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Simple Router Software Could Boost Public Wi-Fi Throughput By 700 Percent

Using public Wi-Fi is a hit-and-miss endeavor: sometime’s its perfect, at others it’s bogged down so much as to be worthless. Fortunately a team of researchers has hit on a solution that can improve throughput by 700 percent —and because it’s software-based, it won’t even need any new hardware to have us all contentedly online. More »

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Simple Router Software Could Boost Public Wi-Fi Throughput By 700 Percent

Open Source Book Scanner Uses a Household Vacuum To Turn the Page

In an effort to streamline the process of scanning hundreds of millions of titles, Google Books engineer Dany Qumsiyeh has designed a $1,500 automated scanner from sheet metal, dissected electronics, and a household vacuum. It can chew through a 1,000 page odyssey in about 90 minutes, and you’re welcome to build your own since Qumsiyeh has made his Linear Book Scanner open source . More »

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Open Source Book Scanner Uses a Household Vacuum To Turn the Page

Google Is Finally Installing Gigabit Fiber In Kansas City Homes

It feels like we’ve been hearing about Google Fiber in Kansas City forever. Though a few people have gotten to use the blazing-fast service, Google has only been accepting applications for the service for most of the city. Well today, the Google Fiber installations begin in earnest . More »

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Google Is Finally Installing Gigabit Fiber In Kansas City Homes

Impatient Lazy People Can Now Track the Progress of Their GrubHub Orders

Following a similar service from Dominoe’s Pizza, GrubHub has a new feature called “Track Your Grub.” As the name implies, you’ll now be able to track your order every step of the way. More »

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Impatient Lazy People Can Now Track the Progress of Their GrubHub Orders

Don’t Call It a Dump Truck: This Massive Mineral Hauler Transforms Into an Overland Train

When massive, open-pit mines like the Minera Escondida —in Chile’s Atacama Desert—need to pull millions of tons of minerals out of the ground each year, they rely on fleets of huge, “Ultra-Class” haul trucks. The ETF Haul Train, however, pulls four times the minerals of these stone-toting behemoths with just one driver. More »

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Don’t Call It a Dump Truck: This Massive Mineral Hauler Transforms Into an Overland Train