From Neatorama:
NASA is shutting down the space shuttle program and so is trying to sell off its remaining merchandise at increasingly low prices. It's already slashed the price for a (pre-owned) shuttle from $42 million to $28.8 million.
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From Neatorama:
Jim Moyer's hobby is building miniature engines. The one above, which he claims is the smallest V-8 engine in the world, is a 1/6 scale model of the 327 cubic inch motor in a 1964 Chevrolet Corvette.
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From Wired Top Stories:
Despite all the Walkmen, boomboxes, 8-tracks, iPods and Bluetooth headsets that have delivered raucous noise to the ears of Baby Boomers, hearing loss appears to be declining among adults. This counterintuitive finding from the first study of long-term ch
From IEEE Spectrum:
Six years ago IEEE Spectrum reported about the British stealing a march on the Danes and Germans, with very ambitious plans for offshore wind energy. Those plans have evolved somewhat more slowly than hoped, but this last week the UK reaffirmed its commitment t
From SPACE.com:
NASA and space agencies around the world are pointing their satellites toward Haiti to aid relief efforts and map damage caused by the devastating earthquake earlier this week. The 7.0 magnitude quake struck the Caribbean island Tuesday, causing extensive destruc
One moment it's a table, the next it's a fort...well, a fort that any dog would be happy to sleep in, at least. Sadly, the table fort is nothing more than a design concept. [Daily Shelter via boingboing]
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An 18th-century account of how a falling apple helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web, making the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time. Newton's encounter with the a
John Boswell, the musician and producer of the wonderful Symphony of Science remixes, has created a new one, the fourth in the series: The Unbroken Thread. It features our man Carl Sagan, with David Attenborough and Jane Goodall. I like this one quite a bit.
I hope Boswell keeps making these. They’re very well done! The music is pleasant, the meaning is deep, and the words, of course, are beautiful and something everyone should hear.
Daphne Rose Kingma on nurturing the body and the spirit.
Square, one of a few iPhone peripherals hoping to turn the iPhone into a credit card swiper, sounds promising. But how does it work? YouTube shows us!
Through its own app, Square processes a credit card, produces a receipt and even takes a signature. But as you'll see in this clip, there's one petty but fixable problem to the system—the Square dongle. Watch as Rose needs to steady the plug with his finger to swipe a card without popping anything loose.
I mention this now because I'm hoping that Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Digg's Kevin Rose—who are both behind the project (Rose just financially)—don't each have an alpine garage full of these horribly designed dongles. Beef up the casing a bit to increase its surface area against the iPhone, just as Mophie has with their recently announced credit card scanner, and everything will be right as rain. [Kevin Rose via Ubergizmo]
How important is temporary heating and cooling in emergency situations? Mission critical! When natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, fires, floods, and hurricanes cause severe damage to local infrastructure, essential life-saving services can be lost; care-giving centers render
Time to get back to the tablet range of yesteryear: HP's TouchSmart line-up. They've added three new models to the family—the 12-inch tm2, 15.6-inch dv6t and 17.3-inch dv7t.
At $950, the tm2 has a capacitive multitouch screen in the aforementioned 12 inches, a SU7300 1.3GHz ULV processor along with 3GB of DDR3 RAM and optional ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 card or SU9600 processor.
The larger 15.6-inch dv6t has a 2.4GHz Core i5-520M processor, 3GB RAM and 320GB HDD. It'll cost $929 when it goes on sale.
Last, but no means least, the dv7t has a 17.3-inch display and will set you back $999. HP isn't exactly breaking tablet PC boundaries with these three, but at least you know what you're getting when you buy them. [LogicBuy via Engadget]
Out of nowhere, Asus has announced two promising eBook readers. The first had an OLED screen. And now their second reader, the DR-950, promises less color but still appears to be at least a generation beyond any Kindle.
Just look at the screen to case ration of the DR-950—it's within reason, like a painting wrapped with a frame. That's a 9-inch, 1024×768 display in the middle, yet the DR-950 manages to be but .35-inches thick.
Inside, the 950 houses anywhere from 2-4GB of storage, an SD card slot, Wi-Fi and HSDPA, the potential for WiMax, 3.5mm headphone jack and USB.
The system's software supports text to speech, RSS and a nice mix of codecs including PDF, ePub and HTML.
No word on price/availability, but from the looks of it, the DR-950 could belong in our Ultimate eBook Reader Guide. Now the 950 just needs to actually get itself released. [ElectricPig]
If you hand your grandma an iPod and tell her to “shuffle,” chances are she’ll jump to her feet and start doing a shuffling two-step. So we don’t blame this 13-year-old kid from Britain, who took three whole days to realize that there was a Side B to the tape he popped in his dad’s old Walkman.
In an article for BBC’s magazine, 13-year-old Scott Campbell explains how he traded his iPod for a Sony Walkman for one week. He was clearly shocked by what his dad told him was “the iPod of its day” when it was introduced 30 years ago. He is also mildly appalled at the sheer bulk of the contraption. Scott writes:
From a practical point of view, the Walkman is rather cumbersome, and it is certainly not pocket-sized, unless you have large pockets. It comes with a handy belt clip screwed on to the back, yet the weight of the unit is enough to haul down a low-slung pair of combats.
Scott eventually gets over the Walkman’s bulk, but is annoyed by the “buttons that protrude on the top and on the side.” However, he does come around to the player’s one unique feature.
The Walkman actually has two headphone sockets, labeled A and B, meaning the little music that I have, I can share with friends. To plug two pairs of headphones in to an iPod, you have to buy a special adapter.
See? The eighties weren’t that bad.
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Created for the Lego Graffiti Styles Convention in Munich, Cole Blaq made a fiery Lego display with some bee-yoo-tiful photo results.
The Lego bricks spell out his name, with a downlight emphasizing the colors of the bricks. Someone should build a big Lego downpour now, those flames look OUT OF CONTROL. [Cole Blaq on Flickr via Brothers Brick via @Katiesol on Twitter]
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I have flange WNRF 1'' , shall be welded with fittings (elbow & equal tee), practically you cannot weld the flange directly to the fitting, so what is the minium pipe piece to be welded between the flange & the fitting?
A brief report on the often ill-informed Digitimes quotes the Chinese Commercial Times paper as suggesting Apple may be readying a 22-inch touchscreen iMac.
This has largely come about thanks to rumors originating from Quanta and Sinket Photronic, the latter of which will be supposedly supplying Apple with the touchscreen displays. If this rumor bears any fruit, it's bad news to anyone who splashed out on a Troll Touch touchscreen iMac. [Digitimes]
On sale from next month in Japan and the rest of the globe at a later date, Panasonic's G2 plasmas offer several choices—42, 46 and 50-inches, and black, silver or a dashing brown color options.
The series has the new Black Panel technology for 20 per cent greater image quality (in comparison to the G1), and with a supposed contrast ratio of 5,000,000 : 1. The 42-inch set will be 220,000 Yen ($2,424) when it goes on sale next month.
Along with the G2s, Panasonic's also let rip with the S2 series, which comes in 42 and 46-inch sizes. There's nothing much special about these panels that have a 2,000,000: 1 contrast ratio, apart from a 10 per cent less energy consumption. The 42-inch set will cost 190,000 Yen ($2,093). [Akihabara News]
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