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Science
Sharp Triple Layer Solar Cell Sets New Efficiency Record
7:17AM Chris Jacob | The gauntlet has been thrown down yet again in the solar cell efficiency arms race. This time Sharp comes up with a cell that can harvest 35.8 per cent of available sunlight. More »
Random Stuff
Prankster Gets Verizon’s CEO Private Address, Visits Him To Protest His Privacy Policies Using A Megaphone
10:38PM Jesus Diaz | John Hargrave tracked down Verizon CEO’s private address and mobile phone number. Then he went to his home—megaphone in hand—to ask him to stop Verizon’s lousy privacy policies. The video is quite funny and his message is clear: More »
Music
11:00PM Dan Nosowitz | The Gadgets: Panasonic’s SL-850 quadraphonic turntable, featuring the unusual 4.0 discrete-channel format for stereo-besting sound. (As the brochure says, “In the real world, sound comes from literally every direction.”) Plus, GE’s 4-Channel Receiver, with a built-in 8-track cassette player. More »
Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable And GE 8-Track Receiver
11:00PM Dan Nosowitz | The Gadgets: Panasonic’s SL-850 quadraphonic turntable, featuring the unusual 4.0 discrete-channel format for stereo-besting sound. (As the brochure says, “In the real world, sound comes from literally every direction.”) Plus, GE’s 4-Channel Receiver, with a built-in 8-track cassette player. More »
Vehicles
Crazy Jumpsuited Man Sets New Speed Record for Jetpacks
9:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Like some kind of cross between NASCAR and Evel Knievel, Eric Scott of Jet Pack International recently set a new speed record for jetpacks: A surprisingly-fast 98kph. More »
Design
Retro Wallpaper Celebrates the Golden Age of Hip Hop
2:50AM Mark Wilson | Turntables, keyboards, cassettes and boomboxes? Yes please. This designer wallpaper by Aimée Wilder costs $US140 for a diminutive 27″ x 15′ 70cm x 4.5m) roll. Then again, that’s enough probably paper to make your point. [aimeewilder via Unplggd] More »
Music
How To: Calibrate Your Turntable For the Best Possible Sound
2:00AM John Mahoney | Did our Listening Test week light up the fire inside to dust off some old records and whip a turntable back into shape to start enjoying them again? It’s really easy, and cheap. Here’s how. More »
Music
How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
5:20AM John Herrman | Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we’ve been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we’ve done it to date: More »
Vehicles
Tesla Roadster Travelled 390km on A Single Charge
1:45PM Dan Nosowitz | A Tesla Roadster finished the entire, 390km-long Rallye Monte Carlo d’Energies Alternatives without even draining its battery. More »
Computers
Obama’s Plan to Digitise Medical Records Draws Criticism from Doctors
7:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Digitisation of medical records is one of Obama’s most prominent talking points: he claims modernising records will save lives and billions of dollars at the same time. But some doctors aren’t taken with the idea. More »
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