“On paper, it looks a lot like something from a video game. In actuality, it looks even more so. David Brown, a cameraman, editor and producer, has won a PopSci 2011 Invention Award for his BodyGuard design–an armored glove with a built-in stun gun, laser pointer, video camera and flashlight.”
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“The prototype of the new thermal control technology is a tiny pump, about the size of a little finger, which, apart from the cooling function, is designed to withstand the extreme launch loads as a rocket lifts off and hurtles toward space. The pump will be demonstrated in June on a rocket mission designed to carry microsatellites into space.” via cnet
“RadioShack was founded by two brothers who wanted to provide equipment for the then-new field of ham radio. Over the next few decades, the company grew to become a large behemoth by appealing to the DIY community.
Now, the company is trying to return to its DIY roots.” via Neatorama
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“Alaska Airlines says that by mid-June, all of its pilots will be flying with swanky new iPads instead of stuffy old paper flight manuals. The move will save the pilots the trouble of lugging around 50lb flight bags, replacing the bulk with 1.5lb tablets from Apple.” via Engadget
… Read More → "Alaska Airlines replaces paper flight manuals with iPads"“This is the 7th camera of the Leica 0-series. Only approximately 25 of these cameras were produced to test the market in 1923, 2 years before the commercial introduction of the Leica A. It is the only camera known with “Germany” engraving on the top plate. The factory record indicates delivery to New York for patent applies. This means that this camera is not only one of the major existing rarities, it is also the first Leica being exported. It is the unique chance to buy the most important collectible Leica camera.”
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“The robot was designed by a team at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for the express purpose of shimmying up trees autonomously, figuring out the best route up a trunk using built-in touch sensors.” via Engadget
“Peter Moon brought his amazing Drawing Machine to the 2011 Maker Faire not expecting to show it off because, as he said, it was was still in development. But his clever device that takes JPG images and reproduces them mechanically was good enough to earn him an Editor’s Choice award.” via Geekosystem
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D-Wave Systems Inc. has just sold one of its D-Wave One quantum computing systems to Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin plans to use this “quantum annealing processor” for some of Lockheed Martin’s “most challenging computation problems,” according to a D-Wave statement.
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