Crunch Gear:
Shh! World’s largest radio telescope network goes liveSpace adaptive HUMANITARY INVENTION detects things and then calls you about themUSB-powered Alien figure with illuminated tongueFor your holiday consideration: A little tr (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest stat (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
So picture this: You are tasked with watching a volcano And you’re totally like out to lunch one morning and the volcano explodes. You’re like FUUUUUUUUUUU! With the HUMANITARY INVENTION you’ll never be away from an exploding (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Science Fair:
Researchers report today in Science that they have sequenced the genome of a common variety of corn, which could lead to improved crops and help piece together the evolution of the plant. “When you have the genome sequence, y (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Although it'll be awkward to have this iPetals solar charger out on the street, taking advantage of the sun to keep your phone charged is just smart. Only a concept now, but this charger-that's-also-a-iPhone-stand is easy en (Read More)
NEWS.com.au | South Australia:
PIONEER South Australian fisherman Hagen Stehr's success at breeding southern bluefin tuna in captivity has been declared Time magazine's second best invention of 2009. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Somehow we missed Sony Computer Entertainment America's fourth wall-breaking patent application earlier this month, but here's how the concept would work: Using a PS3, you'd control an on-screen avatar to throw tomatoes at ac (Read More)
NEWS.com.au | South Australia:
A BREAKTHROUGH in breeding southern bluefin tuna in captivity has been named the world's second best invention of 2009 by Time magazine. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Timely information is essential when you’re operating in a competitive marketplace. Information enables better, more informed decisions — whether you’re trading stocks, bonds, precious metals or soybeans.It’s no different whe (Read More)
Gizmodo:
So, how exactly did Microsoft—those bastards!—end up patenting Sudo, a years-old Linux command line tool, without someone stepping in to stop them? Easy! They didn't. The story was the subject of much hyperventilation last we (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Righteous indignation erupted on the Internet last week following reports that Microsoft had patented sudo, a traditional command-line tool that is widely-used on Linux and some U (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. For nearly the first year of her life, her parents and doctors were unaware (Read More)
Gizmodo:
One Olympic swimmer has a D-cup breast size. From a physiological standpoint, she's at a disadvantage to a swimmer who's an A-cup. If she amputated her breasts to become more streamlined, would we consider her crazy, or worse (Read More)
Boing Boing:
No, this isn't about holy water as a miracle swine flu vaccine. Rather, some Catholic churches in Italy are replacing holy water basins with more sanitary electronic dispensers that spurt out a single serving of the magical f (Read More)
Gizmodo:
One Olympic swimmer has a D-cup breast size. From a physiological standpoint, she's at a disadvantage to a swimmer who's an A-cup. If she amputated her breasts to become more streamlined, would we consider her crazy, or worse (Read More)
Reuters:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A new technology to prevent lithium-ion batteries from catching fire or exploding in laptops and mobile phones may be on the market as soon as the first quarter of 2010, its inventor said on Wednesda (Read More)
Lifehacker:
You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time. Sinc (Read More)
technabob:
If there’s one thing us geeks know how to do is turn the everyday into something fantastically dorky. Our latest invention? LED flowers, trees and shrubs.This high-tech plantlife does away with such petty annoyances as dirt, (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Here's a great look at Pop Up Lunch: NYC, a work-in-progress from Ali Pulver, a grad student at Pulver. The idea is to create a bunch of portable, temporary eating surfaces that hungry New Yorkers can chow down from after buy (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Your lungs deliver air, vocal cords vibrate, mouth moves, and...nothing. One of those processes failed and you're left voiceless, speaking impaired. Enter Audeo which captures electrical signals intended for the vocal cords a (Read More)