Norman, As He’s Stormin’
A tortoise has come out of his shell to become a confident street walker.
Stormin’ Norman is a 10-year-old African sulcata tortoise who is turning heads by wandering through the streets of Aberdeen.
Owner Dianne Melville - who runs a reptile shop - walks with him, but she said Stormin’ Norman decides his route.
Getting bored with looking at other planets, NASA now plans to probe the sun
For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there. ‘We are going to visit a living, breathing star for the first time,’ says program scientist Lika Guhathakurta of NASA Headquarters. “This is […]
The simplest way to understand hyperbolic space is to think of a lettuce leaf. It’s a two-dimensional surface on which the curvature is bunched up in such a way that it puts a twist on flat Euclidean geometry. For years, mathematicians had a difficult time modeling the space visually until the late 1990s when Daina […]
Now You Can Really Be Cockeyed.
Brandish reports on what may be an upcoming trend in sunglasses: asymmetry. These “Occhiali” from Italian firm Sugarkane are just regular sunglasses with a permanent half-wink as well as lenses that go dark in sunlight. (As seen in many prescription glasses.)
Not exactly a cat in either size, ability, or furriness, but the SkyCat does like to purrrrrr along
They’re not going to replace the 747, but it looks like the airships may be making a comeback.
New zeppelin technologies being put into use by companies such as SkyCat of Britain and Germany’s Zeppelin NT would bring […]
And since our bodies are made up mostly of water…
Our thanks to Marshall Dudley of Knoxville, TN for sharing his granddaughter, Arielle Reynolds’, experiment with us. Both Arielle’s mother, Christina, and Grandpa have much to be proud of. Congratulations, Arielle, well done!
“Below is a sience fair project that my granddaughter did for 2006. In […]
Step Right Into The Wi-Fi Zones
“A Step in the Right Direction” is a sneaker that detects Wi-Fi while you walk, via a tricky network detection unit embedded under the left shoe flap.
The three LEDs on the flap (supposedly) show you how much Wi-Fi action is within 50 meters. If the lights are blinky, you’ve got […]
Now That’s A Face Only A Mother Could Love
As biologists are busy working on cloning living organisms, engineers are working on a mechanical counterpart - creating non-living things that can replicate themselves.
A Handy Wi-Fi Solution
Now don’t get me wrong, I actually think this wi-fi hotspot solution is a half-decent idea, particularly if you operate a small coffee shop or other venue and can’t afford to give away free wi-fi. But why is it solely reliant on coins? Even payphones these days have a slot for using […]
Up, up and away!
Picture it - thousands of Mickey Mouse heads floating over Orlando, Florida. That is the plan for later this month when Walt Disney Co. uses a new invention to promote Disney World. Now picture the Nike logo or the Apple Logo or even your logo taking to the air. How? Flogos!
What is […]
After you decked out your Rock Band rig with a light show and smoke machine, I bet you thought you added all the cheap theatrics you’d ever want. But when I saw these light-up drumsticks, I knew there was just a little more you could do to crank your performances up to 11.
Ingenious though it was, the “Be The Bike” patent did not attract much attention amongst bicycling aficionados. But dreams were not dashed: the same inventor’s later patent for “Be The Pony” would eventually make him a kinky S&M baron of a new, multi-million dollar industry.
Demand a Solar Assisted Washing Machine Now!
Hot water use in washing machines in a big component of household energy use. One solution is to simply wash in cold water, but a new new front loader from Electrolux caters for another option by facilitating the use of water heated by solar energy so you can wash […]
Wallpaper - Kabuki Feline
Artist Emma Hack creates beautiful designs that blend her models into their surroundings.
The effects of this artwork kind of looks like 3D human wallpaper.
Cable Hell Reprieve
If you trip whenever you try to walk anywhere near your desk or entertainment center, then you’ve got a problem there my friend. Luckily, rehab is quick and easy in the form of the CableBox by BlueLounge.
A Place To Stash Your Cool Cash
The “Air Vent Secret Compartment” is just that, slipping into walls with 16-inch or greater stud spacing. A small latch hidden inside the levers opens the front.
If these immortals weren’t immortal…
Czech artist Andrzej Dragan (who also happens to be a quantum physicist!) did a fantastic photoshop job on imagining how Marilyn Monroe and Bruce Lee would look like had they lived to see old age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtB8DX70ihM
This bicycle lift is used by cyclers to get up a steep hill
Hilly cities normally have a low share of cycling. Why is it that Trondheim, the third largest city of Norway, has the highest share of cycling compared to all the other Norwegian cities? Second video after the jump.
Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.
Artist Chris Jordan creates artwork that uses statistics as a major part of it. Each image represents something in the world that we all should take note of. The photographs are beautiful and the statistics are fascinating. He hopes […]
Cisco has unveiled and demonstrated their new On-Stage TelePresence Holographic Video Conferencing. In layman’s terms, it means that now you can actually do that thing they do in Star Wars when they talk to a Princess Leia hologram, and I have to say, it looks quite convincing…
Ditch Your Ex-es Drek Blek And More!
A website has been set up which allows ex-girlfriends and wives to sell unwanted gifts from former lovers. What a great way to release angst and score some cash!
Probably will never make it to the market place, but fun to look at
Here is a totally geeky workstation to make your working hours fun besides making your friends and colleagues crazy with envy!
Is it real or virtual? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Gartner defines a disruptive technology as one that causes major change in ‘the accepted way of doing things’, including business models, processes, revenue streams, industry dynamics and consumer behavior. Complete list after the jump.
Screw voluteering to lie down for 90 days for NASA: the National Space Society is offering a job as a Space Ambassador, with taking a ride into space as part of the duties.
Analogy is the name of a clock by designer Jesson Yip.
Analogy is a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a new hybrid format. Presenting an everyday object with a fresh twist.