Water Powered Car

Tired of rapidly rising fuel prices? No problem. Just get out the garden hose. A Japanese company named Genepax claims to have produced a prototype vehicle that runs entirely on water and air. Their new "Water Energy System (WES)," generates power by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes using a proprietary technology called the Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA). The secret behind MEA is a special material that is capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction. During a recent conference, Genepax unveiled a fuel cell stack with a rated output of 120W and a fuel cell system with a rated output of 300W—and there are plans for a 1kw-class generation system for use in both electric vehicles and houses sometime in the future. At this point, the cost of production on the water-powered vehicle engine itself is around about $18,522, but they hope to drop the price to $4600 or less if they succeed in bringing it into mass production.

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Guitar Hero

For father's day, Sarah and Scribbles gave Jake a Guitar Hero Game for the XBox 360. Guitar Hero is a video game that uses a guitar-shaped controller to simulate the playing of music, represented on-screen by colored notes that correspond to fret buttons on the controller. Jake was a little dubious about this particular gift, but he decided to give it a try. Just to prove to the girls that he was thankful for the gift, and not to hurt their feelings, he played the guitar hero game for 4 straight hours until his fingers started to bleed and he couldn't see any longer because of the dots floating in front of his eyes.