Magnetic Air Car Will Alleviate Fossil Fuel Crisis

It is technology to the rescue again, this time, a new breakthrough has been achieved for the fossil fuel crisis.

We know of green homes, clean energy, etc. but how about a car powered by compressed air? The company called Magnetic Air Cars Inc says it is working on a prototype car that will not use any gas, fuel, or external recharging device, only air to propel the vehicle. This so called Magnetic Air Car could be ready by 2010 “or sooner.”

The Magnetic Air Car uses three on-board substations to harness compressed air. The resulting airflow is channeled, modulated, and converted to torque that propels the car. There is a “Silicon Energy Storage Battery” which has 30% more mass power than normal lead acid battery.

The process of chemosynthesis delivers a more environmentally friendly, high-capacity, quick-charging (1 hour), 10-year-life battery.

Indian car company Tata Motors is working on its MDI air-powered car, and the team explained that there are differences between both technologies. While the MDI uses pistons, the Magnetic Air Car will be using a form of “magnetic technology.”

The execs also told us that they are looking to raise a bridge round of financing over the next few months before more substantial funding comes in.

Is Dipity Another Plurk In The Making?

Are you using Dipity? One of my friend invited me to this social network. At a glance, there are some similarities with Plurk, especially its timeline concept but there are more features at Dipity.

You can use Dipity to create and share interactive timelines about any subject or topic. It allows students to embed You Tube videos, Twitter, RSS feeds, Blogger, flickr, Picasa, Last FM, and more right into their timelines.

Dipity makes timelines relevant and fun for students and best of all, you are creating timelines in “their language” of Digital Native. The timelines are cool, unlike traditional paper/pencil timeline!

Though I have yet to try it out, Dipity has the potential to be huge if enough people catch theh viral bug and start sharing interactive timelines about the people and things they care about.

At the moment, I am a bit overwhelmed. Plurk itself is a huge time drainer for me; when you chat, it can get addictive and there are important things like updating the blog which goes unattended.

Anybody has tried Dipity and can shed more insight here? Does this network has the potential to take off?

Project Playlist: Hot Tool For Social Networks

The latest darling of social networks such as MySpace and Facebook is Project Playlist (playlist.com).

In case you have not caught onto this trend, Project Playlist, founded two years ago, is a music aggregating tool that allows you to add your personal music or music that your friends have uploaded. Users can then enjoy the music by listening to an embeddable music player or put it into a widget to add to their blogs or other social sites.

In April, Project Playlist received a complaint filed on behalf of all the top music labels, except Sony BMG, which is negotiating with Project Playlist. The RIAA alleges that the majority of the links found at the site lead to pirated music.

In many ways, Project Playlist is similar to Last.fm when it burst onto the social media scene. As of today Project Playlist has over 33 million members which is astonishing for a relatively new site.

I recently browsed through and signed up for a Project Playlist account to test the waters. There are some neat features that you might like and might want to add to your blog or social site.

When signing up for a Project Playlist account, just enter your username, password, and email address. Once logged in, you will be able to do things like create a playlist or search for an artist by song or by name.

After creating your playlist you can play the music on the website or you can get a code to place the playlist on your blog or social site. If you like to organize your music links, then create many playlists (max 100 songs) to group the different artistes.

Apart from some irritating advertisements, Project Playlist is a pretty decent site. So if you are interested, you can hop over to the site and take a look.