Day: September 30, 2013

Engineering Space Tech

NASA’s tiny glowing plane shows the future of flight in fluorescent oil

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As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick NASA built a toy-sized model of a hybrid wing plane, coated it in fluorescent oil, and put it in an ultra-fast wind tunnel. Why? Because it’s a federally funded center housing some of the world’s brightest minds, and that’s the kind of thing it gets to do. This image shows a 5.8 percent scale model of one of NASA’s plane prototypes coated with a glow-in-the-dark liquid before being blasted…

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Google Fiber Compared To Broadband By Putting A Middle Age Guy In A Bath Robe And Soaking Him With A Firehose

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Provo, Utah is getting Google Fiber in the next few months. So how do you explain to the people of this small city north of Salt Lake what that will mean for their Interent service? You get a guy to wear a bath robe and stand next to a raised swimming pool with a garden hose, symbolic of broadband service. Then you drench him with a fire truck deluge gun and two…

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Application Business Mobile

Spike Kickstarter Project Puts Accurate Laser Measurement Hardware Right On Your Smartphone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Smartphones have pretty good cameras, but nowhere near good enough to do the kind of high accuracy measurement work that’s required for engineering or remodelling projects. Enter Spike, a new smartphone attachment designed by ikeGPS, a company that specializes in building fit-for-purpose laser hardware for use in surveying and 3D modelling.The Spike is version of their solution that attaches to the back of a smartphone and integrates directly with…

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Gmail Android app may get ads soon, APK teardown reveals.

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos Google’s Gmail app for Android has remained an ad-free sanctuary, but code uncovered by Android Police in an APK teardown of the application’s latest versionhints that circumstances might change. Buried within the the program is a new library called “ads,” along with messages, functions and classes mentioning advertisements. What’s more, a “ShowAdPreferenceManager()” function routes users to the ad settings page for their very own Google account. Its not clear if sponsored bits will make it…

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Article Games

Timothy Leary-developed video games found in New York Public Library archive

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala  The New York Public Library recently discovered a treasure trove of video games in its archives created by psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary. Over 375 floppies (talk about flashbacks) containing a “dozen or so” games developed by the LSD-advocate in the ’80s — some are playable via emulation — are now on display in the library’s rare books and manuscripts division, according to The New York Times. The good doctor’s digital works had…

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