NASA’s Messenger spacecraft started taking detailed pictures of the surface of Mercury recently from an altitude of just 125 miles and captured a boatload of pretty great photos, including this one. Small, hot, and looking remarkably similar to the Moon, Mercury makes for some nifty pictures, although I won’t deny that I’m disappointed that there aren’t [...]
As if the 800m-tall Burj Dubai wasn’t tall enough, developer Nakheel has announced plans for an inner-city harbour development project, the centerpiece of which would be a building over a full kilometer in height.
A spokesman for Nakheel - the same company responsible for The World - cautiously commented on the project, according to the Daily [...]
October is the PERFECT time to tell you about the SmartSwim bikini from Solestrom. Why? Because with the weather getting chilly, fast, it’ll be months before you see a sight like this in real life. The fact that the beads on the bikini ties and bra color-change to indicate the amount of harmful UV rays [...]
Well, the mad scientists across the pond fired up the LHC while we were sleeping and lo and behold, it did not, in fact, create a black hole and destroy Earth in the process. No doubt legions of bunker-dwelling, tin hat-wearers are scratching tin right about now. But I for one am not surprised. Because [...]
3D solid model printers aren’t new, but they’re also generally pretty small. Otherwise seeming like replicators (from Star Trek, not Stargate), they can “print out” a solid object much like an inkjet printer prints out text or images, creating layer by layer of an object until it’s done. More after the clicky thingie…
I’m assuming that there’s a reason that Seagate bought Maxtor. I’m also assuming that reliability wasn’t that reason. In the last four years, I’ve had 5 Maxtor One Touch, One Touch II and One Touch III drives fail, including a One Touch III that was doing nothing except clicking when I got into the office [...]
I know there are those of you out there who think that everything Google does is perfect. But I have to say, I kinda have to wonder why Google did this. I’m sure their new Chrome browser, which you can download the Beta of here, fits into some long-terms strategy or something, but as a [...]
Sometimes “duh” is the only thing you need to say, such as in this case. Why nobody thought of this before now, and before Leviton, is curious at best. They’ll run ya about $15 at a hardware store or $5-$10 on eBay.
Leviton via Toolmonger via Boing Boing Gadgets
Target will pay $6 million in settlement dollars due to a class action lawsuit with the National Federation of the Blind over accessibility to Target’s website. It seems the court didn’t appreciate Target’s rebuttal to the lawsuit, which was “What difference does it make?! How are they even gonna find a computer in the first [...]
It was the ‘woot’ heard round the world. The IE Blog confirmed that IE8 will include a mode called InPrivate that prevents IE from saving data about the sites you go to while in that mode. In other words, it lets porn lovers love their porn without having to remember, when the boss walks in [...]