VT Student Designs Lamp To Last 200 Years
A Virginia Tech student won second place in the Greener Gadget Design Competition with a gravity powered lamp that will work 8 hours a day, 365 days a year, 200 years.
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A Virginia Tech student won second place in the Greener Gadget Design Competition with a gravity powered lamp that will work 8 hours a day, 365 days a year, 200 years.
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For those of you trying to figure out what to buy me for Christmas, I could really use a new computer. So maybe this schedule of CompUSA’s liquidation rates will help you find that special something for this special someone.
gTalk talks with AIM, and it also works through gMail. Awesome.
All I want for Christmas is a NES PC. You can buy it for me here. C’mon, you know you wanna. (Now I want to build one…)
The Russians are coming! Yesterday: Putin. Today Livejournal. Tomorrow: The World?
Polonium Pen. No matter what happens, get one for Kasparov.
There are enough cellphone subscriptions for half the world now.
But although mobile subscriptions have reached the equivalent of 50 percent of the population, this does not mean that half the people in the world now have a mobile phone, since Informa said 59 countries have mobile penetration of over 100 percent — where some owners [...]
Yeah, yeah, I’m only rockin’ out on “easy”, but it’s still rock.
Having succeeded in curing every political ail in America, MoveOn now will do battle with Facebook. Spats to follow. Does MoveOn really care or are they pandering to the 18-25 year old crowd to widen their base?
Series of tubes to clog by 2010? “[I]t may take more than one attempt to confirm an online purchase or it may take longer to download the latest video from YouTube.” Ohs nos! Sounds like… well, the internets as they are right now…
SR-17: Now That Was Some Airplane
The SR-71 served six presidents, protecting America for a quarter of a century. Unbeknownst to most of the country, the plane flew over North Vietnam, Red China, North Korea, the Middle East, South Africa, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Libya, and the Falkland Islands. On a weekly basis, the SR-71 kept watch [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve bothered browsing for records. I don’t have much of a system for listening to vinyl, just an old player with built in speakers that I got at an auction for a whopping 1$US. Given the state of my player, the quality factor just doesn’t jump out like it should. Still, [...]
Embark’s new Facebook application College Planner lets you research colleges and apply to them without ever having to leave Facebook. From CNet News:
Online applications, I suppose, have been thoroughly destigmatized (back in my day, there was still the concern that an electronic application wouldn’t be taken as seriously as a paper one), but it’s still a bit [...]
Rita Flórez writes at GOOD Magazine about how zines continue to florish, even in the face of easier and cheaper means of reaching a wider audience with the Internet. One part stands out to me:
To Pagan Kennedy, creator of Pagan’s Head and author of ’Zine, blogs and sites like MySpace are just the natural extension [...]