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Space Pics of Alaskan Volcano Eruption Are Amazing Amanda Wills,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:07:39 +0100

Space Pics of Alaskan Volcano Eruption Are Amazing
Amanda Wills, mashable.com

An erupting Alaskan volcano shot ash plumes so high into the air that astronauts on board the International Space Station were able to capture the activity in crisp, detailed photographsPavlof Volcano — located in the Aleutian Arc about 625 miles…

Charted: Extraterrestrial Driving Records Adam Mann,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:16:13 +0100

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...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:12:44 +0100

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,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:16:56 +0100

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,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:59 +0100

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...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:07:09 +0100

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,...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:06:00 +0100

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...

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:48:32 +0100

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...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:52:15 +0100

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...

Thu, 09 May 2013 01:05:04 +0100

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…

Special FX Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92 Lance Ulanoff,...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:24:47 +0100

Special FX Pioneer Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92
Lance Ulanoff, mashable.com

Your summer of special effects-laden blockbuster films owes a debt of gratitude to film pioneer Ray Harryhausen. The stop-motion-animation legend died on Tuesday, according to a Facebook statement from The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation.Even…

Physics teacher adopts Google Glass, gives students a glance at...

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:37:17 +0100

Physics teacher adopts Google Glass, gives students a glance at CERN (video)
Jon Fingas, engadget.com

When Google asked what we’d do if we had Glass, it was no doubt hoping we’d produce some world-changing ideas. We now know at least a few exist, courtesy of physics teacher Andrew Vanden Heuvel. He’s long been hoping to use the wearable tec…

cnet: Google Glass: It’s like Google on your face. Check out...

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:07:58 +0100

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Google Glass: It’s like Google on your face.

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Google gets people ready for Glass with new how-to video By Adi...

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:01:07 +0100

Google gets people ready for Glass with new how-to video
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Google’s Project Glass is still exotic, futuristic, and distant — it’s available only forextremely early adopters, including “creative individuals” who were let in through a Twitter and Google+ contest. But a year or more ahead of it…

Berg’s “Inception”-Like Map of NYC Gets A Reprint By Kyle...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:48:16 +0100

Berg’s “Inception”-Like Map of NYC Gets A Reprint
By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com

Since its debut, Here and There has found its way into MoMA’s permanent collection, and maybe even inspired one of film’s most memorable visual effects.
There’s no shortage of interesting cartography to be found on the web, but rarely do y…

Could this be the Google Android Smartwatch? Andrew Wooden,...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:33:25 +0100

Could this be the Google Android Smartwatch?
Andrew Wooden, t3.com

Rumours of a Google Android Smartwatch are circulating the web – could it look like this?
If rumours are to be believed, most of the big tech firms are working on a smartwatch - not least of which is …

Mad Men in Space? Writers Pitch Show About NASA in the...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:59:08 +0100

Mad Men in Space? Writers Pitch Show About NASA in the ’60s
Rachel Edidin, wired.com

Florida Today reported Monday that writers from the hit TV series Mad Men are pitching a new show: a look at the early days of the U.S. space program through the eyes of the journalists who covered it.

New ‘Star Wars’ films to be released every summer,...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:50:28 +0100

New ‘Star Wars’ films to be released every summer, beginning with ‘Episode VII’ in 2015
By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com

Are you ready for a barrage of Star Wars films? Disney hopes so: according to multiple outlets, the company has just announced at CinemaCon that it will be releasing a new film in the universe every summer, starting in 2015. W…

OBLIVION - New Featurette Tells Post-Apocalyptic Earth...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:44:49 +0100

OBLIVION - New Featurette Tells Post-Apocalyptic Earth Backstory
Joey Paur, geektyrant.com

Universal Pictures has released a new 21-minute in-depth behind the scenes featurette for Joseph Kosibski’s Oblivion. The featurette shows a ton of spectacular new footage from the film and gives us some backstory on how the…

Renault’s Trippy New Electric Concept Car Looks Like A...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:21:32 +0100

Renault’s Trippy New Electric Concept Car Looks Like A Firefly
By Rose Pastore, popsci.com

Welsh design star Ross Lovegrove helped create the nature-inspired Twin’Z city car.
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French carmaker Renault and Welsh industrial designer Ross Lovegrove teamed up to create this LED-covered, lightning-bug-looking…