Folding

Folding Installable Home Urinal Provides Class

Nothing says luxury housing like a folding home urinal, which is just what you can get when you pick up one of these from Mister Miser. Not only is it great for people who hate wiping their pee off the toilet seat, it’s great for conservationists as well—it only takes 10 ounces per flush. Ten!…

Stanford’s Folding @ Home has just crossed the petaflop barrier thanks to all those PS3’s cranking away because there aren’t any decent games to play. And for those not versed in science, petaflop means a Marco Materazzi amount of flops. It’s science. [Folding]

Infiniti’s Around View Camera System, When Looking Out Your Window Just Won’t Do

Infiniti’s unreleased 2008 EX35 has lots of fun new features like self-healing paint and automatic folding rear seats. It even has something called the Around View camera system. It basically works just like those backup cameras that started showing up a few years ago, but now you can see to the right, left and front…

PS3 Folding@Home Gets Update 1.2

The latest update for Sony and Stanford’s Folding@Home PS3 project has a couple of new interesting features that fans will enjoy using. There’s PSP Remote Play to control and view folding information on the go, a screensaver mode, protein visualization enhancements, and an “Advanced Mode” that’s only available to people who run Folding@home for more…

Folding Bicycle Helmet is a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen

It is obvious that having your bicycle helmet hanging from your cubicle wall makes you look like a square. That is where the Stash Helmet is stepping in. This helmet collapses in, making it easy to stash and making your head vulnerable to any kind of crash because a folding helmet is not crash-approved (I…

Peter Moore Talks Xbox 360 Folding

Okay, he didn’t specifically talk about the same Folding that the PS3 does, but a similar research application. Moore told Mike Antonucci of The Mercury News: Then if we truly believe that we can in some way marshal the resources of a much larger installed base of Xbox 360 owners, with a processor that’s of…

PS3 Folding Update Coming Mañana, Adds More Speed

Just a quick note about the PlayStation 3 Folding @ Home app that’s been all the rage lately—you know, because there aren’t very many actual games to play on the system. Tomorrow Sony’s releasing an update that both increases folding performance (nice) and improves the user location display map so you can see where you…

Rosetta@Home Distributed Folding Coming to Xbox 360?

Click to viewLast week I asked Microsoft to bring Folding@Home to the Xbox 360 to add a boatload of computing power to the Alzheimer’s fight. Well, Folding@Home isn’t the only distributed protein-folding program around, don’t-cha know. There’s also Rosetta@Home, a program that happened to receive over $10 million from the Gates Foundation for HIV research…

Microsoft, Bring Folding@Home to Xbox, Will Ya?

Hey Microsoft! It’s me, Adam. Do me a favor, will you? Make Folding@Home available for Xbox 360 users. We saw earlier today how awesome the PS3 is at folding, so why not let your sweet console get in on the action? https://gizmodo.com/breaking-ps3-triples-folding-at-homes-computing-power-246664 While 99.999 percent of fanboy fights end up with everyone being a loser…

Reminder: Download the PS3’s 1.6 Update and Folding @ Home App

Hey there. Just a reminder for you PS3 owners: Now that you’re home from work, go download the update version 1.6 that’ll let you do many things, including save the world by running Folding @ Home. You know, it’s that distributed computing project we showed you live screenshots and videos of last Thursday. I started…