U. of Michigan Solar Car Slims Down to Go Down Under – “Only two things matter when building a race car powered by the sun: maximizing efficiency and minimizing weight. Everything else is secondary when the goal is crossing a continent using just enough energy to power a hair dryer….” See also: Purdue students build [...]

New, more powerful Nintendo console for $400? – “For that price, customers will get a 1080p-capable console that’s about the size of Microsoft’s original Xbox 360 and comes with the R700 GPU from Advanced Micro Devices, IGN is reporting. That, combined with a triple-core IBM PowerPC CPU, could make Nintendo’s upcoming console capable of accommodating [...]

A Triumph in the War Against Cancer – “Gradually increasing the STI571 dosage, the physicians observed by around six months that astronomical white blood counts of nearly 100,000 cells per cubic millimeter were falling to less than 10,000, well within normal. Analysis of one of the first patients’ white blood cells found no signs of [...]

iPhone Tracks Your Every Move, and There’s a Map for That – “Your iPhone or 3G-equipped iPad has been secretly recording your location for the past 10 months. Wired.com can confirm that: The screengrab above shows a map containing drop pins of everywhere yours truly has been in the past year….” iPhone Tracker – “This [...]

Badass Electric Motorcycle Gets 185 Miles on a Charge – “Badass Electric Motorcycle Gets 185 Miles on a Charge…” 10 deadly do-it-yourself gadgets – “If you ever took the “don’t try this at home” disclaimer seriously, it has to apply to the following do-it-yourself gadgets. When you go to Lowes and they say “let’s build [...]

Gigantic New SuperOrganism with ‘Social Intelligence’ is Devouring the Titanic (Today’s Most Popular) – “In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic –which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years ago — was being devoured by a monster microbial industrial complex [...]

The 70 kilo single person plane – “Aki Suokas, a Finnish aeronautical engineer, has just finished creating a unique single-seat aircraft this week. The project was completed at Aero Friedrichshafen, and it has been dubbed the FlyNano….” Kohler’s high-tech Numi toilet does it all with a touch for $6,400 – “Tech-toilets are not a new [...]

The Future: Microsoft Demos A Kinect-Driven Armchair – “The Kinect has already powered countless awesome hacks but even a motion-controlled mini humanoid isn’t in the same room as this Microsoft-built armchair. The MIX11 crowd pleaser was built using the upcoming Kinect PC SDK that opens up development over Visual Basic, C++, C#….” Personal Brewery Is [...]

JFK Collision Reviewed – “Federal air-safety investigators are reviewing ground-movement procedures at Kennedy Airport in the wake of Monday night’s collision between an Air France superjumbo jet and a smaller commuter aircraft on a busy taxiway….” See also: Photos: Air France A380 Collision at JFK Airport — PHOTOS/VIDEO – The collision – Air traffic control [...]

Google invests US$168 million in world’s largest solar power tower plant – “Google has chipped in a US$168 million investment in what will be the world’s largest solar power tower plant. To be located on 3,600 acres of land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will boast [...]