Restaurant in a box

A fast food restaurant in a shipping container?

Müvbox is a standard shipping container that has been converted into a fold out restaurant. Features include solar power, a full function kitchen with a wood fire pizza oven and room for four staff. Complete with tables for up to 28 people (half seated), it is a fascinating concept.


Specs and more at muvboxconcept.com.

Learning from lizard tails and sticky feet

A cool TED talk on advances in robotics by looking at nature.

Frankenputer

A hybrid device - part tablet, part netbook running Google Android and Windows XP is being developed in Taiwan.

The video shows how the HP Mini 1000 has been modified with a tablet for display.

VIA@Computex2009: Hybrid HP Mininote/Tablet PC

As seen on How TO Be Mobile via Make.

bing

The beta version of the search engine from Microsoft - bing - possibly an acronym for But its not Google went live today.

A quick comparison with Google shows it has a long way to go to be a replacement. A search for muzgadgets produced 17 results, almost all of them to pages that refer to here. There were no direct search results to here.

A search for muzgadgets.blogspot.com gave "We did not find any results for muzgadgets.blogspot.com."

Google on the other hand gives about 123 results for a search for muzgadgets and the blog just makes it to the first page at position number 10. Google also has 364 results for a search for muzgadgets.blogspot.com with the blog coming in at number 7.