Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
A few months ago I blogged about a 4x4x4 LED cube project by Chris Lamont and company. Now after much hard work on their part they are close to announcing their latest insane creation, the 8x8x8 RGB LED cube. These things look great! I can hardly wait for the kits, even a 4x4x4 single color verson would be be ass kicking cool on your office desk. Make sure you see the videos. Quite hypnotic.
[via MAKE]
NASA has announced that they will be launching a new space craft that will search for ice at the moons south pole. The hope is that water ice may be found to exist in the craters that never receive direct sunlight. If this is the case then the pathway to a fully manned moon base might be one step closer to being traveled upon. I hope that I can soon sit with my children in my arms and say, "Look at the moon, if you play your cards right you can live up there."
This is pretty neat stuff, the thing that makes it even neater is that it uses the same principal that keeps a gecko lizard stuck to walls.
Dartmouth College engineering professor Victor Petrenko… has devised a way to use a burst of electricity to remove ice caked on walls or windows. For surfaces coated with a special film, the jolt gets rid of ice in less than a second, far less time than it takes to hack at it with an ice scraper.
Look for this soon on everything from car windows to the wings of airplanes.
Humm, a sharp guy with a camera got these ‘too good to be true’ photos of a lake monster called Nahuelito that is said to inhabit a lake in Argentina. To me it looks like a spray painted plastic flamingo and a few old inner tubes but that’s just my opinion. But it could be a real cryptid, one just as real as the rare harry toed sickle back frog of the Kalahari.
[via BoingBoing]
Ah, the new Who is here! The much anticipated second season of the new Doctor Who TV series has just aired it’s first episode on British television. A new actor, David Tennant, takes over as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in this season. You might remember him as Barty Crouch Junior in ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire‘, or as Dr. Gordon Briscoe in the live performance of ‘The Quatermass Experiment‘. So far he has been doing a bang up job of filling the shoes of this historic role. I expect that the SciFi channel will air the new season of Who once the run is over in the UK. It’s a pity that the viewers in the states will have to wait to see the new episodes but when they do it will be worth it.
For more information on the history of the Doctor Who phenomenon check out this entry in the Wikipedia.
Now, for those who don’t mind knowing what going to happen many many episodes in the future if you follow this link you can read all about episode one (New Earth). But be warned, it might spoil your viewing experience if you do…
Lone Locust Productions – Doctor Who – New Earth – Review
I think these would make outstanding guest homes.
[via Neatorama]