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The Casimir effect is a quantum mechanical effect that results in the attraction of metal plates having nanoscopic separation distances. Usually the metal plates used are flat and the energy required to reset the plate separation makes applications involving the plate movement impractical. This patent from inventor Adrian Tymes teaches an interesting variation involving curved structures that exhibit a Casimir effect which may provide some energy output under rotary motion. Claim 1 reads:

1. Apparatus comprising:

a first structure effective to generate a Casimir effect between at least portions thereof; and

a second structure effective to alter or to convert the Casimir effect or a first type of force, field, or affect associated with the Casimir effect into a second type of force, field, or effect.

A new delivery method for viruses and this one nearly got me this morning as I have tickets on Delta Airlines for an upcoming flight. In the end this is no different than the emails related to eBay accounts or your Bank of America account (when you don’t bank at BoA).

Of course two emails below this one was my ticket on Airtran.

When I started this blog I had in mind to stay up date mainly as a developer or as a tech geek. However during this time I found out a couple of things – one is that many of the things that in the past required writing code are now part of ‘ready to use’ applications. And second that as an end-user I still have a gap to close.
The challenge that I faced in the last week was to publish some pictures/videos from my trip, which is a good excuse to share them – June ’08 Trip (apology for the non-Hebrew readers).

Ok, using Picasa is not such a thing, but downloading pictures from your camera, editing them, uploading them to a site, adding titles and putting the position on the map is not a trivial thing.
All of that caused me to realize a third thing (which is the opposite of the first two) – sometimes these so called simple applications are not so simple.

Another experienced I had that demonstrated that – I bought lately a new HD camcorder and did not understand why there is a ‘one click burn to disk’ button. Maybe it’s because I’m such a guy who always choose the advanced option when installing something or maybe because it’s not so simple to burn a disk. The task of taking a couple of videos I took, edit them a bit (just merging and removing 10 seconds at the end) and upload it YouTube required some good tech skills and a few programs. But this is another excuse to share my first YouTube video – alpine coaster (don’t miss the almost crash) – highly recommended!.