Calll Of Duty 4 Gun Sounds

This video is amazing. This guy took a whole bunch of gun sounds from CoD4 and made a song.

Check this out!

Are humans supposed to be able to "pop" like this?

This guy has serious moves. This honestly looks impossible to do but obviously it isn't. It's even more amazing that he has never been taught how to do it and just learned how to do it by himself :)

Brain Tweetin'

From Cosmic Log-

"GO BADGERS" isn't an unusual message to get from the University of Wisconsin at Madison - particularly when it's a status update from Twitter, the texting service that limits users to 140 characters at a time.

The unusual thing about this message is how it got to Twitter in the first place: via brain waves.

University of Wisconsin doctoral student Adam Wilson's cheer for the hometown team is among the first direct brain-to-Twitter messages ever sent - and it points the way to better communication systems for paralyzed patients who have to cope with the conditions faced by physicist Stephen Hawking and the late Jean-Dominique Bauby, author of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."

Wilson suffers no such disability - but he put on the electrode-equipped cap and sent out Twitter updates with his thoughts in order to test out the system. "SPELLING WITH MY BRAIN," he says in one of the messages.

Isn't that amazing? People who can't move or speak will be able to communicate! With their EYES! :D I honestly think this is one of the most important inventions ever.

Read the full story:

TWITTER WITH YOUR BRAIN

Cutting your lawn with goats? That's what Google's doing!

From CNET-

The economy is still in shambles, we're all panicking about the bacon fever, and even those bright and shiny "green" initiatives might not be so green. Sad!

But did you know that Google is conserving energy by cutting its Mountain View, Calif., lawns with adorable goats?

Yes, it's true. The company has enlisted an innovative start-up called California Grazing to bring some of the Google greenery a more carbon-friendly, less polluting alternative to lawn mowers. It sounds like the use of goats is confined to peripheral fields where weeds and brush could cause wildfires, so it's not like Googlers run the risk of having goats wander into their office buildings. No word on whether they pay the goats in leftover free food from the company mess halls.

"A herder brings about 200 goats and they spend roughly a week with us at Google, eating the grass and fertilizing at the same time," a post on the official Google blog read. "The goats are herded with the help of Jen, a border collie. It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers."

Honestly, that's really smart! Of course, it wont be that perfect cut golf grass but it'll be short. Of course, it isn't necessarily practical for a regular person but for Google I guess it is.

Amazing Technology or Impossible Claim?

Imagine driving 500 miles nonstop in an electric car, then quickly re-charging if you want to extend your trip. Sound impossible? It might be. Either that or a Texas company called EEStor has come up with a battery replacement called an ultra-capacitor that could make the internal combustion engine obsolete.

The company's claims have spurred the occasional debate on the Web for the last year. EEStor has said that it plans to "replace the electrochemical battery" in everything from vehicles to laptops. But experts are wary, and have been left to an advanced sort of guessing game, as EEStor hasn't been leaking out too many details about how its amazing technology works. The general impression, though, is that what they're claiming is probably impossible, or at least not as wonderful as it sounds. That said, a whole bunch of drivers would love to see the critics proven wrong.—Gregory Mone

Via Yahoo News.

Now what exactly does this mean for consumers? If this IS true, then we'll be saving a whole lot of money!

Read the full article at: http://www.popsci.com/article/2007-09/technological-breakthrough-or-alchemy

Simplicity and "action" rolled into one.

My Brute

I found this game a couple days back and it's pretty cool. You guys should check it out :)

Now, like I said it's simple so customization is very limited but either way the game is good.

Definitely something you should play if you only have lik 3 minutes (considering you don't really control your character.)

Here's my guy: Kumaru

This is why you're fat.

Okay, well a friend of mine found this yestaurant. Apparently, it's a website all about very fatty foods or something. Some of the stuff on there just looks weird...but other stuff looks AMAZING. Like the Bacone. Or the Junkyard Dog. Seriously though, this website is strange.

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

Cyanide and Happiness

Has anyone seen these comics? These things are FUNNY. Beware though, they do have a little cursing and some suggestive content (mainly the videos). Check them out at http://www.explosm.net/comics/

Unfortunately some of their comics contain a little blasphemy but most don't.

Here's my favorite flash of theirs: I Did It!

SMP Films.

This dude is hilarious!

If you haven't seen at least The Mean Kitty Song then you are seriously missing out.

Check out his youtube account at http://www.youtube.com/user/smpfilms :D

This guy can't dunk.

Hehe no he can't. Seriously this looks painful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlZhVcErrGE

You'll know what I'm talking about once you watch it.

So Susan Boyle and Paul Potts didn't appear out of nowhere?

Nope. Check this out.

Taken from Time.com-

The story of Susan Boyle — like that of Paul Potts before her — is, except to the most jaded and curmudgeonly among us, completely irresistible. Fished, seemingly, from the bottom of the troll pond byBritain's Got Talent, these two humble, working-class, physically ill-favored souls were suddenly found to be capable of creating things of astonishing beauty. People reacted as if vast quantities of treasure were discovered in the trunk of a broken-down Hyundai abandoned on their street. It was always there, but nobody had ever bothered to look. Thanks to that grouchy Simon Cowell (and YouTube), the two amateur singers each became overnight sensations, bringing lumps to the throats and surreptitious wiping of the eyes to millions, including the show's judges.

Ugly duckling stories really do not get any better than this. And Britain's Got Talent milked them for all they were worth, cutting away to eye rolls and snickering by the audience and judges before the two wow-inducing performances. (Eye rolls and snickering, of course, can be taped at any time and edited in later, but never mind.) But exactly how untutored and undiscovered were Potts, who went on to win 2007's competition and will release the CD Passione on May 5, and Boyle, who since her performance surfaced last week has become a household name on at least two continents?

Their life stories, as told in countless profiles, are oddly similar. Potts, 39, was raised in a scuzzy part of Bristol, England, we're told, by a bus-driver dad and supermarket-cashier mom. Boyle, 48, was one of nine children whose father worked in a car factory and mother in a typing pool. At school they were both bullied. When he turned up in front of the judges, Potts was a dentally challenged mobile phone salesman, wearing a $50 suit from the supermarket chain Tescos. Boyle, with her gold dress, black hose, white shoes and hedgerow eyebrows, was unemployed and, yes, living alone with her cat, Pebbles. Nobody, the show made clear, had any idea they could sing.

Well, not quite. Luciano Pavarotti, for one, had an idea about Potts. While Potts' hometown, Fishponds, is not an upscale neighborhood, he went to St. Mary's Redcliffe, one of the best non-private schools in Bristol. After he graduated with honors from university, he went on a quiz-cum-talent show hosted by Michael Barrymore and won enough money to take singing classes in Italy. There he performed for Pavarotti.

Upon Potts' return to England, he worked his way through the amateur opera scene. According to the program for a 2003 Bath Opera production of Aida in which he appeared, he had already sung with that company several times and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. But that same year, he had a nasty bicycle accident. Health difficulties and medical bills took him away from opera and into his job selling phones. (Read "Why American Idol Keeps Soaring.")

Boyle's story is similar but with fewer light notes. Her hardscrabble town was Blackburn in Scotland. She also auditioned for a Barrymore TV show, but didn't make the cut. Yet she took singing lessons and recorded Cry Me a Riverfor a charity CD in 1999, the same year she made a demo tape. An observant Catholic, she often sang at church and on karaoke nights. So her talent was no surprise to her neighbors. "Everyone here knew she could sing," Jackie Russell, manager of the local pub, told the AP. "We were always saying, 'You should go in for talent competitions.'" What held Boyle back was caring for her aging parents. She entered BGT, after her mother died, because she was approached by talent scouts from the show who asked her to enter.

Potts and Boyle are not, in short, two undiscovered singers who never got their shot at fame. Their stories are less telegenic than the one sold by Britain's Got Talent, but much more common. Thousands of singers take their shot and fail, just as these two had.

But in a way, their true tales are more heartening. Paul Potts and Susan Boyle each wanted to build a career on their talent, even tried to. He got stalled; she got rejected. But the same things that barred them from entering showbiz — upbringing, luck, family duty and, in this TV-driven world, looks — are what delivered them eventually to fame's main square. They had the exact qualities the reality industry knows how to package. As Cowell said to Boyle, in what may have been the most honest comment in the whole program, "I knew the minute you walked out on that stage we were going to hear something extraordinary."

See? What exactly does this mean? Does it diminish the WOW factor? To some people, it does! Honestly, if people already knew she could sing then where is the surprise? Now, either way, she IS a good singer so she'll still sell if she records. Until then, here is a picture of Susan after a makeover.

Artificial Heart

Taken from CNN- French scientists have unveiled a working prototype of a fully artificial heart which is based on the technology of satellites and airplanes. The device could save millions of lives and beats almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow. Carmat's chief operating officer Patrick Coulombier told The Associated Press: "it's the same principle in the airplane as in the body."

Coulombier explained that the same tiny sensors that measure air pressure and altitude in an airplane or satellite are also in the artificial heart. This should allow the device to respond immediately if the patient needs more or less blood.

The French design has so far only been tested in animals, and now needs approval from its authorities before pushing ahead with clinical trials.

Previous artificial hearts have been unable to automatically vary their pumping speed and must be tweaked externally.

Now think about it. This has the potential to save millions of lives! Now, not everyone who needs a heart has 200,000.00 US dollars though :( Either way, this is an amazing invention.

In the beginning...

...of this blog, there was a post. A post that explained stuff. This is that post.

Anyway, I'll start by introducing myself. My name is Marcelo D. and I am a your average Brazilian-living-in-the-U.S. teen.

Here are some of the things this blog will regularly include:

1. Technological updates that will benefit the world like the new French Prototype Heart that is basically a plastic heart that can be used in place of a real one (for 200,000.00 US Dollars...)
2. Video Games. I'll post some reviews of games I have played and also stuff about new releases, future releases, and my expectations for certain games and game companies (what's going to happen to them, what new systems will they be releasing, etc.)
3. Technology that will NOT benefit the world (except in the Entertainment category.) Stuff like new vehicles like the P.U.M.A. (the love child of GM and Segway) and other things like robots, etc.
4. Miscellaneous topics. This can include things from the categories of candy to flying monkeys. Basically stuff that really anyone would amazing.
5. Even Political topics. I might talk about Swine Flu or what happened in Congress last week. Whatever stuff I find out on CNN or other various news sites.
6. Religion. I am a Protestant Christian and WILL talk about God. I will post links to Bible studies and verses I find very touching.

Now, of course, I might venture off and talk about whatever I want to. Hehe.

That's about it. Tell your friends and visit often. :)