Time Magazine has announced the Time 100 – their annual list of the most influential people of the year. It’s divided into four main categories: Leaders, Heroes, Artists, and Thinkers.
One of those Thinkers is…
Here’s a fun video by Alex Profit & Romain Pergeaux that travels
the world in 80 seconds with a pretty clever way of showing the current
location. You can see how it’s all done in the end, too. It was done
in 3 weeks traveling around the world and is a pretty cool way to
document a trip. via ko…
By: fungus amungus
These chewy peanut butter munchies are a favourite in our house, and
they’re pretty simple and cheap to make, too! Ingredients What you
will need: Rice Krispies or similar Sugar 1 jar of smooth peanut
butter, smallish size, probably 1lb but don’t have any right now so
can’t check! 1 1…
By: Sparrowhawk
Costco is selling the Chumby One for $99 shipped. It’s a good deal if
you just want to use it for its basic features and an even better one
for using all the widgets or if you want to hack it and use it for many
other purposes such as making your own 3G router . Chumby One at
Costco via adafrui…
By: fungus amungus
Can’t get these glowing wood and resin chairs that Bright Woods showed
off in Milan recently out of my head. I know that some glowing
furniture wouldn’t quite work in my house, but I really would love to
make something like it. So instead I’m putting it out there to all of
you. Please do something …
By: fungus amungus
Mason is a seven and a half year old Boxer who has sadly lost a lot of weight since being in kennels. He needs a loving new home very soon, so please consider this lovely lad. He’s easy going, gets on well with other dogs and could live with older children.
Look out everybody, rocket racing airplanes could be a part of your future. For the first time, two of these rocket planes have flown together. In fact, the founder of the Rocket Racing League plans to start a series of races between these crazy craft next year.
The guys in the cockpits aren’t the only ones having fun — an augmented reality system lets spectators fly a virtual rocket plane along with them. They’re even creating an iPhone app in which you can virtually race the real aircraft.
We’re thinking this virtual racing would be a great idea for all kinds of motorsports. See how it works in this video:
Toby is a little dog with a big personality and he’ll make some lucky person very happy. He’s an eight year old Yorkshire Terrier who enjoys going out for walks or sitting with his owner and having a nice cuddle in front of the TV. He would be happy as the only dog, but wouldn’t mind living with a female.
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. has announced that their thirteen dealers in Oklahoma can now sell the compressed natural gas (CNG) powered Honda Civic GX to customers on a retail basis.
We’ve seem bold claims about piezoelectric energy lately, and here’s another example: energy-generating shoes. Engineers at Louisiana Tech University say they’ve discovered a practical way to gin up some power just by walking around.
Using a soft, rolled-up device that fits within the heel of a running shoe, electrical engineering Assistant Professor Dr. Ville Kaajakari says the tech might someday create usable power: “Ultimately we want to bring the power levels up to a point where we could, in addition to sensors, charge or power other portable devices such as cellphones.”
We’ll believe it when we see it.
Via Treehugger
Robots are getting so smart and powerful, it’s getting to the point where it’s probably a better idea to send one of them to the Moon rather than a human. Robot-crazy Japan wants to do just that by 2015.
That robot’s not going to be overly productive, though. Japan plans to have the bipedal humanoid robot Maido-kun plant a Japanese flag on the lunar surface, as a publicity stunt to show the country’s techno-prowess. Sounds more like a small step than a giant leap.
Think of it this way: If that robot can plant a flag in the ground, there are plenty of other things it could do, like it maybe imitate its non-humanoid Mars-exploring cousins. Best of all, that bot probably won’t mind too much if it’s marooned on the Moon, saving the trouble of a return trip.
Via CrunchGear
High Dynamic Range, or HDR, photography combines many photos of the same subject with different light ranges into one beautiful shot. It normally requires a good deal of work in post production software such as Photoshop to pull off.
BenQ’s new E1260 HDR point-and-shoot camera now allows you to pull off such feats without needing to know a thing about Photoshop. Instead, it merges multiple shots together (better bring a tripod) into one image automatically, taking all of the grunt work out of it. Do the finished results look as good as HDR shots made by pros? Who knows. But it’s definitely an interesting feature for a lower-end camera such as this.
BenQ via Electronista
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced a federal blessing for the controversial Cape Wind project today–clearing a path for mammoth wind turbines to be built offshore of the Massachusetts vacation destination, the first such offshore wind farm in the U.S. Given that the United Kingdom (alone) has 1 gigawatt of such offshore wind as of 2010 and Denmark has been building offshore since 1990 , you might wonder what’s taken so long? After all, the project was first proposed nearly a decade ago. [More]
The U.S. electrical grid is the largest interconnected machine on Earth: 200,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and 5.5 million miles of local distribution lines, linking thousands of generating plants to factories, homes and businesses. The National Academy of Engineering ranks it as the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century. What it cannot do is support the massive shift to low-carbon power that scientists warn will be needed to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts. [More]
Nothing is more annoying than sitting down to play some video games and discovering that your controllers all have dead batteries. The PowerV Quad Charger looks to make that frustration a thing of the past.
It’s a stand for four Wiimotes. When you’re done playing, just toss them on it and forget about it. No popping out of batteries, no cables, no plugs. They’ll charge via induction, right through their cases. That way, they’ll always be fully charged when you go to pick them up. It makes thinking about charging your controllers a thing of the past. Viva laziness!
The PowerV is available now for $50.
Dear EarthTalk: I work for an office equipment company selling copiers, fax machines, computers and printers. Each year new models come out making old ones obsolete. As a result, we have loads of trade-ins with nowhere to go. What can we do with this old equipment? –Jeff P., Worcester, Mass.
What’s better than LEDs? Spinning LEDs! Laserpointer forums member
FireMyLaser has decided that spinning LEDs is so much fun that he built
a contraption that spins on 3 axes and creates some pretty insane
effects. He also posted lots of build photos, but for now he’s exceeded
his photobucket bandwid…
By: fungus amungus
It’s always a treat to see what Ben Heck has been up to and his latest
device, a PS3 laptop , is no exception. Just plug it in and you’ll be up
and gaming in no time with its own 17″ 720p HDMI display. As
always, the whole thing is custom and if you have a project you’d like
him to do he says he can…
By: fungus amungus
Here’s a labor of love: a full-size replica of Bender from Futurama that
took Des Bromilow months of spare time to put together. After posting
the pictures of the results , he then went back through his archives of
photos and documented all the steps of putting it together .
Awe-inspiring stuff! …
By: fungus amungus
Who knew faucets could be so sexy? This curvaceous design has colorful dots on top, each one corresponding to a certain temperature. Tempdots is touch controlled — touch the temperature you want and the water begins to flow. Touch it again, and the water stops.
Here’s a neat trick: There’s a battery inside that’s recharged by hot water. The only problem we see with this design is keeping its touch-sensitive surface clean. With dirty hands touching the dots to turn the water on, and wet hands touching them again to shut the water off, that’s going to collect a lot of fingerprints.
Since it’s a design concept, maybe its creator Jaeseok Han can figure out a way to solve that problem.
Via Yanko Design
Sous vide is a cool way of cooking foods at low temperatures for a long
time that makes the flavors more intense as a result. Even the cheapest
setup for this is about $150 if you already have a rice cooker or crock
pot lying around. Serious Eats has explored this territory before with
success and n…
By: fungus amungus
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