You may think this looks like the surface of the Death Star, but actually it’s a microscopic device that delivers DNA into the nucleus of a single cell. Read more…
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This Mechanical Nano-Lance Is One Hundredth the Size of a Human Hair
Freshly Exhumed (105597) writes “Tomi Ahonen’s newly released 2014 Almanac reveals such current mobile phone industry data gems as: ‘The mobile subscription rate is at or very very nearly at 100%. For 7.1 Billion people alive that means 7.1 Billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide.’ Compared with other tech industries, he says: ‘Take every type of PC, including desktops, laptops, netbooks and tablet PCs and add them together. What do we have? 1.5 Billion in use worldwide. Mobile is nearly 5 times larger. Televisions? Sure. We are now at 2 Billion TV sets in use globally. But mobile has 3.5 times users.’ Which mobile phone OS is the leader? ”Android has now utterly won the smartphone platform war with over 80% of new sales. Apple’s iPhone has peaked and is in gradual decline at about 15% with the remnant few percent split among Windows, Blackberry and miscellaneous others.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated
Self-flushing toilets are nothing new—you can find them in plenty of public restrooms—but they’ve never quite made it into the home successfully. Now, Kohler has an affordable, high-tech solution which means you’ll never have to touch your home toilet again. Read more…
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Kohler’s New Kit Makes Your Toilet Hands-Free For $100
Mat Ames found some negatives in a thrift store in Roanoke, Virginia. After digitizing them, a lot of the photos seemed to belong to a couple’s vacation in Naples, Italy, in 1938. Among all the scenic Italian vignettes there was a creepy surprise—a sinister figure sitting in a car under the sun. It was Adolf Hitler. Read more…
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Hitler materializes in lost family trip photos found at thrift store
Boyers, Pennsylvania, is home to the Iron Mountain storage facility, a former limestone mine that is now the storage site of more than 15 million photographic negatives and prints, all preserved hundreds of feet underground. This documentary , produced by the Hillman Photography Initiative , takes you inside for a glimpse at the collection and the folks who maintain it. Read more…
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Step Inside The Historic Photo Archive Stored In an Underground Mine
It’s happened to all of us. You get back to your car after a delicious brunch or productive visit to the bookstore only to find a demonic little slip of paper tucked under your windshield wiper. “But the meter was broken!” you think. “I’m going to contest this!” you say to yourself. No, you’re not. Read more…
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This New App Wants to Fight Your Parking Tickets For You
Whether you’re a huge geek or a total luddite, you’ve got to be excited when scientists invent a new kind of laser , especially one that stands to replace the one we’ve been using for fiber optic communications for the last 40 years. A team of CalTech researchers did just that . Be excited. Read more…
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This New "Pure" Laser Makes Fiber Optic Networks 20x Better
iOS: The popular Game Boy Advance emulator, GBA4iOS has been updated to version 2.0 and now works without requiring a jailbreak or any crazy workarounds. On top of GBA emulation, you’ll also get support for Game Boy and Game Boy Color. Read more…
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GBA4iOS Emulates Gameboy Advance Games on iOS, No Jailbreak Required
Italian animator Rino Stefano Tabliafierro breathes subtle (and not-so-subtle) life into dozens of classical paintings in his captivating short, Beauty . [ Fair warning: here be nudity, sex, violence and death. Sometimes all at once.] Read more…
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Watch Classical Paintings Come Alive, in Beauty
We’ve seen a lot of standing desks, including those made from IKEA parts, but artist/designer Kelli Anderson managed to make one of the nicest convertible options yet. With IKEA storage furniture, Google Sketchup, and help from some friends, she was able to make this simple and stunning workspace with plenty of room for everything—regardless of how she wanted to work. Read more…
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Build a Motorized Convertible Standing Desk from IKEA Storage Cabinets