Linking ideas with the world
What are cars going to look like in the year 2015? Well, I’m guessing they’re going to look kind of like our cars to day, but maybe a touch more aerodynamic. But hey, what do I know? When asked the same question, Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design) came up with Read more about 2015 concept BMW certainly is futuristic[…]
While most crazy fast concept cars use aerodynamics to keep the wheels firmly planted on the ground, designer Iman Maghsoudi has taken the opposite tack with his wild Ferrari Monza concept. Once you reach a predetermined speed, an onboard computer changes the car’s aerodynamic profile, using winglets called canards ahead of the front wheels to Read more about Stunning Ferrari Monza concept is ready for takeoff[…]
When your aim is to travel across the great ice plains of Antarctica, a normal car or truck meant for highways and regular streets probably isn’t going to meet your specific needs. You need a vehicle designed for the wide expanses of ice down on the bottom of the world. The Lotus Concept Ice Vehicle Read more about Drive to the south pole in style in the Lotus CIV[…]
geothermal-power-process.jpgIn case you weren’t aware, below the surface of the earth there’s a sea of insanely hot material that’s constantly swirling around. When tapped, that heat source can be used as geothermal power. With so much down there, why aren’t we using it more? That’s a question asked in Australia, where a study determined that Read more about 1% of potential geothermal energy could deliver power for 26,000 years[…]
Of all the electric car designs we’ve seen, this one is the most puzzling yet. The Hinterland Project starts with the shape of an airplane fuselage and turns it into a sustainable vehicle. However, it looks more like an electric tin can with wheels to us. The idea is its aerodynamic shape and lightweight aluminum Read more about Hinterland electric vehicle looks like a bulbous bullet train[…]
The final frontier of wireless tech is upon us, with Intel showing off its electricity flying through the air with better efficiency than ever. While it’s not the first wireless power transmitting device we’ve seen, this one uses resonance rather than induction, and boasts 75% efficiency. Hey, that means if you send 100 watts across Read more about Intel wireless power is pure magic, most efficient yet[…]
What do you get when you bring together a pizza oven, some nail polish and inkjet printers? Solar cells. You and I may be scratching our heads, but the woman behind the process known as iJet, Nicole Kuepper, won two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes — Australia’s top science awards. The real beauty of Ms. Kuepper’s Read more about Australian student fashions solar cells out of nail polish as only MacGyver could[…]
This map presents a satellite-based damage assessment for the city of Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, Georgia following the armed conflict between Georgian and Russian military forces in August 2008. Damaged buildings have been identified with WorldView-1 and Formosat-2 satellite imagery acquired on 19 August 2008 at a spatial resolution of 50cm and 2m respectively. An estimated Read more about Satellite Damage Assessment For Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, Georgia (as of 22 Aug 2008[…]
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In a bid demanding that the greatest time wasting, useless silliness at airports not come from the TSA, the FDA has ruled that it is to impound all penile sex toys due to safety concerns. We are talking about penis pumps, cock rings, etc.
This uses the built in accellerometer to record your cars performance. Apparently it works as well as more expensive dedicated hardware.
Yes, this article has the mandatory OMG I can’t believe he’s on the watchlist cast of characters, but what’s more interesting is the two other points the article makes: 1) there is paperwork to get off the watchlist, but at 3 years and counting it’s still not being processed 2) people have now been on Read more about terror ‘watch list’ newness?[…]
The US Navy is going laser crazy! They want: Solid-State Fiber Laser Free Electron Laser High-Power Microwave Directed Energy Weapons The Revolutionary Approach to Time-Critical Long Range Strike (RATTLRS) Program Next Generation Integrated Power Systems Electromagnetic Railgun Laser-based Landing Aids and probably more. Where are the SWFLs*? Anyway, this is all high on the Office Read more about Frickin’ Lasers[…]
These students have built a program that will combine high res pictures of an environment and fuse them with a lower quality video of the same scene, raising the colour depth, resolution, clarity and detail of the scene as well as allowing you to remove objects, edit inline over all angles. It’s very very impressive, Read more about Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene[…]
If you don’t vote the way we want, we can toss you out of your office and out of the building, even if you’re an assemblywoman!
TinEye searches the web based on pictures you upload or link to. It will find the same picture elsewhere and tell you where that is, even if the other picture has been edited. So you can find where else the picture is used and see variations of it all over the web.
Iran has just launched a satellite into space using it’s own rocket.
The UK government has put up a site detailing what it thinks are the largest risks to the UK. Surprisingly, terrorism and other general fear mongering isn’t really up there – it’s more about natural events, which sounds realistic to me.
A collection of how to, instructional and DIY videos %u2013 Life Videopedia – all the videos are short and to my surprise so far they all seem well shot and instructed
The coating causes water to bead up into drops and roll or bounce off a surface, can be applied by spraying, spinning or dipping and allows you to determine the path which the droplets take when they roll off. This is extremely usefull to prevent icing on aircraft (which is extremely dangerous) but also to Read more about Transparent coating repels water[…]
little gif animated favicons (the icons that live next to the URL) work in Firefox!
I can’t put it any better than el Reg can. Apparently the arctic ice has actually grown by 30% since August 2007.
Foliage Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar Lockheed Martin has developed a radar that strips away foliage and allows you to track targets under the treetops. the dual-band FOPEN system uses low-frequency radio waves to achieve high-resolution penetration of concealed areas –– natural ones like leaves or wood, or man-made camouflage –– with relatively low loss in Read more about Foliage Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (FOPEN)[…]
This game developer posted an open question asking why people pirated his games. He got loads of responses and he’s summed them up. Not only is he posting his findings, he’s also going to do something about it. I really hope it works out for him, as what he’s doing looks like a shining example Read more about Talking To Pirates[…]
Left-click anywhere on the desktop, hold the ‘Control’ key and move the scroll wheel on the mouse – the desktop icons will grow smaller or larger depending upon the direction of your scroll.