Amazon Releases Gigantic New Kindle
Just a few weeks after unveiling the new 9.7″ Kindle DX, Amazon skips ahead 6 models to bring you the biggest, highest powered e-reader ever conceived: The Kindle 9XXXD. Check it out:
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Rio LED Showerhead: Transforming your Shower into a Dance Floor
Looking to impress your romantic conquests the next time you bring them home? Just invite them in your bathroom to take a shower under your brand new Rio LED showerhead! Featuring 96 computer-controlled LEDs in red, green and blue clusters, Crosswater’s RIO showerhead will turn any regular washing session into a disco dance floor experience. [...]
Physics Geeks: I dare you to get this tattooed on your back!
This tattoo is made from 3 lines of equations: the first represents the Born Oppenheimer Approximation, the second is the equation in the form of a 3-dimensional Schroedinger Equation, and finally, the third is the solution in the form of a Schroedinger Equation. [Via Discover]
2008′s strangest nature discoveries named
What’s weirder than a naturally caffeine-free coffee plant? How about a two-foot long insect? Or perhaps a ghost slug. They are all featured in a list of the 10 strangest species discovered around the world in 2008. The list is the work of the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University, and is [...]
Monday morning links serving: The May 25th edition
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-Windows 7: The Complete Guide (Now With RC1!) We’ve covered Windows 7 from rumor to release candidate, which you can currently download and install for free. Now, it’s enchilada time: Here’s everything of value that we learned about Win 7, packed in a complete, easy-to-read guide. -10 Powerpoint Tips for Preparing a Professional Presentation Presentations [...]
Portable CD Players Make Cheap Space Gyroscopes
In the following video, International Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit demonstrates gyroscopic spin stabilization via the help of several portable CD players which, in microgravity, are spinning and, at the same time, not spinning. [Via Neatorama]
Adobe CS4: Now with Acid!
Hmmmm, What was this an advertisement for, magic mushrooms?
The Geek Guide to the Upcoming Fall TV Season
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] You may recall that last Fall we gave you the heads-up on some new, potentially geeky TV shows. Of course, as a whole that batch didn’t fare so well; Eleventh Hour, Life on Mars, My Own Worst Enemy, and Knight Rider (shocker!) all got the ax. Only two turned [...]
Google Chrome 2.0 Released
Even though the jump from version 1.0 to 2.0 sounds dramatic, Google Chrome 2.0 doesn’t look all that different from its predecessor at first glance. However, the browser now renders pages 25% to 35% faster and is apparently a lot more stable than before. Unfortunately, Mac and Linux users will still have to wait a [...]
Using iPhones to Track Students
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] The headline to this story from a Japenese newspaper is “Aoyama Gakuin U. To Hand Out Free iPhones to Students.” I guess whether you see it that way or as “using iPhones to track students” is kind of a glass half empty or half full kind of thing. But [...]
$1500 Breakdancing Robot
Standing at 40-inches tall, the MANOI PF01 can be your for *ahem* only $1500. [Via BotJunkie]
Apple gossip-mongers keep taking the tablets
There are more rumors this week that Apple is planning a tablet computer – an internet-enabled device with a large touchscreen rather than a separate keyboard. But the excitement appears to be based on who the rumors come from, not the detail behind it. The basics of the rumors have been floating around for some [...]
