A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
The Kindle has been a huge success. With that success, some copycats have emerged. Some of those plan to have a larger screen. So, to keep up, Amazon is planning to develop another Kindle according to the WSJ. Supposedly this comes from people who have seen a version of the device. This one would have “a larger screen”.
Continue reading… “Amazon Developing Larger Screen Kindle”
Giant lions were roaming around Britain, Europe and North America up to 13,000 years ago, scientists from Oxford University have found.
Remains of giant cats previously discovered were thought to be a species of jaguar or tiger but after DNA analysis they were proved to be lions.
They were 25% bigger than the species of African lion living today, and had longer legs to chase their prey. Continue reading… “‘Supersize’ Lions”
Audiophiles will often scoff at professional sound equipment, saying that it isn’t refined enough for truly high performance. While the ugly duckling Ocean Way HR-2A lacks the fancy wood veneers of many big ticket speakers, I wish all audiophiles could all experience them so they could learn how truly wimpy most fancy audio rigs really are. Continue reading… “Ocean Way Monitors”
Big fancy expensive audio cables are nothing new, but these power cords from Sine take things to a whole new level. Continue reading… “Sine Power Cord”
Sarah Palin’s hotness is no longer debatable, at least according to Google trends – the bible of all that’s burning up the Web. A Boston Herald review of google.com/trends shows search terms particular to Palin earned a “volcanic” rating on the site’s “hotness” meter following her “World News Tonight” exclusive. Even her choice of footwear, Naughty Monkey red heels, steamed up the search engine.
“It’s terrific,” said MIT’s Henry Lieberman. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Google Experiencing a Deluge of Searching for Sarah Palin”
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In the tradition of Richard Feynman’s ode to orange juice, but spiced with actual information.
Continue reading… “CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Explained with Rap Music”
Ever since scientists first figured out how to make carbon nanotubes-tiny cylinders of carbon with diameters of a few tens of nanometers-they’ve been touted as the material of the future: as strong as steel but far lighter, with the ability to conduct electricity in useful ways. The problem is that because they’re so small, it’s been difficult to make them at scales that would be useful to industry. You can’t really build a lightweight airplane a few microns at a time, after all.
Now a New Hampshire company, Nanocomp Technologies of Concord, says it has overcome that limitation, producing sheets of carbon nanotubes that measure three feet by six feet and promising slabs 100 square feet in area as soon as this summer.
Continue reading… “Large Sheets of Carbon Nanotubes Produced”
