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A bunch of Danish students turned old hair dryers into mobile phone booths. They supposedly think that this is the perfect way to let people make private calls in public. I just plain think they’re trying to ruin Superman.
Superman’s a pretty decent guy. After he falls for Lois Lane, he immediately tries to come clean about his double identity. The only trouble is that for all her looks, Lois isn’t exactly the brightest gal on this planet.
‘Microwaves Are Just Too Slow’ is a new t-shirt over at Threadless this week. Capturing the futility of technology in the face of superheroics, Superman doesn’t have time to waste while Lois messes around with the microwave. What the picture does not show, however, is the less charming, more grotesque result of the morning that Lois “took too long” shaving her legs. Needless to say, she’s a pants-wearer now and Superman will be heating dinner for one for many years to come. [Threadless]
Laugh all you want at the sea-urchiny ship Jor-El used to send Kal-El to earth, but it looks a lot like the new kind of solar-sail array developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki. Instead of the standard solar panels, the Finnish scientists propose long thin strands, just microns in diameter, that stretch out from the spaceship, and use a positive charge to repel heavy positive ions in the solar wind that move at hundreds of kilometers per second.
Can a gadget defeat a superhero? Here’s a question io9 posed: can a lightsaber cut through Superman? We put both our nerdy gadget knowledge and our nerdy superhero knowledge to the test and came up with reasons why it could and reasons why it couldn’t.
