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Astonomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have identified a new moon orbiting Pluto, which they’d previously demoted from a planet, to a “dwarf” planet for reasons known only to themselves. The new moon, whose discovery was announced on Monday, has tentatively been named P4. It’s size is estimated between...
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Eyehandy.com has released a series of instructional videos demonstrating how one might wax a surfboard, change strings on a guitar, fix a leaky sink, and generally be useful around a house instead of sitting at the computer in boxers all day. This is not news. However, the Eyehandy videos...
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I couldn’t write that title in any other way to make this more awesome. Researchers at The Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control in Switzerland, have designed some quadrocopter robots that fly, untethered, while detecting, and bouncing back some ping pong balls. I really could try and describe it but...
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It’s your first birthday planet Neptune, and unlike your neighbor Uranus, nobody makes fun of your name, and unlike Pluto, nobody’s going to demote you to “solar object” status because you’re small or whimpy. Yep, it’s the planet’s discovery’s first anniversary, in Neptune years (164.79 Earth years and obviously...
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Some people love their 3D movies, I like them just fine most of the time as long as they’re not interactive. So far the only one that gave me a headache was Avatar. But I think it’s quite likely that Avatar, would’ve given me a headache even if all...
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So you feel like you could design your own dress, order it online fit to your exact measurements and have it delivered? Good for you! Now there’s a website that allows you to do just that. The catch? All the dresses they show in their photos are incredibly ugly....
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In 2006, professor Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, proposed the theory that we all might live in a simulation. Arguments for this theory proposed that, just like in a computer simulation, there would be a finite number of particles, as well as a...
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The Love Sex Company in China has created a device suited to the modern man, simulating all the conveniences of a female cohabitant without that pesky free will getting in the way: A 5-foot, 5-inch doll that can move, talk, recognize faces, and yes, be an active participant in...
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Problem: our planet has already faced a few food crises and another one seems to be just around the corner. Extremely unsavory possible solution: eat artificial meat products made from our own excrement. That is the suggestion that Mitsuyuki Ikeda from the Environmental Assessment Center, Okayama, Japan… if he...
Astonomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have identified a new moon orbiting Pluto, which they’d previously demoted from a planet, to a “dwarf” planet for reasons known only to themselves. The new moon, whose discovery was announced on Monday, has tentatively been named P4. It’s size is estimated between...
Eyehandy.com has released a series of instructional videos demonstrating how one might wax a surfboard, change strings on a guitar, fix a leaky sink, and generally be useful around a house instead of sitting at the computer in boxers all day. This is not news. However, the Eyehandy videos...
I couldn’t write that title in any other way to make this more awesome. Researchers at The Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control in Switzerland, have designed some quadrocopter robots that fly, untethered, while detecting, and bouncing back some ping pong balls. I really could try and describe it but...
It’s your first birthday planet Neptune, and unlike your neighbor Uranus, nobody makes fun of your name, and unlike Pluto, nobody’s going to demote you to “solar object” status because you’re small or whimpy. Yep, it’s the planet’s discovery’s first anniversary, in Neptune years (164.79 Earth years and obviously...
Some people love their 3D movies, I like them just fine most of the time as long as they’re not interactive. So far the only one that gave me a headache was Avatar. But I think it’s quite likely that Avatar, would’ve given me a headache even if all...
So you feel like you could design your own dress, order it online fit to your exact measurements and have it delivered? Good for you! Now there’s a website that allows you to do just that. The catch? All the dresses they show in their photos are incredibly ugly....
In 2006, professor Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, proposed the theory that we all might live in a simulation. Arguments for this theory proposed that, just like in a computer simulation, there would be a finite number of particles, as well as a...
The Love Sex Company in China has created a device suited to the modern man, simulating all the conveniences of a female cohabitant without that pesky free will getting in the way: A 5-foot, 5-inch doll that can move, talk, recognize faces, and yes, be an active participant in...