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No, I am not talking about playing the Microsoft Flight Simulator on your computer, but a real simulator. A man named John Davis has build a Boeing 747 flight simulator in a room in his house.

The 47-year-old divorced spent eight years and £15,000 (US $30,733) to build the incredible jumbo jet cockpit. The flight deck touts a simulator which recreates every switch and sound on a Boeing 747. He has used an old car sea as the leather flight chair to lift the undercarriage, switch to automatic pilot and settle back to enjoy the traverse. The life-sized replica of the cockpit is mainly constructed from wood except the autopilot system, throttles and weather radar, which he sourced from the internet.

Now he sits in front of a giant screen and has a bird’s eye view of continents as he pilots his mighty “aircraft” across Europe or to New York.

John, who holds a pilot’s licence to fly gliders, has now quit his job as a graphic designer to run a flight simulation business from his two-bedroomed terraced house in Tile Hill, Coventry. He charges £65 for an hour and £95 for two. A £220, four-hour session includes two of training and a simulated flight from Birmingham to Amsterdam.

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I’m not sure if this is Japan’s largest floating crane or if it’s the biggest in the world, but either way, it’s huge!

Early in the morning it arrives at the city dock to begin the bridge construction for the man-made island in Kagoshima bay. Boom length: 132m. Lifting capacity: 3700 tons!
It’s “Yoshida” - Japanese biggest floating crane, built by Mitsubishi heavy Industries Division.

Each hook is 10 meters tall. The workers around it look as small as ants.
Some 800 steps lead to the tip of the boom, to the small cabin on the top.

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You may take them for granted, but hard drives are inside most of our favorite gadgets, from our MP3 players to our DVRs, which is why we envy the folks at Wired who recently got a tour of Seagate’s R&D labs.

Seagate’s R&D labs are currently working on developing a concept of new generation hard disk drives based on the heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, which would allow the storage capacity to be increased to 37.5 TB (terabytes) on a standard 3.5-inch drive.

A researcher at Seagate’s 300,000 square-foot R&D headquarters prepares samples for testing in the labs, where new storage technology is under development that could see 320-terabit hard drives within a matter of years.

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Freedom Ship will dwarf the Queen Elizabeth II and become a permanent home for 50,000 people.

“Freedom will be large enough to bring on more than 50,000 residents, 15,000 employees, 20,000 day guests and still have four times as much roaming-around square footage per person as the most modern cruise liners,” Nixon says during POPULAR

MECHANICS’ visit to see how his ambitious plan is progressing. Taller than the highest buildings in most American cities and topped with a runway that can handle jets, Freedom may someday be the globe-trotting address for 17,000 homes and 4000 businesses. Its dimensions are so colossal that it will have to be assembled at sea. Once it’s built, Freedom will circle the earth every two years, following the balmy breezes as it approaches the world’s major ports. The wealthiest of her “citizens” will leave their 15-ft. by 80-ft. ocean-view apartments and board their private jets or yachts for jaunts to shore. Meanwhile, the 15,000 people who work aboard the ship will gear up for the next on-rush of day visitors anxious to shop at its duty-free stores and guests checking in to vacation in its hotels and time-share condominiums.

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The military’s new weapon is a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they will catch fire.

The technology is supposed to be harmless — a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons.

Military officials say it could save the lives of innocent civilians and service members in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

The weapon is not expected to go into production until at least 2010, but all branches of the military have expressed interest in it, officials said.

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Sony Playstation PS1+PS2+duct tape = BETTER than PS3

Quick, grab one on eBay today!

This is not a Tech blog, and I am not that keen on the latest cell phone technology. But this one really caught my attention.

The Diamond Crypto Smartphone. This phone has been designed by an Austrian jeweler, Peter Aloisson for a Moscow based company, JSC Ancort. The price tag for one phone is USD 1.3 Million!

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