------What is IT?-------
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JoLLyRoGer
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umm... you're kidding, right jollyroger? how the hell do you get that out of the article?
Consider the following items, culled from the proposal:
IT is not a medical invention.
In a private meeting with Bezos, Jobs and Doerr, Kamen assembled two Gingers ? or ITs ? in 10 minutes, using a screwdriver and hex wrenches from components that fit into a couple of large duffel bags and some cardboard boxes.
The invention has a fun element to it, because once a Ginger was turned on, Bezos started laughing his ?loud, honking laugh?.
There are possibly two Ginger models, named Metro and Pro ? and the Metro may possibly cost less than $2,000.
Bezos is quoted as saying that IT ?...is a product so revolutionary, you?ll have no problem selling it. The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it??
Jobs is quoted as saying: ?...If enough people see the machine you won?t have to convince them to architect cities around it. It?ll just happen.?
Kemper says the invention will ?sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking.?
The ?core technology and its implementations? will, according to Kamen, ?have a big, broad impact not only on social institutions but some billion-dollar old-line companies.? And the invention will ?profoundly affect our environment and the way people live worldwide. It will be an alternative to products that are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities.?
IT will be a mass-market consumer product ?likely to run afoul of existing regulations and or inspire new ones,? according to Kemper. The invention will also likely require ?meeting with city planners, regulators, legislators, large commercial companies and university presidents about how cities, companies and campuses can be retro-fitted for Ginger.?
Consider the following items, culled from the proposal:
IT is not a medical invention.
In a private meeting with Bezos, Jobs and Doerr, Kamen assembled two Gingers ? or ITs ? in 10 minutes, using a screwdriver and hex wrenches from components that fit into a couple of large duffel bags and some cardboard boxes.
The invention has a fun element to it, because once a Ginger was turned on, Bezos started laughing his ?loud, honking laugh?.
There are possibly two Ginger models, named Metro and Pro ? and the Metro may possibly cost less than $2,000.
Bezos is quoted as saying that IT ?...is a product so revolutionary, you?ll have no problem selling it. The question is, are people going to be allowed to use it??
Jobs is quoted as saying: ?...If enough people see the machine you won?t have to convince them to architect cities around it. It?ll just happen.?
Kemper says the invention will ?sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking.?
The ?core technology and its implementations? will, according to Kamen, ?have a big, broad impact not only on social institutions but some billion-dollar old-line companies.? And the invention will ?profoundly affect our environment and the way people live worldwide. It will be an alternative to products that are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities.?
IT will be a mass-market consumer product ?likely to run afoul of existing regulations and or inspire new ones,? according to Kemper. The invention will also likely require ?meeting with city planners, regulators, legislators, large commercial companies and university presidents about how cities, companies and campuses can be retro-fitted for Ginger.?
JoLLyRoGer
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Relax dude, can't [edit]you[/edit] take a joke??
Sounds like "IT" could be some new way to produce clean energy. Sure must be important if Harvard is paying a quarter of a million dollars just for a book about IT.
Sounds like "IT" could be some new way to produce clean energy. Sure must be important if Harvard is paying a quarter of a million dollars just for a book about IT.
Sheesh... I found this over at ars.. maybe this is IT
ABC News is running a story on a new type of solar powered fuel cell that's supposedly efficient enough and cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels.
A working prototype of a fuel cell coupled with this new, high-tech solar panels made from silicon or refined sand. The flat silicon solar panels are arranged in a cube ? and that with the fuel cell ends up being about the size of a Rubik?s cube. Just 10 of those cubes would be enough to generate enough electrical power for an entire house. According to Dick Swanson, CEO of Sun Power, they?re talking about the future of power being sunlight, which is free, and sand, which is probably the most prevalent material on the planet.
ABC News is running a story on a new type of solar powered fuel cell that's supposedly efficient enough and cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels.
A working prototype of a fuel cell coupled with this new, high-tech solar panels made from silicon or refined sand. The flat silicon solar panels are arranged in a cube ? and that with the fuel cell ends up being about the size of a Rubik?s cube. Just 10 of those cubes would be enough to generate enough electrical power for an entire house. According to Dick Swanson, CEO of Sun Power, they?re talking about the future of power being sunlight, which is free, and sand, which is probably the most prevalent material on the planet.
This Kamen guy was just on 60 Minutes tonight. This guy has some serious loot. They mentioned he was a multi-millionaire, but by the looks of his house and private island, that seems like kind of a conservative guess. His company's come up with incredible inventions...a go-anywhere wheelchair (up/down stairs) was one they spent quite a bit of time on.
It'll be interesting to see what IT's all about.
It'll be interesting to see what IT's all about.
IT is overrated.
Please let this thread return to the depths of buried posts from which it came.
Please let this thread return to the depths of buried posts from which it came.
IT is a marketing ploy. IT is only there to fool you. IT is there to make you think IT is something very special, but IT is not. IT is not a beautiful and unique snowflake. IT is the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
isn't IT just a thing you stand on and can move around the city on, kinda like a scooter but with just enough room to stand on...sounds confusing, but there was a pic posted a while back..
Hey, somebody caught my allusion.
I love that movie...every time I see it I notice more and more quotables like that. The narrative in that movie is like a poem:
Tyler Durden: "OK: any historic figure."
Narrator: "I'd fight Gandhi."
Tyler Durden: "Good answer."
Narrator: "How about you?"
Tyler Durden: "Lincoln."
Narrator: "Lincoln?"
Tyler Durden: "Big guy, big reach. Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger."
Bwahahah! How funny is that sh!t?!?!
Sorry to thread crap. Achem. Back to the subject.
I love that movie...every time I see it I notice more and more quotables like that. The narrative in that movie is like a poem:
Tyler Durden: "OK: any historic figure."
Narrator: "I'd fight Gandhi."
Tyler Durden: "Good answer."
Narrator: "How about you?"
Tyler Durden: "Lincoln."
Narrator: "Lincoln?"
Tyler Durden: "Big guy, big reach. Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger."
Bwahahah! How funny is that sh!t?!?!
Sorry to thread crap. Achem. Back to the subject.
Can you feel IT, see IT, hear IT today? If you can't, then IT doesn't matter anyway You will never understand IT cuz IT happens too fast And IT feels so good, IT's like walking on glass IT's so cool, IT's so hip, IT's alright IT's so groovy, IT's outta sight You can touch IT, smell IT, taste IT so sweet But IT makes no difference cuz IT knocks you off your feet You want IT all but you can't have IT IT's cryin', bleedin', lying on the floor So you lay down on IT and you do IT some more You've got to share IT, so you dare IT Then you bare IT and you tear IT You want IT all but you can't have IT IT's in your face but you can't grab IT IT's alive, afraid, a lie, a sin IT's magic, IT's tragic, IT's a loss, IT's a win IT's dark, IT's moist, IT's a bitter pain IT's sad IT happened and IT's a shame You want IT all but you can't have IT IT's in your face but you can't grab IT What is IT? IT's IT What is IT?...
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