Phoenix descent video. Bad Astronomy is on the scene with the phoenix descent video. Phoenix is the next Martian lander which is equipped with devices to look for water and do basic soil element detection. More at NASA Phoenix
Since the announcement of the Google X prize, plenty of company and schools are competing to get to the moon. Team FREDNET - Race to the Moon is an open source collaboration to build a community to accomplish the task. I think it’s a brilliant idea. They have to raise the funding […]
Great blog about working at Atari back in the day. DadHacker worked on donkey kong and lived through the great Atari buy out. Great well written stories about what it was like then along with some priceless wisdom.
No I don’t mean that crappy plastic board. Some students made this Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476 it’s a horse hair board that is a very complex but well done project. It’s worth the read to find out how they did the dart detection alone.
Next big future has an entry titled Rewritable holograms will revolutionize medicine and advertising, it’s about a group at University of Arizona who created a rewritable 3d hologram. It’s apparently pretty fast and they’re working on a full color version. They talk about advertisements and TV, but I wonder about it’s impact on […]
A great article from the New York Times about hobbyist tracking of government spy satellites. It turns out there is a group dedicating to predicting orbits and guessing at function of these top secret satellites.
Fourth undersea cable cut near UAE, suspicions rise Engadget covers the fourth cable cut in the middle east. More and more are growing suspicious. One wonders though, what benefit could one get from cutting these cables. Perhaps making more money routing traffic through your cables.
In a brash display of confusing acronyms, the BBC has reported that MS makes an offer to buy Y!. This has come about because Google, being the big boy in the room, has them scared. MS feels that to better compete with the big G’s online offerings they need to team up […]