October 2009
'Explicit' personal mobility vehicle allows safe... →
Heavy traffic on city roads has forced designers and manufacturers to look toward smaller vehicles. Designed by Kenyon Yeh, the “Explicit” is a personal mobility vehicle that allows brisk as…
Scientifically Haunted Room Shows That Ghosts Are... →
Researchers wanted to prove that those who believe in paranormal experience are completely nuts, so they scientifically haunted a room using ultrasound waves and stuck people in there….
An Unobtrusive Javascript Calendar &... →
After the success of Vista-like Ajax Calendar, dev.base86 has recently released Calender Eightysix. It is completely built from scratch with pure javascript, making use of some of the superb…
New Apollo 17 Landing Photo Clearly Shows Lander,... →
It’s blurrier than old MySpace snapshots, but it’s there as expected. The Apollo Lunar Modules and the US flag left behind at the Apollo 17 landing site has been caught in a close-up…
Comic for October 31, 2009 →
Confirmed: CERN Is Just a Huge Half-Life Level... →
Plenty of people have given CERN and Half-Life’s Black Mesa research facility the This Thing Looks Like That Thing treatment, but this tour of the facility’s deepest bowels is just too…
The Computer that Made the Internet [Retromodo] →
This is Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pinching the nipples of the Interface Message Processor, a ruggerized Honeywell DDP-516 Minicomputer. This box is responsible for what you are reading now,…
Spider PC Concept, breaching the gap between... →
Displayed at the Taiwan Broadband Show, the “Spider” from Ericsson is a PC concept for the year 2020 that comes with a pico-projected screen, a laser keyboard and a memory card reader built…
Google Wave Federation: Why it Matters →
According to The Next Web, the Google Wave team is getting ready to open up its servers for federation. This announcement may come as early as today. The Google Wave we see today is only one…
90 degrees: Vertical parking system parks three... →
With the increasing number of vehicles in cities, parking is becoming a major problem in urban environments, knocking a blow to the auto industry. Addressing the issue, Brazilian designer Baita…
Jirsa Loft in Iowa by Substance Architecture →
Substance Architecture has designed a 2700-square-foot loft apartment as one linear living space that contains public areas and a series of smaller more private spaces, including a master…
Microsoft Retail Store PCs Will Be Crapware-Free,... →
No one likes uninstalling bloatware, trialware, and craplets from their freshly unboxed PCs. Microsoft finally acknowledges this by skipping the unnecessary third-party software in Microsoft…
If My Brain Ran Windows, This Would Be How My Task... →
The caption on the image is “me before coffee,” but I think the resource allocation could be appropriate for any blood-caffeine level. And right now it definitely describes exactly how I feel….
Toyota Engineers Unique Flower Species to Absorb... →
What do you do when the “eco-friendly” car you’re manufacturing is actually horrible for the environment to manufacture? Re-engineer nature, obviously! Toyota, who’s Prius is easy on the…
Google Music Search Turns Your Results Pages Into... →
As rumored, Google Music Search (aka Onebox) is a music search feature that appears inside Google search that will give you not a little 30-second clip, but a full song play. Basically,…
Windows 7 Loads Faster Than 7000 Dominoes [Windows... →
Toppling 7000 dominoes to commemorate the launch of Windows 7 definitely riled up the employees at Microsoft’s Hyderabad center in India, but they probably didn’t think it through in…
Sinister Sabre Warrior Drone Will Kill Us All One... →
This is Lockheed Martin’s Sabre Warrior, a next-generation plane that looks like something Batman and Darth Vader would fight over for. Instead, some good-turned-evil computer will…
October 30th →
wpf text blurry blues? →
Have you hated how WPF has blurry text depending on what happens? Well, .Net 4.0 and WPF 4.0 fixes that. If you try out a version after Visual Studio 2010 beta 2, you can use these…
Casa Q in Spain by Asensio Mah and J.M. Aguirre... →
This home, which was completed in May of this year, sits in Northern Spain near the coast. It looks like shipping containers are sitting atop one another in this contemporary, asymmetrical…
Use Facebook Connect on Your Site with Mu →
Facebook Connect is way to make your application more social. With it you gain access to: Identity: the user’s name, photo and more. Social Graph: the user’s friends and connections. …
Facebook Announces Roadmap for Developers →
Today, Facebook has published a developer roadmap outlinining upcoming relevant changes and a rough timeline for each. Changes include developer access to user emails, more prominent app…
Google Wave Use Cases: Education →
Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform. It was announced at the end of May, released as a ‘Preview’ product shortly after and 100,000…
Amazon Speeds Checkout with New PayPhrase... →
Online retailer Amazon.com has just announced a new checkout system called “PayPhrase” which speeds up the process of making online purchases by allowing shoppers to enter a unique phrase and…
Use Facebook Connect on Your Site with Mu →
Facebook Connect is way to make your application more social. With it you gain access to: Identity: the user’s name, photo and more. Social Graph: the user’s friends and connections. …
Skin Maternity Clothing by Marisol Rodriguez →
These quirky yet elegant maternity dresses by Marisol Rodriguez take origami and simple methods of cutting and folding to the next level. They are designed to transform themselves as the…
Flexi Bath →
A flexible, foldable bathtub for kids. Flexi Bath is the same size of an average baby/children’s bathtubs and does not contain any harmful materials. Even the packaging is made from recycled…
SeaMonkey 2.0 released →
The SeaMonkey Project The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by…
Amphibian pavilion sails to create awareness about... →
Conceived by Antoine Damery, the amphibian pavilion from Peddle Thorpe Architects (PTA) is a floating exhibition space that adjusts to varied space needs and can be sailed to distance places as…
How to make IT staff less angry – Part One:... →
All the clever people who study such things tend to tell you there are three aspects to job satisfaction. These can be sliced and diced in various ways and given different titles and descriptions but broadly, the three things people look for in a job are a good environment, interesting and/or fulfilling work, and good compensation. The purists/optimists will tell you each is equally important and...
Announcing Final Releases of Platform Update for... →
Today we are announcing the final release of the Platform Update for Windows Vista. The Platform Update for Windows Vista features a set of runtime libraries which add support for new technologies…
Scareware launched from blog advertising →
According to the BBC Technology website, visitors to the technology blog Gizmodo have been warned that they may have picked up malware. According to the BBC, the security firm Sophos analyzed the…
LHC Roars to Life, Begins Task of Destroying... →
Christ, didn’t we kill this thing already? Repairwork on the Large Hadron Collider is making serious progress, with a test run of particle beams already completed. Scientists are hoping to…
Similar Images Search Graduates from Google Labs →
Back in April, Google launched a new search feature in Labs that allowed users to find similar images. Initially rolled out for select images only, the capability is now being rolled out for…
Windows7 Trigger Start Services – Part 2: Building... →
In the last post Windows 7 Trigger Start Services – Part 1: Introduction, we introduced Windows7 Trigger Services as a great way to optimize your services to have better performance and improved…
Facebook and World Peace: Really? →
If Facebook were a country, it would be the 3rd most populous country on earth behind China and India - but now Facebook thinks it can play Switzerland and lead a push for world peace. I’m not…
Fake TV camera trend takes over elementary school →
This fascinating piece, from This American Life (animated by Chris Ware), tells the story of an elementary school where a couple of kids made a TV camera out of cardboard and tempera…
Pirates May Have Captured Around-the-World... →
Paul and Rachel Chandler are a couple to envy. Still very much in love in their mid-fifties and spending their days liveblogging sailing trips around the world. Sailing trips through…
Over 80% Of You Had a Smooth Windows 7 Install... →
Given Microsoft’s rocky past with installs, I expected a lot of negative responses to yesterday’s question about your Windows 7 experience. However, over 80% of you encountered little or no…
Dry Erase Paint by IdeaPaint →
Remember when your parents told you not to draw on the walls? The complete opposite can be told now with this dry erase paint from IdeaPaint. One coat of this durable and cost-effective paint…
Android 2.0 Official: It's the Android We've Been... →
This is it: The official video laying out Android 2.0’s new features, to go along with 2.0 support hitting the SDK today. Man, Android 2.0 is nice. Highlights of Android 2.0…
World's smallest model train set? - seems likely! →
Wow! David K. Smith has made what seems a shoo-in for the title of World’s smallest model train -
This is a Z scale model of an N scale train layout—a model of a model. And it works. I…
San Diego Floating Airport Would Be A City Of Its... →
San Diego is in desperate need of an new airport, but no one wants it near their land. The so-obvious-that-you’ll-slap-your-forehead solution? Don’t build it on land, the ocean’s right there….
Beijing Expansion Looks Like High Tech Eden... →
They may have some of the dirtiest city skies in the planet, but at least the Chinese authorities are doing something about it. Check out the green, beautiful urban planning for the future of…
I Want to Have Twins Just to Get Them These... →
So cute, those two and their t-shirts. Mine would say cmd + c and cmd + v, however. [The Daily What]
In Addition to Making You Look Like a Douche,... →
Bad news, people who carry their phones on your belts: according to Turkish researchers, you may be at risk for reduced hip bone density. Yes, the study, published in the Journal of…
The Automated Curse Generator →
It was 1999, and Brian’s company’s new online marketing venture was finally off the ground and making a profit using an off-the-shelf conglomeration of bits and pieces of various content…
WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) →
[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. You can follow me on Twitter at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the…
Crafting a 'SuperFoam' Chair →
I’m digging Rich Gilbert’s SuperFoam chair, especially the construction video. I’ve always wondered how you could form bubbles in silicone, and now I know: balloons! Any other…
How-To: Fake fire baskets →
Very detailed build thread from Haunt Forum user beelce describing the construction of these awesome simulated fire baskets from mostly dollar-store stuff—cheap baskets,…