An anonymous reader writes “The space age has filled Earth’s orbit with all manner of space junk, from spent rocket stages to frozen bags of astronaut urine, and the problem keeps getting worse. NASA’s orbital debris experts estimate that there are currently about 19,000 pieces of space junk that are larger than 10 centimeters, and [...]
Finally! Palm has announced that they will begin to roll out the webOS 2.0 SDK — in a limited capacity — to developers starting today. The company isn’t talking about what webOS 2.0 will bring to consumers, but they are touting some of the major overhauls and additions that developers can look forward to. Some [...]
Pogoplug today announced a cloud printing feature and start of shipments for its wireless adapter and Pogoplug Biz model. Original post by Adam Pash
Humans produce 10 billion liters of urine every day. That’s a lot of raw material with which to power the world. HowStuffWorks.com blogger Sarah Dowdey covers some ideas for converting waste into energy. Original post by CmdrTaco
disco_tracy writes “Long a favorite of lovers and honeymooners, a Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in the wired age. A resort based on a game called ‘Love Plus,’ encourages players to develop long-term relationships with virtual women.From the article: ‘Local souvenir shops in the resort town have caught [...]
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, there are a large variety of iPad stands on the market. There are metal stands, wood stands, plastic stands, and cases that convert into stands. Green Figure makes the iHolder stand, which allows you to convert your iPad into a tiny iMac twin. Pyramid Distribution offered to send an iHolder [...]
egil writes “Chris Fenton built his own fully functional 1/10 scale Cray-1 supercomputer. True to the original, it includes the couch-seat, but is also binary compatible with the original. Instead of the power-hungry ECL technology, however, the scale model is built around a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600 development board. All software is available if you want [...]
