Hawaii! You’re supposed to be the state that the rest of America dreams of moving to so we can escape the noise and interwaves of computers and internet. You’re not supposed to be the state that pushes a ridiculous invasion of privacy bill that requires every internet provider to keep track of every single website every person ever visits. What happened to paradise? More »
Nothing can stop these little guys. Panasonic’s Evolta battery-powered robots were already pretty impressive, but now they’re going for a hat trick of endurance-testing awesomeness by taking on Hawaii’s Ironman Triathlon later this Fall. More »
Who wants to ski over snow when you can ski down a gigantic sea wave? That’s what fearless pro freeskier Chuck Patterson asked himself before heading to Jaws, the terrifying wave reef on Maui Island, Hawaii.
Skurfing looks like a lot of fun indeed. [YouTube via Kottke]
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The Thirty-Metre Telescope will finally end in Hawaii, not Chile. When it’s finished in 2018, it will be nine times larger than any telescope today. More »
Even though our Savior-Elect is pushing back the DTV transition, his beloved Hawaii took a test drive this Thursday. The odder-than-expected story includes mass confusion, Grey’s Anatomy, and the rare Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel.
Just in time for the Christmas season, Hawaii will get to turn on one of four new asteroid (and Santa) tracking telescopes, which can scan large swaths of the sky quickly and clearly thanks to a 1.4-billion pixel digital camera with image stabilisation. The first prototype of the project, known as Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), will take pictures three times a month of as much of space as it can see from the peak of Mount Haleakala in Maui. It’ll be used as Earth’s first defence against Armageddon-like planet-rocking meteors.
