Category: Cool

Space Travel via Gravity Tunnel

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This is great news, if the fuel cost of going between points in our solar system can be reduced there should be a greater incentive to commercialize it.

ANDREWS SPACE OF SEATTLE has awarded SpaceDev a contract to design a small spacecraft to travel through a gravity tunnel – part of the InterPlanetary Superhighway or IPS, a route that eats up less fuel than normal trajectories – to the moon, for the very first time ever.

Small spaceship to fly through gravity tunnel

The SpaceDev web site also has a lunar lander program that you can try out if your running Windows. Looks ok, think of the classic lunar lander game but with 3D graphics.

It’s an Ice Blue USB Freakout!

USB Xmas Lights

Oh look, more stuff to suck power off your USB port. If your monitor is just not looking as festive as it should chuck a few strings of these have party it up. Ever wonder what is going to happen when the computer light craze ends? Will there be truckloads of these being send to landfills worlwide, or will they be torn apart and reused in third world countries as track lighting… Man, I feel green today, I better burn a tire and get back to normal.
The guys at geeks.com always have cool crap for sale and some useful tech tips for those in need of a little bit of help.

[via The Gadget Blog ]
USB Powered Deco Lights for PC Monitors

SPIDER ATTACK!!!

Spider Attack

Woah! Spider Vs. Bee and the bee wins. That guy is gunna eat tonight!

I was so frickin’ excited when I saw this. This little spider caught a bee about twice his size. When this is the most exciting thing to happen to me in months, I know I’ve got to get a social life of some sort.

I should look into getting some closeup tubes for my camera, I had some decades ago on my Honeywell Pentax H1 and I had a lot of fun with them.

a better tomorrow: SPIDER ATTACK!!! (really, a spider attack)
(Thank you Eugene for this one)

Dermal Nanotech Display

Dermal Nanotech Display

I’m first in line and no cuts! Won’t be out for the Christmas rush but when it is you can bet that people will be lining up for them. Just as a way to tell time it would be super handy. And lets not even mention the possibility of moving tatoos.

a “programmable dermal display” in which a population of about 3 billion display pixel robots would be permanently implanted a fraction of a mm under the surface of the skin, covering a rectangle 6 cm x 5 cm on the back of the hand. Photons emitted by these pixel bots would produce an image on the surface of the skin. This pixelbot array could be programmed to form any of many thousands of displays.

Visualizing the Future: Dermal Nanotech Display