Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting!James over at EirePreneur points out a cool new MIT research project. The $100 laptop, designed to get it into the hands of people around the world where no best suited [...] Read More »

TheShortSpan - Bouldering in Ireland tells the story of the words IRA 26 chipped into one of the famous bouldering rocks “Big Jim” or “Running Rock!” as some people know it… Two weekends ago a large group hanging around Big Jim in Glendalough noticed this etching on th[...] Read More »

New North Wicklow Google Earth Update Originally uploaded by r1g2b3. Google Earth now has some great hi-res imagery of North Wicklow. Interestingly enough, it’s in the Winter, and the top of Tonduff is snowy… A rare occasion! Check it out yourself by downloading at http://earth.goog[...] Read More »

I would have been in a major bad mood yesterday. Got home from the Sports Complex in the dark with lashing rain, pulled my bag out of my car boot, zip was open… I hear a loud splash & crack noise… I knew it was my iPod. Crap. Without looking down, I knew my €350 iPod had falle[...] Read More »

I had this great comment come in during the week that I’ve been meaning to Podcast but never got around to it, so I’m blogging it now. In this post a columnist makes fun of everest summiteers basically saying he wished he climbed it before a one-armed man did, as it degrades the task. W[...] Read More »

Glad to inform you all, we’re back on schedule with the Blog. We’re now using Wordpress rather than Blogger which at 400 posts, I felt we had out-sized. Publishing always took an eternity with it. Despite losing my connection for the entire day thanks to errorcom (eircom) and losing it p[...] Read More »

Maybe this has something to it, especially for road walking! I can’t help think of watching someone trying to get something out of it without taking off the belt though! The Hipster: ” The unusual and humorous joining of the human form and and external trailer, normally associated with [...] Read More »

http://www.findmeatent.com/tents/Tent%20Cot/Double%20Size/ Q1) Why? Q2) no further Questions. [...] Read More »

Shark Repellent Wet Suit Shocks and Awes - Gizmodo: “A bright fellow called Vladimir Vlad has filed a patent for a shark-repellent wet suit that creates an electrical field. The idea is that sharks have sensitive receptors in their noses which would normally help them track prey, but when fac[...] Read More »

“Motorists are being encouraged to use public transport rather than driving to work today as part of ‘No Car Day’.” Is all well & good, but how in god’s name does having them free during non commute hours encourage workers? “Buses are operating many city and [...] Read More »

Could this be combined with the rucksack I featured a few days ago with it’s power-generating harness system? Rambo mambo. - The Red Ferret Journal: “The exceptionally small and compact unit receives and displays real-time video images captured by a UAV or other airborne, surface or gro[...] Read More »

I’m not blogging this for you, I’m blogging it for me. Why? Well… I want to read it when I get home, and I’ll forget otherwise ;-) This is where I want to work, this entire area of Emergency systems wether for rescue, military, security or coordination. I’ve lots of ide[...] Read More »

Funny how nothing was done to prepare for Katrina isn’t it. Nothing. Funny how Rita is headed for Shrub’s homestate of Texas, and half the U.S. army are being sent. Funny how that’s where all the Oil is to, isn’t it. Ok, ok, clearly I understand, now Bush HAS to do something[...] Read More »

Hmmm I don’t understand… “David Paulison, said people living and working on the Gulf coast should be prepared to leave”… surely they’ve learnt their lesson? Get the hell outta there! (and move to a less threatening county, like hmmm Ireland. Nothing stings, nothi[...] Read More »

I played with the new Irish imagery on google Earth for a while last night, and I can safely say, it’s a big improvement. But the contrast is unfortunetly very low :-( which means it looks hazy, and loses it’s “Ohh Wow!” reaction. It’s behaving olddly too, only the very[...] Read More »

I don’t think things are working out as well as Don Mee hoped while crossing the Atlantic by kite boat, he’s still not got very far, a long time later :-s A number of times I’ve felt like just saying “take a chill pill mate”. His website puts him in an overself obsessed[...] Read More »