http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7AYfq9uIY8
As well as GPS, iOS and Android connectivity, internal speakers and a rear camera, the P1 Motorcycle Helmet from Silicon Valley HUD developers Skully Helmets has an integrated heads-up display that appears to float about 6m ahead of the rider.
No word on pricing, but you can apply to beta test the helmet here.
Artist Nickolay Lamm (he of Average Guys) consulted with animal eye specialists and ophthalmologists at the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary school to visualise how cats (lower pix) see the world compared to humans (upper pix).
The blurry edges of the vistas represent cats’ enhanced peripheral vision. Elliptical pupils and greater concentration of rods in the retina means that their night sight is also superior, but cats have poor distance vision and can see blue and yellow colors, but not red, orange or brown.
Slurp?
The three winners of Juanita Browne’s Put The Kettle On competiton (and each win a copy of the buke) from last Friday are:
Beth: “Would you please send this buke to my mum Siobhán, as she manages to get through about 20 cups of (completely black, unsugared) tea a day.”
Kearnivale: “Would you please send this buke to my Da, as he drinks so many cups of tea a day, he has to switch to Barry’s decaf at 2pm because of the tremors.”
Lidija: “Would you please send this buke to me as I learned to LOVE tea (from thinking it was yucky first time I tried it when I came to Ireland, to not being able to relax without putting a kettle on first thing when I get back to my gaff now. BTW – no sugar, leave a bag in, dollop of milk) and I obviously have only tea and no friends in my life to apply to this for me.”
Thanks all.
Previously: Who Wants A Buke of Tay
The eejit market in AIB http://t.co/i2YpgGPoUU
— FT Alphaville (@FTAlphaville) October 21, 2013
Behind paywall.
*whistles nonchalantly*
*opens raincoat”
That’s Allied Irish Banks’ rocket-fuelled stock price. The bank is now capitalised at €78bn or $99bn.
Ahead of the Irish 2014 budget (which is expected to include a fresh bank levy) along with the forthcoming stress tests, AIB is trading at an heroic 12 times NAV.
The thing to bear in mind here is that AIB has a comically small free float — just over 1bn shares, against the 517bn or so in issue.
Some 516bn of those are owned by Ireland’s National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission. AIB is 99.8 per cent state-owned.
So why is the price so inflated? Investors are aware there’s an overhang, right?
There’s no sane explanation. Best guess is that with shares in bigger rival Bank of Ireland (market cap €8bn) rising from 21 cents to circa 25 cents this month, AIB, currently at 15 cents, has been tracking it higher.But there’s also another factor that may be at play here: when, on December 30, 2011, the Central Bank of Ireland announced an end to the ban on shorting financial stocks, which had been in place since September 2008, it didn’t include AIB.
So AIB can’t be shorted!
Primeval Symbiosis (Single Pole House) – an ambitious design project ‘based on the structure and functionality of a tree’ by Danish architecture student and interior designer Konrad Wójcik.
The houses are suitable for two to four occupants and the end-goal is to create ‘communities’ of several dwellings in natural landscapes.
A new set of stamps to herald “four of Ireland’s most outstanding contemporary public buildings”
Clockwise from top:
The Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC, Cork. Designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects, it was awarded the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) Downes medal in 2005.
The Cork Institute of Technology in Bishopstown (60c) Designed by de Blacam and Meagher Architects. It received the RIAI Best Educational Building Award in 2007.
Fingal County Hall in Swords, Co Dublin (90c) It received an award from RIAI in 2007 and was designed by Bucholz McEvoy Architects.
Croke Park in Dublin’(90c) Designed by Gilroy McMahon Architects, it was awarded a gold medal in the RIAI 2007 Awards.
FIGHT!
Thanks Feargal Purcell
ECB financial supervisor job likely to go to a woman http://t.co/eTWtriJ2EX via @IrishTimesBiz
— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) October 21, 2013
Good girl yourself, Daniele.
Previously: What About Teh Menz?
Michael O’Toole of the Irish Daily Star told Newstalk earlier today how the Gardaí found a girl, aged between 14 and 16, on her own and in a distressed state near the GPO in Dublin [above] last week.
He said she doesn’t speak English very well and is communicating by drawing pictures.
Mr O’Toole said she has drawn pictures of herself being sexually abused, men being around her all the time, money changing hands and of her being filmed.
Gardaí are trying to identify the girl, who is now in HSE care.
Pic: Trekearth
