Saturday, October 17, 2009

Everyone Gets A Room With A View In Europe’s First Rotating Hotel

4:00PM October 17, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

How annoying is it to get to a hotel and find that you’re facing land instead having an ocean view? At the Šolta Island Resort that won’t be an issue, because it rotates to give everyone a nice sight. More »

Trash Cans Get Pimped Out For Charity

3:20PM October 17, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

My trashcan is a metal, woven-looking thing filled with crumpled up ideas and 48 gum wrappers. Makes me wish I had one of theses 35 customised, artist-designed trashcans being put into auction for charity instead. (Particularly the cactus one.) More »

Science

LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful

2:40PM October 17, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Sometimes it’s the unseen that’s the most terrifying. In the case of RFID we think there’s plenty to dread, but never actually looked at those scary, scary waves. Thankfully someone at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design did. More »

Science

An Asteroid Could Have Killed Us Tonight

2:27PM October 17, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Rejoice, because you are alive: An asteroid named 2009 TM8 just passed only 347,500km from Earth, racing at 29,230kph. That’s closer than the moon. But don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of opportunities to panic, says the JPL: More »

Gadgets

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

2:00PM October 17, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

Baby Gets Hit By Train, Strolls Away…There’s a Hole In My Heart That Can Only Be Filled By—Stem Cells?…Beware Bobbies Bearing BlackBerries…Science Figures Out Why We Break Out Bubbly More »

Science

This Is What Your Spine Looks Like When The Placebo Effect Kicks In

1:20PM October 17, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Neuroscientists have conducted a study showing spinal-cord neural activity when individuals were convinced that their pain would be alleviated by a cream treatment. This activity shows where the Placebo Effect occurs and how gullible volunteer test subjects can be. More »

Software

EyeTV iPhone App Allows For Streaming Over 3G Through Built-In Backdoor

1:15PM October 17, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

The EyeTV iPhone app is supposed to allow you to stream media from a computer to an iPhone over a Wi-Fi connection, but it comes with a little bonus that must’ve slipped past Apple’s approval process: streaming over 3G. More »

MIT’s Autonomous Helicopter: What If Big Dog Could Fly?

12:40PM October 17, 2009 | Chris Jacob

The latest Micro Air Vehicle from MIT does an incredible job of balancing itself in-air. Not to mention that the helicopter models its surroundings so well it could probably fly over to the fridge and make you a sandwich. More »

Software

Put Your Android Lock Screen To Work With FlyScreen

12:00PM October 17, 2009 | Chris Jacob

There’s a ton of unused space on the Android lock screen. Sure, there’s a nice big clock and notifications appear as needed, but couldn’t it be doing something more useful? It can, with FlyScreen. More »