“During World War II, the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.”
(barnstormers.com, via the BB Submitterator, thanks Jellodyne)
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WWII airplane factory camouflaged as residential neighborhood
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We’re taking this with a grain of salt, since it applies only to users of the cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium development environment, but it appears that Windows Phone 7 is facing an increasingly uphill battle for mobile mind-share. At this point it should go without saying that a platform lives and dies by its developers and, according to Appcelerator, they’re growing less and less interested in creating apps for Microsoft’s smartphone OS. Only 29-percent of devs responded to the company’s quarterly survey that they were “very interested” in putting their wares on WP7, a fall of 7 points from last quarter and far less than market leaders Android and iOS. News is even worse for RIM, which saw a fall of 11-points in developer interest for BlackBerry, and now trails the folks from Redmond. Again, this survey is based only on the responses of 2,760 developers using a particular product, so we’d refrain from calling the results incontrovertible. Still, it reinforces something that even a casual observer could discern: BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 have a tough row to hoe. Two more charts after the break.
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If anyone reads books, it’s probably you guys. But according to some recently-gathered (and frankly startling) statistics, you’re a dying breed. To wit:
• One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
• 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
• 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• 57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
I can relate to that last one — I buy lots of books (or check them out from the library) but a significant portion of them I only get about halfway through — or less, if they don’t hold my interest. But that stat about 42% of college grads never reading another book? That’s a little frightening. One thing I’m not certain about, and isn’t mentioned in these statistics, is how they stack up over time — but I’ll bet you money that more than 42% of college grads kept reading books in the 1950s, 60s, 70s.
So what’s to blame? A shift in popular entertainment? The dominance of the screen over the printed page? Are books just less interesting than they used to be? Or are we, as a society, getting … dumber?
What do you think?
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If you have a modern Android phone, you know the pain of turning on your phone at 5 PM only to realize it’s deep in a low-battery coma. Here are the simple manual changes, and clever automatic tweaks, that will keep your phone awake and useful for far longer. More
What do you do when you’ve already helped invent terrifying monsters for Syfy’s original movies? What do you do next, with that kind of creativity? If you’re Brian D. Smith, writer of Alien Express and Flu Bird Horror, you go into the ice cream business. With science. More
I just found this photo over at Planetary Folklore which reveals the circuit board planning scheme of an urban area of Southern California.
Sea squirts might not look like much…they’re simple, hermaphroditic creatures that barely even have a brain. But they have a particular knack for activating the enzyme telomerase, which protects DNA from degradation. That unexpected talent could help fight human aging. More
When we covered Tokyo-based Minebea’s so-called COOL LEAF keyboard in March last year, we said that Minebea was “considering” to commercialize the beautiful flat input device at some point in the future. Fast forward 13 months, and we have a press release (in English) in which the company says the keyboard will actually be rolled out in Japan on May 13.
The COOL LEAF is an entirely flat mirror-like touch panel, comes with 108 keys (Japanese) and can be connected to Windows machines via USB. Minebea says that a layout version for English, German, French, and Italian is to follow in July (and a Mac version “soon”).
The device is sized at 383×128×17mm and weighs 620g.
Minebea plans to sell the COOL LEAF for around $245. Ask online stores like the Japan Trend Shop or Geek Stuff 4 U if you’d like to import one.
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Time for your daily dose of iPhone rumors. This one comes by way of AppleInsider who picked up a story published by the Japanese newspaper Nikkan that states Sharp will manufacturer the screens for the iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 name is important to note as it is not the so-called iPhone 4S rumored for sometime this year, but rather the true next-gen iPhone.
This display technology allows for thinner devices and longer battery lives thanks to its ability to mount the display drivers directly onto the glass substrate rather then featuring separate components. The system is also more energy efficient than current methods, which when that efficiency is combined with a thinner display, leaves Apple engineers more room for an even larger battery that will last extra long. Of course these sorts of trade arrangements aren’t publicly disclosed so there’s no way of confirming this report until Apple announces it themselves (that won’t happen) or the iPhone 6 drops.
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Report: Apple To Use Sharp’s Next-Gen p-Si LCD Panels In The iPhone 6