February 2012
150 posts
Voice-Controlled Google TV of the Day →
Voice-Controlled Google TV of the Day: Less than a week before Apple unveiled its voice-controlled personal assistant, Siri, Google filed a patent for a similar voice interface that would work as a remote control for Google TV.
By speaking into an Android device, a user would be able to search for and record shows, view TV listings and change channels. The feature would work away from home as...
Tongue-Controlled Joystick of the Day →
This is so brilliant.
Tongue-Controlled Joystick of the Day: The Tongue Drive system, developed at Georgia Tech, allows people with limited mobility to use their magnetically pierced tongues as a replacement for a computer mouse or a wheelchair joystick.
Until recently, the system tracked tongue movement using head-mounted sensors, but researchers found that the headgear was uncomfortable and...
Faster-than-light neutrino result reportedly a... →
Since September, scientists have been scratching their head over results that appear to show neutrinos traveling between Switzerland and Italy faster than light would. As far as anyone could tell, the team behind the results had done everything they could to eliminate errors, and had even released some preliminary data that had strengthened their results. But the results remained difficult to...
Phys Ed: How Exercise Fuels the Brain -... →
Google Augmented Reality Glasses Update of the Day →
Google Augmented Reality Glasses Update of the Day: The New York Times has confirmed the rumors that Google is working on a set of heads-up display glassesthat will deliver information to the wearer in real-time.
Google employees told the Times that the Google goggles are set to go on sale by the end of the year, and they’re expected to cost “about as much as a current smartphone.”
The glasses...
300 Million Year-Old Forest of the Day →
300 Million Year-Old Forest of the Day: A 300 million year-old forest has been discovered underneath a coal mine in Wuda, northern China. The 10,000 square-foot forest was preserved by ash from a volcanic eruption, and researchers are now studying it as a fossilized “snapsnot” of ancient plant life.
Scientists found six different groups of plants, ranging from short ferns to 80-foot-tall trees....
Apple Settles Antennagate Lawsuit of the Day →
Woo hoo!
Apple Settles Antennagate Lawsuit of the Day: Two years after “Antennagate,” the controversy over a problem with the iPhone 4′s exterior antenna that caused reception to worsen if the phone was held a certain way, Apple has settled a class action lawsuit filed by dissatisfied iPhone 4 owners.
As a result of the settlement, anyone who purchased an iPhone 4 will have their pick of $15 or...
House in Hinomiya by TSC Architects » CONTEMPORIST →
Hopen Place by Whipple Russell Architects »... →
Photo Series of the Day →
Photo Series of the Day: Mommy photographer Rachel Hulin made her baby boy Henry the subject of a chest-clutching series of photos entitled, simply, The Flying Series.
“I wanted the flights to feel genuine,” Hulin told Time’s LightBox. “These are places we are really in everyday, it’s not a cut-and-paste job on random interiors and landscapes.”
Though she won’t say how she made little Henry...
Waterworld Discovery of the Day →
Waterworld Discovery of the Day: Researchers analyzing images the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of an exoplanet with an atmosphere consisting mostly of water vapor.
Astronomers measured the atmosphere of the “waterworld,” exoplanet GJ 1214b, in 2010, but couldn’t conclusively determine whether it was made up of water until this year.
Because GJ 1214b is so dense — it’s...
Mars Needs Chefs of the Day →
Mars Needs Chefs of the Day: NASA is recruiting participants for a simulated mission to Mars, and the agency needs a few good chefs.
A real Mars mission would last three years, and NASA doesn’t want astronauts to get tired of their food during the trip, so it’s running a simulation where volunteer chefs will spend four months in a barren region of Hawaii, eating space cuisine and cooking with...
MARCH LA.B - Colette - Phantom Pocket Watch |... →
Swiss-by-way-of-L.A. watchmakers MARCH LA.B and Parisian boutique Colette come together on the 1805 Imperial Phantom watch—a jet-black version of their popular 1805 model.
The 1805 serves as MARCH LA.B’s “homage to the unmistakable style of the first French Empire—a true Napoleonic inspired pocket watch, drawing from the relics of past centuries,” and this collab offers a modern redesign...
30,000 Year-Old Plants of the Day →
30,000 Year-Old Plants of the Day: Researchers at the Russian Academy of Science’s Soil Cryology Lab have managed to grow flowers using 30,000 year-old seeds preserved in the Russian permafrost.
The seeds of Silene stenophylla were buried by squirrels during the Upper Pleistocene, and covered with layers of frozen soil over thousands of years. Researchers eventually recovered them 125 feet...
West 21st House by Frits de Vries » CONTEMPORIST →
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Description from the architect:
This 3070 sq ft single family residence with detached garage is located on a 42 ft wide lot in the Dunbar neighbourhood of Vancouver. The gently graded site has oblique views to Pacific Spirit Park, and distant views to the city core. The Dunbar Residence explores the potential for diversity of spatial experience in a home with a flexible plan that...
The Burbury Hotel by Katon Redgen Mathieson »... →
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Conceived for the corporate market, the hotel rooms feature dark fabric wall panels, crisp white plantation shutters, and a custom designed carpet. A timber veneer clad box separates the bedroom from the open plan bathroom area and accommodates a built in desk, wardrobes and a mini bar. The vanity is designed as a freestanding furniture element, whilst the shower and toilet are screened...
Urban Intervention of the Day →
Urban Intervention of the Day: Austrian artist Werner Reiterer‘s “Street Chandelier.”
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xkcd: First Post →
Apartment in Moscow by Alexey Nikolashin »... →
Another Follow Up of the Day: “Chink” Writer Fired →
Another Follow Up of the Day: The ESPN employee responsible for penning the controversial “Chink In The Armor” headline that accompanied the network’s article on the Knicks’ winning-streak-snapping loss to the Hornets has been let go.
The racially insensitive title ran beneath a photo of Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin on the network’s website for some 30 minutes before being removed.
ESPN...
Some Dumb Erratum of the Day →
Some Dumb Erratum of the Day: In the rush to come up with pun headlines to describe the phenom that is Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, unfortunately it was probably just a matter of time before someone slipped up and said something racist.
But many likely never thought that someone would be ESPN.
Covering the Knicks loss to the Hornets and the snapping of the rising star’s 7-game winning...
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