netherlands
Random Stuff
Google Street View Captures Fire Truck Hit-And-Run On Old Lady
11:40AM Sean Fallon | The latest adventure for the Google Street View car comes to us from the Netherlands, where it witnessed a fire truck mow down an innocent old lady on a bike. More »
Phones
Dutch Hacker Holds Jailbroken iPhones Hostage For Ransom
12:23PM Rosa Golijan | Many of us have jailbroken our iPhones, but did everyone remember to change the default root password? Those guilty of that oversight are vulnerable to the simple intrusion method this guy used to hold iPhones hostage in the Netherlands. More »
Toys
The Biggest Lego Mario Ever Built
1:40PM Jesus Diaz | If you have $US3700 handy, you can buy this 180cm tall, 50kg 40,000-brick Lego Mario, the biggest ever built. It took one week to plan and 175 hours to build over 16 days. More »
Vehicles
Office Cubicle for the Road Saves Precious Commuting Time
1:40AM Danny Allen | You’re looking at the Slow Car concept from Jurgen Bey, one of the Netherlands’ most respected high-end home furniture designers. He’s taken the humble office cubicle, and slapped it on a 40km/h scooter. Talk about being chained to your desk. More »
Business
Mininova Ordered To Remove The Only Torrents People Use
3:21AM John Herrman | Hugely popular torrent indexer Mininova has been slapped with a debilitating ruling, in the Netherlands: Within the next three months, the site has to remove all links to infringing torrents, after which it’ll be fined 1000 Euros for each one. This means that Mininova will either a) become the premier torrent indexer for Linux ISOs and public domain FLAC music, or b) die.* More »
Gadgets
Revolving Door Uses You to Make Energy
9:30AM Mark Wilson | It’s an alarmingly simple concept that claims to be the world’s first application: Netherlands-based company Natuurcafé La Port installed a power generator into a revolving door. Fantastic, but it took us this long? More »
Random Stuff
Netherlands To Get World’s Largest Indoor Golf Complex
2:40PM Matt Hickey | I play golf, but I hate the outdoors, so I’m going to move to the Netherlands, because they’re on track to open this rad, giant, indoor golf course that I can play year round. Non-golfers won’t understand what that means, but those of us in Seattle have a fairly short period that we actually get to go out and play, thus it’s a crowded affair, making it very expensive. This magic land will have 34 indoor driving range berths, measure over 15,000 square feet, and feature weather-protected sand traps and water hazards. I’m hoping George Jetson attends the opening, because his handicap sucks. [Tuvie, via TechFresh] More »
Robots
Flame Bot Has Manliest Walk in Robot Kingdom
5:00AM Wilson Rothman | Next Friday, a Dutch robotics researcher named Daan Hobbelen at TU Delft will be getting his PhD for building a robot named Flame. What’s the big deal? you robo-saturated Giz readers ask. Flame has been built to walk like a man, using human-based principles that strike fear in the hearts of other robotics experts. UPDATE and BONUS VIDEO BELOW!! More »
Robots
Soaring Spybot RoboSwift Mocks Real Birds (and Pays the Price)
1:25AM Wilson Rothman | The RoboSwift, built by researchers at the Delft University of Technology, is among the first flying machines with a “morphing” wing sweep. As you’ll see in the video below, its wings reduce in surface area when pulled back to limit drag, the way the wings of actual fast-flying swifts do. Unlike the real birds, however, the RoboSwift is designed to spy on you. More »
Science
