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Ford Active Park Assist

By Posted on 11.11.2009 2 Comments
A car that parallel-parks itself perfectly, each and every time: Where was this when you were stuck in driver’s ed? Drive past parked cars on either the left or right side, and Ford’s sonar-based system flashes the go-ahead when it spots an opening large enough to fit models like the Ford Flex and Lincoln MKT. Press the button, and the car automatically steers itself into impressively tight spots, while the driver simply manages the gas and brakes. ford.com

11.18.2009 at 12:37am - Comment by ghost

this seems like a very handy thing, just getting my drivers license this year i actually failed the parallel parking test... where was this?
Technology

University of Maryland's $500 Maple-Seed UAV Takes To the Skies

By Stuart Fox Posted on 10.22.2009 9 Comments
Last year, after untold millions of dollars, DARPA failed to renew a Lockheed program to design a UAV based on a maple tree seed. While that program, backed by tons of cash and one of the world's largest aerospace companies, amounted to bupkis, a University of Maryland project to create a maple seed UAV has finally accomplished what DARPA and Lockheed couldn't.

10.23.2009 at 04:53am - Comment by ghost

what i think should be done about mounting a camera is either a 360 lens basically a camera pointed at the business end of a vortex shaped mirror. or one that just spins with it then generates a video out of all that is captured. but puting a swivel on it would seem like it would have some balancing problems... the uses for it though are pretty cool, it's small and from the looks of it easily maneuvered so it could theoretically be used as an indoors uav. used by the common foot soldier, it would make going around corners a hell of a lot easier. next to be seen, a program that makes the thing follow an rfid tag.
DIY

How To Make Ferrofluid

By Mikey Sklar Posted on 9.22.2009 14 Comments
Ferrofluids are made up of tiny magnetic fragments of iron suspended in oil (often kerosene) with a surfactant to prevent clumping (usually oleic acid). The fluid is relatively easy to make at home yet extremely expensive to buy on-line. How does $165 a liter sound? Pretty bad, right? Read on to learn how to make ferrofluids on the cheap.

9.22.2009 at 10:52pm - Comment by ghost

i actually want to use this as a possible heat sink for my computer case.
Science

Is Quantum Mechanics Selectively Erasing Our Memory?

By Susannah F. Locke Posted on 8.28.2009 20 Comments
In a paper published last week, MIT physicist Lorenzo Maccone hypothesizes that, yes, quantum physics is messing with our minds. The laws of physics work just as well if time is running forwards or backwards. But we all seem to experience time running in only one direction, and in the same direction as everyone else -- a mystery of physics that's yet to be solved.

8.29.2009 at 01:59am - Comment by ghost

orangeblooddecal, that's basically what this article is referring to, we live in between the third and fourth dimension, officially time is supposed to dhow our entire path from life to death as one big tube spanning from our birth time and space to our death time and space. but we only see it in moments. what i gleaned from this article is that we actually go back in time but we just don't remember it because our memories are directly tied to the world/universe. kinda gives a new meaning to the phrase deja vu.
Science

Japanese Super Computer Calculates Pi To The 2.5 Trillionth Decimal Point

By Stuart Fox Posted on 8.18.2009 5 Comments
In an effort to test the awesome power of their new super computer, a team of scientists at University of Tsukuba, Japan, have calculated Pi out to 2.5 trillion decimal places, more than doubling the previous record.

8.19.2009 at 04:46am - Comment by ghost

ahh man that is badass! it even looks better than my current desktop computer, though seriously what are they going to use it for? seti@home? what i wouldn't give to be able to play dwarf fortress on that thing...
Entertainment & Gaming

Augmented Reality Toys Bring Interactive Data Layer to Playtime

By Stuart Fox Posted on 8.6.2009 12 Comments
Every little boy lives in a world that is as much fiction as reality. For a kid sitting in the back seat of a car during a long road trip, that Batman action figure isn't a plastic doll, it's actually the Dark Knight himself. And that arm rest with the drink holder? The towering precipice of a Gotham high rise. And its exactly that imaginary world that Frantz Lasorne looks to make a bit more concrete with his augmented reality toys.

8.6.2009 at 02:11pm - Comment by ghost

dude you are soo totally an idiot, those games have almost nothing in common... anyways i think that it would work beter if instead of an actual real life character it just had a barcode that would be it's own image. i know it goes against the point of that but it still keeps it from bugging out and only showing half the play card when the rl figure gets in the way.
Technology

A Reprogrammable Space Probe Design For Mission Multitasking in Orbit

By Posted on 7.21.2009 2 Comments
Right now, thousands of satellites are circling the Earth. They're a diverse bunch. Some relay telephone calls, some spy on North Korea, some monitor the weather. But they all have one thing in common: each can only do one thing. A spy satellite can't suddenly start forecasting storms, and a communications satellite can't study asteroids. Well, that's all about to change.

7.22.2009 at 12:35am - Comment by ghost

that's awesome, now we won't have to worry about wasting so much money to send a satelite to mars only to have it waste away after it's done it's purpose! props and kudos!
Technology

President Convinces Congress To Scrap Additional F-22 Order

By Posted on 7.21.2009 24 Comments
The F-22 Raptor stealth fighter was designed to defeat any threat it might face on the modern battlefield. However, earlier today an even tougher fighter based out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue shot down seven of the planes before they even got off the assembly line.

7.22.2009 at 12:30am - Comment by ghost

excuse me? your not the one who is going to pay for that 1.75x7 billion dollars, i am one of the many who will, i'm sick and tired as is of congress pushing american made shi* fighters and not paying to use better american made jet fighters! the 2,400 order for the f35's is so much bigger and it'll be an easier task to lobby for the gratns to build the facilities here in america. and yes the f-33's are better, they cost less, and the military will actually freaking use them because they won't be worried about throwing 1.8 billion dollars down the freaking drain! seriously, grow a pair, then thank obama for saving your sorry butt.
Technology

International Space Station to Get a Big, Beautiful Window

By Posted on 7.1.2009 8 Comments
We've seen private tourists and urine-recycling water filters make their way onto the International Space Station, but breathtaking views have never been the station's strongest selling point. Because of external hazards such as solar radiation and orbiting space debris, the biggest window is only 20 inches. Until now, that is.

7.2.2009 at 11:31pm - Comment by ghost

that's awesome, i can't wait until they decide to make a deep orbit space station that sticks with earth but only orbits the sun, that way we can use it as a half way mark for colonizing mars! keep dreaming people!
Technology

Unproven Missile Shield System Sent To Hawaii, Countering Potential North Korean Threat

By Dan Smith Posted on 6.19.2009 10 Comments
Thanks to threats from North Korea, an experimental missile shield and radar system may be deployed to Hawaii before testing has been completed. After North Korea’s recent nuclear test and vague threats of launching another Taepodong-2 missile towards Hawaii, the Pentagon has decided to rush the still-in-development Army Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense missile systems and the SBX x-band radar into action. Although the technology has existed for many years it may finally get its first test in real-world conditions.

6.20.2009 at 03:13am - Comment by ghost

meh, it's a start but i would rather they update their warning systems instead of making such a bad countermeasure. i still can't believe that the same technology that was searching for nukes in the 70's and 80's(?) is still being used. that just isn't comforting at all... and really how did it even come to this? didn't we set up laws and rules that basically said you can't make and test your own missiles without the united nations consent? really i would rather see another bush case where they looked and didn't find anything than whats happening now where they just aren't doing anything... can't say we didn't ask for this response though, we practically blasted george out of the water when it became clear that there wasn't anything at all to be found...