Not my favorite color, but this shade looks interesting…
Lexus has apparently done the same trick to make this special blue paint.
Not my favorite color, but this shade looks interesting…
Lexus has apparently done the same trick to make this special blue paint.
Happy Holidays to everyone. Now a quick warning from the New York Times and the FBI. Internet connected toys are a threat to privacy and the security of children. They should NOT be purchased for, or owned by, children.
A Cute Toy Just Brought a Hacker Into Your Home (New York Times)
As I have said before, not all technology is good.
Wow. It still works, what an amazing machine.
After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters
Wow
And, weird…
Weird. Adding asphalt to lithium batteries decreased their charge time to just a few minutes, and they lasted longer.
Cool
Fascinating article…
Man Who Saved the World From Nuclear Armageddon in 1983 Dies at 77
SpaceX has teased a photo of the full spacesuit and, of course, it looks cool.
Feed spiders carbon nanotubes and get webbing that could hold a human. Wow!
Scientists have spiders producing enhanced web that can hold a human
Nanomachines are microscopic robots that can perform surgery from inside a patients body. They have long been thought to be an effective tool against cancer. Now we are getting close.
Nanomachines that drill into cancer cells killing them in just 60 seconds developed by scientists
What? Wow. Living Computers?
Why is this a technology from a Swiss company and not an American company? Because we are still pretending climate change isn’t real.
This Machine Just Started Sucking CO2 Out Of The Air To Save Us From Climate Change
In the early 1980’s HBO made an intro piece to be played before the beginning of a film. This was before computer animation. The result was pretty amazing and gave the network a sense of quality. This is how it was done.
The seed bank designed to protect Earth’s biodiversity in case of an Armageddon-type event is flooding thanks to global climate change.
Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
A Homebuilt 200W LASER Bazooka
Take note: This young man has a Bachelor’s degree Chemistry and advanced classes in Laser optics, this is very dangerous!
The world’s largest tunneling machine, Big Bertha, finally finished its two-mile journey under the city of Seattle. The project is to make a tunnel for a local freeway. That’s one big tunneling machine!
Even cooler, the lead researcher is 94!
94-year old Lithium-Ion battery inventor unveils new ultra-efficient glass battery
Today congress has voted to eliminate the privacy protections the FCC has put in place to prevent your Internet Provider from spying on you and selling the information. This will not make the Internet better.
The House just voted to wipe away the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections
New Congress, and a new threat to online privacy. Seems like we were just fighting about this with the other party.
GOP senators’ new bill would let ISPs sell your Web browsing data
At least if he/she is riding on Boeing’s new CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. I can’t wait to see Space X’s new spacesuits.
Wow.
Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating metallic hydrogen. In addition to helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the nature of matter, the material is theorized to have a wide range of applications, ranging from room-temperature superconductors to powerful rocket propellant.
An 80-year-old prediction may come true: Scientists turn hydrogen into a metal
EDM (electrical discharge machining) cuts through thick plates of steel within +/- 0.0001″.