Charted: Extraterrestrial Driving Records
Adam Mann, wired.com
NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the various distances traveled by wheeled machines on other worlds.

Charted: Extraterrestrial Driving Records
Adam Mann, wired.com

NASA has just released this cute chart depicting the various distances traveled by wheeled machines on other worlds.

Sony’s 13.3-inch e-ink paper prototype shown off at education expo in Japan (video)
Jamie Rigg, engadget.com
Ear­li­er this week, we learned of Sony’s plans for a 13.3-inch e-ink slate with sty­lus sup­port pitched at stu­dents, and now Dig­in­fo has caught up with the pro­to­type device at the Edu­ca­tion­al IT Solu­tions Expo in Japan. The A4-si…

Sony’s 13.3-inch e-ink paper prototype shown off at education expo in Japan (video)
Jamie Rigg, engadget.com

Ear­li­er this week, we learned of Sony’s plans for a 13.3-inch e-ink slate with sty­lus sup­port pitched at stu­dents, and now Dig­in­fo has caught up with the pro­to­type device at the Edu­ca­tion­al IT Solu­tions Expo in Japan. The A4-si…

Star Trek crew to Hangout with ISS astronauts
by Philippa Warr, wired.co.uk
The crew of the SS Enter­prise and the astro­nauts aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion will be meet­ing up via Google Hang­outs to chat about how work on the ISS trans­lates sci-fi con­cepts into real­i­ty.The Hang­out is sched­uled for…

Star Trek crew to Hangout with ISS astronauts
by Philippa Warr, wired.co.uk

The crew of the SS Enter­prise and the astro­nauts aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion will be meet­ing up via Google Hang­outs to chat about how work on the ISS trans­lates sci-fi con­cepts into real­i­ty.

The Hang­out is sched­uled for…

Could This Be the Future of Google Glass?
Stan Schroeder, mashable.com
Google Glass is still in its infancy, and its current capabilities are quite limited, but most would probably agree that the possibilities it opens are endlessHow cool it would be if Glass could show us a GPS route as we rode a bike? What if you…

Could This Be the Future of Google Glass?
Stan Schroeder, mashable.com

Google Glass is still in its infancy, and its current capabilities are quite limited, but most would probably agree that the possibilities it opens are endlessHow cool it would be if Glass could show us a GPS route as we rode a bike? What if you…

2001: A Space Odyssey explained on a 1968 child’s menu
Meredith Woerner, io9.com
Want your kids to get into Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey but not sure how to explain all that complicated space stuff? Don’t worry — Howard Johnson’s, circa 1968, has you covered. “Hey Molly, what do you want to be when YOU…

2001: A Space Odyssey explained on a 1968 child’s menu
Meredith Woerner, io9.com

Want your kids to get into Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey but not sure how to explain all that complicated space stuff? Don’t worry — Howard Johnson’s, circa 1968, has you covered.Hey Molly, what do you want to be when YOU…

Pump on ISS replaced during emergency spacewalk
by Duncan Geere, wired.co.uk
A pair of Amer­i­can astro­nauts have fixed an ammo­nia leak on the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion by replac­ing a pump dur­ing an emer­gency space­walk.Chris Cas­sidy and Tom Marsh­burn donned space­suits and clam­bered out of the frag­ile…

Pump on ISS replaced during emergency spacewalk
by Duncan Geere, wired.co.uk

A pair of Amer­i­can astro­nauts have fixed an ammo­nia leak on the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion by replac­ing a pump dur­ing an emer­gency space­walk.

Chris Cas­sidy and Tom Marsh­burn donned space­suits and clam­bered out of the frag­ile…

What’s the most stylish dystopia of all time?
Charlie Jane Anders, io9.com
Everybody knows that dystopias have the best fashions and the coolest designs. Whether it’s the stark paleness of THX-1138, the totalitarian chic of Nineteen Eighty Four, the orgy cool of Brave New World or the priests-on-prozac…

What’s the most stylish dystopia of all time?
Charlie Jane Anders, io9.com

Everybody knows that dystopias have the best fashions and the coolest designs. Whether it’s the stark paleness of THX-1138, the totalitarian chic of Nineteen Eighty Four, the orgy cool of Brave New World or the priests-on-prozac…

Satellite eye on Earth: April 2013 – in pictures
Eric Hilaire and Toby Chasseaud, guardian.co.uk
Deforestation, fires, flooding and melting ice are among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month

Satellite eye on Earth: April 2013 – in pictures
Eric Hilaire and Toby Chasseaud, guardian.co.uk

Deforestation, fires, flooding and melting ice are among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month

This is the Modem World: The Great Computer Cold War of 1982
Joshua Fruhlinger, engadget.com
Each week Joshua Fruh­linger con­tributes This is the Modem World, a col­umn ded­i­cat­ed to explor­ing the cul­ture of con­sumer tech­nol­o­gy.I’ve known my friend Jeff since I was 2 years old. He was one year ahead of me in school, but…

This is the Modem World: The Great Computer Cold War of 1982
Joshua Fruhlinger, engadget.com

Each week Joshua Fruh­linger con­tributes This is the Modem World, a col­umn ded­i­cat­ed to explor­ing the cul­ture of con­sumer tech­nol­o­gy.

I’ve known my friend Jeff since I was 2 years old. He was one year ahead of me in school, but…

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