Sunday, January 10, 2010

Cars

An Entire Country Frozen

6:41PM January 10, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

I spent 48 hours stranded in London Heathrow’s Terminal 5 last Thursday. Hell on Earth. I witnessed about 3000 passengers fighting for luggage, another 3000 waiting for hotel coupons, leaving before the food riots started. All because of this. More »

Cars

This Boeing 747 Flies With A 4.5m Door Wide Open

6:20PM January 10, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

This is Sofia. Like the Italian actress, it will turn heads everywhere it flies. Not because of its cleavage, but because this Boeing 747 has a 4.5m by 4.2m door on it, which opens to reveal a 2.5m telescope. More »

The City Of Ordos Is The Ghost City Of The Future

2:20PM January 10, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

China keeps growing like a giant red octopus fed by nuclear power and monosodium glutamate, a country that keeps spending money in pharaonic projects. Some useful, like the fastest train in the world. And some eerie and worthless, like Ordos. More »

Mobile

HTC Espresso Sense UI Ported To Droid

11:36AM January 10, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Adventurous Droid owners looking for something new can now load their phones up with the yet-to-be-released HTC Espresso’s Sense UI update. If you have a rooted Droid, check out this guide for full instructions. [Redmond Pie] More »

Mobile

Superphone Vs Smartphone: Who Will Win?

9:38AM January 10, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Google calls Nexus One a superphone, thinking that we’re all a bunch of imbeciles who would think it’s better that the rest of the smartphones. After all, “Superphone” beats “Smartphone”, right? Tell that to Batman. More »

Mobile

Smartphone Touchscreen Analysis Tests Finger Fidelity

9:00AM January 10, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

MOTO Development Labs devised a simple method of analysing capacitive touch screens using drawing programs. They put the iPhone, the Nexus One, the Droid and the Droid Eris through the paces and proved not all touchscreens are created equal. More »

Phosphorus: It Sounds Better On Vinyl

8:00AM January 10, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Death Calls the Tune, a project by German designers lab binaer, looks like a regular turntable, until you turn the lights off. But instead of playing “California Dreamin’”, this record displays text messages in phosphorus. More »

A World Record Base Jump From The Top Of A World Record Building

7:00AM January 10, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Base jumping, one of the world’s most dangerous sports, is very cool. The Burj Khalifa AKA the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, is also very cool. The two together? Well that’s just goddamn crazy. More »

Computing

22,000 Acer Laptops Recalled

6:44AM January 10, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued recalls on Acer’s AS3410, AS3410T, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ, and AS3810TZG laptops, all 13.3-inch models, due to bad internal wiring of the microphone. More »

Science

What We Have Here Is One Big-Ass Telescope

6:00AM January 10, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Not only that: a big-ass telescope that you can attach a camera to. More »