As one of the most diverse and culturally wealthy countries in the whole of South America, Peru is one of those destinations that offers so much to visitors. But where, what and how do you get the very best of it?
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Just over 18 months after making its video debut, the Navy’s electromagnetic railgun has a manufacturer. BAE Systems — known for e-ink-powered tank camouflage, autonomous spiderbots and machine-gun-mounted lasers — won the government contract and hopes to have phase-two prototypes ready “as early as next year.” While the current design is capable of firing one shot, the Office of Navy Research hopes for six to ten shots per minute. If that doesn’t scare you, consider this: The pulse-driven projectiles travel at Mach 6 and can hit targets over 100 nautical miles away. Don’t worry, it’s not too late to rethink that career of sailing the high seas as a pirate and get to work on that accounting degree instead.
Filed under: Science
Via: Defense Tech
Source: BAE Systems
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s government said Wednesday that a microphone found in its London embassy, where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is staying, was hidden inside an electrical outlet in the office of the ambassador.
Ricardo Patino told a news conference in Quito that the bug was found in mid-June when Ecuadorean technicians reviewed the embassy’s wiring.
The purpose of the hidden microphone was to listen to the conversations of Ambassador Ana Alban in her office, Patino said, holding up a picture of the purported bug. Assange lives and works in a different room in the embassy.
Here’s why this movie earned an A in my book: The Internship turned out better than advertised, the storyline was more involved than I thought, it’s hysterical and Google is awesome.
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“No one’s gonna vote for whoever that queer puts up.”
–Aaryn Gries, 22
The “queer” this Texas college student is referring to is 26-year-old Andy Herren. They’re both contestants on the 15th season of CBS’ Big Brother.
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HP has showed off a new all-in-one desktop PC to its line-up, the Pavilion TouchSmart 20-f230jp. This space-saving system is equipped with a 20-inch 1600 x 900 touchscreen LCD display, a 1.40GHz AMD E1-2500 processor, an AMD Radeon HD 8240 graphics, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 1TB hard drive, a webcam, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a SD card reader, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS with 2012 Standard Kingsoft Office. The Pavilion TouchSmart 20-f230jp will begin shipping from early August for around 90,000 Yen (about $903). [HP]
What Bourdain has managed to do is recruit the local cuisine and the people who eat, prepare and celebrate it as guides and storytellers, helping sharpen our sense of place. After all, food is universally necessary, commonly beloved.
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Check out this new active speaker from TDK Life on Record, the TCC8431. Powered by an AC adapter, the speaker is equipped with a digital display panel with brightness adjustment function of four levels, an alarm clock function, an FM radio, two USB power ports for charging your tablet/smartphone while playing music, a 3.5mm stereo mini jack and two 50mm full-range speakers (maximum power output 2.4W). The TCC8431 will go on sale from August 8th for unannounced price yet. [TDK]
Traveling this summer? Don’t forget to pack the suntan lotion. And check in to your flight online. And check if your flight is delayed using your flight number. Speaking of, how the hell do airplanes come up with flight numbers? Apparently there’s a system! Like did you know flights that go east or north are usually given even numbers while west and south flights have odd flight numbers.
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PRINCETON, N.J. — With a 3-D printer, a petri dish and some cells from a cow, Princeton University researchers are growing synthetic ears that can receive – and transmit – sound.
The scientists send bovine cells mixed in a liquid gel through the printer, followed by tiny particles of silver. The printer is programmed to shape the material into a “bionic ear,” and forms the silver particles into a coiled antenna. Like any antenna, this one can pick up radio signals that the ear will interpret as sound.
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