge, which appeared thousands of years later.

2008 FIA Formula1 Calender

Formula One racing’s governing body, the FIA, has confirmed the calendar for the 2008 world championship. The addition of races in Singapore and Valencia in Spain, combined with the omission of a US Grand Prix, makes for 18 rounds - one more than in 2007.


March 16 - Melbourne, Australia
March 23 - Sepang, Malaysia
April 6 - Sakhir, Bahrain
April 27 - Barcelona, Spain
May 11 - Istanbul Park, Turkey
May 25 - Monte Carlo, Monaco
June 8 - Montreal, Canada
June 22 - Magny-Cours, France
July 6 - Silverstone, Great Britain
July 20 - Hockenheim, Germany
August 3 - Hungaroring, Hungary
August 24 - Valencia, Europe
September 7 - Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
September 14 - Monza, Italy
September 28 - Singapore
October 12 - Fuji, Japan
October 19 - Shanghai, China
Nov 2 - Interlagos, Brazil

Ferrari F2008

Is This The Car That's Gonna Do The Job Of Retaining The World Championship For Ferrari This Season ??

After winning the driver and constructors championship in a season fueled with controversy, scandals, and team mate disputes. Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Massa and the ferrari scuderia team prepare themselves to take to the track once again, come march 16 at melbourne, Australia.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION :

Ferrari F2008
Chassis : Carbon-fibre and honeycomb composite
Make : Ferrari Engine Location : Mid
Drive Type : Rear Wheel Limited-slip differential
Weight : 605 kg | 1334 lbs





Engine
Type : 056 Magneti Marelli digital electronic injection
Engine Configuration : Cylinder block in cast aluminium V 90°
Number of cylinders : 8
Number of valves : 32
Displacement : 2398.00 cc | 146.3 cu in. | 2.4 L.




Other Specs
Gears : 7 Transmission : Semi-auto Sequential; Ferrari longitudinal gearbox
Suspension : Independent suspension
Wheels : 13-inch BBS

FUTURE CARS - Burton Elementz Concept

BURTON ELEMENTZ CONCEPT



Can an old car, like the Citroen 2CV, give birth to a thrilling car, both on design and performance? The performance stuff still lacks confirmation, but the appearance item can be easily checked. Just look at the pictures used in this article. They relate to the Burton Elementz, a kitcar designed by the Dutch engineer Rob Wolkers and built over the 2CV architecture.

The car was Wolkers' response to the challenge proposed by the Burton Design Contest 2007, a kitcar company that uses 2CV parts to produce its vehicles. Elementz is the project that has won the contest and, therefore, Burton should put it to production soon, but, as well as performance, this is something we still have to check.

According to CarBodyDesign.com, Wolkers wanted to “maximize the fun and driving experience”, what was achieved by keeping the weight low and by making a very open body. This is the same idea used for the Ariel Atom, apart from the fact that Atom uses a modern frame and an updated engine, but this is something that would make a kitcar cost way more than it should.

Besides Burton’s prize, the project has also been the winner of the SolidWorks Product Design Contest 2007.

Football's Most Horrific Injuries - Jimmy Bullard

JIMMY BULLARD


Fulham midfielder Jimmy Bullard dislocated his kneecap in a challenge with Newcastle's Scott Parker in September 2006. He made a comeback a few weeks ago.