Check out this sweet office you could have delivered right to your own backyard.
Sett Studio takes an innovative and green approach to designing functional spaces that can be used as a home office, an art studio, a yoga space, a kids room, a guest room and more. Sett uses modular construction to build your new studio in their warehouse and deliver it right to your property. Instead of months of on-site construction, … Read More → "Fancy working from home, but with fewer distractions?"
Ford is pushing forward in the evolution of the connected car with the unveiling of OpenXC, a research platform which aims to turn your car into a plug-and-play device.
Ford is gung-ho for connectivity and seems determined to pack as much technology into its cars as possible. It believes connectivity and in-car tech like Sync can make us better, safer drivers while increasing the practicality and usefulness of our time behind the wheel.
Open XC, announced Monday … Read More → "Ford aims to make your ride plug-and-play"
The NY Times is featuring a wonderful exploded view of a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer illustrated by Frank O’Connell.
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… Read More → "OldUse.Net: historical recreation of Usenet as it was 30 years ago"OldUse.Net is a historical, realtime re-creation of the Usenet experience, as it was in the heroic green-on-black era of the Internet. via Boing Boing
Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android where you help rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse. By going out and running in the real world, you can collect medicine, ammo, batteries, and spare parts that you can use to build up and expand your base – all while getting orders, clues, and story through your headphones.
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The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) will come crashing back to Earth after it was placed into orbit almost twenty years ago. Although the spacecraft will break into pieces during re-entry, not all of it will burn up in the atmosphere beforehand. It is anticipated that 26 large fragments of the UARS satellite will actually fall to Earth, in a rain of debris altogether weighing about 1,170 pounds/532 kg (the largest weighing 300 pounds/150 kg). Though it is impossible to predict the … Read More → "NASA satellite will crash back to Earth in a couple of weeks"
No more lines of coded error messages — just a clean frowny face and a line that regular people can actually understand: Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn’t handle, and now it needs to restart.
It’s so simple and uncluttered, it’s almost Apple-like.
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… Read More → "Microsoft Windows 8’s new blue screen of death is kinda cute"The next time you are groping your way to the light switch, think about investing in next-gen night vision technology. Although the market may be tight for a while: you’ll need impressive security clearance and a healthy bank account to get the gear. Noah Shachtman from Wired Magazine tours the ITT Corporation facility where they design and build military-grade gear that can peer further into the dark, with greater fidelity, and under darker conditions, than any civilian equipment. And he comes back … Read More → "Inside the freaky world of next-gen night vision"
from the NY Times:
“NASA revealed on Wednesday a design for its next colossal rocket that is to serve as the backbone for exploration of the solar system for the coming decades.
The rocket would be the most powerful since the Saturn V that took Americans to the moon four decades ago. NASA expects that it could lift astronauts on deep-space missions farther than anyone has ever traveled.”
