Mount Taranaki in New Zealand photographed spectacularly from space. Once mooted as a location for the Lonely Mountain In the Hobbit Trilogy, a digital mockup of Mount Cook was used instead.
Never mind that. Here’s the new Desolation of Smaug trailer anyway.
Awolnation’s ‘Sail’ played on a 2KW audio-modulated, dual resonant, solid state, water-cooled tesla coil at at Maker Faire Kansas City.
The young chap demonstrating it (for the 67th time, presumably) could do with a jolt.
Instructables member Yoshinok demonstates how to view cells and salt crystals close up for less than ten bucks. Sez he:
The setup shown here is a viable substitute for underfunded classrooms that would otherwise be unable to perform experiments requiring a microscope.
Full instructable here.
Henry Reich of Minute Physics explains diamagnetism – or how to levitate objects using magnets.
A unique 46-million-year-old mosquito fossil with a belly full of dried blood has been found in a Montana riverbed, according to United States researchers. “It is an extremely rare fossil, the only one of its kind in the world,” Dale Greenwalt, lead author of the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), said.
Quick! Start up the centrifuge. Somebody fetch a frog.
Cutting-edge instruments detected the unmistakable traces of iron in her engorged abdomen, but just what creature that blood came from is a mystery since DNA cannot be extracted from a fossil that old.
Damn. So close.
Rare mosquito fossil found in Montana riverbed shows insect’s blood-filled belly (ABC News)
The average American, Japanese, Dutch and French male (l-r, top two pix) – drawing on official data from CDC (US), e-stat (Japan), RIVM (Netherlands) and ENNS (France) and Illustrated by The Feed’s Nickolay Lamm.
USA: 29 BMI, 176.4 cm height, 99.4 cm waist
Japan: 23.7 BMI, 171.4 cm height, 82.9 cm waist
Netherlands: 25.2 BMI, 183.3 cm height , 91 cm waist
France: 25.55 BMI, 174.4 cm height, 92.3 cm waist
Much as you’d expect, really.
(Pic: WHO 2008 data)
Belfast based developers Chris McClelland and Niall Kelly of Cargo love a bit of homebrew.
As tends to happen with the hobby, their setup moved from a few plastic buckets to a Frankenstein’s monster of copper tubing, stainless steel drums and wired sensors.
Barring developing a case of Auto-Brewery Syndrome, they figured they could develop a more streamline process out of their experiments.
Enter Brewbot
…a smart brewing appliance that you can control and monitor with your smartphone. Never brewed? No problem. Our goal was to make an easy-to-use, controlled environment that is aesthetically pleasing, and frees up brewers to focus on the recipes. You don’t need to know anything about brewing.
The lads are so passionate about this project they moved the whole team en masse to Portland, Oregon, the micro-brewery capital of America, to refine the product.
Coming in at £1,500 it’s pricer than just buying your beer straight off the shelf but it certainly beats the prison wine we’ve been brewing in my den the Broadsheet office.
YOUR thoughts?
Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club in Germany have demonstrated that you can steal the fingerprint from any drinking glass and access anyone’s iPhone 5S without any difficulty. A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID. Just with a camera, a laser printer, and some wood glue.
iPhone 5S’ fingerprint security can be easily broken, hackers show (Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo)
A queue of around 300 people at the Apple store in Victoria Square, Belfast.
Paulo Ross tweetz:
iPhone5S has almost sold out at Apple, Belfast. Only £700+ 64GB ‘Sky grey’ models left. Crazy.
Pics: Fionnaula O’Connell, Paulo Ross
Isolating quantum coherence – easier said than done.
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the mind-boggling potential (and unlikely appearance any time soon) of quantum computers – theoretically capable of performing computations in finite time that would take longer than the age of the Universe to perform otherwise.
