Saturday, June 19, 2010
Cars

10 Redesigns Of The Bicycle

You might assume that after some 100 years of refinement the modern bicycle has achieved perfection. Not so! Popular Mechanics has rounded up 10 variations on the common bicycle that could have us pedaling less and coasting farther. [Popular Mechanics]

All Palm Apps Temporarily 50% Off

Woah! From June 18 to July 9, all apps in the Palm App Catalog will be half price. Pretty decent deal. (AU- If you imported a Pre, that is… – NB) [Pre Central via BGR]

Entertainment

Jaws Is Now 35 Years Old, But Still Manages To Give Me Nightmares

I was just reminded what an old movie Jaws actually is. In fact, it turns out that Bruce, the mechanical shark, has been giving young and old scaredy cats nightmares for 35 long years now. [Wikipedia via The Scuttlefish]

Computing

Your Daily Computing, Minus The Computer

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Pop-up ads, Blue Screens of Death, hiding your games of solitaire from your boss – all annoyances that should be familiar to any office-dwelling computer-user. Turns out they’re even more annoying when you remove the computer from the equation.

Geek Out

Hey Yellow Pages, It’s Time For You To Die

“Dear Bell and Yellow Pages. We all have a thing called the internet. Please stop wasting stuff.” We fully subscribe those words. Yellow pages, it’s time for you to die. [Obsolete]

Space Robot Will Repair Ships And Bring Satellites To Fiery Doom

Meet Justin, the space robot. He’s clever, agile, wired to a human for control (of the robot, not the human) and he’s a possible solution for fixing orbiting satellites in the post-Shuttle era. If they’re dead, he can even fire them to their doom.

This Dress Destroyed An Entire VHS Collection

Sure, this girl certainly looks happy in her frilly dress made of recycled VHS tapes, but don’t forget that a precious collection of movies may have been destroyed to create the garment.

Science

NASA Wants To Use A Web Of GPS Sites To Predict Tsunamis

NASA researchers have successfully completed the first demonstration of a prototype tsunami prediction system. Using global and regional real-time data from hundreds of GPS sites, the system can quickly assess large earthquakes and accurately predict the size of resulting tsunamis.

Wi-Fi Data Captured By Google Street View Cars Included Passwords

A while ago, Google told us that its Street View cars accidentally collected some data from our Wi-Fi networks. To make everything better, the company handed the data over to the correct authorities for investigation. Those authorities discovered bad news.

Software

This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

In this week’s unusually Apple-y app round-up: Rabbits, Froggered; lost iPhones, recovered; vuvuzelas, employed for their powers of annoyance outside of soccer stadiums; and more!

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