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, …
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Greenovation: Google’s New Data Facility Cooled by Seawater
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.
Google Senior Director of Datasite Construction and Operations, Joe Kava, relays that the building, purchased in 2009, was …
Google Hires Fancy Green-Friendly Architects to Build Fancy Green-Friendly Office
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.
The company is set to have their “biggest year in hiring history” and has hired prestigious design firm Ingenhoven …
Canadian Government Sponsors The Ultimate Green Car
Leave it to the Canadians to create a car made out of marijuana.
Really latching onto this trend of green technology, Motive Industries has invented the Kestrel. The electric automobile (ha, I guess an internal combustible engine was out of the question) has a body shell made of hemp. And, this car is completely legal since the weed …
USB Hub Gets a Solar Panel for Nerdgasmic Beach Fun
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.
Now how much would you expect to pay for a miracle of modern technology such as this? A million skillion dollars? A bajillion?
Keep in mind that it’s a 4-port USB hub while you’re at your desk but once it’s …
Tiny ‘T.25’ Car to Cost $9,000 and Get 74 Miles Per Gallon
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 parking spot.
Oh, and it gets 74 miles to the …
St. Patty’s Day Survival Kit
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.
And so we begin.
I’m not sure what the actual statistic is for cell phones being dropped into the toilet but I know it’s pretty high. So on this Hallmark Holiday of drinking, I present to you a St. …
The Daily Dose
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010
Today in Techland: Things got a little crazy as Steve chatted with The Crazies director Breck Eisner about torture porn and the perfect “ick factor,” while Peter looked at the comic spin-off series. (Are they worth it? Oh yeah.) Meanwhile, Evan found the return of Aquaman in the silver lining of the upcoming …
What Do Fireflies and Bill Gates Have in Common?
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.
The World’s First $99 Laptop
A laptop for less than $100? No, Best Buy isn’t going out of business.
Cherrypal, the self-touted eco-friendly computer company – Cherrypal.com is powered by wind energy – just unveiled it’s newest and cheapest computer yet – the 7-in. Cherrypal Africa. Make no mistake, as far as computers go, this is no modern marvel. On …