This Taco “Belle” Dress Looks Deliciously Beautiful, but is Sadly Inedible

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This fantastic Taco “Belle” dress was made by artist and fashion designer Olivia Mears using hand-painted card stock, tissue paper, and felt for the tacos, and the flowers and ruffles were made using unused Taco Bell wrappers.

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Here’s What Happen When You Dissolve Antacid in Space [Video]

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Astronauts on the International Space Station dissolved an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water, and captured images using a camera capable of recording four times the resolution of normal high-definition cameras. The higher resolution images and higher frame rate videos can reveal more information when used on science investigations, giving researchers a valuable new tool aboard the space station. This footage is one of the first of its kind.

[ReelNASA]

7 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Sailor Moon!

Anime Vice just released their video showcasing 7 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Sailor Moon.

One of which was scrubbing the Japanese show of all gay references before it aired in the US.

All LGBT themes were removed from the show when it was dubbed for TV in the US, even going so far as to change a lesbian couple (Sailor Neptune & Sailor Uranus) into “cousins”. Those girls who weren’t the only characters whose sexuality was censored, either. Season One’s villainous Zoicite and Malicite were male lovers in the original Japanese version, but American audiences saw Zoicite changed into a female character.

Also removed from the US dub: violence, female body parts, and even death.

[Anime Vice]

New 3D Memory Technology 1000 Times Faster Than Flash

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A new “three-dimensional” form of computer memory is said to offer permanent storage while being a thousand times faster than flash-based technology. Makers Intel and Micron believe its main use may be as an extension to RAM in computers.

The 3D XPoint technology is going into production now and the first units should be tested by corporate customers later this year.

The key difference is that, unlike flash-based systems, 3D XPoint doesn’t need transistors. The design makes it possible to change a single bit of data by itself, rather than rewrite an entire section. That cuts down on wasted rewriting time, thus speeding up access.

This is possible because of the Jenga-like structure shown in the picture above. The green sections in the image are the actual memory cells (which represent the 1s and 0s) while the yellow sections are known as selectors and physically change the state of each memory cell from 0 to 1 and back again.

The selectors are controlled by varying the level of voltage that passes through them. That’s done using positive and negative charges in the wires, shown in the picture in grey. The key is that the alternating layers of the wires are perpendicular to one another. In turn, that means that the device can use two wires to control one selector, and one selector only.

As well as the increase in speed, the reduction in redundant rewriting should, in theory, increase the operating time of the storage before it fails.

The big drawback is increased cost compared with flash-based storage, meaning 3D XPoint probably won’t be viable for ordinary memory sticks and card use any time soon. Instead it will most likely be used as what’s effectively a form of cache, holding data that’s most likely to need to be transferred into RAM.

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While 3D XPoint is slower than RAM, it has the advantage of keeping data even when the power is cut off. For that reason, the makers think another possible use is to hold key start-up data such that it can be transferred into RAM almost instantaneously when a device is switched up, drastically speeding up the boot process.

[Via: BBC News]

Nerd Craft: Make Batman Bath Bombs at Home with Harley Quinn [Video]

Today, Angie from The Screen team teaches us how to create bath bombs at home with a few simple ingredients.

What you’ll need:

-8 oz. baking soda
-4 oz Citric Acid
-4 oz. corn starch
-4 oz. Epsom salts
-3/4 tsp water
-2 tsp. essential oil
-2.5 tsp almond oil or coconut oil or other light oil
-A few drops food coloring
-sugar flower (the kind you use for decorating cakes)
-Clear Plastic Ornament

Step 1:
Dump all of your dry ingredients into one big bowl and stir.
Step 2:
Place wet ingredients in a another bowl and mix.
Step 3:
Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir. Mixture should feel like wet sand when finished so add more oil if you need.
Step 4:
Put mixture into ornament and let it sit for the day before taking it out.
You can decorate your bath bomb bomb by adding food coloring to your mix.

[Screen Team]