Model railroads - the analog version of SimCity

When I was about 8 years old, a friend's Dad had a model railway set up in their shed. It was nothing compared to this huge layout of the Diablo Valley Lines (imaginary railroad company) at Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society.



Much more at Giant Model Railroad Is an Analog SimCity | Raw File | Wired.com

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.