via Fast Company
It’s no secret that the U.S. lags behind countries throughout Europe and Asia in the high-speed rail department. In 2009, the … Read More >>
FareBot: an Android transit-card sniffer
via Boing Boing
Eric Butler’s Android app FareBot uses the RFID reader built into the Nexus S Android phone to sniff RFID-enabled transit … Read More >>
Facebook and Privacy: Fired for Beer Photos?
via GOOD
Your Facebook profile is probably full of things that can get you fired. Just ask 24-year-old Ashley Payne, a former English … Read More >>
Electrified kids’ toys of 1950
via Boing Boing
From the July, 1950 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, a glorious collection of kids’ toys — some you might find today, but others … Read More >>
Aphids peeking (Boing Boing Flickr Pool)
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“Aphid Peeking,” a photograph contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by reader Aaron Muderick. “These guys are so tiny they … Read More >>
TI’s Chips Will Make 2012’s Tablets Real-Time 3-D Supercomputers
via Fast Company
Texas Instruments has just outed a chip well ahead of its 2012 availability date, but it’s such a hot ticket item it’s worth … Read More >>
Ebocloud, A Novel About The Social Singularity
via Singularity Hub
The Singularity may arrive through robots, computers, or bioengineering…or it might be created by Facebook. Ebocloud, the … Read More >>
AOL and The Huffington Post Create Click-Generating Chimera
via GOOD
According to news released early this morning, AOL, the struggling internet behemoth of the 1990s, is going to acquire The … Read More >>
This Power Plant Blows O’s and Doubles As a Ski Slope [Architecture]
Chronic Dev Team unleashes greenpois0n, untethered jailbreak for 4.2.1
via Engadget
It’s finally here, folks. The Chronic Dev Team has put out the latest version of greenpois0n that allows you to free your … Read More >>