“Dexter,” “Breaking Bad” and “Walking Dead” Shoes

Yep, I’m going to kick myself for buying these.  Tauntr is selling these bad boys for $85.  I must have the “Breaking Bad” shoes.  I’ll apologize to myself later.

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Epic Skyrim Glitch [Video]

Hmmm, aren’t bears supposed to go into hibernation when it gets cold, not break dance?

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Happy Birthday Texts!

It’s crazy to me that the text message is already 19 years old.  It makes me wonder what technology we have now, that’s currently being developed, that will become a part of everyday life in the near-future.  I’m hoping it’s some kind of teleportation device.  Or anti-gravity boots.

According to Wikipedia, the first SMS message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from a man named Neil Papworth using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset.

The text of the message was “Merry Christmas”.

The technology behind the SMS text is 27-years old, having first been developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. It was then, eight years later, that the “Merry Christmas” text was sent.

tumblr lvmv1vvPJK1qeaqak The Text Message turns 19 years old todaySince then, SMS technology has come a long way to dominant the current mobile messaging scene. In 2010, SMS texts generated $114.6 billion in revenues worldwide, but many believe it’s just the beginning. Experts estimate that mobile networks will earn $726 billion from SMS text messaging over the next five years. So while smartphone applications like GroupMe and services like Apple’s iMessage start to make up larger slices of the text messaging field, SMS is not giving up its mobile messaging throne anytime soon.

via The Next Web

 

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Strange Water Physics

When a droplet impacts a pool at low speed, a layer of air trapped beneath the droplet can often prevent it from immediately coalescing into the pool. As that air layer drains away, surface tension pulls some of the droplet’s mass into the pool while a smaller droplet is ejected. When it bounces off the surface of the water, the process is repeated and the droplet grows smaller and smaller until surface tension is able to completely absorb it into the pool.

[Via io9]

Fetal Telepathy?

“In 2003, [Ricky-John Spencer from the University of Western Sydney] collected clutches of wild eggs, split them into two groups, and incubated them at either 25 or 30°C. He reunited the eggs, and found that they still hatched together. Despite the developmental boost that the hotter half received, the colder ones still emerged in time with them. They either accelerated their development, or they hatched prematurely.

“To work out which, Spencer’s student Jessica McGlashan captured pregnant Murray River turtles and allowed them to lay their eggs in a lab. Just as Spencer did previously, she split the clutches into two groups. In some cases, she incubated both groups at 26°C; in others, she incubated one group at 26°C and the other at 30°C. She reunited the eggs a week later and monitored the metabolism of each embryo by measuring how fast its heart was beating, and the amount of carbon dioxide it gave off.

“McGlashan found that the embryos sped up their development if they were incubated with advanced peers, who had enjoyed a week at 30°C. In the weeks before hatching, their heart rates went up and they exhaled 67 per cent more carbon dioxide than turtles whose siblings had all stayed at 26°C.”

via NPR

Geek Hierarchy: Because Terminology Matters [Picture]

George Takei posted this a few days ago on his Facebook page… and I just had to share it with you guys!

[George Takei]