Saturday, December 22, 2012
Fantastic Everest
The GlacierWorks project has a fantastic gigapixel image of Everest that is worth looking at. When you zoom in you can see the base camp tents, and even tents on the face of Everest. Does an excellent job of providing scale to the massive mountain, and you can listen to an interview of the project on npr.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Lit Motors
Lit Motors is creating a new kind of self contained electric motorcycle that will stay balanced (even at stop) with the help of internal gyros. Very cool, and you can place your orders now for just under $20k. Slick looking bike, and way better commuter option then the old NgM.
My hope is that Lit Motors will
take their design and create an "Akira" style bike from it. (would be way cooler).
My hope is that Lit Motors will
take their design and create an "Akira" style bike from it. (would be way cooler).
Netflix Ranks Residential ISPs
Special thanks and shout-out to Netflix for positing a listing the performance of residential ISPs for North America. Looks like they will do this monthly and post it on their blog.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Grail Maps Moon
The GRAIL team has just published some interesting info on the moon, including a full density map, and data on the thickness of the crust. The Chronicle notes some of the results of the GRAIL Satellites and so does Wired, with more videos.
Water Robot
The Wave Glider is a robot that just finished a voyage from SF to Australia. The company who manufactures it, Liquid Robotics, uses a cleaver method to propel the craft: a small kite hanging below that moved forward as it's lifted or dropped by the craft over the waves. (which gives it about 2 knots of speed.) NOAA has a page on the unit, and Wired also wrote about it when it made it to Hawaii.
Earth At Night
Cool Picts from the Suomi satellite mapping the earth from the nighttime. Both BBC and Wired have good posts on it.
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