TAG Heuer's Monaco V4: The first patented belt-driven watch.

The name V4 derives from the movement's four barrels, which are mounted on a V-shaped main plate angled at 15 degrees, like cylinders in a high-end motor racing engine.

The V4 throws almost 300 years of watch design out the window. The traditions dictate, for example, that a movement’s power must be transmitted by wheels; that rotating axes need to have synthetic rubies as bearings; and that an oscillating weight rotating on its own axis provides a movement’s spring barrels with energy. None of these hold true in the new V4 watch movement.





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Virtual Mayday parade
You can create your own avatar, add your stats, and join the "march". You can hover over each "marcher" and see their personal message and details.

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Da Vinci 'car' is brought to life: "Five centuries after his death Italian scientists have finally managed to interpret the design for a car by Leonardo da Vinci and recreate it. "

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Alan Kay has been named winner of the 2003 ACM Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize" of computing, for leading the team that invented Smalltalk.
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A former professional jazz guitarist, composer and theatrical designer, Kay is an amateur classical pipe organist.

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Can you have too many choices?

"A few decades of research has made it clear that most people are terrible choosers - they don't know what they want, and the prospect of deciding often causes not just jitters but something like anguish."
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"In his view, "unlimited choice" can "produce genuine suffering."
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"Why should this be? Schwartz suggests that it has to do with the irrational way people measure "opportunity costs." Instead of calculating opportunity cost as the value of the single most attractive foregone alternative, we seem to assemble an idealistic composite of all the options foregone. A wider range of slightly inferior options, then, can make it harder to settle on one you’re happy with."

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TouchGraph GoogleBrowser: Nice visualization of related sites.

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newsmap: "Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. "

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Commercial space flight takes big step up : " The dream of commercial space flight has taken an important step towards reality with the granting of the first licence to a private company to launch people to a height of 100 kilometres."

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