These restored tube powered radios have all been disassembled, cleaned, refinished and rewired with new components like a direct line-in connector or a top-dock to hook up your iPod, iPhone or laptop.
source via gear culture
An infrared satellite survey of Egypt has revealed 17 lost pyramids and thousands of ancient tombs and other structures. (Credit: Courtesy of the University of Alabama at Birmingham) via cnet
… Read More → "Infrared satellite survey reveals 17 lost pyramids in Egypt"“Mapping the universe and its billions of galaxies is a tedious business, but a project spanning more than a decade and mashing up near-infrared sky surveys with painstaking redshift analysis has produced the wold’s most detailed 3-D map of the local universe. Reaching out to a distance some 380 million light-years from our own solar system, the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) was presented today at the 218th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.” via Read More → "The most detailed 3-D map of local universe ever created"
An FCC report says that Olympia beats every U.S. city in download speed at 21Mbps. That’s nearly double second place.
Second place cities are New York City and Seattle, are both at 11.7Mbps.
via GeekWire
… Read More → "Olympia, Washington is the city with the fastest internet"Angelica Lim, a.k.a. “thepetitegeek” is doing some interesting graduate level research work at Kyoto University on robots expressing emotions and other behaviors normally associated with human beings.
She is also an active NAO Developer Program participant and has put her humanoid robot to good use in developing this well thought-out motion survey.
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Cray just announced the Cray XK6, an upgradable, hybrid supercomputing system capable of more than 50 petaflops. Powered by Cray’s Gemini interconnect, AMD Opteron 6200 processors, and NVIDIA Tesla 20-Series GPUs, the XK6 system blends x86 and GPU environments with the firm’s own flavor of Linux. via Engadget
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InFocus Labs has announced the winners of the World’s Worst PowerPoint Slide contest. This is the beauty that took first place:
CrowdGather, known for its proclivity to buy forum sites, will announce tomorrow it is acquiring $3.2 million in cash and stock to acquire PbNation.com, a large online paintball community. $3.2 million for a paintball forum? Really?
… Read More → "A forum about paintball is worth $3.2 million?"The Lingodroid research project lets robots generate random sounds for the places they visit in both simulations and a real office.
The “words” are shared and the robots play games to establish which sound represents which location.
via BBC News
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