Some young boffins had the great idea of using the wasted energy from shock absorbers (car’s suspension) to generate electricity, named Levant Power’s GenShock. All hybrid cars generate power when the driver brakes. Instead of using brake pads (or together not sure) the electric motor is used to slow down the car and by doing so it generates electricity. This electricity is stored in a battery for later. It’s a good idea to do so because in normal cars braking just produces heat.

With the state of our roads in Malta if an electric car owner had to place this device on their suspension the car would generate enough power to continue going forever. Ok I don’t know how much power it would produce but if you are driving on some bad roads I am sure the battery would charge. This would bring a whole new transport situation in Malta. We would start seeing people making more holes in the roads, adding more speed bumps, etc. Malta would be the first country in the world to have their transportation system petrol and diesel free.

This makes me even want to get an electric car.

If you know anyone who has an electric or hybrid car do the right thing and give them this link.

This June is the return of another important TV event. The I.T. crowd season 4. This is the original UK episodes not the US or German versions. For those who don’t know what the I.T. crowd check out the youtube videos below.

For some strange reason YouTube seems to have disabled embedding the videos into the site. So I will just have to send you to YouTube. The links below will take you a few clips of the I.T. crowd. You don’t have to be a geek to understand the humour.

The I.T. Crowd – This is the Internet

The I.T. Crowd – Customer Support

The I.T. Crowd – Piracy

This website is the brain child of a 17 year old high school Moscow student. The site receives about 500,000 visitors per day and there are about 35,000 people on Chat roulette at any given time. There has to be some normal people in that 35,000.

Celebrities claiming to have used Chat roulette include Kelly Osbourne, Joel Madden, Nicole Richie, and Perez Hilton. Unverified sightings of celebrities have been reported. These include Paris Hilton, Ashton Kutcher, Jonas Brothers, Jessica Alba and BJ Penn. So if you ever wanted to talk to a celebrity from the comforts of your own home you have a chance. I am still hoping on talking to Jessica Alba and Megan Fox.

There are people who use the service as intended and there have been some weird moments (some pictures below) but then there are the creative ones which used the website to bring joy and laugher to the masses. I am yet to meet the Piano Man or Kermit the Frog

If you are stuck inside on a weekend or just need someone to talk to for a bit try this service. You never know your new best friend or the love of your life might be one spin away.

Check out the videos and pictures below showcasing some of the memorable chat roulette moments.

When I say helpful I mean that for example if it’s a dog it must bring in the newspaper, scare off intruders and finally change my graphics card and optimize my computer. Most of you were thinking I wanted a dog. I wanted a dog before I found out what this monkey can do.

My pet will be this monkey. It would be a perfect relationship. I would buy him a small netbook, it would be like a normal laptop for humans. Maybe even start a new company which would compete with the Apple Geniuses. If Steve Jobs reads this he might get an idea of replacing all his geniuses.

What’s classic about this video is it seems that his friend seems to tell him that someone is doing a live interview behind him and his face is a classic s**t.

Ironically if you are trying to work this video explains why you are not managing…

During this process I decided to check out Alexa to see what the most visited websites in the world are. I was pleasantly surprised when I found that I can see the most visited websites by country.

For Alexa to track these sites the user must have some adware installed on their computer. So this won’t be the whole Maltese population but still it’s quite shocking when you see some of the sites that are up there.

So far all seems pretty normal. Maltese love social networking, checking their emails and news, wasting time on youtube, and reading blogs. All well and good. You can practically say that the statistics so far match the global trend. Alexa lists the Top 100 sites for each country. I don’t have the patience to type out all the links but the list can be view here.

It starts getting interesting at about 23. This is where the porn and file sharing starts. The strangest from all these sites is Xhamster. I thought it was some weird Maltese website. But after going on the site to check it out I press close so hard my left button on my mouse broke. I was at work with my bosses sitting on the table and people running around I didn’t want to get a reputation of watching porn in public. This is why NSFW tags should be used.

If anyone has ever been in a situation similar to what happened to me today please share as a comment below.