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Designing Sailbots to Mop Up Oil Spills
Someday, this fishboat robot-thing could be surveilling the oceans.
It’s the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Of the many terrible lessons learned from the event, perhaps the most tragic is the shocking inadequacy of current cleanup technology. Given how often we spill oil this is an urgent problem.
Enter Protei: an open source, shapeshifting, oil-spill-cleaning sailboat drone. Developed by a globally connected network of designers, …
U.S. Amasses Stealth Jet Armada Near Iran
The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world’s most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, including some fitted with the latest advanced radars. The Raptor-Eagle team has been honing special tactics for clearing the air of Iranian fighters in the event …
Video: Watching the Northern Lights From Above Earth
By Mark Brown, Wired UK
The Aurora Borealis is beautiful from the ground, but what does it look like from the air? A team of atmospheric physicists sent 30 balloons with HD cameras attached up to find out.
“The project had three main goals,” says Ben Longmier, plasma physicist and rocket scientist at Ad Astra Rocket Company and lecturer in physics at the University of …
Iceland Time-lapse Video Wins X Prize Foundation Exploration Contest
A few months ago, the X Prize Foundation sponsored a video contest that asked a deceptively simple question: Why do you explore?
Exploration is a distinctively human trait and something that the Foundation has incentivized through large monetary rewards, but it is also a deeply personal endeavor that affects and inspires everyone differently. Nonetheless, many entrants echoed similar refrains: to engage with other cultures, to learn …
Owning Your Words: Personal Clouds Build Professional Reputations
‘Tune into Radio and Experience the Power and Freedom of Desktop Web Publishing,’ reads Radio UserLand’s site. Image: Courtesy of Radio UserLand
When the blogosphere booted up at the turn of the century, I’d already been publishing online for years. So personal publishing wasn’t a revelation to me, though I knew it would be for many who hadn’t experienced it yet. But as bloggers came online, …
Latest Firefox Beta Turns On the ‘SPDY’
Firefox 13′s New Tab page
With Firefox 12 out the door, Mozilla is turning its efforts to polishing up Firefox 13, due out six weeks from now.
If you don’t want to wait that long, you can download Firefox 13 from the beta release channel today.
Perhaps the best new feature in Firefox 13 is what’s known as “tabs on demand.” Tabs on demand refers to the way …
The Borders We Create
Over at The Atlantic Cities, I have an article about a data visualization project of mine. Working with my collaborators, DeDe Paul of ATT, Vincent Blondel of Belgium’s Université catholique de Louvain, and Dominik Dahlem of IBM, we set out to examine the complex borders that divide people, separate from all the geopolitical borders:
When we think about borders, we tend to think of administrative boundaries. …
Driving on Civilian Roads a Struggle for Recently Returned Soldiers
Add one more item to the list of challenges that returning soldiers face coming home after a deployment: driving on civilian roads.
A new study shows that in their first six months back home, members of the military have 13 percent more at-fault accidents than they did in the six months before they deployed. Enlisted personnel had 22 percent more accidents, non-commissioned officers had 10 percent …
Former Navy SEAL Powers the Battlefield With Hybrid Generators
Doug Moorehead in the lab.Photo: Brian Ulrich
Take one Navy SEAL; add an MIT materials- science degree and a Harvard MBA. Result: one ass-kicking entrepreneur. Meet Doug Moorehead, a sharp, athletic guy from Cambridge, Ohio, whose military service took him to Iraq, South America, the Persian Gulf, and the South China Sea. Today, at 37 and retired from the special forces, he’s the president of clean-tech …
Nintendo to Sell New Super Mario 2 and Others Digitally
New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo 3DS will be sold as a physical cartridge and as a direct download this August, Nintendo said Friday.Image: Nintendo
Nintendo will sell New Super Mario Bros 2. and other games for 3DS and Wii U as both direct downloads and physical packages beginning in August, company president Satoru Iwata said in a financial briefing Friday.
The company has long …
Future Army Truck Inspired by the iPhone
The Army’s next truck should be smart, flexible, user-friendly, partially autonomous and affordable. In other words, the automotive equivalent of a gadget from Apple. At a trade conference in Virginia on Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Stephen Farmen, the chief of U.S. Army transportation, held up an iPhone. “How do we put the kind of power and technology like this into a wheeled vehicle and hit the …
Windows Azure: Misunderstood or Misguided?
Is Microsoft’s Azure simply misunderstood by a younger generation of coders? Image: Carlos Gutiérrez G./Flickr
Among the world’s developers, Microsoft has a perception problem, writes Wired Enterpise editor Cade Metz. Judging from interviews with myriad coders over the past several months, Azure isn’t just off the Silicon Valley radar. It’s misunderstood. It’s misunderstood not only by the younger generation of coders who grew up on …
Yahoo Slams Facebook for ‘Retaliation’ in Patent Lawsuit
Facebook found and purchased eight software patents for the sole purpose of “retaliating” against Yahoo for its pending patent lawsuit against the social networking giant, Yahoo argued in a strongly-worded court filing Friday that accuses Facebook of bad faith.
“No employee or officer of Facebook or any affiliated company conceived of, reduced to practice, or developed the alleged inventions claimed in the eight patents acquired from …
Teen Boat: Angst, Thrills, Barnacles
Remember Turbo Teen? It was a really goofy cartoon from the ’80s that involved a teenager who got mixed up in a secret government experiment, which … okay, the point is that he was a teenager who could turn into a car. Seriously — you can find clips of it on YouTube.
Anyway, I’m sure Dave Roman and John Green knew about it, because their new …
The Avengers‘ Hawkeye: Not Such a Bad Archer After All
This is better. Hawkeye has full extension, an anchor and his elbow isn’t too high or out to the side. I give it a B+.
I got to see a preview screening of The Avengers Wednesday night, and I need to amend my earlier comments regarding Hawkeye’s archery technique a little bit. I can’t give you a review of the film, at least not yet, but …
ScanStik SK600: Ultra-Portable Scanning
ScanStik SK600 — a little bit bigger than a Sharpie.
I remember the first time I got to use a scanner: it was during high school, and the photography teacher had the only one in the school. I was able to scan a few things during art class, and then tried to teach myself Photoshop with some grainy versions of a photo. Then, in college, one …
Kids Dress Up and Make Voices to Play Kinect Star Wars
The reception of a videogame is often as much about expectation as it is about the game itself. Many promises are made a broken between game conception and game launch. As Matt Blum’s post eloquently set out, Kinect Star Wars had a whole range of competing hopes.
It was interesting to see each of my children respond to the game very differently. The younger ones, who …
Ogre on Kickstarter
Do you recall the once popular microgames? Not to be confused with mini-games (video games within a video game), or mini-clips, the web based games that so many kids (including mine) play these days, the microgame was a tiny box of fun that could fit in your back pocket. Open it up and there was a fold out paper map, numerous game pieces (that scattered …
10 Things Parents Should Know About The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant, center, with his bird, “Polly”) and some of his band of misfits, including, (L-R) Pirate with Gout (voiced by Brendan Gleeson), Albino Pirate (voiced by Russell Tovey), Pirate with Scarf (voiced by Martin Freeman), and Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate (voiced by Ashley Jensen), in THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS, an animated film produced by Aardman Animation for Sony Pictures Animation.
1. …
The Mechanical Bride Digs Into Technosexual Desire, Sci-Fi Fembots
Director Allison de Fren’s indie documentary The Mechanical Bride smartly dissects male desire and sexy fembots of the past, present and future.
New documentary The Mechanical Bride is a moving, weirdly human exploration of artificial companionship. It’s also an academic dissection of the male gaze and pop culture’s sexbots, from Metropolis and Battlestar Galactica to actual robotic love objects.
The title of the documentary is borrowed from …
Ascension for iOS on Sale
Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer on iPhone and iPad.
If you haven’t played Ascension on iOS, you may now be in the minority. Playdek celebrated one million games played this week, and announced that the Storm of Souls expansion will be arriving as an in-app purchase in May. To celebrate the million-game milestone, Ascension is on sale for $.99 for a limited time. (Regular price is …
Earn a Masters in Dungeoneering From Faster Combat
Over the past year, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time being a n00b Dungeon Master in my gaming group’s first foray in to DD. I’ve written about it in my series, Confessions of a First Time DM for GeekDad, playing the Red Box as an introduction to the genre. And since then, my group has played a larger campaign that was a bit more …
Two New Threes
The 2012 328i. Photo by Basem Wasef/Wired
“Something’s different,” my friend grumbles from behind the wheel of my 2012 BMW 3-series test car.
He should know. His garage houses a last-gen BMW 330i and the cultishly track-focused Honda S2000. My buddy is cursed with a freakish attention to detail and an enthusiast’s acuity for stuff like steering feel and pedal feedback. He doesn’t use words like “delicious” …
As Interest in Autonomous Cars Rises, Google Shops For Automaker Partners
Image: Google
A study released by J.D. Power and Associates shows that 1 in 5 consumers would purchase a vehicle equipped with autonomous driving capabilities. The report comes days after Google expressed interest in partnering with automakers to bring the technology to market.
Speaking at the SAE World Congress in Detroit, Google project manager Anthony Levandowski told a crowd of hundreds of engineers that, “We don’t want …
April 27, 1791: Samuel F.B. Morse, ‘American Leonardo,’ Born
1791: Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the practical electromagnetic telegraph, is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He’ll also make waves in the art world and in politics.
Morse’s father, Jedidiah, was the co-inventor of cerographic sterotypy (a wax-based printing process), and he improved the bathometer (for measuring water depth). He also wrote and edited geography textbooks and with his brother founded the New York Observer.
S.F.B. Morse …
