Now there’s a use — it’s a shame I already sent mine off to e-cycling.
brit:
More shots of our DIY Floppy Disk Planters. So fun!
“Any person using the wrong key in the 1780 lock on the right will find his wrist clamped by the jaws of a fearsome metal lion; anyone jimmying the 1823 lock on the left may get shot by the pistol embedded within it (just barely visible at top right).” — The History of Key Design: From Ancient Wooden Rods to the Hotel Keycard - Slate Magazine
Oakley GPS eyewear helps cyclists maximize their performance in real time
Athletes are always on the lookout for ways to enhance their performance. For cyclists, pushing their endurance limits needs to be matched with the best available technology to translate their best physical efforts with equal results on the track. During training and competing, compare personal bests and visually tracking lap times can be of tremendous help with a device like the one the Oakley GPS designed by Cleave. The next gen of Oakley eye-wear already popular with cyclists, the design allows for both pro road and track cyclists to keep an eye on their performance via an OLED Micro-Display Lens technology-fitted pair of eye-wear that are mated to performance and position tracking tech as well as real-time GPS.
I wonder if this would be useful on my 9 mph bike commute.
"Sixty-six percent (66%) of American Adults say they prefer reading a printed version of the newspaper, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Twenty-eight percent (28%) like reading the online version of their preferred paper instead."
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66% Prefer Reading Print Newspaper To Online Version - Rasmussen Reports™
Rasmussen Reports just released a new report looks into the way people prefer to consume their news. They have more information on their site, but there is a paywall. Via Poynter.
(via onaissues)
I wonder how much this changes if the question is asked would you rather pay for a paper version or read a free online version.
Personally, I love the experience of reading a physical newspaper, but I consume less than 5% of my news that way.
(via brooklynmutt)
"People use Microsoft products because they have to, not because they want to. If you don’t make products that people use because they want to, you’re going to lose the consumer space. Actually, you already have. That’s what the post is all about."
— MG Siegler on Microsoft and how he believes they’ve lost consumer tech to Apple. (via caterpillarcowboy)
Solution to oversleeping.
npr:
What Happens in an Internet Minute
Via Intel:
In just one minute, more than 204 million emails are sent. Amazon rings up about $83,000 in sales. Around 20 million photos are viewed and 3,000 uploaded on Flickr. At least 6 million Facebook pages are viewed around the world. And more than 61,000 hours of music are played on Pandora while more than 1.3 million video clips are watched on YouTube.
All in all, that’s 625 terabytes of information sloshing about the tubes each minute.
Whoa. That is all. Whoa. -Savy
Seconded. Whoa.
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The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph
This graph below from Visual Economics, which shows the adoption rate of new technologies across the century, is one of my new favorites … Click it. Print it. Take your time with it. That’s a lot of linear data. One way to parse it is to ignore everything at the top and trace your eye along the 10% line:
In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove, or had access to electricity or phones
In 1915, <10% of families owned a car
In 1930, <10% of families owned a refrigerator or clothes washer
In 1945, <10% of families owned a clothes dryer or air-conditioning
In 1960, <10% of families owned a dishwasher or color TV
In 1975, <10% of families owned a microwave
In 1990, <10% of families had a cell phone or access to the Internet
Today, at least 90% of the country has a stove, electricity, car, fridge, clothes washer, air-conditioning, color TV, microwave, and cell phone. They make our lives better. They might even make us happier. But they are not enough.
Read more. [Image: Visual Economics]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m27w1jaQKQ1qcokc4o1_500.png)
The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph
This graph below from Visual Economics, which shows the adoption rate of new technologies across the century, is one of my new favorites … Click it. Print it. Take your time with it. That’s a lot of linear data. One way to parse it is to ignore everything at the top and trace your eye along the 10% line:
- In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove, or had access to electricity or phones
- In 1915, <10% of families owned a car
- In 1930, <10% of families owned a refrigerator or clothes washer
- In 1945, <10% of families owned a clothes dryer or air-conditioning
- In 1960, <10% of families owned a dishwasher or color TV
- In 1975, <10% of families owned a microwave
- In 1990, <10% of families had a cell phone or access to the Internet
Today, at least 90% of the country has a stove, electricity, car, fridge, clothes washer, air-conditioning, color TV, microwave, and cell phone. They make our lives better. They might even make us happier. But they are not enough.
Read more. [Image: Visual Economics]
Willy Wonka was right!
Japanese Company Announces Plans to Build 20,000-Mile-High Space Elevator by 2050
Scientists have long considered the possibility of creating ultra-tall space elevators that stretch beyond the earth’s atmosphere to transport satellites and shuttles into outer space without the cost and environmental impact of rocket fuels. Now a Japanese company specializing in major infrastructure projects called The Obayashi Corporation has announced plans to build a space elevator by 2050, with the aim of taking tourists 20,000 miles above the planet’s surface.
Cool science/engineering news. Bad news for acrophobes.
So Spaceballs pretty much had it right….
A computer lab at MIT in the 1960’s, where experts believe the first computer password came into use, and that it was “ABCDEFG,” and that it was written down on a Post-It and stuck to a wall in a highly-trafficked part of the office and also shared with the entire staff via email and also posted to Craigslist.
A buried and forgotten fiber-optic network could provide broadband speeds more than 2,500 times faster than the fastest broadband currently available in New York City. The unused cable, called “dark fiber” is being snapped up by Google, who could become an nationwide ISP overnight.
Google has been buying up dark fiber across the country in recent years and plans to launch an “ultra-fast” fiber optic-based Internet service in Kansas City, Mo., later this year that will deliver speeds of around 1 gigabit per second. That’s fast enough to download, say, the high-definition version of “Moneyball” from iTunes in about 30 seconds.
If they could get around to doing this in DC, it would make up for the fact that FIOS is not coming to most of the District’s neighborhoods for the next several years.
