I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "On February 5, 1897, 111 years ago today, the Indiana legislature very nearly passed a bill 'introducing a new mathematical truth,' that would have erroneously established pi as the ratio 'five-fourths to four' or 3.2. The story explaining the rationale behind the bill and how they were prevented from legislating it when a real mathematician intervened is quite interesting, because the man who discovered the 'new mathematical truth' wanted to charge royalties, which could have made pi the first form of irrational property."
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bird flu has spread to the Bangladesh capital Dhaka and to the port city Chittagong despite efforts by authorities to contain it, livestock officials said on Wednesday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 10:04 am
As Richard MacManus recently predicted , in 2008 we'll witness the rise of semantic web services. From the native support for Microformats in Firefox 3, to the New York Times' utilization of rich... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 9:47 am
By Andrew Liszewski ASUS recently announced a Premium version of their P5E3 motherboard which adds an EPU or ‘Energy Processing Unit’ to ensure the CPU is running at maximum energy efficiency.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 9:23 am
Google is set to challenge China’s largest search provider Baidu by offering free legal music. The success of Baidu has long been credited to the search engine providing music search from its front... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 9:07 am
By Andrew Liszewski We first wrote about the Ricoh 500SE last year since the camera seemed to include everything from WiFi to Bluetooth to GPS right out of the box. But it seems that still wasn’t... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:53 am
The dust is settling on Microsoft’s $31 per share offer to acquire Yahoo, and the options left open to the company are fairly well understood at this point. There will almost certainly be no White... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:53 am
The lasting power of many web services is hard to gauge, especially when those services are at an early stage and require users to adjust some of their most ingrained habits. Lunarr is a service going... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:26 am
Google is expanding its presence in Africa, in what locals are suggesting is part of a move by Google to “realign” its growth strategy part in response to Microsoft’s takeover offer for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:12 am
Data portability is a non-solution to a non-problem. An alternate approach, one that supports strong-terms-of- service guarantees from web app vendors and includes terms that guarantee four data property... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous Students in grades one through eight in Birmingham, Ala., will be the First in the nation to receive laptop computers designed for children in third-world countries. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Text of report in English by Thailand-based Burmese publication Irrawaddy website on 5 February You've probably noticed The Irrawaddy's new Web site design. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Heather Hamilton I have been using Firefox for two years. In 2006, I used PC Tools' Spyware Doctor antispyware, and in 2007 I used Webroot's Spysweeper. Neither ever found anything. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Globe7, one of the world's leading voice-over-Internet providers, on Thursday unveiled a suite of Chinese-language Web tools for file sharing, live video streaming and VoIP calling. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By The Dallas Morning News Feb. 6--Arlington police have charged two men with capital murder in an October shooting. John Dewayne Franklin, 26, and Sammie Lee Hicks, 24, were both arrested this week in connection with the Oct. 14 slaying of Pedro Mendoza, police said. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Hogge, Becky REBOOT The personalised web makes it hard to keep your private data to yourself, writes Becky Hogge Last year when my laptop broke, I almost lost all my digital photos. The photos weren't on the computer -1 use the online photo- sharing service Flickr. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
News Corp.'s MySpace, the world's most popular social-networking website, opened its software code to outside developers Tuesday, following rivals Facebook Inc. and Bebo Inc. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Authorities say no one was home when a device left on the front porch ignited. The professor conducts animal research and has been the target of earlier vandalism. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
THQ Inc. didn't share much of the video game industry's holiday joy, reporting a 75% drop in fiscal third-quarter profit Tuesday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
China has eased new Internet controls that had limited video-sharing to state companies, saying private competitors already operating in the fast-growing arena may continue. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Microsoft Corp.'s online advertising researchers will spend this year teaching computers to be smart about sticking ads into video clips, and to be even smarter about targeting ads to specific Web surfers.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
If mobile software startup Numobiq had a slogan, it might be “The network is the cell phone.” Founded by three veterans from Sun Microsystems, it wants to bring sophisticated applications... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 7:59 am
MojoKid writes "While workstation graphics cards are generally much more expensive than their gaming-class brethren, it's absolutely possible to build a budget-minded system with a workstation-class graphics card to match. Both NVIDIA and ATI have workstation-class cards that scale down below $500, a fraction of the price of most high-end workstation cards. This round-up looks at three affordable workstation cards, two new FireGL cards from AMD/ATI and a QuadroFX card from NVIDIA, and offers an evaluation of their relative performance in applications like Cinema 4D, 3D StudioMax, and SpecViewperf, as well as their respective price points."
Facebook has quietly added the ability for users to recommend friends to other friends, a social networking feature that comes straight from LinkedIn. AllFacebook suggests that the new feature is Facebook... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 7:00 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc is planning to boost its presence in China by tying up with a Chinese online music company to provide free music downloads, The Wall Street Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 6:22 am
Joshua Lederberg, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes, advised nine US presidents and wrote a weekly newspaper column, has died at... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 6:20 am
MAHWAH, New Jersey, February 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:15 am
A DAILY dose of beetroot juice may help combat high blood pressure. UK researchers have found drinking just under a pint leads to dramatic falls in blood pressure levels. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Enterprising farmers in East Yorkshire could soon be helping people improve their mental and physical health. Diversifying farmers are expected to be among the first in the country to try care farming as a way of generating extra cash for their businesses. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
In his farming column Ian Pettyfer states that organic farming uses more fossil fuels due to the extra cultivations necessary for rotational farming and organic weed control ("Exhaust used as a fertiliser", January 16). Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Schools have responded enthusiastically to a scheme to reconnect children to how their food is produced, snapping up all 15,000 copies of the Why Farming Matters teaching packs. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Feb. 5--LUMMI ISLAND -- Beach Elementary School will close Wednesday and Thursday while the school's water well is tested for dangerous bacteria. Today's results of a recent well test showed evidence of E. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By By, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Feb. 5--State avalanche officials have reopened Interstate 90 on Snoqualmie Pass but more avalanche control work is expected this afternoon starting about 12:30 p.m. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
STOCKTON, Ill. - A chemical spill at Dura Automotive in Stockton on Monday morning sent 200 workers home, but no one was injured. The spill was reported around 7:46 a.m. Monday, according to the Stockton Fire Department. Chief Randy Baysinger reported that the plant, located at 301 S. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By David Wilcock Four-fifths of money to be invested in the economic and social development of rural areas in the South West under a new EU programme will be spent on environmental measures, it was revealed yesterday. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
The East Dubuque-Menominee Trail Blazers Snowmobile Club held its 27th annual Chili Feed on Saturday, Jan. 26, at JM's Tap in Menominee. There are 31 members in the group. They would like to thank everyone who supported their supper, as it is the club's biggest fundraiser for the year. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Last week, I introduced the idea of "gardening on castors" and managed to get about halfway through the topic, ending with the need to use a loam-based compost in containers for woody perennials. Let me remind you again of reasons why I regard this as crucial. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
By Allison M. Heinrichs It was 25 years ago when Edmund Clarke realized he had invented a tool that could revolutionize the budding computer industry. Now the Carnegie Mellon University professor's pioneering work finally is being recognized. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
High-shutter-speed photography has come a long way from Muybridge's galloping horse in 1887 and even from Edgerton's strobe work in the 1950s and '60s. Milliseconds are an eternity compared to the attosecond images of electron drift we see today, if you get our drift.
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Toddlers' brains can effortlessly do what the most powerful computers with the most sophisticated software cannot: learn language simply by hearing it used. A ground-breaking new theory postulates that young children are able to learn large groups of words rapidly by data-mining. Researchers Linda Smith and Chen Yu attempted to teach 28 children, 12 to 14 months old, six words by showing them two objects at a time on a computer monitor while two pre-recorded words were read to them. No information was given regarding which word went with which image. After viewing various combinations of words and images, however, the children were surprisingly successful at figuring out which word went with which picture. Yu and Smith say it's possible that the more words tots hear, and the more information available for any individual word, the better their brains can begin simultaneously ruling out and putting together word-object pairings, thus learning what's what. Yu says if they can identify key factors involved in this form of learning and how it can be manipulated, they might be able to make learning languages easier for children and adults. Understanding children's learning mechanisms could also further machine learning."
CAMBRIDGE, England and PLEASANTON, California, February 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy ZANTAZ, a leader in the archiving, eDiscovery and policy management markets,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 4:00 am
CAMBRIDGE, England and PLEASANTON, California, February 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ZANTAZ, an Autonomy company and the leader in the archiving, eDiscovery and Proactive... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 4:00 am
As the roar of heavy chainsaws echoes in the distance, 54-year-old Ajang Kiew, once a nomadic Penan tribesman, wages a losing battle to save his culture in Borneo's rainforests. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 3:50 am
Bidding slowed in the government's auction of wireless spectrum Tuesday. By the fifth bidding round of the day, there were only 87 new bids, adding $6 million to the total. The total bid now totals $18.9... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 3:35 am
An anonymous reader writes "I have code that I've written for my current company that I'd like to open-source. The only problem is that my company has the usual clause that says that anything I write belongs to them. Now that they've decided to abandon my code for another product that replaces its function, I'd like to continue working on my project as well as open it up to the world. The easy part is cleaning it up and posting it on SourceForge and Freshmeat. The hard part is making sure that I am free of any legal complications in the future. I've looked online to try to find a legal document I could present to my employer to get them to sign off on it, but I'm not having any luck. Has anyone else been in this boat or can refer me to some legal documentation that may help out?"
Q. Why do birds sit on telephone or power wires? What did they do before there were wires? A. Many birds like a view from the highest vantage point possible, and wires provide a convenient perch, said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 2:36 am
WASHINGTON The twice-delayed flight of the space shuttle Atlantis, carrying a major addition to the International Space Station, is set for liftoff Thursday following the resolution of several technical... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 2:36 am
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Chatham House, Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 2:00 am
Microsoft employees support Hillary Clinton with their bucks, while Google and Yahoo staffers back Barack Obama with their cash, according to recently updated 2007 filings with the Federal Election Commission.
It might just might be the next cooking fad, mega-trend, foodie trip. It's meta-cuisine. How about a picture of sushi that tastes like sushi? Or a scented fork to accompany the latest confection? Commentary by Lore Sjöberg.
UNIVERSITY CITY, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The much anticipated launch of href="http://www.stopmusclepain.com">www.stopmusclepain.com was announced by... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 1:57 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bidding stalled on Tuesday in the closely watched auction of a piece of wireless airwaves that the U.S. government is selling, according to data released by the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 1:49 am
THE sponsor of two commercials during Super Bowl XLII for Salesgenie.com, which drew complaints from viewers because of the characters ethnic accents, says he is sorry and promises to stop running one... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 1:36 am
British scientists have created human embryos using genetic material from two women and a man, in a procedure that might one day prevent babies from inheriting serious diseases, such as muscular dystrophy... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 6 Feb 2008 | 12:54 am
Tech.Luver notes an AP story on tainted pills that have arrived in the US from — not China this time — Puerto Rico. The article details a disturbing number of incidents of contamination investigated by the FDA over the last few years. "The first warning sign came when a sharp-eyed worker sorting pills noticed that the odd blue flecks dotting the finished drug capsules matched the paint on the factory doors. After the flecks were spotted again on the capsules, a blood-pressure medication called Diltiazem, the plant began placing covers over drugs in carts in its manufacturing areas. But the factory owner, Canadian drug maker Biovail Corp., never tried to find out whether past shipments of the drug were contaminated — or prevent future contamination, according to US regulators... FDA officials say the problems in Puerto Rico are proportionate with the large number of pharmaceutical plants here and generally no worse than those on the US mainland."
AT&T is said to be developing a system to spot and block illicitly copied content sent over its broadband network. The NYT's Saul Hansell grilled Verizon EVP Tom Tauke on whether Verizon was planning to provide similar aid to Hollywood. The one-word summary? No. Snip:
He said the company’s view combines a concern for the privacy of its customers with self interest. It may be costly for it to get into the business of policing the traffic on its network. Indeed, phone companies have largely spent a century trying not to be liable for what people say over their lines.
“We generally are reluctant to get into the business of examining content that flows across our networks and taking some action as a result of that content,” he said.
Mr. Tauke offered at least three objections to the concept:
1) The slippery slope.
Once you start going down the path of looking at the information going down the network, there are many that want you to play the role of policeman. Stop illegal gambling offshore. Stop pornography. Stop a whole array of other kinds of activities that some may think inappropriate.
2) It opens up potential liability for failing to block copyrighted work.
When you look back at the history of copyright legislation, there has been an effort by Hollywood to pin the liability for copyright violations on the network that transmits the material. It is no secret they think we have deeper pockets than others and we are easy-to-find targets.
3) Privacy.
Anything we do has to balance the need of copyright protection with the desire of customers for privacy.
Four undersea communications network cables have been cut this past week -- they're part of the network that handles most of the world's voice and internet traffic. WTF's going on?
Most telecommunications experts and cable operators say that sabotage
seems unlikely, but no one knows what damaged the cables or whether
the incidents were related.
One theory - that a wayward ship traveling off course because of bad
weather was responsible for cutting the first two cables last week -
was dismissed by the Egyptian government over the weekend.
No ships passed the area in the Mediterranean where the cables were
located, the country's Ministry of Communications said Sunday.
Jake writes in with the story behind an explosive NYTimes scoop last week. It seems that the Times's pharmaceutical industry reporter, Alex Berenson, scored a page-one blockbuster when he revealed that Eli Lilly was looking to reach a settlement with federal prosecutors over the company's alleged inappropriate marketing of anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa. A settlement figure of $1 billion was mentioned. This scoop dropped into Berenson's inbox when a lawyer for one of Lilly's retained firms mis-addressed an email to a colleague with the same last name as that of the Times reporter. Some online observers are speculating that auto-complete is to blame, but this has not been confirmed.
Victor Piñeiro says: "Just wanted to share my first feature documentary trailer with you, Second Skin. Its all about virtual worlds and the gamers who 'live' in them."
Link
An anonymous reader writes in with news from the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco of a new energy-efficient chip designed by researchers at MIT. It's said to be able to run on 1/10 the power of current chips. Texas Instruments worked with MIT on the design, which is maybe five years from production. "The key to the chip's improved energy efficiency lies in making it work at a reduced voltage level, according to... a member of the chip design project team. Most of the mobile processors today operate at about 1 volt. The requirement for MIT's new design, however, drops to 0.3 volts."
netbuzz alerts us to a letter the EFF sent today to Senators Leahy and Specter pointing out a deleterious clause in the current draft of the Patent Reform Act of 2007 — which EFF generally supports. As written, the proposal would kill the EFF's Patent Busting Project. Fine print in the bill would limit the time in which a patent could be challenged, by anyone other than those suffering direct financial harm, to one year after the patent's grant. Since the EFF is non-profit it would have a hard time showing financial harm.
"I've been doing dumb and dangerous stuff for years," Paul de Valera, 36, said with a strange sort of exasperated enthusiasm during a conversation a few days earlier at his one-man Atomic Cycles bicycleshop in Van Nuys. Paul and his friend Tick One (it's a name he chose) are the S.F.V.I.S.B.F.'s co-instigators and currently act as the group's half-serious organizers and fun-first spiritual advisors. "It's stupidity," Paul added, "and it infects all of us."
This isn't soap box racing the way it's practiced at the All-American Soap Box Derby -- where squeaky-clean preteens line up in cars built by their fathers and a gaggle of aerospace engineers to race down a sanitized hill in proscribed, arrow-straight lanes. In the S.F.V.I.S.B.F., adults in makeshift gravity-powered jalopies clandestinely sneak out early on the second Sunday of each month from March through December to meet and then barrel through unsuspecting suburban neighborhoods or over dirt fire roads with plenty of collisions, corners, and comeuppances.
Lucas123 writes "According to a Reuters' story, Dutch inventors today took the wraps off a $110,000 car-fueling robot they say is the first of its kind. (It was inspired by a cow milking robot.) After registering the car as it pulls up to the pump, the machine matches your fuel cap design with those in a database and your car's fuel type, and then a robotic arm fitted with multiple sensors extends from a regular gas pump, 'opens the car's flap, unscrews the cap, picks up the fuel nozzle and directs it towards the tank opening, much as a human arm would, and as efficiently.' Wait till Hollywood gets hold of this scenario."
Roger says: "Here's a review of an extremely weird vintage bicycle safety film from 1962 in which a group of kids show us the dangers of disobeying bicycle safety rules - all while wearing some of the creepiest monkey masks you'll ever see."
Darpa, the Pentagon's mad science division, got a $324 million boost in the Defense Department's new budget -- a 10 percent increase. Which means lots more cash for giant blimps, next-gen wireless networks, Mach 6 planes, shape-shifting drones, and improvised bomb-beaters.
Are you ready for Maker Faire Bay Area 2008? The call for makers is open now!
Come to the Los Angeles tryouts on February 9, 2008, from noon to 4pm at Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Please download this application form, fill it out, and bring it with you.
u-bend writes "With little publicity Apple has released new, higher-capacity models of the iPhone and iPod Touch. The new iPhone boasts 16 GB of storage and is priced at $499 (the 8 GB model remains at $399), and the new iPod Touch has 32 GB, also priced at $499. Although the price is still pretty hefty, it indicates that the capacity/price ratio on these wireless flash-based players is starting to move in the right direction."
With gadgets, smaller is generally better -- with a few exceptions. Wired lists five gadgets for which manufacturers' mania for extreme miniaturization is actually a liability.
With gadgets, smaller is generally better -- with a few exceptions. Wired lists five gadgets for which manufacturers' mania for extreme miniaturization is actually a liability.
Instructables announced the winner of its Universal Laser Cutter Contest: Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) created a HOWTO on recreating the famed "Bullet Time" sequence from the Matrix. They devised the technique with director Dan the Man for a music video by underground rappers Styles P, AZ, and Large Professor. For their hard work on the Instructable, titled "How To Enter The Ghetto Matrix (DIY Bullet Time)", GRL takes home a $15000 laser cutter for their new workshop. I was a judge of the contest and the finalists absolutely blew me away, from a giant fresnel lens deathray to an autonomous foosball table to a build-it-yourself mongolian yurt. Link
Previously on BB:
• Graffiti Research Labs high-power projection system Link
• GRL's LED Throwies Link
• GRL's video of Maker Faire Link
John Schwartz reports in today's New York Times about the global community of "satellite spotter" hobbyists who track the heavenly motions of satellites -- some of which are secret government projects -- and share what they find online:
Thousands of people form the spotter community. Many look for historical relics of the early space age, working from publicly available orbital information. Others watch for phenomena like the distinctive flare of sunlight glinting off bright solar panels of some telephone satellites. Still others are drawn to the secretive world of spy satellites, with about a dozen hobbyists who do most of the observing, Mr. Molczan said.
In the case of the mysterious satellite that is about to plunge back to earth, Mr. Molczan had an early sense of which one it was, identifying it as USA-193, which gave out shortly after reaching space in December 2006. It is said to have been built by the Lockheed Martin Corporation and operated by the secretive National Reconnaissance Office.
One of those satellites may be visible to folks in New York City on Friday. Link to the full story, and here's a related item on the NYT "Lede" blog. Image: UK-based satellite spotter John Locker, photo by Jonathan Player for The New York Times.
These anti-itch pyjamas look like they would have been issued to passengers on the commercial space ship in Kubrick's 2001.
The nightwear, which is produced from a fabric called Dermasilk, can also help reduce the itching endured by sufferers of skin disorders such as eczema and dermatitis.
The pyjamas have been developed for Travelodge, the hotel chain, which carried out a survey to discover what kept people awake.
He said the company’s view combines a concern for the privacy of its customers with self interest. It may be costly for it to get into the business of policing the traffic on its network. Indeed, phone companies have largely spent a century trying not to be liable for what people say over their lines.
Instructables announced the winner of its Universal Laser Cutter Contest: Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) created a HOWTO on recreating the famed "Bullet Time" sequence from the Matrix. They devised the technique with director Dan the Man for a music video by underground rappers Styles P, AZ, and Large Professor. For their hard work on the Instructable, titled "How To Enter The Ghetto Matrix (DIY Bullet Time)", GRL takes home a $15000 laser cutter for their new workshop. I was a judge of the contest and the finalists absolutely blew me away, from a giant fresnel lens deathray to an autonomous foosball table to a build-it-yourself mongolian yurt. 
The nightwear, which is produced from a fabric called Dermasilk, can also help reduce the itching endured by sufferers of skin disorders such as eczema and dermatitis.
Topless robot has an amusing set of side-by-side photos of Star Wars Toys and the celebrities who look like them. Link
