Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light.
Forget Kindle DX: I liked the TimesReader a lot—it echoed the experience of a newspaper in a way that exploited the best parts of reading it on a computer. Version 2.0 is better.
Christiaan Postma’s morphing, malleable matchstick clock is pretty amazing, though a tad flawed. A portion of the 150 white lines plastered about the clock’s 160 cm by 160 cm face form a word corresponding to the hour of the day. If it’s three o’ clock, the area where the number three appears on a typical clock would read “three.” As four o’ clock approaches, “three” disassembles and “four” slowly takes shape. There is one omission that could be painful if you’re trying to use it to, well, to tell time. See a time lapse photo of shifty clock in action and the reason for its failings after the jump.
Is there anything Google won’t do? They’ve just announced that you can now search for movie times straight from the Australian Google Homepage. All you need to do is type in a movie title and a location and the first search result back will give you a list of all the cinemas in the selected area playing that film, as well as session times.
If you’re not sure what movie you want to watch, simply typing in movies and the suburb will give you a list of what’s on in the area, as well as a star rating (gathered from online reviews of the film), plus a link to a map of the cinema.
It’s a handy tool for the big G to add to its arsenal of services, and will be especially useful on mobile devices, where you really don’t want to be accessing the content heavy cinema sites. The perverts among you will also be disappointed to learn that it only covers mainstream theatres, not those dingy back alley ones.
[Google]
