• Entertainment & Gaming

    The Most Realistic Video Games Yet

    By Scott Steinberg Posted on 10.28.2008 7 Comments

    Games are beginning to exploit the computational muscle of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to generate characters and environments that follow the rules of reality, not just preset sequences.

    10.29.2008 at 08:04am - Comment by w00zzy

    You should try it with the new PS3 BT headset with the HQ features. 95% would be accurate.

  • Science

    And the Ig Nobel Goes to . . .

    By Holly Otterbein Posted on 10.6.2008 1 Comments

    Laugh first, think later. That’s the theory behind the annual Ig Nobel Awards, which celebrate academia’s most bizarre, irrelevant studies. Past winners have included Dan Quayle, doctors who found that Viagra helps jet-lagged hamsters, and two researchers who proved that sword-swallowing is dangerous. This year’s feature ovulating strippers, intelligent slime and soft drinks that double as spermicide.

    10.8.2008 at 12:32pm - Comment by w00zzy

    You mention stippers in an article with a photo gallery, yet there are no photos. WTH!

  • Technology

    The Flying Car Gets Real

    By Gregory Mone Posted on 10.8.2008 45 Comments

    The Transition is not a flying car. The vehicle, set to go on sale next year, will cruise smoothly on the road and through the sky. It will have four wheels, Formula One–style suspension, and a pair of 10-foot-wide wings that fold up when it switches from air to asphalt. And when the engineers at Terrafugia in Woburn, Massachusetts, let me sit inside their just-finished proof-of-concept vehicle and grab the steering wheel, it’s easy to imagine piloting this thing up and out of traffic, into the open skies.

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    10.8.2008 at 12:25pm - Comment by w00zzy

    The sooner we get these on the road/in the air, the sooner we'll start seeing them become mainstream. The rich have to start buying them (to get the maket started) before regular joes like me can afford them.

  • Science

    Readers Wonder: How Will It All End?

    By PopSci Staff Posted on 9.10.2008 21 Comments

    Nobody's implying that it's right around the corner, but an old question is on a lot of people's minds these days -- especially you readers. How will the world end? Wikipedia has a nice list of some possible scenarios. What's your favorite? Discuss in the comments.

    9.29.2008 at 03:46pm - Comment by w00zzy

    I don't really know but I bet liberals will have something to do with it. ;)

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    World Wide Ripoff

    By Tom Conlon Posted on 9.18.2008 12 Comments

    Despite the economic flogging we’re trying our best not to think about, most of us don’t bat an eye when shelling out that monthly 50-plus bucks for Internet access. I guess that’s a testament to how deeply integrated into our lives the Web has become in just the last few years. Between my home Internet service from Time Warner and my data plan from Verizon Wireless, I’m paying about $80 per month to get online. If I travel, I pay T-Mobile et al. another toll to browse in the airport terminal and then I usually end up paying someone else for Internet access once I’m in my hotel room. When all is said and done, I cough up $100 or more per month to get online. I don’t know about you, but that seems like a lot of bread these days.

    9.29.2008 at 03:05pm - Comment by w00zzy

    DSL is a downgrade from Cable? That is untrue. On a cable connection you share bandwith with everyone on the node that serves your neighborhood and home. As traffic increases (in the node), your connection gets slower if there are a lot of people on it. If you don't see a decrease in speed at peak times, it's because your service node doesn't have a lot of people on it. DSL however is a dedicated circuit that isn't shared by anyone else but the devices in your home. So if you pay for a 3MB circuit, you always get 3MB. As far as the monthly costs of internet access, one thing that people don't realize is that when a site, or RT as it's known is the biz, is installed, it isn't left that way forever. As more people request new service or upgrade their service, bigger fiber feeds are needed to increase the overall bandwith for that site. On that same line, the fiber has to be upgraded to offer new services (like at&t's U-Verse service) to new and existing customers. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see my monthly bill go down, But there are some legit reasons for the price staying up and some not-so legit.

  • Technology

    The Ultimate Paper Airplane

    By Posted on 3.27.2008 7 Comments

    Japan's space agency gave it the OK. A famous astronaut says he'd get involved. They even tested a prototype in a wind tunnel. Still, it does sound nearly too off-the-wall to be true: Japanese scientists have teamed up with origami experts to design a paper airplane that could withstand re-entry and make its way from space back to Earth.

    3.28.2008 at 05:38pm - Comment by w00zzy

    I agree. I wonder if PopSci got the design and didn't give it out. Or are the people that designed it not going to give it out?



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