Mar 12
Forget IMAX 3D. If you really want to see Gravity
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Mar 12
I don’t even know what I’m looking at here. I think I see some eyes and a beak attached some oversized head attached to the body of a spider. It’s a pelican spider.
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Mar 12
Alas, the Miracle Machine is a lie.
(Credit: Miracle Machine)
It sounded like a dream come true. The Miracle Machine was a gadget that would turn water — along with grape concentrate and yeast — into wine in your very home in as little as three days. A lot of people got excited, imagining becoming home winemakers without all the bother of growing grapes, aging in barrels, or knowing anything about how to make wine.
There was just one catch, and it was a big one. The Miracle Machine is a made-up product. The Miracle Machine founders promised a Kickstarter launch, but that debut never materialized. It was just a hook to get people to sign up for more information. Today, those people got an e-mail leading them to a video about Wine to Water, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supplying clean drinking water to people in need around the globe.
The end game for the stunt is to raise awareness of Wine to Water and drive donations and volunteers to the cause. The people behind it say that more than 600 media outlets around the world picked up coverage of the fake product within the last 10 days. To be fair, quite a few of them were skeptical the gadget could deliver what it promised.
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Mar 12
This article was written on October 18, 2006 by CyberNet.
I’m slowly beginning to like Google Docs & Spreadsheets for certain purposes but it is still far away from becoming my primary word processor. One cool trick that I found when preparing to upload a document was instructions on how you could email a file to yourself and have it appear in Google Documents. Actually, you don’t even have to attach a file because it can just turn the text from the body of the email into a document.
All you need to do is use the email address that they provide on the upload screen which can be seen in the screenshot above. One thing I definitely don’t like is the fact that you can’t have it randomly generate another email address incase someone gets their hands on it, which is why I blurred out several of the characters. As you can tell by the email address this still goes to the Writely servers so Google has not switched this feature over to their own servers yet. That means you can only do this with your text documents and not with spreadsheets.
Here are the instructions they provide for doing this:
- Enter some text and send the message.
– The message text will be entered into a new online document.
– The title of the document will be the subject of the email message. - Or, attach a supported document (HTML files and plain text (.txt), Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf), OpenDocument Text (.odt) and StarOffice (.sxw))
– Each attached document will be converted to HTML and appear as a separate document.
– The title of each document will be the file name of each attachment.
– With attachments, the message text itself will be ignored.
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Mar 12
At one point or another, all of us have probably argued about a questionable word or three during our Scrabble careers. Hasbro wants to make that easier (or harder, depending on your view) with a contest to add a word to the game’s official…
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Mar 12
It must be fun to invent something. One day it does not exist, and the next day it exists. But how would you feel if you didn’t exactly know why your new invention worked? The minds behind this all-new microscopic engine could tell you.
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Mar 12
FiftyThree has updated its popular Paper (no, not that Paper) iPad sketching app for iOS 7, and the visual tweaks should be immediately apparent. In addition to the usual speedier menus and simplified icons, the outfit crafted a fresh design,…
Mar 12
Smart home addicts relying on Nest for their HVAC can now hook the learning thermostat up to an Insteon automation system, integrating it with their lighting, security, and more. The … Continue reading
Mar 12
An Indonesian Air Force military surveillance aircraft searches the Malacca Strait for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
(Credit: Indonesian Air)
As the latest piece of technology to be enlisted in the search for missing Malaysian flight MH370, satellites have the eyes of the world watching them as they watch us.
On Monday, a crowdsourcing platform called Tomnod, along with parent company DigitalGlobe, launched a crowdsourcing campaign to enlist the help of citizens in scouring satellite images to search for the plane that disappeared on March 7.
China has followed that up by activating the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters to join the hunt on Tuesday. The goal of the charter is to enlist space data from 15 member organizations to provide assistance in the case of a “natural or technological disaster.” The charter describes such a disaster as “a situation of great distress involving loss of human life or large-scale damage to property, caused by a natural phenomenon, such as a cyclone, tornado, earthquake, volcanic eruption, flood or forest fire, or by … [Read more]
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