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Fantastic guide to Green Cars

July 12, 2007 by Chris

It’s nice to see that car manufactures are beginning to design more and more green cars. My wife and I try to live a fairly green lifestyle. In fact she’s been writing about it on her gardening blog recently. Over the last few years we’ve been changing slowing and living a greener lifestyle.

One major change that we’d like to make, probably with our next car purchase would be to get a green car. Probably a hybrid or if possible a pure electric car.

With this in mind, I was happy to find an article about the Greenest cars on earth over at the Vcars website.

Vcars specializes in the sale of Used cars and I suppose it won’t be long before they’ll be selling a few used green cars since there are more and more types of green cars on the market each year.

The article that I read discusses the many types of green cars that are presently being sold, as well as prototypes and manufactures plans for green cars of the future.

Probably the most well known green car is the hybrid Toyota Prius. This vehicle and it’s specifications are discussed in the article, as are a number of electric cars such as the G-Wiz, and the Sakura Maranello4. It seems that both of these cars can be found on the streets of London. As far as I know we don’t have anything quite like that available to us here in North America, but I hope that we will soon.

Then there are cars by a variety of well known manufacturers that produce a very low C02 footprint compared to many other vehicles on the road today. Cars such as the Honda Civic, Lexus RX-400h, and Lexus GS-450h are all considered green cars.

If you have an interest in cars I’m sure you’ll enjoy the article, and if you are interested in living green you’ll find some very useful information that will help you decide on your next car.

You must go to the site and see the prototypes of future green cars. Did you know that there’s plans for a Tesla Roadster Electric Vehicle? It looks amazing! Scroll to the last third of the article to see a photo of this cool looking car.

Overall I found this article quite informative and I’m sure I’ll go back to it when we are about to buy a new car.




Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Technology Tagged With: car makers, electric, electric car, future green cars, Green cars, greenest cars, hybrid, hybrid car, London, low c02 footprint, major manufactures, protoypes, UK, used cars, Vcar

1,800 Guitarists Set World Record Playing ‘Smoke on the Water’

July 10, 2007 by Chris

Now that would be a sight or should I say sound to hear! I hope that they were all in tune. I wonder how far they got in the song?

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Anyway, those crazy (and I mean that in a nice way) Germans just seem to love their hard rock and where the mullet seems to never have gone out of style.

They had 1802 guitarists, ranging from 6 to 80 years of age, play this tune simultaneously.

It happened on Saturday, June 25 2007, in the village of Leinfelden-Echterdingen in the German state of Baden-Württembergwonder. Makes one wonder what the previous record is. Well if you really want to know it was in June in Kansas City in the US, where 1,683 guitarists got down and riffed together.

The Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan was trying to take part in a live link-up from England, but was prevented from singing along by technical problems. Now that would have been cool to be there if they did get the glitch to work right.

If the record is not exceeded by September, the record will go into the Guinness Book of Records.

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Entertainment, Music, Musicians, Recreation Tagged With: Deep Purple, Guinness Book of Records, guitar, Leinfelden Echterdingen, Live, play, Smoke on the Water, sound

My new SONY HDR-SR5 Video Camera

July 3, 2007 by Chris

So we finally got ourselves a more then capable HD Video camera. Our SONY HDR-SR5 was bought this past Sunday. I have been going over the manual for some time now and I must admit it seems easy enough to use but to get the desired effect maybe another story.

hdr-sr5.jpg My first video attempt was just random shots here and there around the house. I also had the opportunity to video some fireworks down at our local park. It was Canada Day on Sunday so perfect timing! The focus was so fluid and the simple effects were just plain simple to execute! The touch screen was very user friendly not to mention very cool as well! It is set up in such a simple format that even my parents, I think, could figure it out. Sorry mom & dad!

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The HDR-SR5 has a CD for running the camera for idiots and another for the recording software as well as an in dept PDF manual that is very straight forward.

If you are looking for a HD Video camera I think you should check this one out! The only problem that I have with this so far is that we need a S-Video cable to plug it into our SAMSUNG HDTV. Otherwise full steam ahead.

Today I will install the software in my laptop and try out a few of the basic functions. I hope the software allows me to import the audio from an POD to the final video. If I am having problems the old boys at G-Force Media Productions in Toronto, can certainly help me out!

So wish me luck! Finally after all the hype about my starting to set up lessons on line it really will be coming soon to you my good readership!!!

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: Electronics, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Shopping, Technology, Video Tagged With: 1080i, functions, G Force Media Productions, HD video, HDTV, smallest HD Video camera, software, SONY, SONY HDR SR5, Toronto, Video, Video camera

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