That PC has come to this: Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF) is pissed off with how if academic research stirs controversy for some reason and challenges conventional wisdom, disciplinary action (eg. firing) is being taken against the academic who voiced the research. I thought the whole point of research was to challenge accepted wisdom, otherwise Read more about Academics want to be able to state science[…]
Your bed not good enough? Why not fit it out with an undercar neon kit style thing. Ok, so it looks more like a flying saucer you put under your bed, and you won’t be able to keep anything else under your bed any more, but still – mucho cool.
LumiGram put fiber optics into fabrics and integrate them into handbags, clothing, cushions, whatever, giving them a neat glow. Can’t decide yet if I like or hate it, but so very very pimped!
If you want to do VR, how do you avoid bumping into the walls as you’re wondering about? Use the battle ball – weighs around 500 pounds, easily dissasembleable and mounted on wheels allowing you to walk, run or crawl. Finally!
The US is going from biggest to even bigger and commissioning a new class of aircraft carrier, the CVN-21. This will displace around 102,000 tons – compared to the British Invincible (22,000t) and the future French carrier (75,000t), this is indeed massive. The current US aircraft carriers are built around a basic design developed 50 Read more about CVN-21 Supercarrier[…]
The university of Dresden has developed a simulator in a java applet which allows you to change loads of variables on a road with an inroad in an attempt to see what causes traffic jams. Watch your road congest in front of your eyes as you add traffic lights!
Having tried to post a torrent without logging in to a tracker site, I found the Beehive – a site that lists a whole load of trackers with additional information about what kind of files they track.
Apparently 32% of Dutch women now have D-cup or larger compared with 20% five years ago!
Nickel Cadmium batteries lose their maximum charge after a while due to dendrite growth in them. Using an external power source, you can zap the battery and clear the dendrites, giving you a revived battery.
Jeremy Clarkson called a car ‘a bit gay’ and due to four complaints by a couple of poofters (four of them, no less), the Top Gear team has been told off by the BBC. Besides that calling things gay doesn’t automatically mean they are Derogatory references to homosexuality or even sexually oriented at all, even Read more about That’s sooooo GAY!!![…]
Four intrepid MIT scientists have taken an empirical look at the effectiveness of tin foil hats at stopping dangerous radio signals from penentrating the brain. Using three different models of tin foil hats, they used a network analyser to determine that these hats in fact greatly amplify certain frequencies into your brain. Coincidentally the frequencies Read more about Tin Foil Hats enhance death rays![…]
The Image Replication Imaging Spectrometer is a gadget that sees coloured light views 32 bands in the light spectrum and composits them into the 3 that humans can see, allowing the camera to show low observable (to humans) objects. These images can help not only in spotting IEDs and land mines, but also have medicinal Read more about IRIS sees many colours[…]
The RFID Gaurdian project is to build a hand held RFID blocking field which will offer bodywide protection from scans on your RFID tags (which you can disable on command) allowing people to reap the benefits of RFID whilst being able to maintain personal privacy. They’ve managed to build a prototype, with video demonstrations.
This site has a huge database of Gods from different cultures online. You can search per culture (eg. aztec, caribbean, egyptian, etc), then per letter, or you can search on the top ten lists per culture or of all the cultures. The results page is a little story about the god, interlinked with the other Read more about Find your God[…]
This new type of memory is 500 – 100 times faster than flash RAM and has half the power consumption. It’s non volatile, so it doesn’t need to be powered continuously. At the heart of phase-change memory is a tiny chunk of alloy that can be changed rapidly between an ordered, crystalline phase and a Read more about Phase Change Memory[…]
On this site you can buy and sell parking meter tickets you have had or want. So the next time you get a fine for not having a parking ticket, you buy one here and send it with your covering letter to prove you did, in fact, have the ticket!
They want a permanent base staffed and ready in 2024 as a test to see if we can rough it on the moon for a bit before doing more space exploration from there. It will be solar powered and probably placed on one of the moons poles. They plan to start construction in 2020. Everyone Read more about NASA to build moon base[…]
This drug, Varenicline (champix), mimics the effect of nicoting on the body, allowing people to stop smoking without the withdrawl symtoms and few side effects.
Some seriously imaginative weaponry that doesn’t exist, such as the cock-rocket, galaxy bazooka, laser guided polar bear, squirrel exploder, squirrel imploder, squirrel unsploder, squirrel desploder, the ADD Gun, Whoop-ass of mass destruction, Atomic bong and sheep air strike.
This software real-time distorts projected images so that they fit seamlessly onto 3D objects, which means that the projection only appears on the object at the right angle.
A real advancement in technology! This condom is now in testing, but is touted as being faster to apply, fit better and not slip. It works by inserting your penis in a casing, press the button and it would spray a liquid which solidifies quicly around your dick. They plan to have it apply within Read more about Spray on Condom[…]
We can’t all have a fingerworks keyboard as they are out of production, but we can install software that uses the keypad to mouse around quickly and effectively. This link has two programmes that allow this for windows, plus a whole load of different links to shortcuts etc.
Sitting at 90o is bad for you, 135o is much better as it places the stresses all along your spinal chord, this study conducted with positional MRIs has found. What they haven’t found is the best position though, as they only tried 3 positions out.
These sites have news, information and techniques for doing weird stuff in Flash. Some very cool stuff in there. http://www.levitated.net/ http://www.chewinggumfortheeyes.com/ http://www.nanolabs.net/ http://www.ultrashock.com/ http://www.gotoandlearn.com/
The Tokyo National Maritime Research Institute’s Advanced Maritime Transport Technology Department has thought up a system that allows ships hulls to be surrounded by a blanket of bubbles, which keeps away the water from the hull, reducing friction and drag and accounting for the efficiency increase of moving through water. In 2003 > 90% of Read more about Bubbles around your hull save 20% fuel[…]