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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: containment domes, robot fish and lunar bases
The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat , recapping the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. This week Inhabitat followed the ongoing saga of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as we tracked BP’s latest attempt to plug the leak with yet another containment dome . We can’t help but wonder why BP refuses to use hair mats donated from thousands of businesses to clean up the slick, but we’re glad that the nuclear option is off the table for now
Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote live on Engadget this Monday, 10AM PT / 1PM ET!
C’mon guys — you know what time it is.
Acer Aspire Ethos 8943G and TimelineX 3820T, 4820T, 5820T get hands-on treatment
Oh, what a gloomy morning it’s been in London, but that didn’t stop Electricpig from attending Acer’s UK launch event for its voguish Aspire Ethos and power-sipping TimelineX laptops. The Ethos 8943G, pictured above, is described as a more affordable alternative (at “half the price”) to the ASUS NX90 , packing a touchscreen-like trackpad for media control, a sturdy chiclet keyboard and an 18.4-inch full HD screen with decent viewing angle
Symantec names Shaoxing, China as world’s malware capital
It’s not the sort of title any city’s looking for, but Symantec has now given Shaoxing, China the dubious honor of being the world’s malware capital, saying that it accounts for more targeted attacks than any other city.
Heineken Bot does what it says on the keg, soon to be man’s new best friend
If you ask us, our theory is that the Daleks are rather huggable by nature, but they probably partied a tad too hard with these beer-toting fellas before trashing the world. One such “Heineken Bot” — crafted by the geniuses at Middlesex University — turned up at Kinetica Art Fair in London. Daring humans can stop this drifting bot by hovering their hands above its sonar-sensing head, and then place a cup in its holder for some bevvy spat out of its keg
Vicar gives his blessing to cellphones and laptops (but not to their most common uses)
Not to be outdone by the Catholic Church with its iPod wielding Bishops and text messaging Pontiffs , the Rev. Canon David Parrott blessed mobile phones and laptop computers today at the St.
