“There aren’t a lot of options for writing code on your iPhone, so picking the best option wasn’t all that difficult. Nonetheless, Nebulous Notes wins out thanks to its better-than-average Dropbox-syncing abilities, handy time-saving features, and ability to serve as more than just your programming text editor.” via Lifehacker
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… Read More → "The best programming text editor for iPhone"“When you think about plugging something into the AC adapter of a car, you probably conjure up images of cell phones, iPods and possibly portable televisions for the kids in the back. But Mitsubishi Motor Corporation announced yesterday that they are looking beyond the normal uses for AC adapters and will soon be releasing one that is able to power small kitchen appliances like microwaves and rice cookers.” via Inhabitat
… Read More → "Cook with your car: Mitsubishi’s i-MiEV electric vehicle adapter will be able to power a rice cooker"The goggles feature a 2MP CMOS camera, 4MB internal memory, and a USB 2.0 port. They shoot video in 1280×960 resolution (AVI) and still images in 2560×1920 (JPEG).
Get yours here for ¥10,980.00 (about $135).
… Read More → "Record your undersea adventures with these video goggles"“A recent report published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration reveals that America now receives more of its energy from renewable sources than it does from nuclear generation plants. In the first three months of 2011, the country’s biomass/biofuel, hydropower, wind, geothermal, and solar energy generation plants produced a combined 2.245 quadrillion Btus of energy or 11.73 percent of U.S. energy production. During the same period, nuclear energy plants produced 2.125 quadrillion Btus.” via Inhabitat
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“The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting “billion-pixel array” will serve as the super-sensitive ‘eye’ of ESA’s Galaxy-mapping Gaia mission.
While the naked human eye can see several thousand stars on a clear night, Gaia will map a billion stars within our own Milky Way Galaxy and its neighbours over the course of its five-year mission from 2013, charting their brightness and spectral characteristics along with their three-dimensional positions and motions.” via Read More → "The European Space Agency’s ‘billion-pixel array’ is the biggest digital camera ever built for space"
Finally!! Print your own chocolate. via Gizmodo
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The average American refrigerator generates a magnetic field of one-half Tesla. The world-record breaking magnet developed by the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Dresden generates nearly 200 times that much, a whopping 91.4 Tesla.” via Gizmodo
… Read More → "A magnet so powerful that it explodes copper wires"“Furniture giant, IKEA, just switched on a 573-kW solar power system, which covers 65,000 square feet of space at their Sacramento, California store. The array is made up of approximately 2,548 panels and will help to cut 630 tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere. The solar array is the eighth solar power project that IKEA has finished in the US, and they still have plans to build twelve more — four more in California and eight on the East Coast.” via Inhabitat
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