Very Impressive Custom Build “Nintendo Entertainment System Coffee Table”
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Oscar the ” Bionic Cat ”
Posted in amazing stories, amazing videos, robotics, Technology, you tube with tags Noel Fitzpatrick, Oscar the Cat, prosthetic pegs, Surrey, The Bionic Vet, UK on June 26, 2010 by nunetherlands
Oscar the Cat had its back feet severed by a combine harvester has been given two prosthetic limbs in a pioneering operation by a UK vet.
The new feet are custom-made implants that “peg” the ankle to the foot. They are bioengineered to mimic the way deer antler bone grows through the skin.
Full Story BBC News
Another Rare *Staduim Event*NES Game Hits High 100k in auction
Posted in amazing stories, console games with tags NES, Nintendo, Nintendo NES, Rare, Stadium Events on March 1, 2010 by nunetherlands
This Time From Charlotte, North Caroline the “Super Rare” (Stadium Events) NES game in the last 19 hours has hit a “Crazy” high price of $100,000
**Update** Ebay Auction Ended 3/1/2010 (Monday) with a mass amount of $800,200.00 with 52 Bids
Check it out at Ebay
**Update** (From seller Comment) Ebay Seller **acuraboi12** (March 17,2010)
” Yes this is the same one Im trying to sell for the past 2 listing. First auction was won by some childish Joy bidders. Second was removed due to ebay policy violations. Now this item is BUY NOW or best offer only! ”
Check out New Listing at Ebay But it Now price of 12,500.00 or Make offer
Previous Ebay Auction from Olathe, Kansas Last Friday ended with only $41,300.00 Factory Sealed Stadium Event
More Details about NES Stadium Event Game at Wikipedia
Batman #27 *1939* Hits Over $1Million in Auction
Posted in amazing stories, Comic books with tags Batman, Comic books, DC Comics, Rare on February 26, 2010 by nunetherlands
Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, Texas, said the copy of Detective Comics Number 27, which pictures Batman swooping on a villain, sold Thursday for 1,075,500 dollars.
“The first appearance of Batman, this comic has been considered among the top books in the hobby ever since comic collecting began,” Heritage Auction said.
*Rare*Action Comics #1 (Superman) Sells for $1Million
Posted in amazing stories, cartoons, Comic books, entertainment with tags Action comics, Comic books, Rare, superman on February 22, 2010 by nunetherlands
The issue sold Monday morning is a 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books. It features Superman lifting a car on its cover and originally cost 10 cents.
Full Article Yahoo News
More details ComicConnect.com
Rare NES Game selling on *Ebay tops $17,000*
Posted in amazing stories, console games, gamer, Games with tags ebay, Family Fun Fitness, Kansas City, Nintendo, Nintendo NES, rare nes game, Stadium Events on February 19, 2010 by nunetherlands
The North American, or NTSC, version of Stadium Events is universally accepted as the rarest licensed NES game available for purchase in North America.
It was recently named #6 on a list of 20 “Holy Grails of Console Gaming”, a list that covered all gaming systems in all countries. The reason for its rarity and subsequent high market price is due to its limited production and sales.
At the time of its launch during the holiday season of 1987, Stadium Events was only available in limited stores. In 1988, Nintendo purchased the North American rights to the FFF mat technology and re-released it as the Power Pad.
The two Family Fun Fitness-branded games that had already been released, as well as Bandai’s version of the running pad accessory, were pulled from shelves and presumed destroyed.
Because of this odd sequence of events, only 2000 copies are believed to have been produced, of which it is estimated that 200 copies reached consumers before being recalled.[10] Today, collectors who follow the online sale of rare video games believe that fewer than 20 complete copies of the game exist, few of which are factory sealed.
As of 2/18/2010 (Feb. 18, 2010), there is one (supposed) factory sealed copy of the game listed on eBay at a current bid price of $17,100. Another past eBay auction of a NES console along with a copy of the game with manual and box landed the seller a winning bid of $13,105 on February 13, 2010.
The Ebay seller says she bought it more than 20 years ago at a store in a Kansas City suburb, realized she couldn’t play it without the control mat, and then when she went to buy one, found they’d all been pulled back because of the Nintendo deal. She kept it sealed thinking she’d return it, but never did.
The seller says she “saw that one lady sell her system and games for what she did,” went and rooted around in her basement and discovered she’d “hit gold!”
**Update** 2/26/2010 (Friday) Final ended Auction Price was $41,300.00 with 115 auction bids
More info from wikipedia.org
Full Article at Kotaku
9-year old working on *Fifth-Microsoft Certification*
Posted in amazing stories, computers, international, international news, tech news, Technology with tags Boy Genius, Certified Systems Engineer, Macedonia, Marko Calasan, Microsoft Certified, Skopje, Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on February 7, 2010 by nunetherlands
Say Hello to Marko Calasan. He’s nine years old and lives in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
He’s also Microsoft Certified four times over and working on his fifth certificate. (And he prefers Bing.)
This is the type of story that warms your heart but also makes you feel a little bad about yourself. Why? Because still in his single digits, Marko is more computer literate than many of us will ever be. Here he describes his first memories of using a computer:
Full Articles Gizmodo.com
Thief with X-Box and IPod flees crutch-wielding girl
Posted in amazing stories with tags iPod, New zealand, thief, Xbox on January 28, 2010 by nunetherlands
A courageous 11-year-old girl wielding her father’s crutch chased a fleeing burglar 500 metres to get her precious Xbox and iPod back.
Peter Sciascia, who is on crutches after breaking his leg, returned home with his three children and one of their friends on Tuesday afternoon and saw someone running out the back of his Otaki house.
“He just bolted,” Mr Sciascia said. “I hobbled around to see where he had gone. The kids went inside to see if anything was missing and I sent Rena out to the road to see if she could see him.”
Discovering the burglar had made off with the family’s Xbox, games, iPod and some cash, Rena Sciascia, 11, gave chase.
“She just grabbed the crutch and started chasing him,” Mr Sciascia said.
Full Story at Stuff.co.nz
Panasonic’s LED blub last for 19 years
Posted in amazing stories, tech news, Technology with tags LED blub, Panasonic on September 16, 2009 by nunetherlands
The EverLed series of lightbulbs, scheduled to be released in Japan on October 21, are the most efficient LEDs to ever be produced.
With the E26 “daytime light” model using 85 lumens per watt for 40W bulbs and 82.6 lm/W for the 60W bulbs.
The E26 bulbs are also lighter than other LEDs by approximately 40g.
Full Story at Inhabitat.com
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