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Monthly Archives: June 2011
The Infinite Loop Tablet Stand Flexes and Bends to Fit Any Situation [Video]
Minimal in materials used, but maximal in the number of ways you can use it, the Infinite Loop stand lets you prop your iPad up virtually anywhere, at any angle. More »
American Faces Minimum 1 Year in Prison for Bringing Manga to Canada On His Laptop [Comics]
If you're traveling to Canada, a country whose customs officials are notorious for playing the role of morality police, you'd better leave your Japanese comics at home — whether they're in print or digital. More »
A Camera That Records Video in HDR [Video]
AMP is a single lens video camera that can capture real time HDR. HDR video, as you know, exposes the living breathing smelling unreality hidden in life. Or something like that. Just watch how AMP's HDR works. More »
It’s About Damn Time Skype’s Coming to the iPad [Video]
It's kinda weird Skype didn't have an iPad app but the wait's just about over. There's no official release date yet, but it should be in the app store "soon." More »
Why Old Gadgets Look Like Your Dog Peed on Them [Gadgets]
Your Commodore 64 may be aging like a fine wine, but it probably doesn't look like it. And that weird brownish-yellow hue it's taken on over the years isn't from all the Marlboros you went through in the 80s. More »
A Guide to All the Amazing New Features in Final Cut Pro X, by Conan O’Brien [Video]
Google Tells FTC: Not Our Fault that ‘Our Milkshake Brings All the Boys to the Yard’ [Blip]
As the FTC prepares to launch a major investigation into Google's "core search advertising business," the search giant has issued a preliminary statement on its official blog today, restating the company's core values. They also took pains in stressing the fact that consumers can just as easily enter the address of a different search engine (the word "choice" comes up no less than five times in the post) and that Google's market-share is a result of search quality rather a matter of force, ala the Microsoft IE debacle of 1998. More »
iOS 5 Beta 2 Is Here, With Wireless Syncing [Apple]
One Guy Who Really Misses His Stolen Guitar Launches Full-Scale Internet Campaign to Get It Back [Crime]
Many of us have been victims of theft at one point or another, but one Vancouver-area guy was so bummed out about his stolen musical gear—especially a 1953 Gibson Les Paul guitar he had for 43 years—he's launched an all-out internet campaign to get it back. More »
Apple makes more money from the sale of one Mac than HP does from selling seven PCs. [Factoid]
HP makes $52.00 in profit for every PC they sell. Apple makes $370.55. In short: Apple makes more money from the sale of one Mac than HP does from selling seven PCs. [Matt Richman] More »
This Massage Chair Has Everything But a Happy Ending [Massage]
This massage chair by Panasonic has everything you'd want. 3D mapping! It creates a map of the body-height, weight, dimensions—and then massages accordingly. There's even hot stones! It can heat itself up to 108 degrees. Happy endings? Uhm, well... More »
Plasma physics finds novel applications in medicine
Whilst new antibiotics are being developed all the time, there's clearly a need for additional strategies to combat bacteria. One of the most recent to emerge has rather unlikely origins in a plasma physics laboratory.
Magnolia Solar Demonstrates Record High Voltage Performance
Magnolia Solar Corporation announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Magnolia Solar, Inc., has demonstrated InGaAs quantum well solar cells that operate at record high voltages.
Nanotechnology gives a push to more effective clean water production through forward osmosis
Among various technologies, reverse osmosis membranes have been widely used for water reclamation. However, external energy required and high operational pressure used make reverse osmosis membrane water reclamation processes energy intensive - not exactly an advantage given the rising cost of energy and the negative climate impact of fossil fuels. Today, forward osmosis is a well-recognized osmotic process for producing clean water with a bright future as it uses a natural phenomenon and does not require any operational pressure hence it saves large amount of energy compared with reverse osmosis process. Researchers now describe a novel forward osmosis membrane that presents remarkable properties superior over conventional membrane support layers.
Towards responsible nanotextiles and coatings: a new risk approach
A new study has developed risk assessment criteria for engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) to help inform innovation and policy decisions. It illustrates that product design can influence the unintended release of ENMs and that combining knowledge about the product life cycle with a systematic assessment of the potential hazards may enable responsible choices for future product developments to be made.
NANOEDUCATOR II Is A Winner Of A 2011 R+D 100 Award
NT-MDT Co. announces that NANOEDUCATOR II - a new generation of training scientific laboratories for nanotechnology teaching - is the winner of the 49th Annual R+D 100 Awards
Making holograms look more real
A full-color three-dimensional hologram has been created by harnessing electron density waves in thin metal films.
Obama calls for high-tech manufacturing effort involving nanotechnology
On Friday in Pittsburgh, Obama is to call for a joint effort by industry, universities and the federal government to help reposition the United States as a leader in cutting-edge manufacturing, including biotechnology, robotics and nanotechnology
NPC Launches Commercial Production of Ultrastrength Springs
RUSNANO project company NPC Springs has launched its first line for producing of ultrastrength springs. The manufacturing process employs unique Russian technology.