I thought you might find this interesting or scary, I know I did. I stumbled on to a few articles about a mobile microwave a company called Maplin is making in the UK. It runs off your 12V DC lighter in your car and you can cook any of your tasty treats on the go. Well you probably shouldn’t be microwaving anything on the go, but who would want to pull over to cook? People have a hard enough driving and talking on their cell phones, I can’t imagine someone trying to drive and cook. Lets hope this idea does not catch on.

You can purchase the 12V In-Car Microwave Here for 89 Euros, but what a small price to pay for cooking in your car right?

This could be a nice concept for “pimp-your-ride-ers”, maybe that is the perfect market for the portable microwave. With gaming systems, flat tv’s, mini-bars, being put in cars today why not have a portable microwave in your ride? People may not ever leave their cars again, especially since you can get a portable toilet as well. Read more about that at BBC News

Source: switched.com

In the spirit of the Olympics going on right now, I thought it would only be right for me to post something about them. Most people know the regular sports that are featured in the Olympic games, but what about the traditional sports that most of us do not know about? OK, maybe not traditional but they should be. Well, if you are curious enough to see these sports in action then watch the videos that follow.

Alright, I know why these aren’t featured at the Olympic games, although I think they would get a lot of attention. Don’t get me wrong I love the Olympics, but sometimes you have to poke fun a little! Go USA!

The Voronja cave, which is currently considered the deepest cave in the world, has a depth of 2191 meters (7188 feet), and it’s also the first cave to be explored at a depth of more than 2km.

In 2007 an expedition of 56 people explored it, but they say that it could be even deeper than it’s currently known.

The name is translated as Crow’s Cave and it’s located in Georgia, near the Black Sea.

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Curious how our world will look like in 2058, 50 years from now? You can find out what others think about it in "The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today", a collection of essays from 60 great thinkers from around the world.

They seem to agree on the fact that the next half a century will see a great number of technological and medical improvements, giving people the chance to live to be over 100 years old more easily.

Some of the predictions in the book:

• getting your genetic code analyzed and finding out to what diseases you’re more inclined to have will be something common
• cyber implants will start to be used more often, and we’ll probably see bionic vision on that list
• big brother will be much more present in our lives and passports/id’s will be connected in a system similar to credit cards today, making it easier to track someone.
• water will become a resource as important as petrol in the next 50 years

A much longer look at this collection of essays can be found on Cosmic Log.

Sci-Fi author Arthur C. Clarke died at age 90, on Wednesday. He wrote more than 100 books in his career.

His most famous book was 2001: A Space Odyssey and three other books followed in this series, with movies being made after them in time.

Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair, died at 1:30 a.m. local time after suffering breathing problems, aide Rohan De Silva told The Associated Press.

His latest novel, "The Last Theorem" has been reviewed by the author and will be published later this year.

After the jump you can see his last appearance on video in December 2007.

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