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Closer to a Printable Engine
…researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially … Continue reading
On Telepresence
Despite what the travel industry wants, telepresence is going to keep taking off. Why? It makes business sense. It’s cheaper (flights, hotels, expense accounts), its more effective (meetings in six cities in one day), and its empowering (work from anywhere). Over … Continue reading
$69 Open Source iTouch-like Device
Microtouch. Why not build your own touch-screen device, with your own apps, all on open source hardware and using open source tools? OK, it can’t play MP3s, but it does have a 320×240 TFT color display with resistive touch screen, … Continue reading
Amazing Content Aware Feature in Photoshop
Skip to the 2:50 mark (halfway). It’s amazing for a future release. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
IED Market in Afghanistan Vs. Iraq
Lt. Gen. Michael Oates – Structure: Bomb networks in Afghanistan differ somewhat from those in Iraq. Iraqi IED cells were largely funded by Saddam Hussein loyalists and sympathetic Sunnis in the Arab Gulf states. Bomb emplacers were the disenfranchised and … Continue reading