Scientists from the USA and Greece are returning to the site where the Antikythera Mechanism, the world’s oldest computing device, was found in 1901. The Antikythera Mechanism was an apparatus of interlocking gears that was dated to 100 BC.
Apple today replaced their home page with a 2 minute video featuring Steve Jobs stills and notable quotes. Below is the obituary that was published by CNET on the day of his death.
By the 20th Century, mental asylums had begun evolving from dark, isolated institutions where criminal and civil insane patients were housed together to the more organized, medical treatment facility that we know today. The old were left to decay. Here we present thirteen abandoned mental asylums.
Stan Lee has released a statement about his pacemaker surgery to reassure his legion of fans that he is doing fine. Attention, Troops! This is a dispatch sent from your beloved Generalissimo, directly from the center of Hollywood’s combat zone!
Chris Carter, of X-Files fame, is working on a new sci-fi thriller TV series project title “The After”. The show is being described as “thriller that takes place in the aftermath of a mysterious and unexplained happening”. According to the press release, it will incorporate “”elements of science fiction, suspense, and real-world fear and paranoia”.
As Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiered on Nickelodeon this past weekend, an artist in London commemorated the event with this unbelievable sidewalk art. The artwork shows Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo climbing out of the sewer on to the pavement.
Urbee 3D printed carA working prototype of a hybrid-electric two-seater car called Urbee, is the world’s first 3D printed car. Urbee, (Urban Electric with Ethanol as backup) was created to be practical, efficient, inexpensive, easy to repair, safe to drive, and built from technology that exists today. Instead of being prototyped by hand, the company…
Oceanographers at Texas A&M University have warned that the millions of pounds of unexploded bombs scattered throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, pose serious threats to the shipping lanes that run through those regions. Discarded military ordnance, including one thousand pound bombs the size of file cabinets and chemical weapons…
A man is visiting the cemetery to place flowers on the grave of his dearly departed mother. He places the flowers on the grave and is walking back towards his car when he notices another man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity and repeating, “Why did you have…
Neil Young introduced his new high-fidelity Pono music service on The Late Show with David Letterman on September 28, 2012. Little details on the technology utilized are available but Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea got a first-hand demonstration of the service and said “it’s a draastic difference”.
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