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Jump to the full entry & travel map Georgetown, Pinang, Malaysia On the first day of my intrepid tour, The Trail of The Gecko we got on a bus to take us out of Singapore and over the boarder into Malaysia. The bus was a lot better than i was expecting with air conditioning and even reclining seats - nothing like these stories i have heard about shoddy...
Not a whole lot to go on here, but we have confirmed that the Sidekick Gecko is in the wild, and that the browser is fully functional. The Sidekick Gecko, if you remember, is one of two new Sidekick models rumored to be coming out this July. The phone is supposed to be a replacement [...]
A screenshot of a Javascript error was posted on the PBD forums. It says nothing about a Sidekick Gekko. It just happens that the engine that Danger uses for the Sidekick browser (on all their devices) back-end web proxy (to be exact) is based on the Gecko layout engine, just like Firefox and Netscape. So, nope this doesn't confirm anything about the Gekko sadly. Not to mention that this sort...
A team of five University of Akron researchers has published the paper, Sticky gecko feet: the role of temperature and humidity in PLoS ONE, an open-access, online journal for peer-reviewed scientific and medical research.
According to an article published in the open-access journal PLoSONE, temperature and humidity affect the adhesion capabilityof geckos. The researchers, from the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio,found that the clinging ability at 12 Celsius was about two times theclinging ability at 34 Celsius.Lead author and professor of biology Dr.
Although they are native to southern Asia and India, Bridled House Geckos or Common House Geckos (Hemidactylus frenatus) are now common in many tropical areas around the World. These sneaky little lizards were accidentally introduced to many other areas after they hid in cargo containers and stowed away on boats and ships. Bridled House Geckos [...]
Washington, April 30 (IANS) Researchers are trying to harness the gecko’s ability to scale walls effortlessly, with a practical bearing on military and industrial uses, by developing ‘peel test’ norms for nanosized manufacturing. ‘Peel tests’ are used in industry to determine just how much force is required to pull a material off another. But no [...]
Two new Sidekicks are being rumored for launch this July 2008. Just barely three days apart from one another the Sidekick Gecko will be launched on July 27th while the Sidekick Aspen will be coming...
Gekko, actually.
For my money, the most interesting stuff on this blog takes place in the comments. Readers are having such a good
argument under the Kauai vacation rental suit post
that, in honor of all of them, whichever side they advocate, here's Gordon Gekko's "greed is good" speech from the movie Wall Street. Feel free to argue about it in the comments. Next week, a real gecko post....
Nintendo Wii owners who've been utilizing homebrew developer Nuke's Gecko Region Free loader for region free gaming can rejoice, because a new version of the nifty application is out. Like its previous releases , Gecko Region Free version 1.3 is bringing a handful of tweaks. Here are the changes Nuke listed down: Fixed 'Insert Disc' Problem which a lot of users were having. Increased...
This must be one of God's jokes. Or perhaps … it comes from outer space and it was created by a God from another planet. Or … could it be one of Satan's creations? It sure looks evil. Found here
