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World's First Tidal Turbine Farms to Power 40,000 Scottish Homes (or Pubs) [Alternative Energy]

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2008-09-30 06:30:00 by John Herrman in Gizmodo
...Scottish Power is seeking approval for plans to build two farms of 20 100-foot, err, watermills promising a steady power supply for up to 40,000 homes. As with the previous example of tidal power generation, the most obvious problems have been pretty much addressed: fish, seals, and cryptozoological specimens (probably) won't be harmed by the...
 
Tags: scottish power claims, scottish power, tidal power generation, steady power supply, farms, apparent success, tidal turbines, deployment, homes
 
 
 
 
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Sippin on the Rocks: Scottish Granite Cools Your Scotch

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2007-12-18 19:14:02 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Scottish countryside, designed to be chilled in your freezer, then placed in your glass to cool your scotch without watering it down. Cute, if a little odd. I'm going to go on record and say that I like my scotch just ever so slightly watered down, either with about a teaspoon of tap water or a single chip or small cube of ice. It may impugn...
 
Tags: granite, scotch, granite hewn, rocks, sippin, single chip, tap water, scottish countryside, josh spear
 
 
 
 
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Scottish company opens the world's first bionic hand facatory

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2008-01-11 04:03:23 by Editor in Medlaunches.com
...Scottish firm has now officially opened its first commercially available bionic hand. More than 70 of the hands are now being used by amputees around the world after the product was launched last July. Donald McKillop, using the i-LIMB for the past eight months after losing his right hand in 1977 says that you can put the fingers in any...
 
Tags: hand, bionic hand, position, world, electrical signals, scottish firm, donald mckillop, wrist, hands
 
 
 
 
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Scottish Scientists Fight Cancer Cells With a Lightsaber [Lightsabers]

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2008-11-23 11:00:00 by Jack Loftus in Gizmodo
...Scottish scientists have created a miniature device that attacks individual cancer cells using a cylinder of light. A two millimeter saber of light, or light saber , if you will. The pinpoint accuracy (no Force powers necessary!) will allow doctors to deliver meds to precisely where they're needed; alternatively, it could also be used after a...
 
Tags: cancer, light, light saber, scottish scientists, lightsaber cancer-fighter, miniature device, device, punch tiny holes, deadly hard-to-reach cancers
 
 
 
 
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Parents blame kids failing test scores on Wikipedia

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2008-06-22 21:20:51 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
...Scottish Parent Teacher Council, which just sounds like a fun group, hated on Wikipedia the other day because Scottish test scores are going down and theyve seemingly pegged Wikipedia as the culprit. Too much opinion presented as fact, too much out-and-out wrong information for the SPTCs liking One comment on The Scotsman makes a fair, if...
 
Tags: wikipedia, blame wikipedia, dumb, dumb kids, time ago, schools provide textbooks, time, kids dumb, scottish test scores
 
 
 
 
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24: The Mobile Game

2006-03-04 05:56:54 by jamshaid in j a m s h a i d's blog ยป Gizmos & Gadgets
 
...Scottish mobile gaming company I-Play has developed a mobile game of popular TV show, 24. The release of the 24 game for handsets will give fans, like me, a chance to get a taste of 24 on their handsets Facts wrapped in the look and feel of 24 the game puts you in charge of Jack, as well as of several other leading characters text on screen...
 
Tags: mobile game, game, game website, short missions, complete missions, handsets, company i-play, popular tv, scottish mobile
 
 
 
 
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Scots lose sight of early release offenders due to faulty electronic tags

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2007-12-31 11:29:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
...Scottish government's practice of relying on electronic tags to monitor early release offenders, but the government seems to be sticking to its guns, with a spokesman saying that "a breach does not necessarily equate to reoffending," although, as the Scotsman reports, it did recently scrap a plan to tag suspects who were allowed out on bail ...
 
Tags: tags, electronic tags, release offenders, rfid tags increasingly, scotsman reports, government, scottish government, photo courtesy, black box
 
 
 
 
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Spurtle

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2008-01-02 17:31:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Scottish stir stick that dates from the 16th century The original spurtles (also spelled "spirtle") may have simply been small branches with the bark removed Typically used for stirring porridge, where its small-diameter rounded shaft easily cuts through the thick material to keep lumps to a minimum, it is equally useful for stirring thick...
 
Tags: spurtle, spurtle website, tool, similar tool, original spurtles, north america, easily cuts, tire knocker, hard maple
 
 
 
 
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Touch Bionic's First factory opened in Scotland .

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2008-01-10 07:17:49 by HASH0x897be68 in Newlaunches.com
...Scottish company Touch Bionic who are manufacturers of artificial limbs, has now opened its very own manufacturing plant in Livingston. Government ministers toured the plant and met the first recipient of the firm's pioneering i-LIMB hand. UK Minister of State for Competitiveness Stephen Timms, and Scotland Office Minister David Cairns, went...
 
Tags: i-limb hand, hand, clinics alike, ministers, i-limb, government ministers, plant, clinics, firm