It’s like something out of a strategy video game, pumping in resources and waiting for a huge machine to create a building from the ground up. This isn’t your neighbors 3D Printer. Enrico Dini, the designer, has big dreams for his printer. Dini’s machine marks a vital step change from the shoebox-size 3D printing of today, [...more]
A newly-released study suggest that people pick up on accents when first meeting someone even more than they see race. Researchers at Harvard University examined “youngsters” to see who they would align with, someone of their own race, or someone with a similar accent. The study, from developmental psychologist Katherine D. Kinzler and [...more]
By simply oxygenating alcoholic drinks, scientists have been able to shorten people’s drunkenness and all but cured hangovers. The reason behind it is that when one drinks, they aren’t getting enough oxygen from their blood. That’s why drinking water while drinking liquor helps keep one from getting hangovers. The drinks with the [...more]
It’s so simple but so genius, putting the most basic laws of thermodynamics into action to get things moving. The water in the tube heats up, rising upward and out of the top vent. At the same time, the cold water rushes into the heating pipe to maintain constant pressure. The manufacturer claims that users [...more]
You can throw a rock at the internet and hit a big pile of steampunk. But Ron Pippin has taken steampunk-styled art to a new level with taxidermy. Each piece is so incredibly detailed that it looks like his creations could come to life, or back to life as it were. His horse sculpture has [...more]
In a really interesting but slightly confusing study, scientists showed that kindness is contagious — even if it doesn’t make sense. Political scientist James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis of Harvard University published their study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Basically, [...more]
The Wall Street Journal says that Google has been testing a new set-top box to create their own schedule and find videos from around the internet and TV shows. Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a [...more]
Well, after years and years of hype, we’ve finally got word of the first commercially available 3D television. Last thursday, Amazon.com put up for sale Samsung 46-inch and 55-inch TVs have the capability to display 3-D programming. The sets, which are LED backlit and cost $3,300 at the high end, cost roughly 20% more than [...more]
I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. As if the headline and magazine cover didn’t make this perfectly clear, Valve has announced that Portal 2 is heading for gamers this holiday season. To prepare the way for the release, several updates to Portal have been pushed through, including a new achievement, mysterious sound files, and the [...more]
MIT researchers are taking 3D video to the actual third dimension with their prototype system of flying swarms of robot displays. Yup, read that again — I’ll wait. I know!! What?! The video from MIT distills all the pertinent information, but doesn’t capture the scope that something like this could have. Hypothetically, [...more]
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