Sep 8 2010

Researchers propose ‘roaming’ charging stations to keep electric cars powered

Donald Melanson
No, we're not talking about robotic charging stations that roam the highways and recharge your car without even stopping (sadly), but a new system proposed Zafer Sahinoglu and his colleagues at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts may just help to fill in some of the gaps on the road. While exact specifics are a bit light, the basic idea is to have a series of "roaming" chargers that would be charged up at night and moved around based on demand -- demand that would be determined by sensors in electric vehicles, which would report their findings back (...)


SOURCE:
Engadget


URL:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/08/researchers-propose-roaming-charging-stations-to-keep-electric/


Jul 31 2010

Parnian unveils the world’s most expensive bed

Naveen

parnian luxury bed

Here comes the latest entrant into the family of high-tech luxury beds and it steals the crown for being the most expensive in the world. Parnian, the designer and retailer for the world’s most expensive executive desk, has now come up with the world’s most expensive bed in its Scottsdale showroom. Pricing for the bed starts at $38,000 and can go over a whopping $210,000, depending on the materials used. Originally, they had no plans to make an expensive bed. They just wanted to make something unusual and interesting that people would appreciate. Parnian’s president Abdolhay Parnian said that (...)


SOURCE:
Born Rich


URL:
http://www.bornrich.org/entry/parnian-unveils-the-world-s-most-expensive-bed/