When our oil supplies run out, it won’t just be fuel for our cars that dries up. Everything you own that’s made of plastic has been made using the black gold and, until now, there’s been no other way to create it. Fortunately, scientists can now produce plastic from plant matter, which could massively cut our dependency on oil.
via Who Needs Oil When Scientists Can Make Plastic From Plants?.
That thing youre worried is going to happen to you ever single time you walk down the sidewalk while texting? It just happened. To someone else! Laugh away.Were loath to make light of a woman falling down so severely that she has trouble getting up and attracts the attention of an entire crowd, but, yknow. Shes clearly forgetting the “glance up every few seconds” rule, anyway.
via Girl Falls on Her Face While Texting During Live News Broadcast.
Its certainly a first world problem, but finding a way to use a bar of soap once its become a tiny sliver is tricky dammit. Thats why I love this brilliant Stack soap featuring a groove for merging the previous bar.Whats particularly great about the idea is that its a tiny change to the shape of the bar. It just adds a grooved indent so you can stack the previous bar on top, and after a few uses, theyll be stuck together for good.
click here to watch video of it works, it’s really a great simple idea
Aereo is a new broadcast TV provider launching in New York that makes TV watching a lot more convenient. You dont have a cable box, you dont have an antenna, you dont have ridiculous fees. Instead, Aereo handles all the fuss for you. How?
via Would You Ditch Cable If You Could Still Watch TV Anywhere You Want and Anytime You Like?.
If youre one of those people who battles through all-nighters, parties hard only to rise early, or has plain old insomnia, I have some bad news for you. Scientists have shown that sleep deprivation in early adult life is linked to memory problems when youre old.
via Sleeping Better Now Helps Prevent Memory Loss When Youre Old.
I was talking to a friend and tech enthusiast the other day–lets call him “Chuck”–and he sheepishly admitted that hed taken the iPad plunge.I was shocked. Not so much because Chuck had never bought an Apple product before take note, Android fan boys, but because hed bought an iPad 2 with the iPad 3 just around the corner if the rumors are to be believed.I told him he was crazy. In buying his first Apple product, hed not only broken the cardinal rule of buying Apple products dont buy within six months of the launch of a new, version 1.0 product, but hed committed the ghastly sin of buying within 30 days of a potential new product announcement.
So this happened. Its a father reacting to a post his daughter made on Facebook. He wasnt happy. You can skip ahead to 7 minutes for the big reveal.Im not convinced this is real, but its an interesting look at modern parenting. The link to a Facebook page that appears at the beginning of the video and on YouTube seems to have been taken down.
The little mobile-only social network kicked up a big privacy debacle by uploading its members address book data to its servers without their knowledge. Today, Path announced that its deleting that data, and released a new version of its app.The new version gives users the ability to opt-in or out of sharing address book information. It also announced exactly what it does with that data:
There are no hospitals in space. The closest E.R. is back on Earth, and astronauts cant exactly jump in a cab to get there. So what happens if the sun burps out a massive blast of radiation while an astronaut is space-amblin by?The NASA Biocapsule—made of carbon nanotubes—will be able to “diagnose” and instantly treat an astronaut without him or her even knowing theres something amiss. It would be like having your own personal Dr. McCoy—implanted under your skin. It represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in the history of medicine, and yes, itll work on Earth, too.
Follow link below to see video of they are made;
via The Miraculous NASA Breakthrough That Could Save Millions of Lives.
The Devium Dash Kickstarter project is a replacement stereo system for your car with one big difference. Its brain is your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S. The unique Devium Dash is composed of two parts. The body sits in your car and provides 4 x 50w to power your speakers, two 2v Maxim preamps for front and rear/sub, as well as AUX-in and a video pass-through for an in-car display. The faceplate attaches magnetically to the body and docks your iPhone or iPod touch. This means that, for example, if Apple releases an iPhone 5 with a different form factor, you don’t need to replace the entire Devium Dash when you upgrade; you simply acquire a new faceplate adapter.
via Devium Dash looks to replace your car audio system with your iPhone | iMore.
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