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The Board of Awesomeness is now lugging groceries at a Whole Foods in Texas. Last month, Chaotic Moon Labs’ Board of Awesomeness was one of the stars of CES in Las Vegas. It’s a motorized skateboard tricked out with a Samsung tablet and Microsoft’s Kinect so that it can be steered by hand gestures and voice commands. But it turns out that the Moon Lab had more on its mind than just skateboarding.
from Wired Top Stories
In the movie Fantastic Voyage, a crack surgical team is miniaturized inside a ship. Their mission: to destroy a blood clot in the brain of a Soviet-era informant. Given the relatively vast distances covered inside the body, however, movie makers probably should have equipped vessel with rocket motors instead of propellers — and engineers have now designed nanorockets that would’ve fit the bill.
from Wired Top Stories
This is the WaterBob, a single-use water reservoir that you can stick in your bathtub and fill with 100 gallons of water – and that can keep it fresh for up to four weeks. If you live in a disaster-prone area it could be useful, but there are a few things that one should consider before blowing $30 on a 100-gallon FDA approved plastic water-bag.
Let’s say an earthquake hits, a big earthquake – what happens? Assuming your house is still standing, you probably have no power, and your water company is probably in the same situation, so you have no water. Basically, unless you are prepared to live without a bathtub and want to spend $30 a month on water reservoirs for your bathtub so that you can have it filled up before the earthquake hits… you are going to be out of luck. So for earthquakes it probably isn’t much good.
For hurricane/cyclone prone areas it might be better. Let’s say you see on the news that a Katrina-sized storm front is heading your way. You would have enough forewarning to get it filled up. Assuming that all hell broke loose and your house was on high enough ground that it didn’t need to be evacuated, 100 gallons of clean water could be a life saver.
Price: $30 [Book of Joe]
from The UberReview
Mobile World Congress, Europe’s biggest mobile tech conference, was the site of Nokia’s ruthless mining of the world’s natural megapixel reserves. The Finnish company (who’s lately started making phones we really like) announced the 808, a smartphone with a 41-megapixel camera, along with a sensor and flash big enough to feel at home in a point-and-shoot. According to our photog brothers at Popular Photography, that’ll give the phone better digital zoom capabilities and hopefully better image quality–Nokia has a new system to take all those pixels and turn them into nicer, smaller pictures. (Oddly, the phone will use, of all things, the very dead and very awful Symbian OS.) Read more over at Pop Photo.
from Popular Science – New Technology, Science News, The Future Now
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says that space exploration is a key to transforming our economy and will play a crucial role in American success in the years to come. It “transforms the culture into one that values science and technology, and that’s the culture that innovates,” he says.
from Morning Edition
Staring at screens for three hours (or more) a day or having our necks flexed down for extended periods of time while texting surely can’t be good for us. Just as a reminder, the “Are Mobile Devices Destroying Your Body?” infographic points out these and other health implications when using mobile devices and things we can do to minimize them. More »
from Lifehacker
In this day and age of patents and tech advancements, I’m glad that there’s someone thinking of this… and I’m for promoting this kind of thinking all the way!!! (Are you reading this, Google, Apple, Samsung, and everybody else?!!)
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Traditionally, we tend to protect our ideas with our lives. It’s the exact reason we have patents, trademarks, and copyrights. But most of us don’t have the willpower or drive to take every idea through to execution. Here’s how to give your ideas away to people who actually know how to make them happen. More »
from Lifehacker