For the full article, check Cool Hunting: http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/desktops.php
Objects can be created on a computer using free online software such as TinkerCAD or Google Sketchup, before being transferred to the Replicator on a SD memory card. Alternatively other people's designs can be downloaded from Makerbot's community website Thingiverse.
I have no need for something like this and neither the time nor the inclination (nor, I suspect, the requisite skills) to learn how to use it but what a fantastic tool! Apart from the ability to make tools and components on demand, imagine what a generation of 3D hackers might produce given the time? Let's hope these things make it into our schools in decent numbers.
...the consumption of animals such as whales, dolphins and manatees is on the rise in poor nations.
“The assertion that a traveler was admitted into the U.S. using solely a scanned image of his passport on an iPad is categorically false,” a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) spokesperson said
Andrew Hyde owns only 15 things:
1. Arc’teryx Miura 30 backpack
2. NAU shirt
3. Mammut rain jacket
4. Arc’teryx tshirt
5. Patagonia running shorts
6. Quick Dry towel
7. NAU wool jacket
8. Toiletry kit
9. Smith sunglasses
10. Wallet
11. MacBook Air
12. iPhone 3GS
13. NAU dress shirt
14. Patagonia jeans
15. Running shoes
Full story: http://design-milk.com/windmaker-by-luc-van-hoeckel/
Apologies if I've mentioned this before, but if you've got an iPhone you should really have a look at this Kickstarter project that aims to build the ultimate dock. They look great. I've ordered one.
Among GM’s 30 plants, the biggest success was the Silao Transmission Plant in Guanajuato, Mexico, which saw a 51.3 percent improvement in energy efficiency.
On the other hand, it's true that we are doomed. Our planet and everything on it won't last.
Physician and blogger Harriet Hall, MD, once coined an exceptionally apt phrase to describe research in many alternative medicine modalities - "Tooth Fairy Science"; it refers to research undertakings into a phenomenon whose existence is yet to be established.
Definitely worth reading, especially if you think acupuncture works.
Airlines will now be subject to the Emissions Trading System (ETS), used to charge industries such as oil refineries, power stations and steel works for CO2 emissions, as part of Europe's efforts to combat climate change.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Extra tax means paying more to fly in the EU but as long as the rules apply equally to all airlines I don't see how this could be deemed unfair or anti-competitive.
Three years ago when the Large Hadron Collider was switched on at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), few people outside his field had heard of Peter Higgs.
I don't think I had heard of Prof. Higgs or his boson before the LHC was switched on but the BBC's profile and the linked Q&A seem to be reasonable introductions for the layman. For more technical details, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism) is probably a good starting point.
