Fun Stupid Gadgets

A good list (with pictures) of stupid things people have decided that we need. Like this easy to wear video helmet device. Well done!
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Nice Table

You’ve heard and seen a lot about the Microsoft Surface technology over the past few months. Here is a pretty nice video summary from Popular Mechanics via Brightcove with all the bells and whistles and of course glass on display. Thanks to Steve Ratner for this one.

High Resolution Image of Pollen

As someone with allergies, I hate pollen. I even hate it on my car. So that I can focus my hatred, I love this picture. These are the culprits. Pictures of pollen from a variety of common plants: sunflower, morning glory, hollyhock, lily, primrose, and castor bean. The image is magnified [...]

Biologists Are Making Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells

From the New York Times
By NICHOLAS WADE
In a surprising advance that could sidestep the ethical debates surrounding stem cell biology, researchers have come much closer to a major goal of regenerative medicine, the conversion of a patient’s cells into specialized tissues that might replace those lost to disease.
The advance is an easy-to-use technique [...]

Powering 4000 Homes: One Wind Turbine

This turbine produces 6 MW of power, it’s the world’s most powerful turbine, and it has innovative features like a gearless drive system. This article talks about the evolution of wind turbines around the world… usually NOT in the United States. What is wrong with us?!?
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First of a kind underwater restaurant

This innovative restaurant is the first of its kind in the world, and is part of a US $5 million re-build of Rangalifinolhu Island, one of the twin islands that make up Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. There is some joke about “see” food here, but I’m not sure how to word it. [...]

How Big Is Everything?

You can’t have everything.  And if you did, where would you put it?  This web site is quite engaging.  You can travel from the outer reaches of the universe to the smallest bits of everything, and compare sizes along the way.  It will make you feel small, and sometimes big I suppose…but it puts everything [...]

Sick of Driving? This Robot Car Takes the Wheel

Very cool advances coming in the world of automobiles. This time not in terms of emissions (although those are coming too) but in terms of automated function. A 39 year-old Stanford professor says he’s built the Model T of self-driving cars, in this article from Business 2.0 Magazine.
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Earth seen from 4 billion miles away

As posted on futilitycloset.com, this is essentially a convergence of an observation made by the late Carl Sagan a few years ago and the Al Gore movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Gore references Sagan’s “small blue dot” observation in support of the idea that the earth is a unique and precious resource. Here is [...]

50 Things We Now Know (That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Version

From JEFF HOUCK at The Tampa Tribune  Published: Dec 26, 2006
You know how it is.
You go through life thinking you’ve got your head wrapped around the world and all of its knowable information.
Then one day you read that since 2005, scientists have discovered more than 50 new species of animals and plants on the Southeast [...]