 The
Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) provides 27
megawatts of power for 15 minutes - long enough for the Anchorage, AK co-op to start up local generation.
 Nano
Guitar - "...Yeah, but can you tune it?"
 NASA
engineers used a kind of "artificial evolution" software to find this antenna design. The result may look odd,
but it works very well.
 I
think DOW's "Human Element" theme is extremely clever. |
 The
PillCam™ ESO travels through the esophagus by normal peristaltic waves, flashing 14 times per second, each
time capturing images of the inner lining of the esophagus, and transmitting them wirelessly to a receiver. Metamaterial
that has a negative index of refraction.
 Full-Scale
High-Speed Schlieren Imaging of Explosions and Gunshots (aka, photographing shock waves)
 June
6, 2006, the temporary dam walls used during construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River were
blown up to release the water. Watch the cool video.
 Flight
Explorer Real-time traffic in the entire U.S. |
 Extreme
ESD - the photographer was only 20 meters away!
 Simulated
Pickett N909-ES Slide Rule - online & interactive - excellent!
 The
entry for evolution on Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia that anyone can edit, was altered 2,081 times by
68 editors between December 2001 and last October. IBM's Watson Research Center produced this image, which
tracks the transformation. Each vertical line is a new version; each color is a different editor.
 Here
is North Korea at night. It is virtually dark compared to its nearest neighbors of South Korea and Japan. Now,
if those light water nuclear reactors we gave them were being used to generate electricity instead of creating
weapons-grade fuel, maybe the poor people of North Korea would have lights (and heat, and radios, and
televisions, and ovens, and DVD players, and computers, and.. |
 Need
a new stereo? Krell Evolution One Price: A mere $50,000.
 Adrian
White, Analytic Social Psychologist, at the University of Leicester has produced the world's first "World
Happiness Map"
 Grace
Hopper's computer "bug" taped in the log book. |
