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The 2.6 Ton Pinball Machine

September 25th, 2003 at 11:57 pm » Comments (0)

The game is one of the worlds largest hand carved pinball style game machines. (Candidate for the Guinness World Records).
It weighs 2.6 tons, is 11 metres long, 2.6 metres high, has 16 user operated levers, 72 metres of pathways for ball travel, 33 moving scenes, 37 electric motors, 22 sensors and 16 audio speakers […]



Anti-Spam Websites Shut Down by Attacks

September 25th, 2003 at 11:49 pm » Comments (0)

Three Web sites that provide spam blocking lists have shut down as a result of crippling Internet attacks in what experts on Thursday said is an escalation in the war between spammers and opponents of unsolicited e-mails.

Anti-spam experts said that they think spammers are behind the attacks, although they have no way of proving it.

The […]



One in Three White Teen Girls use Tanning Booths

September 25th, 2003 at 5:45 pm » Comments (0)

A study found that nearly a third of white teenage girls in the United States have used tanning booths at least three times, suggesting an alarming number of teens are ignoring the dangers of skin cancer for the sake of sporting a good tan.

Twenty-eight percent of teenage girls and 7 percent of boys reported using […]



Introducing the ‘Smart Couch’

September 25th, 2003 at 12:05 am » Comments (0)

Serious couch potatoes may soon have sofas that order take-out, turn lights off automatically and tune the TV to their favorite programs, without them ever having to lift a finger.

The “smart sofa” being developed by scientists at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, contains programmable microchip sensors on each leg that determine who’s sitting down based […]