Car’s exhaust powers own air conditioning

Learn how to transform car exhaust into a viable air conditioning system. Capturing the heat from the mufflers will allow him to create high-amplitude sound waves, The waves resonate inside sealed metal tubes to form cold spots. Blow air over the spots and enjoy a cold car.

Originally from digg / tommytrc / dug

Tiger Gold Master leaked to P2P networks

Apple yesterday settled one of its three lawsuits against persons accused of leaking pre-release builds of Tiger to file-sharing networks — just in time to free up some of those legal resources to go at it for round four: the gold master of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger,build 8A428, started appearing on the servers of known ripping groups over the past weekend.

Originally posted by Barb Dybwad from Engadget

InPhase announces 300GB holographic discs

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Forget about perpendicular recording; that’s so last week. If Colorado- based InPhase Technologies has its way, the next big advance in data storage will be holographic media. The company — which rolled out a prototype holographic drive earlier this year — announced today that it has produced a holographic disc that can hold 300GB on a single disc.

[Via Extreme Tech]

Originally posted by Marc Perton from Engadget