on the history of the pompeii plaster casts.
It’s impossible to see those 3 cast figures and not feel moved. They’ve been dead for 1800 years, but they are human creatures seen in their agony
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Power Bank phone
You couldn’t be further out of touch with your “iphone”. Uhe interesting developments aren’t going to happen in the places pundits obsess about.
1 thing that quickly became clear when I spoke to people is that the number 1 reason they bought the phone is to use it as a power bank. Ghana is currently experiencing a severe power crisis — city-wide blackouts of 36 hours or more have become the norm in the capital, and a brisk business has grown around selling power banks, which are small portable rechargeable batteries that can be used to charge small electronics such as MP3 players and, yes, phones.
Ultradistancia
Winer infuses Google Earth landscapes with vivid color—distorting them and making the shapes, contours, and patterns on the planet’s surface pop. As the project’s name suggests, the idea is to become intimate with these mini-portraits of Earth, from afar.
Immune system cloaking
Researchers has come up with a way to reduce immune-system rejection of implantable devices used for drug delivery, tissue engineering, or sensing. Previous research found that smooth surfaces, especially spheres, are better — but counterintuitively, larger spheres actually work better at reducing scar tissue. “We realized that regardless of what the composition of the material is, this effect still persists, and that made it a lot more exciting because it’s a lot more generalizable”.
Thames Floating Cottage
Have you ever dreamed of dozing off as you sail along one of the UK’s busiest water highways in an eclectic bright blue cottage replete with a lawn, wisteria over the door and an apple tree? For 5 days and nights, this dream will come to life in the shape of Nick and Steve Tidball’s floating residence for Airbnb.
Jenglish
Microbatteries
A high-performance 3D microbattery that could be integrated into microchips at production volumes has been developed by researchers. Miniaturizing a battery to fit in a microchip is a major challenge, but it would be important for providing power to microscale devices such as actuators, distributed wireless sensors and transmitters, and portable and implantable medical devices.
Real estate photographs
Wake up Eric, the agent’s here. And for heaven’s sake put some clothes on.
State of 3D printing
3D printing has come a long way from the utter toys of a few years ago: many more textures and materials, metals, 3D scanners for reverse-engineering.
3D Printed shoes
Making shoes even more uncomfortable.
these look interesting, if maybe a bit impractical. it’s time for 3d printing to grow up beyond the makerbot toy stage.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 