Why I Don’t Have a Girlfriend or Boyfriend [Pie Chart]
Level 80 paladins are way too busy saving the world to have time for girls or guys, everyone knows that! [Via The Daily What | Graphjam]
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What keeps a train on the tracks while it’s turning?
Most people think that trains stay on the tracks while it’s turning because of the flanges on its wheels. Unfortunately, that’s wrong. Think about this as well – while there’s an axle connecting each of its adjacent wheels, there’s no differential in the middle of it. How does it turn without derailing? In the following […]
What does Apple’s Spotify approval mean for the app store?
Apple has given the thumbs up for the Spotify iPhone app. As well as being good news for music lovers, it may be a sign that Apple is feeling the heat over claims of anti-competitiveness in its approval policy. For those who’ve not encountered it (the service isn’t scheduled to launch in the US until […]
The Infomercial Stopper
The Infomercial Stopper is the only gadget that will rid your life of infomercial forever, guar-en-teed! [Via TechEblog]
Boldly going where no dog has gone before
Ladies and gentlemen, geeks and geekettes, let me present you… the The USS Enterprise, Mach II! Who knew that geek and redneck culture could attain such a state of perfect symbiosis? [Via Digg]
Technology Motivator: One Gigabyte
On the left, a one gigabyte IBM hard drive dating back from 1987. On the right, a one gigabyte SD card from the current era. Storage devices have certainly shrunk in size in the last 20 years haven’t they?
Wireless Electricity Demo
Eric Giler, CEO of MIT-inspired WiTricity, wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. In the following video, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker. With this promising new technology, you may soon never […]
Suicidal planet defies the astronomy rulebook
Astronomers are hoping a recently discovered planet is on a rare suicidal orbit around its parent star. If it isn’t, the entire basis on which they make calculations about orbits may have to be rewritten. WASP-18b is around 325 light years away from Earth: though that’s 1,885 trillion miles, it effectively makes it a close […]
Easily Retrieve your License Keys With LicenseCrawler
LicenseCrawler is a free, portable tool to retrieve license keys and serial numbers from the depths of your hard drive. And while most of us keep our precious offline installation documentation in a “safe place,” so that we can “always find it,” having all these CD-keys available in a file is very convenient. Oh sure, […]