It was a great day for science-loving geeks everywhere. Today’s big haps, in no particular order: Soccer gets a newer, creepier bioengineered makeover Photo: John O’Shea Synthetic soccer balls are so last century. (Replace “soccer balls” with “footballs” if you’re not American.) After making waves at last year’s Abandon Normal Devices festival with his throwback […]
This is a pretty neat innovation coming out of Japan. Lack of electricity in disasters can make the situation worse than it already is. Green House Co. Ltd. has created a solution to that problem with a lantern, which generates electricity using nothing more than carbon, magnesium rods and salt water! In the ‘GH-LED10WBW’, 350ml […]
I’d like broadband speeds of 1 Gigabit per second. I suspect you’d like 1 Gbps. And it turns out large parts of Kansas City would definitely like 1 Gbps. The difference, sadly for you and I (KC residents excepted), is that we’re not getting it any time soon while the folks of Kansas City will. […]
The plan to expand London Heathrow’s Airport has been quite vehemently protested (despite a clear necessity – that airport is not equipped to handle the insane amount of transit it has to cope with!) and so architecture firm Gensler proposed this amazing little treasure: a floating airport. The “London Britannia Airport” would be an expensive […]
A US defense department robot has reached 28.3 mph on a treadmill — faster than any human in recorded history. The robot, dubbed Cheetah, is the work of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It’s the closest thing to a real life Q from Bond and gets to work on ultra-cool projects in the hope […]
Imagine a world where learning the language of computers was a fundamental subject in our education alongside mathematics, languages and sciences. If you think about it, that is actually the world we live in today: programming pervades almost every profession out there to some extent or another, and having a basic understanding of how software […]
Watch as 49 Quadrocopters take off from the ground at the voestalpine Klangwolke and turn into pixels in the sky, forming 3D-Models right before our eyes. [ArsElectronica]
Solar energy gets a bad rap. It’s costly for a number of reasons, though the price of the panels themselves has dropped dramatically in recent years. The problem is that the rest of the components remain steadfastly prohibitive. And cost aside, because the planet just keeps spinning, the panels need constant adjustments to maintain maximum […]
Awhile ago I was looking to get a keyboard for my iPad, and I was pointed in the direction of the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard. Case and keyboard all in one, plus it’s really thin. I was a bit dubious about dishing out on such a keyboard, and I’m glad I didn’t get it because I’m actually […]
People think windmills are ugly (I disagree though – I think they’re quite neat) and that photovoltaic dual-axis solar panels, while efficient, aren’t really any prettier. Well André Broessel from Barcelona has united sleek architecture with intelligent scientific design as an answer to the ‘ugliness’ of renewable energy devices with the “ß torics” system. This spherical […]