“Solar panels have recently been popping up at IKEA stores all around the United States, and now the Swedish furniture giant is about to up its green credentials by installing electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at 10 stores in the Western US.” via Inhabitat
… Read More → "IKEA to install electric vehicle charging stations at 10 U.S. stores"“The nhow Berlin claims to be Europe’s very first music hotel, complete with recording suites, music managers and hotel staff who also happen to be music college graduates.” va gizmag
“Intel is coming to the realization that cloud, not PC, is where computing’s future lies. And perhaps there is no better testament to this move than the most recent acquisition of an Ethernet silicon company.” via GigaOM
… Read More → "Intel buys networking chipmaker because the data center is now the computer"“Backseat Driver is the first “toy” by ToyToyota, a new brand from the Japanese automotive company. It’s in the form of a simple GPS-based app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, and allows kids to take a virtual drive linked by GPS to the current driving route in the real world.” via gizmag
</ … Read More → "GPS-based ToyToyota app lets kids ‘drive’ from the backseat"
“MAKE announces the availability of the Redpark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS.This kit includes the only Apple-approved serial interface cable having a DB9 serial connector on one end and the iPhone connector on the other.”
$59 at MAKE via Dangerous Prototypes
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“Since the 1970s, chemists have worked on storing solar energy in molecules that change state in response to light. These photoactive molecules could be the ideal solar fuel, as the right material should be transportable, affordable, and rechargeable. Unfortunately, scientists haven’t had much success. One of the best examples in recent years, tetracarbonly-diruthenium fulvalene, requires the use of ruthenium, which is rare and expensive. Furthermore, the ruthenium compound has a volumetric energy density (watt-hours per liter) that is several times smaller than that of a standard lithium-ion battery.” via Read More → "New fuel discovered that reversibly stores solar energy"
Radare2 is an open source tool to disassemble, debug, analyze and manipulate binary files. via Dangerous Prototypes
… Read More → "Radare2 open source reverse engineering software"“The gasoline-electric twin-pod vehicle has a range of 760 miles in the air and 820 miles on the ground, and it works a bit like a Chevrolet Volt. Electric motors provide propulsion, while two gasoline engines drive generators that keep the juice flowing.
Design No. 367 — the craft is named in accordance with the simple numbering system long used by Rutan — was unveiled during the weekend after making its first short hop in the air on March 30. It is the legendary aerospace designer’s final project at Scaled Composites, the company he founded in 1982.” via Read More → "Burt Rutan has designed a flying car unlike any other: it’s a hybrid"
A crew member inside the International Space Station snapped this long-exposure shot of the aurora dancing through Earth’s atmosphere on July 16. via Dvice and Wired
Image: NASA
… Read More → "Astronaut snaps amazing aurora over Earth as Atlantis prepares return"Think spending all day on the Internet hasn’t changed the way your brain works? Think again! via Dvice
… Read More → "The internet affects how you remember things"
