it's showtime

What began as a search for the country’s most entertaining acts two years ago turned out to be a hit variety program that launched a thousand trends for Filipinos here and abroad.

The show has, in its own way, established itself as its own brand of entertainment thriving on spontaneity and animated conversations. It is more fun in “Showtime” as it keeps churning out popular catchphrases and gimmicks, draws people and barangays together to showcase their talents, and finds thrill and joy in the most mundane situations.

It's Showtime will be hosted by Vhong Navarro, Anne Curtis, Billy Crawford, Karylle, ‘Kuya’ Kim Atienza, Teddy Corpuz, Jugs Jugueta and Vice Ganda, whose camaraderie, spontaneity, talents, and shared sense of humor have brought joy to kapamilyas. Joining them in "It's Showtime" are dance master Jhong Hilario, and favorite "ex hurados" Ryan Bang, and Coleen Garcia. 

Together, they will be bringing a new and  more exciting show filled with surprises and engaging segments that will make viewers experience MORE FUN IN SHOWTIME

Format	Entertainment, Music, Talent, Variety Show
Created by	Bobet Vidanes
Directed by	Bobet Vidanes
Presented by	Vhong Navarro Anne Curtis Kim Atienza Jugs Jugueta Teddy Corpuz Vice Ganda Billy Crawford Karylle Jhong Hilario Ryan Bang Coleen Garcia Eric Tai
Judges	Vice Ganda Jhong Hilario Celebrity "Hurados"
Theme music composer	DJ MOD & Bobet Vidanes
Opening theme	"Showtime (2012 remix)" performed by It's Showtime hosts
Country of origin	Philippines
Language(s)	Filipino, English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	753 (as of February 11, 2012)
Production
Executiveproducer(s)	Mark Rejona
Location(s)	Quezon City, Philippines
Running time	3 hours
Broadcast
Original channel	ABS-CBN
Picture format	NTSC (480i)
Original run	October 24, 2009 – present
External links
Website

Philippine International Hot Air Balloon

2012 Philippine International Hot Air Balloon-17th year

This coming 9th to 12th of February - Thursday to Sunday at the Clark Freeport Zone Pampanga, PH, will be held the 17th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta.

Feb 9 Thursday First Fiesta Day 

5.00-5.45 am Philippine Flag jump
5:50-6:00am PAF High Speed Opener and SF260 Fly By
5.45-7.00 am Hot Air Balloon flight
5.45-7.30 am RP / Malaysian / Spain/Australia Paragliding Exhibition
7.30-8.30 am ACFC Ultralight / Microlight Aircraft Formation Flights and Flour Bombing
8.30-9.00 am Meynard Halili Aerobatic Show
9.00-9.30 am AFP/PNP/Brunei/Malaysia Sky Diving Exhibition
9.30-9:45 am Radio-controlled model aircraft demonstration
9:45-10:00am USAF F16 Flight Demo
10.00-11.30 am AOPA-P Light aircraft balloon bursting competition
11.30-12.00 nn KAP / KTP Kite Flying Exhibition
12.00-12.30 pm Airlink / WCC / Omni /Aviators/ Alpha flyby
12.30-1.00 pm Radio-Controlled Model Aircraft Demo
1.00-1.30 pm Skydiving and Tandem jumping Exhibition
1.30-2.00 pm Ultralight Flour bombing demonstration
2.00-3.00 pm AOPA-P Light aircraft balloon bursting competition
3.00-3.30 pm FEATI/PHILSCA Rocketry Demonstration
4:00-4:30 pm Philippine Air Force Silent Drill and SPOW Bomb Sniffing Dog Exhibition
3.30-4.00 pm ACFC Ultralight/Microlight aircraft formation flights
4.30-5.00 pm Meynard Halili Aerobatic Show
5.00-5.30 pm RP / Malaysian / Spain/Australia Paragliding exhibition
5.30-6.00 pm Hot Air Balloon Fly-In

16th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon

Feb 10 Friday Second Fiesta Day 

5.00-5.45 am Philippine Flag jump
5.45-7.00 am Hot Air Balloon Flights
7.00-7.30 am RP / Malaysian / Spain/Australia Paragliding Exhibition
7.30-8.00 am ACFC Ultralight/Microlight Aircraft Formation Flights and Flour Bombing
8:30-9.00 am Meynard Halili Aerobatic Show
9.00-9.30 am Sky diving exhibition
9.30-10.00 am Radio-Controlled Model Aircraft Demonstration
10.00-11.00 am AOPA- P Light Aircraft Balloon Bursting Competition
11.00-11.30 am KAP / KTP Kite flying exhibition
11.30-12.00 nn WCC / Aviatours / Omni / Aviators/ Alpha/Leading Edge / flyby
12.00-1.00pm German aerobatic glider flight
1.00-1:30 pm Skydiving exhibition
1.30-2:00 pm Jet Turbine Radio-controlled modeller demos
2.00-3.00 am AOPA- P Light Aircraft Balloon Bursting Competition
3.00-3.30 pm Car Drifting Display
3.30-4.00pm FEATI/Philsca Rocketry demonstration
4.00-4.30 pm ACFC Ultralight/Microlight Aircraft Formation Flights
4.30-5.00pm Meynard Halili Aerobatic Show
5.00-5.30 pm RP / Malaysian / Spain/Australia Paragliding Exhibition
5.30-6.00 pm Hot Air Balloon Fly-In

pinoy wonder water

If there will be a liquid that can actually help students prep for an exam, it will definitely be sold out in an instant! And that can happen for the Department of Science and Technology's (DOST) "Tubig Talino". The special water is said to help cure goiter, mental and physical abnormalities and inborn illnesses. The wonder liquid is also rich in iodine. In fact, daily consumption will give an adult enough iodine for his/her daily needs. That definitely gets a thumbs up from us!

  

The water car

"Nothing is impossible" might be Filipino inventor Daniel Dingel's motto while he is creating hiswater-powered car back in 1969. How it works seems technical yet reading this might give you a pinch of idea. The vehicle uses regular fuel to start its engine. Afterwards, regular water will come rushing to the reactor which is split into two compartments. The mix will then result into combustion, propelling the car.

The invention was initially suspected to be a hoax. However, Mr. Dingle proved its capability as he drove from Manila to Cavite with 15 liters of water and only half a liter of gasoline. Officials of Department of Science and Technology later on dismissed accusations against Dingel's water-powered car.  the whole country will have much cleaner air once everyone hits this kinf of car.

pinoy are creative

Ang Galing Pinoy

No doubt, we Pinoys are born creative thinkers. Think of it, we can somehow get by and find ways to make life easier when we're low on moolah. Want a new cellphone? Trade-in your old one. Can't buy a car? Score a second-hand scooter. Dreaming of a 900-inch HDTV? Charge it on installment basis with your plastic cash.

You see, our ability to work around the problem is impressive. So in honor of the ingenious Pinoys, we introduce you to some of the world's best breakthrough inventions and innovations that are 100% made by our very own kababayans. Thumbs up to you, chong!

Ang Galing Pinoy

Ang Galing Pinoy

Here are the top ten amazing Filipino

 technological inventions that made it to their list.

10. One-chip video camera

The inventor of the one-chip video camera was Marc Loinaz, a Filipino resident of New Jersey who works with Lucent Technologies. He was featured in the July 1999 issue of Discover Magazine.

The 1-chip camera uses a single computer chip to process the colors the camera sees. Most videos for a Web site used with a 1-chip camera mainly because the video is compressed in one-chip camera so it transmits more quickly.

9. GUI (Graphical User Interface)

Diosdado Banatao, a native of Iguig, Cagayan and an electrical engineering graduate from Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila is credited for eight major contributions to the Information Technology. Banatao is most known for introducing the first single-chip graphical user interface accelerator that made computers work a lot faster and for helping develop the Ethernet controller chip that made Internet possible.

In 1989, he pioneered the local bus concept for personal computers and in the following year developed the First Windows accelerator chip. Intel is now using the chips and technologies developed by Banatao. He now runs his own semiconductor company, Mostron and Chips & Technology, which is based in California's Silicon Valley.

8. Iron Mate 

It is a device that automatically shuts off electricity when a flatiron is rested on it. It was designed by Rodolfo Biescas Sr. of Albay, Philippines.

It can save you an astonishing amount of 50% of electricity. It is used in conjunction with your regular iron and you place it on top of the Iron Mate. The Iron Mate itself will automatically turn off your iron when it is not being used. This is excellent because then there is less of a risk for something happening such as a fire.

7. I-Charj Coin Operated Cell Phone Charger

In 2008, Engr. Aquilino Tubigan Jr. bagged the Gold Medal at the International New Product Expo (INPEX) held in Pennsylvania USA last August. His invention, the "I-Charj Coin Operated Cell Phone Charger" was honored for showcasing technological innovation while satisfying a need.

The I-Charj is coin operated; for Php5.00, it will charge your dying phone for a good 10 minutes. It could be really be a lifesaver if you really need to make a call on a dying phone-- and you don't have a charger or there are no outlets in sight.

The I-Charj Cellphone Charger also works on ALL cellphone models out in the market today.

6. Nutec Lamp Fixing System

A Filipino inventor has developed a technology, which could revive a busted lamp (pundido) and give it more years of functional life than those of new ones. Acclaimed by the Filipino Inventors Society as timely and revolutionary, the Nutec system can prolong the life of fluorescent lamps up to seven years.

Nutec was developed by New World Technology, headed by president Eric Ngo and chosen as the "Product of the Year" at the Worldbex 2000 Building and Construction Exposition held at the Manila Hotel. Engineer Benjamin S. Santos, national president of the Inventors Society, called Nutec a timely invention.

5. Water-powered car

Filipino inventor Daniel Dingelstarted working on a water-powered car and prototype in 1969. His hydrogen reactor uses electricity from a 12-volt car battery to transform ordinary tap water with salt into deuterium oxide or heavy water. 

Dingel’s car has never been patented and commercialized because of what he suspects as an anti-Dingel car conspiracy by multinational oil companies.

4. Karaoke

Roberto del Rosario who developed a sing along system in 1975 and patented it in the 1980s called his sing-along system "Minus-One", now holds the patent for the device now commonly known as the "karaoke machine". He is posthumously awarded under G.R. No. 115106, March 15, 1996 of the Philippine Supreme Court.

Roberto del Rosario, a Filipino, is claiming the right for the invention of the Sing-Along-System (SAS) that eventually led to the development of Karaoke, a Japanese term for "singing without accompaniment". Among del Rosario's other inventions were the Trebel Voice Color Code (VCC), the piano tuner's guide, the piano keyboard stressing device, the voice color tape, and the one-man-band (OMB). The OMB was later developed as the Sing-Along-System (SAS).

3. Videophone

Gregorio Zara of Lipa City and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented the two-way television telephone or videophone in 1955 patented as a "photo phone signal separator network."

2. Lunar Rover

Filipinos consider Eduardo San Juan as the inventor of the Lunar Rover, or more popularly known as the Moon Buggy. The Moon Buggy was the car used by Neil Armstrong and other astronauts when they first explored the moon in 1969.

Eduardo San Juan, a graduate of Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT), worked for Lockheed Corporation and conceptualized the design of the Moon Buggy that the Apollo astronauts used while in the moon. As a NASA engineer, San Juan reportedly used his Filipino ingenuity to build a vehicle that would run outside the Earth's atmosphere. He constructed his model using homemade materials. In 1978, San Juan received one of the Ten Outstanding Men (TOM) awards in science and technology.

San Juan, however, was not listed as the inventor of the Moon Buggy in American scientific journals. It said the vehicle was designed and constructed by a group of space engineers. In Poland, the Moon Buggy is attributed to a Polish inventor.

1. Incubator

An incubator is an apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for newborn baby. It is used in pre-term births;or for some ill full-term babies.

Fe del Mundo, the first Asian to have entered the prestigious Harvard University's School of Medicine, is also credited for her studies that led to the invention of incubator and jaundice relieving device. Del Mundo, an International Pediatric Association (IPA) awardee, is an alumna of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Medicine. Since 1941, she has contributed more than 100 articles to medical journals in the U.S., Philippines and India. In 1966, she received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award, for her "outstanding service to mankind". In 1977, she was bestowed the Ramon Magsaysay Award for outstanding public service.