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19 Oct 2011
This is kind of mind blowing. Can a magic carpet be far behind?
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29 Dec 2010
I'm not sure it'd be any quicker, but it's certainly more elegant.
(via Broadsheet)
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10 Dec 2010
The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions, discovered 1901 by sponge divers in the wreck of the ancient Greek ship the Antikythera, on the sea bed near Crete. However, its complexity and significance were not understood until decades later. It is now thought to have been built about 150-100 BCE. It is astoundingly complex and a boggling feat of engineering considering when it was made, and it predicts the positions of the sun, moon, other planets, and celestial events like eclipses with amazing accuracy- though this was not even begun to be understood till the 1950's.
Over the ensuing years many detailed studies of the device have shed more light on it's purpose and how it was built, and eventually "virtual models" were made.
And now, a fully functioning model has been built using Lego.
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history
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09 Dec 2010
(via MeFi)
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maths
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06 Dec 2010
It's about maths but you'd hardly notice. Honest!
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15 Oct 2010
Engineers are about to make the final "break through" on the world's longest rail tunnel, the 57 kilometer long Gotthard Base Tunnel in the Swiss Alps. It's a very impressive project.
Click HERE and then click on the picture for a slide show of the almost completed work.
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08 Oct 2010
But it's a kind of fun and interesting economic Nerd Break. Honest.
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13 Sep 2010
In 1961, a computer sang for the first time.
And I suspect that Stanley Kubrick was aware of that bit of trivia, and is why the dying homocidal computer HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey sings the same song....
(links via MeFi)
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08 Sep 2010
Robot snake climbing a tree.
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27 Jul 2010
In less than a year, the world will run out of internet addresses and could lead to broken applications and more expensive net connections. When the protocol for IP addresses was developed 30 years ago, computers were the size of a room, mobile phones hadn't been invented, and the idea that TV's, cars and even fridges would want IP addresses was preposterous.
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