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Wristwatches of the Future
These Pixel Watches from ODM use electro-luminescent technology to display the time. From 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., the watch also performs an on-screen scrolling animation every hour. Available in white, brown or pink for $160. I can see Roy Batty consulting one of these. “Hm, 4 p.m. Time to die.” Link (via SciFi Tech)
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He Does Have a Point
Scott Adams mentions the new planet that Myst wrote about on his blog, and comments: The scientists named the planet Gliese 581 C, evidently to showcase the reason scientists can’t get laid. Science fiction writers all over the Earth are muttering, “Fuck you very much.” No one is going to buy a book titled “Escape…
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Hawking to Go Weightless
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will go on a “zero-gravity” flight on a refitted jet today. The jet creates the experience of microgravity in 25-second bursts of steep plunges over the Atlantic Ocean. “For someone like me whose muscles don’t work very well, it will be bliss to be weightless,” Hawking told The Associated Press in an…
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Can the Discovery of the Phantom Zone be Far Behind?
Geologists in Serbia have found a new mineral with the chemical composition sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. Upon searching the Internet for the chemical formula, one of the researchers found that this is virtually the same composition as Kryptonite. I…have nothing more to say about this.Link
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For Sale: Large Rock, Ample Water, Ready To Move In (In 50 – 75 years)
Astronomers have uncovered what could be the first Class M planet outside our solar system, and it’s in our own neighborhood too! Discovery News has the details, but it all boils down to “Location, Location, Location!”
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Ladies Home Journal Y2K Predictions
In December 1900, the Ladies Home Journal published a list of predictions for the year 2000. Some of them are pretty accurate, some, uh, less so. It’s interesting to reflect that when these predictions were made, the Wright Brothers’ first flight was still three years away, let alone all the other technological advances since then.…
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o/~ Here Comes the Sun… o/~
Sometimes these titles just write themselves….Astronomers have found that the looping magnetic fields along the Sun’s corona carry magnetic sound waves in a similar manner to musical instruments such as pipe organs. The frequency of the sound waves is a couple of orders of magnitude below the human hearing threshold, but researchers have recorded some…
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I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing…No, Really
One of the grotesques on DC’s Washington National Cathedral is Darth Vader. I’ll give you a moment to boggle before I continue. In the 1980s the Cathedral sponsored a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the facade. One of the winners was 13-year-old Christopher Rader, who submitted a drawing of “this futuristic representation…
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US Military to Test Internet Router in Space
The Department of Defense is working on an Internet Routing In Space (IRIS) initiative, which plans to deliver military communications through a satellite-based router. This will eventually benefit civilian communications as well, allowing packets to be routed via satellite the same way that TV and phone signals are routed now.Link
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Agreed
A post on Slumbering Lungfish that made me wince slightly.