If the title of this post alone makes you queasy, you might want to minimize your browser and finish whatever you’re eating before proceeding. No really. It involves things someone might do to your corpse after you’re dead, namely liquefaction, a lovely word, whose synonyms include “liquidize,” “deliquesce” and my personal favorite, “melt.” Oh right, don’t use your [...]
Keeping stride with Google’s recent run of green-friendly initiatives, a new data center in Hamina, Finland, takes advantages of the facility’s surrounding environment by using ocean water to cool its servers.
Even though Google was recently surpassed by Apple as the world’s most valuable brand, the Mountain View-based search giant’s recent string of eco-conscious decisions continues, this time in a fancy new office space.
Leave it to the Canadians to create a car made out of marijuana.
Just when you thought USB hubs couldn’t get any more exciting, they go and add a solar panel to one of them. Head? Explode.
Auto enthusiasts may know Gordon Murray best as the guy who designed the McLaren F1 but the rest of us will all eventually know him better for the T.25, a $9,000 compact car that measures just four feet wide by eight feet long, can drive two to a lane, and fit three to a standard [...]
Imagine for a second that I’m reading this post to you aloud in an Irish accent. Or you could read this aloud in an Irish accent.
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010
Speaking at TED last week, Bill Gates unveiled his vision for cleaner energy in the future and eliminating CO2 emissions by 2050 with his endorsement of a radically different type of nuclear reactor. He also noted the miracles that occur in nature by bringing out a jar of fireflies. It’s definitely worth the 30 minutes.
A laptop for less than $100? No, Best Buy isn’t going out of business.
