Thursday, May 08, 2014

drag2share: This is the starstuff you and everything else are made of

Source: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-is-a-grain-of-interstellar-stardust-1573047996/+caseychan

This is the starstuff you and everything else are made of

This is a grain of interstellar dust. To get one of these, your best bet is to get into a spaceship for a couple hundred years and get close enough to a red giant star, near its atmosphere. That's where they're formed and ejected into space. Or, like NASA, you can create a machine to make one from scratch—for the first time ever.

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drag2share: The world would be a much better place if everyone listened to this

Source: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-world-would-be-a-much-better-place-if-everyone-list-1573117334/+caseychan

The world would be a much better place if everyone listened to this

The Pale Blue Dot—a book that should be mandatory for every single student in the world—is a vision of the cosmos that will inspire you to be a better human being. It's full of memorable passages but this is the best—the one that gives its title to the book.

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drag2share: Adobe Voice: A Free iPad App For Pitching Brilliant Ideas to the World

Source: http://gizmodo.com/adobe-voice-a-free-ipad-app-for-pitching-brilliant-ide-1572443425

Adobe Voice: A Free iPad App For Pitching Brilliant Ideas to the World

Everyone with a cool new idea or vision wants a concise and beautiful video to illustrate their story and broadcast it to the world. But oh, right—you suck at all things visual and just learned how to make something move in After Effects. Adobe's new iPad app, Voice, is there to hold your hand in the making of presentation videos.

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drag2share: Experimental Color-Changing Fabric Could Turn You Into a Chameleon

Source: http://gizmodo.com/experimental-color-changing-fabric-could-turn-you-into-1573373997

Experimental Color-Changing Fabric Could Turn You Into a Chameleon

Animals do it , so why shouldn't we? This experimental textile project by Judit Eszter Karpati allows a fabric to change its color in a snap, based on its surroundings, thanks to some Arduino brains.

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drag2share: Arizona will get non-stop clean energy from hot air drafts

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/solar-wind-energy-tower/

Solar Wind Energy Tower

Many green energy sources only generate power in a narrow range of conditions. Solar panels won't work when it's dark, for instance, and wind turbines are useless when everything is still. If Solar Wind Energy Tower has its way, though, we'll soon get clean electricity around the clock. It recently received permission to build a tower in San Luis, Arizona that produces power through hot air downdrafts; water injected at the top of the tower cools the desert winds, dragging them toward turbines at the bottom. Since it's almost always hot in the area, the plant should run all day and night for much of the year. An ideal summer day could have it churning out a healthy 1,250 megawatts per hour.

The downdraft tower should be ready for action in 2018, and Solar Wind Energy Tower hopes to license the technology to others. As you might imagine, the need for a hot climate is going to narrow the customer list -- you won't see this system in more temperate regions. However, it could be a boon to both the southern US as well as Africa, the Middle East and other places where heat is far more abundant than eco-friendly energy.

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Via: Phys.org

Source: Solar Wind Energy Tower, Accesswire (MarketWatch)

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