Thursday, August 23, 2007
Interior Design: Light-Emitting Wallpaper Does Just What it Says
I can't tell you much about this wallpaper, except for that I think it rules the school. It's basically a two-dimensional light source that switches on and off. Please, someone put Jonas Samson's idea into practice, because I'd have no hesitation in putting this up in my bedroom. Just one question, though: does it come in a roll? [Design Scoops]
Posted by Augustine at 9:43 AM
Mempile's TeraDisc fits 1TB on a single optical disc
Read - Mempile website
Read - In-depth article about TeraDisc at The Future of Things
Posted by Augustine at 9:22 AM
iPhone Safari does NOT support Flash (of ANY flavor)
Source: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/designingcontent.html
scroll down to near the bottom
Unsupported Technologies
You’ll want to avoid using Flash and Java for iPhone content. You’ll also want to avoid encouraging users from downloading the latest Flash to their iPhone, because neither Flash nor downloads are supported by Safari on iPhone.
Safari on iPhone does not support:
window.showModalDialog()
- Mouse-over events
- Hover styles
- Tool tips
- Java applets
- Flash
- Plug-in installation
- Custom x.509 certificates
Rubik's Cube solvable in 26 moves or less
After 63 hours of calculation, the supercomputer found that it took no more than 16 steps to turn any random configuration into a special configuration that can be solved using only half-turns. And since those special puzzles can be solved in no more than 13 steps, this approach showed that 29 steps were enough to solve any Rubik's Cube.Link
But this answer wasn't good enough to set a new record. Last year, Silviu Radu of the Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden showed that any Rubik's Cube can be solved in no more than 27 steps. Kunkle and Cooperman realized that to set a new record, they would need to eliminate three steps.
Their existing method had established that all but about 80 million sets of configurations could be solved in 26 steps or fewer. By searching through all possible moves starting from those relatively few configurations, they succeeded in finding a solution for each one that took 26 steps or fewer.
Previously on BB:
• Video of tot solving Rubik's Cube Link
• Table shaped like huge Rubik's Cube Link
• Michel Gondry solves Rubik's Cube with feet Link
Posted by Augustine at 7:05 AM