All of a sudden, it’s the 23rd Century. The UK’s government innovation board has just approved funding to begin implementing an all-in-one train/bus/subway/airline pass in 2014. And yes, the actually named it MultiPass after the thing from the Bruce Willis movie. Read more…
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London Will Soon Have Fifth Element Style MultiPass For Public Transit
The Architect’s Journal reports that Zaha Hadid will be the architect of Iraq’s future parliament building, confirming rumors that have swirled for months. The supremely expensive building is the London-based architect’s third planned project in the country where she was born. Read more…
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$1 Billion Iraqi Parliament Will Rise Over Saddam’s Half-Built Mosque
Google Play Music has always sort of been available on iOS through your favorite HTML 5-enabled browser app, but today, the service is available as a native application . Read more…
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The Google Play Music iOS App Is Finally Here
By unleashing a genetically modified virus onto microscopic electrode wires, researchers from MIT have shown that the performance of lithium-air batteries can be significantly improved — a remarkable breakthrough that could revolutionize the way our electric devices are powered. Read more…
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Scientists Use a Mutated Virus to Build a Better Battery
Google Wallet and iOS’s Passbook have helped reduce the number of loyalty, debit, and credit cards we need to carry around every day. But they haven’t eliminated them altogether. The creators of Coin want to further slim your wallet with a multi-function card designed to emulate and replace the debit and credit cards you still need to carry. Read more…
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This Single Card Wants To Replace Your Entire Wallet Full of Plastic
Using a powerful new software program called the Scientific Exoplanets Renderer (SER), astronomer Abel Mendez Torres has produced a stunning set of new images — including a global map — showing the distant dwarf planet of Pluto in unprecedented detail. Read more…
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The surface of Pluto like you’ve never seen it before
Everyone loves talking about 3D printing , but now it’s really hitting the big time: Rolls-Royce has decided that it’s going to use the technology to help make its airplane engines. Read more…
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Rolls-Royce Is Going to 3D Print Its Airplane Engine Parts
As the pace of robotic integration into the modern workforce continues to increase, automatons are finding their way into an ever wider variety of industries. Already making an impact in the agricultural sector , automatons are now poised to perform the task of driving massive, house-sized mining trucks—a job once held only by highly-skilled and highly-paid human drivers. Read more…
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These Autonomous Dump Trucks Let Mines Operate Around the Clock
Rebecca Klee and Siouxsie Wiles’s “Living Light” is a 3D printed hollow squid filled with bioluminescent bacteria. They’ve thoroughly documented their build-process, and the project is really shaping up to be gorgeous. From the lab to the park ( via O’Reilly Radar )
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Glowing 3D printed squid filled with bioluminescent soup
A few weeks ago, drips of lost footage filled with cut takes from Return of the Jedi began appearing online. Now you can see all 30 minutes of the recovered footage, compiled into a single video. Read more…
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Watch all 30 minutes of recovered Return of the Jedi footage