Companies have been racing to slim down LED backlights as devices get ever thinner, but the University of Washington may have just beaten everyone to the finish line. Its scientists have developed an LED that, at three atoms thick, is easily the…
After enlightening us with obscure facts about The Simpsons
Word about an Amazon set top box has abounded for many months, with word surfacing in April of last year that a STB was in the works, followed by a … Continue reading
No, this portrait isn’t made up of thousands upon thousands of magnetic sculpture beads. The metallic wonder’s lifelike contours and shimmer comes from painstakingly hand-placing 13,000 variably sized platinum beads.
Court freezes Mt. Gox assets in US, lawyers dig into the case of the missing Bitcoins
Posted in: Today's Chili A US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has just granted a temporary restraining order to freeze all US assets of Mt. Gox, Tibanne KK and Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles as part of an effort to find out exactly what caused the Japan-based…
Do you like Wikipedia? Are you a fan of obscenely wealthy educational institutions with unspeakable power? Then you’ll love the job listing that just went up at Harvard. They’re hiring a Wikipedian-in-Residence. It pays by the hour.
There’s a few reasons why Tetris is one of gaming’s most enduring classics: it’s easy to pick up, hard to master and can be played on just about any platform — including the sides of a building. Drexel University students are rigging the city of…
Today’s slim, svelte computers look great. You, on the other hand, look like a total yutz fumbling around to plug a thumb drive into a USB port that’s somehow perpetually upside down. What if saving your data was as easy as slapping a sticky note on your screen? That’s what a design team proposes with this highly theoretical design for paper-thin, sticky memory cards.
Google is looking to open its first retail store in the United States in New York, according to “retail experts” that spoke to the folks at Crain’s New York Business. … Continue reading