Archive for the 'Swiss' Category

Amazing Video

Just a wow set of clips, some I have posted the full videos. But still an awesome compiled video.



Switzerland

Looks like fun, but we would spend days just petting animals!

And eating Cheese, and Chocolate!



Eiger Climb Speed Record

This is an all time must see video. Go FULL SCREEN, listen to the audio.

Awesome view, super fast. Very Dangerous, and impressive. Rock and Ice climbing at the expert level.



Time – And the finest way to track it

A watch by Patek Philippe ca. 1914. According to the appraiser, “The finest watch I have ever held in my hand.” Hour and minute hand and a second hand. Split chronograph. Minute register for chronograph. Slide for chiming the watch, a minute repeater. Day, date, month, along with moon phase. Perpetual and adjusts for leap-year. In excellent condition, in original box. Extra mainsprings and crystals. 18k gold case.

Every time I hear of a famous person paying for crazy modern stuff I think of these kinds of things. Unique, beautiful, and classic, Antiques.



Monument Valley Sequence from The Eiger Sanction

On of the all time great views in a movie, and a funny ending.
Clint Eastwood
The beauty of Monument valley
And a Joke at the End

Can’t Embed, but here is the LINK to the YouTube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZeybeyry0k



If I win the Lotto

I’ll visit Zermatt



IBM Scientists First to Image the Anatomy of a Molecule

This is amazing stuff.
I wonder what then next thing will be?

As reported in the August 28 issue of Science magazine, IBM Research Zurich scientists Leo Gross, Fabian Mohn, Nikolaj Moll and Gerhard Meyer, in collaboration with Peter Liljeroth of Utrecht University, used an AFM operated in an ultrahigh vacuum and at very low temperatures ( 268oC or 451oF) to image the chemical structure of individual pentacene molecules. With their AFM, the IBM scientists, for the first time ever, were able to look through the electron cloud and see the atomic backbone of an individual molecule. While not a direct technological comparison, this is reminiscent of X-rays that pass through soft tissue to enable clear images of bones.



IBM Takes Next Step Towards Building Molecular Device

They are talking about some TINY TINY stuff here. The smallest electronic devices the size of single atoms and molecules! This is the edge here. Computing elements at the molecule scale, and faster and smaller and consume less energy. Breakthru things like this will make today’s laptop computers seem like giant bricks 20 years from now.



Inside a waterfall in the Swiss Alps

Gotta love the Swiss engineering on this! Inside the waterfall at Lauterbrunnen and some great vistas and views inside the best part of the Swiss Alps. And the COW at the end is so cool.




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