If you sleep for eight hours a day and live to be 90 years old, you will have been asleep for 30 years of your life.
A software engineer and former professor, Daniel Oldis, thinks we should be finding a way to capitalize on this time, and to use it to interact with other people.
Oldis has studied lucid dreaming for four decades, and is on the experimental threshold of being able to send messages to other people, asleep or not, via the internet.
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Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. Objects projected onto your back seat appear exactly as they are.
While a rear view mirrors’ convexity gives us a wide field of view, the sacrifice we make is that these object appear smaller and thus, further away.
While convexity is useful while changing lanes, it’s not so helpful after you’ve knocked someone’s bumper off while parallel parking.
Via DVice
What can support up to 4,000 times it’s own weight, withstand blasts of dynamite, and is used by NASA to collect comet dust?
If you guessed aerogel, you are correct!
Aerogel is one of the cooler synthetic substances that science has to offer. It was actually only invented in 1930, and only came into existence as the result of a bet between two chemists: Samuel Stephens Kistler and Charles Learned.
Courtesy of Uber Phones
While most of us own some kind of iProduct and receive a seemingly endless amount of joy from them, seldom do we offer a second thought to the production process required to make such a magical device a reality.
There’s a popular notion that the entire device is made by machines, but that’s not the case, as you’ll see below. A Taiwanese electronics company you may or may not have heard of, Foxconn, is responsible for the production and assembly of the iPads, iPods and iPhones that have come to dominate our daily lives.
Here’s a quick look inside the Foxconn factory in China, one that employs over 200,000 people!
Monkey.co.uk hauled in $22,400 this month
What a huge month for reported domain name sales. There were at least six, six figure sales, along with countless names changing hands in the high five figures.
It’s amazing to see the general public’s knowledge and understanding of the value of great domain names grow at an exponential rate. There’s no doubt internet real estate is booming.
Join us as we take a look at some of the top grossing and most obscure domain sales of the month of October.
Can this machine operate forever?
Since at least the 12th century, man has sought to create a perpetual motion machine; a device that would continue working indefinitely without any external source of energy.
A large scientific contingent thinks such a device would violate the laws of thermodynamics, and is thus impossible.
Could it be that as a race, we don’t fully understand the laws of physics and such a device may indeed be possible? What would the ramifications be if we could actually build a perpetually moving device?
Via Ryno Motors
“Personal electric transportation with the versatility of a single wheel and the horse power to take you wherever you want go.” -Ryno Motors
A bicycle is to a motorcycle as a unicycle is to a…
That’s the question everyone wants answered and one that mechanical engineer Chris Hoffman sought to solve. When Hoffman’s daughter drew him a sketch of a motorized, one wheeled contraption, he had no choice but to actually build one.
Courtesy of Philips
The light bulb, a modern marvel, has become bland and underappreciated. How did we let this happen? What can we do to bring that spark back?
Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd.
If you felt a disturbance in the force today, now you know why.
Two of the most iconic movie franchises in the world exchanged hands today when George Lucas, founder of Lucasfilm Limited, sold the company, along with the rights to both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises to the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 Billion in cash and stock.
Star Wars diehards can take solace in the fact that George Lucas will remain onboard as a creative consultant, as well as the fact that the storyline for the new trilogy, Episode 7 and beyond, was actually drafted by Lucas himself.