The iPhone girl.
This isn’t research as much as social observation, but have you heard about the iPhone girl? I noticed her story on reddit but she’s popping up all over the place:
… Read the rest “The iPhone girl.”China’s
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Unplugged.
So, the BBC is talking about one of Nikola Tesla’s dreams (he of the AC current and the plasma ball) coming true in an Intel lab, where engineers are broadcasting power wirelessly: … Read the rest “Unplugged.”
The plausibly deniable death ray.
The great thing about laser weapons, New Scientist says, isn’t just that you can fry your enemy from miles away. You can also shrug your shoulders and say, “No, really, I didn’t… Read the rest “The plausibly deniable death ray.”
Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch”When Spitzer launched Monday, 25 August 2003 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT from Cape
Windless City Power
So much for rooftop turbines – unless you’re on a farm. A new study from the UK Carbon Trust, which appeared on the CleanTechnica.com blog, found that windmills do more harm … Read the rest “Windless City Power”
Science Art: “The Wright Brothers’ Airplane” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Bang! Bang! You’re dead!
New Scientist draws a bead on a new kind of gun – a smart killing machine that fires bullets like toy rockets:
… Read the rest “Bang! Bang! You’re dead!”Lund and Company Invention, a toy design studio based near Chicago, makes
Calling Doctor Manhattan….
PopSci answers the question everyone will be asking once they see The Watchmen preview and its blue-skinned nuclear superman: How worried should you be if you’re stuck inside the… Read the rest “Calling Doctor Manhattan….”
The Olympic Computer.
The New York Times shares an interesting theory about the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient clockwork computer recovered from the Mediterranean. Instead of being some kind of mathematical… Read the rest “The Olympic Computer.”
Levitate me.
Step back, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Telegraph reports on a new a levitation machine:
… Read the rest “Levitate me.”Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have
Science Art: “Ericsson Taxen ritn,” Nordisk familjebok
An early telephone schematic found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Twitch of a (bionic) whisker.
New Scientist senses the tiniest air currents by a synthetic whisker:
… Read the rest “Twitch of a (bionic) whisker.”The design consists of an artificial hair deposited on a silicon substrate and connected to it by a flexible hinge.
Robot chef!
New Scientist is living in The Jetsons:
… Read the rest “Robot chef!”“If you want to interpret and understand everyday activities using vision data, it’s very complicated, error-prone, and resource
Gators got a UFO.
Discovery News has a weird little story about a weird little vehicle coming up out of the swamp. I suppose you could call it a UFFO – a University of Florida Flying Object:
… Read the rest “Gators got a UFO.”Subrata Roy,
Beijing 2008: Robot drones and Segway police.
Guests at the Summer Olympics might get an idea of what “technological superiority” means nowadays, according to AP’s report on China’s new security measures… Read the rest “Beijing 2008: Robot drones and Segway police.”