From Google Reader: Hack breaks Hulu Plus free from supported device chains, embraces Androids of every shape and color
It’s not TV, it’s Hulu Plus and it’s coming to the Android device of your choosing — somewhat, unofficially. While the main ad-supported, streaming video site may have failed to seek refuge in the arms of a new owner last year, its subscription mobile offshoot is now finding a home in all Googlefied phones and tablets via a modified .apk created by XDA Developers member Vgeezy. But before you get all hot and bothered, keep in mind this jailbroken app stillrequires a subscription to work, although you won’t need root to install it. So, any users looking for a quick and illicit content fix will have to look elsewhere. For everyone else, there’s the source link below.
from Engadget
From Gizmodo: iPad Mixing Desk Will Probably Get Me on the Charts
From Google Reader: China wants microbloggers to register with the government, hand over real identity
My thoughts?! Boo, I say, boo!!!
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Thought that Facebook’s and Google+’s requirements that you use your real name were draconian? Just be thankful you’re not a weibo addict in China. The government is planning to expand a program that demands users register their real names and disclose their identity. Wang Chen, China’s top internet regulation official, said the eventual goal would be to get all 250 million microbloggers registered, starting first with any new users signing up. The obvious privacy and free speech issues that could arise from such a move shouldn’t need to be explained — especially considering the country’s track record of censorship and politically motivated arrests. Sadly, unlike SOPA, putting an end to this troubling law isn’t as simple as putting up a black banner or emailing your congressman.
from Engadget
From Google Reader: Wikipedia Brings Offline Article Saving, Location-Based Search, and More to Android [Wikipedia]
Android: The official Wikipedia app for Android lets you save articles for offline viewing, search articles pertaining to your location, share articles, and more without the need for a mobile browser. More »
from Lifehacker
From Google Reader: Headphones Cause Pedestrian Injuries to Triple Over a 6-Year Period
Please pay more attention if you walk/run/jog on the streets.
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These accidents were due to both being distracted by their devices and blocking the sounds of the warning systems with their headphones
From Google Reader: Microrockets Can Zip Around the Human Stomach, Powered by Hydrogen Bubbles
Microrockets via PhysOrg
Tiny machines that can enter our bloodstreams and do work inside of our bodies are a staple of both science fiction and real-world biomedical science, as MEMS and other micromotor devices become increasingly small and effective. A team from the University of California, San Diego, is taking the idea even further by creating what it is calling “microrockets”: tiny self-propelled motors that can zip around an acidic environment, like the human stomach, without the need for any external fuel.
The microrockets are the first known example of a chemically-powered micro-machine that powers itself without carrying some kind of fuel, like hydrogen peroxide, onboard. Rather, the UCSD team’s microrockets are powered by hydrogen bubbles produced by a reaction between an acidic solution–like that present in the stomach–and the zinc that the microrocket itself is made of.
When the microrocket is immersed in that acidic environment, hydrogen bubbles quickly start to build up inside the rocket and–depending on how acidic the environment–propel it up to speeds of 100 body lengths per second. That’s about 1,050 micrometers per second for a 5-micrometer diameter microrocket (they are generally about 10 micrometers wrong, and between two and five micrometers in diameter). Depending on the rate of zinc dissolution, the lifetime of the microrockets once introduced to the acid solution can be anywhere from two to 10 minutes.
They are also controllable using a magnetic field. By placing a magnetic coating on the exterior of the microrockets, the UCSD team has demonstrated that the rockets can be guided through a solution and even be used to pick up and deposit cargo as they go, all by manipulating a magnetic field.
The biomedical applications here are pretty obvious. Aside from being able to do rudimentary pH sensing in the stomach, such microrockets could be used to non-invasively target drugs within the body–at least in the acidic parts–or to assist in imaging of certain parts of the body. They could also be used in industrial processes like semiconductor processing.
[PhysOrg]
from Popular Science – New Technology, Science News, The Future Now