Dec 28
You might think the U.S. is nearing a saturation point with cameras, but you’d be wrong. We’ve got a long ways to go before we can safely consider ourselves to … Continue reading
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Dec 28
Roku’s line of set-top boxes have been popular thanks to their simple controls, large set of available apps (recently expanded to include YouTube for the new Roku 3) and hardware ranging in price from inexpensive to downright cheap. Still, despite an …
Dec 28
For most of us our circadian rhythms are out of sync. This makes it hard
to get up in the mornings and often keep us awake at night. This is due,
in part at least, to the uneven sleep schedules that most of us have by
differing our sleeping hours on the weekends to accommodate social
gatherings. Researchers in Europe have created the phrase "social jet
lag" to describe the effects of this prevalent practice.
Dec 28
NASA reports that rare, electric blue noctilucent clouds have reappeared over the South Pole, where the clouds are often spotted for five to ten days every year. NASA calls the clouds "a great geophysical light bulb" that are visible during the darkest nights.
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Dec 28
Bathys, a boutique watchmaker based on Kauai, Hawaii and run by one determined man, first announced their wild Cesium 133 atomic watch in October. Now, a few months later, the company is nearly ready to hit the shoals of crowdfunding.
The company made a name for itself by building sturdy dive watches for the surfer set. We haven’t heard much from them, however, until recently when they announced plans to make a watch that will remain accurate until your children’s children jet off in their moon cars to Juno. It uses a Symmetricom SA.45s CSAC atomic clock on a chip to power a standard quartz face salvaged from an older Bathys model.
Created by John Patterson, the watch is still a work in progress but there is some talk of crowdfunding the product once it is ready for prime time. At this point ABlogToWatch estimates that the piece will cost $8,000 or so when complete with discounts offered to early adopters.
Obviously this thing is comically large and obviously battery life is an issue but this is the first standalone device that will be more accurate than some GPS units. Because it doesn’t depend on a satellite sync it will be accurate all the time and even far into the future. While you’re not going to wear this on your next surfing safari I don’t see why you couldn’t wear it stargazing or, barring that, while manning the tubes at the Large Hadron Collider.
Dec 28
We’ve seen Pokémon drawn with pencils, food, thread, aluminum powder, sculpey, clay, marble, LEGO and digital ink. Jacob Carter chose a simple but challenging way to depict the famous monsters: leaves.
Jacob calls his series Natural Pokémon. Aside from leaves, he also uses pebbles, and cheats a bit with cardboard and ink for the eyes and feet of Pokémon.
Jacob probably won’t be able to depict all Pokémon using just the leaves he finds on his own. Maybe he can ask people to send him preserved leaves of different colors and textures.
[via Imgur via Incredible Things]
Dec 28
Astronauts have hard jobs. And like anyone with hard jobs, they deserve some french fries and a nice, deep-fried turkey after work. Don’t we all? But there’s bad news. According to a new study, it’s impossible to fry food in zero g. Nooooooooooo!
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Dec 28
This article was written on August 22, 2006 by CyberNet.
Paul Thurrott is at it again and this time he got word from Microsoft that the final release of Windows Vista is still on schedule. That means businesses will receive their version of Vista in November while consumers will have to wait until January.
As of right now the Vista RC1 release date also remains the same and that is expected to be September 7. However, it will no longer be build 5520 because of some issues they were experiencing and will now be build 5536. According to Paul’s sources Vista 5536 was getting released internally today to verify that it is good enough for the public to use.
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Dec 28
Yesterday’s spacewalk outside the International Space Station resulted in a record-breaking amount of time spent moving around in the vacuum of space by a Russian. Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight … Continue reading
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