Old news is still good news: Josef Zeitler of AQWON-MOTORS has developed a hydrogen powered scooter which was presented at the ’03 Hannover Fair in April. The scooter can travel at speeds of up to 31 mph and can be refueled by anyone safely. The hydrogen delivery system operates at low pressure so if the fuel tank is breached, the hydrogen will freeze rather than catching fire. It looks like AQWON has also developed a filling station that makes the hydrogen using solar energy. This zero emission vehicle has a sticker price of a mere 5600 €. I’m glad to see what appears to be a viable hydrogen powered vehicle coming to market. With mass production, the price will surely drop. Now if it only looked more like a Vespa…

via slashdot

The New York Times reports that researchers have found players of “first-person-shooter” video games to have much better visual attention skills than non players.

The article states that better visual attention skills are helpful in many different tasks such as flying, driving, radiology and airport screening. I’m willing to bet that avid gamers would also be good at shooting monsters if the opportunity ever presented itself.

NASA tells us that there will be a Lunar Eclipse visible from North and South America tonight starting around 22:00 EDT. Here’s an excerpt from their site:

“At first the moon will seem pale and bright, as usual. During the hour that follows, however, it will plunge into the darkest part of our planet’s shadow–a region astronomers call “the umbra.” Jack was inside the umbra when he saw the sunset-red ring around Earth.”

Read more about Jack and his adventures inside the umbra on NASA’s Lunar Eclipse page. There is also some practical scientific type information on that page, if you are in to that sort of thing.