Money can be spent in four different ways with very different incentive as a result. According to the ecnomist Milton Friedmans book Free To Choose they can be divided into these four categories: Category I: You are spending your own money on…
The famous webcomic xkcd, by Randall Munroe, has recently started a blogg which brings answers to big questions in life such as “What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?” (fusion, firestorm engulfing…
A map of central Edinburgh with a few memorable locations noted. Just to help the crumbling memory. To be continued…
With the 3000 days celebration of the exploring of Mars surface with the mechanical vehicle Opportunity, Nasa has released a compiled image of the Endeavour crater. The full resolution can be downloaded and studied from Nasas homepage or from this…
The lazy style laid back biking on a Recumbent bicycle has gotten even softer with the Wike, a tricycle construction with a sail. It has a top speed of 50 km/h and is now street legal in the Netherlands and…
The transparent and flexible displays that around 2008 was announced from both Sony and Philips finally seems to have matured into finished products that hopefully will hit the market during this year. Samsung, among others, have over the last few…
Professor Vijay Kumar and his team have come quite far in the field of swarm control. With their tiny quadrocopters they take the cooperation of technology to a new level. Some of his research is available from www.roboticsproceedings.org on subjects…
NTS: How will you ever learn to fly if you never dare to take the leap?
The robotics company Boston Dynamics have recently broken the land speed record for walking robots with their new four legged Cheetah, which looks like an advanced version of their previous model BigDog. Reaching 29 km/h on a running track the…
New world record in human domino was recently set in New Orleans. 850 people falling on each other.