Noel Rubin designed the user interfaces for Star Wars Episodes 1 and 3, and now he’s put together a sizzle reel , showing just how awesome the computer screens on those ships really looked. Read more…
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Amazing Footage: The Spaceship User Interfaces of Star Wars
We’re smack-dab in the middle of winter and baby, it’s cold outside (or so I’ve heard; I live over in LOL ). I imagine that it might be tough to find the beauty in yet another day of sub-zero temperatures, but for some enterprising creative types, bone-chilling frost is more than a major nuisance—it’s the stuff that musical dreams are made of. Read more…
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8 Otherworldly Songs Performed On Instruments Made Of Ice
France’s equivalent of DARPA has a lofty task for you. The National Research Agency is challenging engineers to design and build an autonomous oil-drilling robot that can operate continuously for six weeks at a time. And they’re willing to pay you handsomely . Read more…
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France Will Pay You $5 Million to Invent an Oil-Drilling Drone
Given the United States’ intolerance for copyright infringement and the piraters that propagate it , you’d think Uncle Sam would be a little more keen on making sure that his men were playing by the book themselves. As it turns out, a whole mess of computers running unlicensed, illegal copies of Windows 7 belong to none other than the US Army itself . Read more…
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A US Army Base Is Running a Bunch of Illegal Windows 7 Copies
If archaeology was once about digging through dirt, it is increasingly—like almost every other profession—about programming computers. Bernie Frischer, an Indiana University “archaeo-informaticist, ” has came up with a new theory about two Roman monuments. His finding are based on 3D reconstructions of the monuments using video game technology and calculations of the sun’s position 2, 000 years ago. Read more…
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Archaeologist Uses 2,000-Year-Old Sky to Study Roman Ruins
It seems like something out of Halo, but this new futuristic soldier helmet discovered by KitUp! is now being tested by the US Army. Called the Helmet Electronics and Display System-Upgradeable Protection, it’s a modular variation of the current head gear, with face-protective 9mm plating and Heads Up Display powered by an Android phone. Read more…
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This new US Army helmet looks absolutely awesome
When Megaupload got taken down two years ago, it took a whole hell of a lot of data with it. And eventually it got obliterated . Some of it was pirate data, sure, but some was legit too. And new research shows that, at the very least, ten million innocent files got the axe . Read more…
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The Megaupload Takedown Killed At Least 10 Million Innocent Files
Here’s some more bad news to add to the pile of concern over email vulnerability , a brief filed by Google’s attorneys has just surfaced and revealed that Gmail users should have “no legitimate expectation of privacy”—ever. Read more…
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Google: Gmail Users Have No Reason to Expect Privacy
The Amerithrax case of 2001, in which letters harboring Anthrax spores were delivered to media outlets and a pair of US Senators’ offices, killed five people and sickened another 17. In the wake of these attacks, the US Postal Service (USPS) installed a system of electronic noses in mail processing facilities around the country designed to sniff out the deadly bacteria before someone else does. More »
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How the Post Office Sniffs Out Anthrax Before It Hits Your Mailbox
Finding great music on the internet is easy, but keeping all of it organized can be tough. You might have videos favorited at YouTube, a playlist at SoundCloud, or maybe artists bookmarked at Bandcamp. Songdrop collects and organizes them all for you. More »
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Songdrop Collects All the Music You Find on the Web, All in One Place