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The mountains of Titan are formed by the moon slowly shrinking

The mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan defy easy explanation, but readings from the Cassini probe offer a fascinating new possibility: Titan is slowly releasing heat and shriveling up, causing mountains to form on its surface like wrinkles on a raisin. It’s a geological process unlike that of any other icy body, but that’s the most…

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Sony PlayStation Move Cannot Kill Dracula

As the Wii has shown, motion gaming means additional safety instructions and demos will accompany consoles as they ship to consumers, as will humorous Photoshops lampooning their kid glove nature. Kinect and PlayStation Move are no exception. [Androsko via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/how-to-use-playstation-move-5613008

Tech News Jack Loftus

Mass nostalgia and kielbasa golems: what scifi can learn from The Expendables

The Expendables is big loud action movie in which Naugahyde-hewn war gods turn junta lackeys into goulash for the better half of 103 minutes. It’s screamingly ordinary, but the mass nostalgia it hawks is a genre cinema paradigm. What’s the Stallone-directed Expendables about? A team of mercenaries goes to South America, tries to overthrow a…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

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Lumigon T1 Sports Android Froyo and a Facelift

The suspect vaporware-cum-reality Android phone Lumigon T1 will run Android Froyo, its Danish manufacturer has revealed. The news arrived alongside a more official-looking render of the final product, seen here. https://gizmodo.com/not-vaporware-after-all-lumigons-android-phones-will-l-5598466 The design is different from what we saw last month, but not by much—the changes worth noting most are that the physical home, return…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Human-powered car can reach 60 mph by turning passengers into four-cylinder engine

The HumanCar is the souped-up, street legal version of an old railroad handcar. The four-seater can reach 60 mph when all four passengers are cranking – and there’s an electric battery to keep it going when you need a break. This particular model is the HumanCar Imagine PS, the latest invention of engineer Charles Samuel…

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The spaghetti mystery that baffled a Manhattan Project scientist

Why do strands of spaghetti so rarely snap into only two pieces? Take a look at the solution to a mystery that, no fooling, baffled famed physicist Richard Feynman. Take a spaghetti strand by both ends. Slowly and smoothly bend it farther and farther until it snaps. Count the pieces. There could be three pieces,…

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WiMAX 2 Standard Scheduled for Final Approval This November

WiMAX isn’t even remotely ubiquitous in these United States, but that hasn’t stopped progress on its successor, the aptly named WiMAX 2. In the near future, November perhaps, WiMAX 2 will be finalized as a standard, meaning—theoretically—its 1Gbps download speeds would become available when WiMAX 2 hardware is added to the network sometime in 2012.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Aspiring Rebel Pilot Bags Life-Size TIE Interceptor

Nerdy juxtaposition, courtesy a costumed kid, life-size TIE Interceptor, and the wonderfully retro-tastic Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando. Cameos by George Lucas, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher Hoth’d the cake. [DVICE]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Britax: Like a Super-Secure Recaro Racing Seat for Your Toddler

Twenty-five-odd years ago or so, I seem to remember my parents strapping me into their cars using duct tape, a plastic cell and a prayer. Today’s kids, with their Britax superseats, seem positively enveloped in comfort and safety. The buy-in ain’t cheap ($200 to $310, depending on model), but if the features boasted in the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Tiny robot could reveal the Great Pyramid’s most hidden secrets

The Great Pyramid of Giza has been extensively studied (and looted) since its construction 4,500 years ago. But some tunnels are too small or too fragile for human archaeologists to explore – that’s when they send in the robots. The Great Pyramid has two finished, massive chambers placed one on top of the other. The…

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Alpha the Robot Shoots His Inventor (1932)

During the autumn of 1932 a group of curious onlookers assembled in Brighton, England to see inventor Harry May’s latest invention, Alpha the robot. The mechanical man was controlled by verbal commands and sat in a chair silently while May carefully placed a gun in Alpha’s hand. May then walked across the room to set…

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When Seaplanes Dream [This post is a duplicate from an old post]

Truth be told, I can’t figure out if this is a seaplane’s dream, or nightmare. I mean, cool or not, who voluntarily puts sharks in an active landing zone? [Oh My! Look at This Gosh Darn Boat! – Thanks, Richard]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Toshiba Libretto Hands-On Details Dual-Screen UI, Virtual Keyboard Layouts

Toshiba’s dual-touchscreen Libretto is still waiting for its limited release, but the folks at Wow-Pow were apparently able to secure a localized English version early from Japan. It’s still an expensive curiosity, but the virtual keyboard layouts are admittedly clever: https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-libretto-w100-is-a-full-windows-7-dual-screen-c-5568252 The rest of the demo doesn’t seem very snappy, at times, which is somewhat…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Space Elevator Turns 50

So I have this running bet with myself that the “Singularity” (man’s union with machine, et al) will arrive on a space elevator (a near mythical delivery system to space). In other words: Pessimism. Yuri Artsutanov is more optimistic. Who, you ask? Surely, you’ve heard of Yuri Artsutanov, the inventor of the space elevator concept?…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Majestic spiral galaxy is located in the cosmos’s most crowded corner

This beauty is the spiral galaxy NGC 4911, located a third of a billion light-years away in the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the most tightly packed regions in the universe. This image, taken by the Hubble telescope, is a marvel simply in how much detail it captures in such a distant object. According…

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Is this the face of the buzziest Green Lantern?

Here’s concept art of Bzzd, the small insectoid Green Lantern whose tiny size belied his massive willpower. In the comics, Bzzd was partnered with Mogo, the sentient planet. Hopefully their team-up will make it to the movie intact. Comic Book Movie has posted this illustration of Bzzd, who’s apparently GL director’s Martin Campbell favorite Green…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

BP Sand Shark Hunts Tarball Prey On Devastated Gulf Coast Beaches

Meet the Sand Shark. Unveiled this week on the sands of Alabama, this imperfect tool is perhaps the best weapon yet against the oily disaster BP has wrought against the Gulf coast. Updated. Wider than traditional sand combing rigs, BP’s Sand Shark is perhaps the most effective beach cleaning device implemented in the fight to…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Wizkids planning two new Star Trek games

A revitalized Wizkids was at Gen Con last week showing off some new and upcoming games. Drawing the most attention were a pair of prototypes for two very different, very interesting Star Trek games planned for 2011 release. Star Trek: Fleet Captains is a competitive tactical game of space combat. Each player selects a fleet…

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Call of Cthulhu distilled into 120 ditzy seconds

The Brothers Grim and Grimy have translated H.P. Lovecraft’s classic tale of mind-bending cosmic horror into two minutes’ worth of 21st century layman’s terms, replete with OMGs and allusions to Lost. [Spotted on Neatorama]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The mountains of Titan are formed by the moon slowly shrinking

Sony PlayStation Move Cannot Kill Dracula

Mass nostalgia and kielbasa golems: what scifi can learn from The Expendables

Acer Test Page

Lumigon T1 Sports Android Froyo and a Facelift

Human-powered car can reach 60 mph by turning passengers into four-cylinder engine

The spaghetti mystery that baffled a Manhattan Project scientist

WiMAX 2 Standard Scheduled for Final Approval This November

Aspiring Rebel Pilot Bags Life-Size TIE Interceptor

Britax: Like a Super-Secure Recaro Racing Seat for Your Toddler

Tiny robot could reveal the Great Pyramid’s most hidden secrets

Alpha the Robot Shoots His Inventor (1932)

When Seaplanes Dream [This post is a duplicate from an old post]

Toshiba Libretto Hands-On Details Dual-Screen UI, Virtual Keyboard Layouts

The Space Elevator Turns 50

Majestic spiral galaxy is located in the cosmos’s most crowded corner

Is this the face of the buzziest Green Lantern?

BP Sand Shark Hunts Tarball Prey On Devastated Gulf Coast Beaches

Wizkids planning two new Star Trek games

Call of Cthulhu distilled into 120 ditzy seconds

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