Five Ways to Print Your Own 3-D Objects – “3-D printing has been out of reach for most of us. Now thanks to do-it-yourself types all that has started to change…”

EveryScape plans to put interiors on the map – “The popular Internet service Google Maps can guide you to the Upstairs on the Square restaurant in Cambridge. Google Maps’ Street View feature will even show you a picture of the street outside the restaurant. But Google Maps can’t show you the interior. A new mapping service from EveryScape Inc. of Waltham does just that…”

Life on the fringes of U.S. suburbia becomes untenable with rising gas costs – “Suddenly, the economics of American suburban life are under assault as skyrocketing energy prices inflate the costs of reaching, heating and cooling homes on the distant edges of metropolitan areas…”

The Thin Laptop Wars – “The neatest trick: Unlike Apple’s 3-pound MacBook Air, the 2.4-pound Toshiba includes the optical drive that the MacBook Air lacks while cramming in 128 gigabytes worth of storage, thanks to the world’s largest capacity flash memory-based hard drive. All this, and it’s just one hundredth of an inch thicker than the Apple…”

MIT Students Develop Revolutionary Solar Dish That is Hot Enough to Melt Steel – “The MIT team believes that their lightweight, inexpensive device holds the promise of revolutionizing the power industry and providing solar power to even remote regions…”

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1791/86/ – “The new wind farm will be built off the coast of Delaware, about 12 miles off the coast. That should decrease the visual distraction significantly as well as help capture those roaring atlantic breezes that average about twice that of on-land wind speeds. The field will be composed of about 150 turbines and will produce enough electricity to power about 100,000 homes at peak output…”

Hating Your Cellphone Company – “For good reason, the wireless phone industry is ranked as one of the worst in the U.S. for customer satisfaction. Technical support calls can take hours with endless transfers from one customer rep to another. Then there’s the endless pile of service activation and cancellation fees…”

Mercedes’ Amazing CL63 AMG – “Want the speed of a Porsche but the luxury of a sedan? If you can afford the CL63 AMG, this is the car for you…”

StealthVue aids reliable surveillance in the age of baseball caps – “It’s frustrating when sophisticated surveillance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance technology is circumvented by robbers who use a not-so-sophisticated baseball cap to shield their face…”

Japan to Cut the Cost of Solar 50% Creating Greater Self-sufficiency – “The Japanese government will introduce tax credits and subsidies to encourage household use of solar energy starting next year. The details will be determined in August when the budget is created. The incentive will decrease the cost of a solar photovoltaic system by an estimated 50% within 3 to 5 years…”

Victoria’s Circuit – “Then one day recently I had an idea. As I rode public transportation to the office, my messenger bag slung uncomfortably across my chest, I thought, “Why not put the girls to work?” Human-powered devices are showing up everywhere, from Rotterdam’s sustainable dance floor to human-powered gyms in Hong Kong. The time seemed perfect—perhaps even overdue!—for a bra that could harness the untapped power of breast motion…”

A Boeing 757 did not hit the Pentagon – “I would like to give you my input as to the events on September 11, and why it is a physically provable fact that some of the damage done to the Pentagon could not have occurred from a Boeing 757 impact…”

Researchers develop neural implant that learns with the brain – “University of Florida researchers have taken the concept of brain machine interfaces a step further, devising a way for computerized devices not only to translate brain signals into movement but also to evolve with the brain as it learns. This is a huge step forward to transhuman and technological singularity goals. The computer and the user co-evolve to learn to work together more effectively…”

Will a Computer “Symbiote” be Implanted in Future Human Brains? – “Will future humans have computers implanted in their brains? Researchers are developing a neural implant that can think independently—just like the human brain does. Creepy? Yeah. Cool? Definitely. Scientists at the University of Florida aren’t just creating a neural implant that can translate human brain signals, but one that can act independently to increase its efficiency and synergy with the brain as it learns new things…”

Bizarre Properties of Glass Revealed – “Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the bizarre properties of glass, which behaves at times like both a solid and a liquid. The finding could lead to aircraft that look like Wonder Woman’s plane. Such planes could have wings of glass or something called metallic glass, rather than being totally invisible…”

Lightweight, Metal-Like Glass Examined – “Airplane wings, golf clubs and engine parts made of glass alloys could be a step closer following new research into the chaotic structure of glass…”

Heat Methods of Male Contraception – “These methods derive their effectiveness from the simple fact that the testes must be several degrees cooler than normal body temperature in order to maintain proper spermatogenesis. It is still a mystery why this is so, but one biological advantage has been hypothesized. Since men with high fevers are infertile until they are well again, newborns will then be more likely to have healthy fathers, thus increasing infant survival rate…”

More Wiimote projects – a brain dump – “So, I figured I would make a post about the projects that I would probably make videos of if I had more free time. The content of this post has been in the talks that I’ve been giving, but I’m just sitting down to write it out now for my trusty blog readers…”

Report: US must have universal gigabit broadband by 2015 – “A new report from a DC telecom law firm claims, as many other recent reports have, that the US is falling behind when it comes to broadband deployment, and it says that aggressive action is needed to keep the country competitive. What’s different about the new report is just how aggressive its recommendations are: 100Mbps of “affordable” broadband available to all Americans by 2012, with 1Gbps service coming online by 2015….”

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