Modern consumer cameras can manage almost anything you throw at them, but sometimes even the swankest DSLR just won’t do. In photography, when the con …
Why aboat? Because the Pegasus Open 50, is laden with mechanical andmaterial technology. And the captain is the inventor of thecamphone and founder of Borland,Philippe Kahn. He’sliveblogging a race from California to Hawaii via Satellite.
They’re sailing the Transpac, a classic race a little over 2000miles from the coast of California to Hawaii.
Over the last century, sailors have been using tech and smarts toreduce the travel time from 12 days to 6. Philippe and his teammateMark Christensen set the double handed record for a single hulledtravel last year; this year, they’ll be blogging live from the boaton Gizmodo.
Here’s what we’ve posted so far. The race is underway, soupdates will be coming shortly.
The Intro:
•Pegasus Open 50, The Official Transpac Raceboat of Gizmodo
The Logs:
• The Pegasus Open 50 Sailing Log:Weather
• The Pegasus Open 50 Sailboat Log:Lucky Sextant and Heading for the Starting Line
The Boat Tour
•Part 1: The Hull and Foresails
•Part 2: The Carbon Fiber Mast, Rigging and Sails
•Part 3: Turning, Emergency Hatches, Ballast and the HydraulicKeel
Philippe Kahn founded Borland,invented theCamphone, anddecodes human state. He’s also a fellow outdoorsman, splittingtimeskiing Tahoeandsailing in Santa Cruz. He’ll share his Transpac 2009 sailingrace with us live from the Pegasus Open 50. He and Mark Christensenset the race memorialise for a double handed team in 2008 with atime of7 days, 15hours, 17 written record and 50 seconds, besting all boats inoverall time for that year.
[Previous Pegasus Sailing posts on Gizmodo,Pegasus]
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@Software_Goddess: How could you classify something as dangerousif no one ever got wounded?
If 100 million people text, and no one ever dies in an accident,is it still dangerous?
I tend to think that’s how you measure things like this by howmany people are hurt.
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This Cox speakertable is the sort of thing you buy when you have a lot of money butno time to consider how practical your overpriced baubles are. Whothe hell wants a speaker unit that doubles as a table?
Just imagine trying to write on a table that’s vibrating withsound. Or how tense you’ll get every time someone rests a drink onit, coaster or no coaster. Or how futile it’ll be to try to illtemper this into the decor in your home. There’s a reason speakersand tables are separate pieces of furniture. Don’t rock the boat.[LuxuryIssuesviaBornRich]
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@Magic Beans? Sure, I’ll Buy Some!!:
1.98 shipped. 
[www.dealextreme.com]
roflwaffles is terribly unfunny
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The answer is mostlikely no—from this picture at least. Apparently, one ofthese earbuds is a $14 knockoff from the Philippines.
Cult of Mac put these earbuds to the test and found that theylooked and sounded almost exactly the same as the realdeal—right down to the packaging. However, don’t go lookingfor a black market bargain here. The knockoff versions broke afteronly a week of use. [Cult of MacviaBoing Boing Gadgets]
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