Compare the World’s Military Power

I found this interesting site while browsing a while ago, and I thought I should spread the link around. With this site you can compare 39 of the most powerful armies in the world. But, you must bear in mind that nuclear weapons, past and current military experience, unit training and equipment quality are not taken into account. The facts and figures used in these comparisons is based only on disclosed public sources. It provides a unique analytical display of national military strength based on sources from all over the globe. It is based on statistics such as yearly military expenditure, weapon inventories, oil reserves and available manpower.

You get quite a few surprises here, for example finding that Turkey and India have more powerful armies than the UK.

Click here to go to the comparison site.

Watch out- here comes the future!

Omni-directional technology made by Airtrax. This video shows multiple cylindrical shaped tyres around a single axis that help guide the forklift in all directions. Think of the possibilities! This kind of agility and manoeverability could save so much space in car parks, helping with parking in tighter spots, and roads could be made narrower allowing for more land development!

For those of you who cannot see the embedded video player click here.

Edit: 26th October 2008- Here is a design by Mitsubishi incorporating this concept in a future rally car

I’m Back! 3,000 hits!!

Well, I’m back after 3 weeks holiday in France, Die Schweiz, Germany amongst other countries.

I was amazed last night when I found that while I was away, my blog clocked up another 2,387 hits!!!  So, to Jamie who complained at how 1,000 hits wasn’t good enough for him, I hope now he has realised that I am more amazing than he originally thought. Thanks to everyone who helped with this, especially Banana on bodybuilder forums who put a link to one of my posts which alone brought me 200 or so hits in just one day.

I’m exhausted (got back really late) so after some quick browsing, I found this which I thought was pretty cool. It’s an Xbox 360 system with lots of money spent on it to make it into an amazingly impressively uber console. Myself, I don’t like Playstations, Xboxes etc (apart from the Wii which is amazing), I am more of a PC person, but I have to admit this is pretty cool. Click here to go to the site.