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This is a preview of what the GPS plug in will look like, view the video BELOW to see the beta GPS Receiver hardware working with the Google Maps Application on the iPhone. This all seems pretty cool… however, with the iPhone 2 scheduled to rear its head around the same time, we can only assume that it’ll have GPS built in. Simply an upgrade to 3G wouldn’t give the iPhone enough of an edge to still make it desireable in 2008, so Steve Jobs must have some little tricks up his rolled up sleeves for the Mac shows around Feb time…
Although I still prefer gull wings doors like on the BMW Z1 or the DeLorean, this is a very cool feature, and more than anything else, its automatic, which I love. however I have a feeling when this thing STARTS to go wrong, you wont want to have to rely on a crank electric door, especially in the event of an emergency.

Food. We need it. It comes from seeds. But what if there’s a nuclear war and all of our seeds get weirdly mutated? What if global warming kills off all of the world’s cranberries? Most countries prepare for such disasters by having gene banks for seeds, but gene banks are vulnerable. That’s why Norway’s built the Svalbard Global Seed Vault deep into the side of a mountain on one of the arctic Svalbart islands.
Norway claims that Svalbard “has perfect climate and geology for an underground cold storage.” The bank is located so deep inside the mountain that even rising sea levels and global warming shouldn’t melt the permafrost surrounding the facility’s three storage chambers. The bank has space for 2.25 billion seeds from 4.5 million seed samples. That means that it can serve as backup for the 1,400 existing gene banks for seeds around the world. The seeds will be stored at just under 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
The vault will begin storing seeds at the end of February of 2008.
via Global Seed Vault









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