• Entertainment & Gaming

    The Thinnest, Most Colorful TV Yet

    By Posted on 4.2.2009 14 Comments

    Q: What is OLED? A: OLED, or organic light-emitting diode, is a display technology using man-made, carbon-based molecules that emit light when charged with electricity. Q: How thick are OLEDs? A: The latest prototypes are as thin as a credit card (0.3 millimeter), because OLED pixels produce their own light, with nothing behind the screen. LCDs need a fluorescent or LED lamp to illuminate the pixels, and plasmas need compartments of electrically charged gas.

    4.13.2009 at 10:34am - Comment by grusso7

    Two years ago Sanyo came out with the HD Xacti (Don't remember the exact model) video camera and it had an OLED. I don't know exactly why the reds were not very good on it. (Maybe it was the sensor on the camera that made the reds look awful).

  • Science

    Counting Chicks, After They Hatch

    By M. Farbman Posted on 4.1.2009 3 Comments

    So cute! Chicks can add and subtract, according to a new study. Also in today's links: dwarf tossing, masturbation, and the degree of genetic relation between people in Europe.

    4.1.2009 at 12:30pm - Comment by grusso7

    I'still laughing on the dwarf tossing article. I like this April's fools articles a lot of work on crossing the articles and web pages with the other fakes. A good morning smiling.

  • Science

    Pointing the Way to Success

    By Catherine Schwanke Posted on 1.16.2009 9 Comments

    What does it take to be a successful financial trader? Education, experience, and, according to new research at the University of Cambridge, a long ring finger.

    1.19.2009 at 05:18pm - Comment by grusso7

    I agree with timias. Round up more people and then do the study. This looks more like a junior highschool test. Until this team of physiologists show real results they can take a look at my middle finger pointing up at you.

  • The Environment

    Making the Most of **it

    By Posted on 1.19.2009 19 Comments

    In José Saramago’s novel Blindness, when an epidemic of sightlessness sweeps the city, among the foulest signs of civic breakdown is its inability to handle its own excrement. Human waste piles where it lands, left to the elements and not modern plumbing. To newly minted industrial designer Virginia Gardiner, we might as well be blind to our own waste. Her plumbing-free toilet project, the Gardiner CH4, makes us personally responsible for our intimate product—and makes it useful.

    1.19.2009 at 05:03pm - Comment by grusso7

    Virginia Gardiner brain is the only thing here that is full of poo.

  • GluBam Construction

    By Posted on 11.9.2008 Comments

    The bridge Yan Xiao built in Leiyang with GluBam was the town’s first. Each beam that spans the brick columns was created using Xiao’s novel process of transforming irregular bamboo into a practical building material. First he tore strips of bamboo from the stalk and arranged them in such a way as to provide the most strength. He then coated the strips with glue and compressed them in a self-built hydraulic press into beams, 33 feet long and up to three feet wide, each capable of supporting eight tons. Xiao says that the beams cost just 20 percent as much as imported lumber.

    12.11.2008 at 01:39pm - Comment by grusso7

    here is some info on this bridge: http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/architecture_construction/report-100137.html

  • Cars

    High Compression: Running a Porsche on Air

    By Mike Spinelli Posted on 9.29.2008 7 Comments

    If you thought the rise of petroleum caused global economic upheavals, just wait until we start producing electric-car batteries in mass quantities. That's the warning from Glenn Bell, CEO of Air Fuel Auto. Bell told reporters at this weekend's Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica the need for precious metals and other raw materials for next-generation batteries could have a ripple effect on the global economy. Of course, Bell isn't a passive observer; he's got his own answer to the alternative-fuel question. You're breathing it.

    9.29.2008 at 03:17pm - Comment by grusso7

    Air compress car have been around for years now. Tata recently bought the french manufacture that is making such cars.

  • PPX

    PPX: Halts and Payouts Aplenty

    By Posted on 2.11.2008 9 Comments

    We have a few delistings and halts going on today. First, despite the bad news for HD-DVD that surfaced last week, there were more titles available on HD-DVD than Blu-Ray at the year's end. And so our HDVSBLU prop pays out at $100. The market missed out on this one: trading was halted at $47.25 per share.

    9.22.2008 at 10:32am - Comment by grusso7

    When is Genedope is going to pay? You people seem to want to be unfair to those who got into this stock early and now are not paying up. You specified it will close at the end of the Beijing games.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    The Truth About Table Tennis

    By Posted on 8.13.2008 4 Comments

    Every four years, we watch. We marvel at badminton, wonder about the modern decathlon and proudly pause for synchronized swimming. With more than 300 gold medals awarded across 37 disciplines, the next two weeks of our lives should be impressively unproductive. To aid in your immersion, we introduce the first installment of “know your Olympic sport.” It’s part reminder that people actually get medals for this stuff (see: trampoline gymnastics) and part introduction to the science behind the sports. As a tribute to the recently lit flame in Beijing, our first installment focuses on the pride of China: Table Tennis (a.k.a. Ping Pong). Inside you’ll find a 30-year old performance enhancer in its final days, a training method built for Forrest Gump and all (perhaps even more than) you'll ever need to know about Ping Pong balls.

    8.12.2008 at 09:55am - Comment by grusso7

    What is the problem with using glue to better perform this sport, don't they use far more dangerous chemicals for building composites bikes or new jerseys fabrics. What happens here is a bias against a real sport by the so called developed nations who want to push bull S**t sports like beach volleyball. trampolin jumping, syncronized swimming so they can have an advantage on medals. But when it comes to real competions they are to afraid admit into the olympics real sports like polo but instead they have "the equestrian disciple" which is not a sport at all. How about mix martial arts or rugby. I said let's keep the glueing on or don't let anyone use aids, or handwraps or perfomance suits unless they are all made from naturals fibers.



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