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The Week In Numbers: The World's Largest Lego Model, Viagra For Women, And More
5 hours 12 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Lego's life-size X-wing fighter Dan Bracaglia 5.3 million: the number of Lego bricks used to build the world's largest Lego model, a life-size X-wing fighter complete with Lego Luke Skywalker 40,000: the planned population for Masdar City, a solar-powered eco-metropolis in the middle of the Arabian desert and the world's most ambitious eco-city...
The World's Most Expensive Weapon Just Got A Little Cheaper
6 hours 27 minutes ago - Pop Sci
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter USAF Cost projections for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program declined $4.5 billion last year. File this under something you don't see every day. The total projected price for the Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program--the most expensive weapons development program in history--has dropped. Though its pro...
Your Complete Guide To White Wine [Infographic]
5 hours 42 minutes ago - Pop Sci
20 White Wines In 20 Flavors Sean Seidell Or, how to get smashed with class So you're about to order a bottle of tasty white wine! Do you want dry, very dry, or off-dry? And what ratio of melon-ness to butterscotch-ness do you want? What about saltiness? Stonefruit-ness? If you don't know, your waiter will look at you through eyes swollen with pity...
Will Google (And The US Government) Permit Google Glass To Recognize Faces On Sight?
7 hours 11 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Google Glass Sans Person Google "Okay, Glass. Who's that?" TechCrunch has a nice look at a new API from Lambda Labs, an "early-stage startup" (meaning, brand-new) from San Francisco, that's causing a bit of consternation. Lambda Labs makes a facial recognition API, which you can actually try out here in your browser. But now Lambda has released a v...
Big Pic: Hubble Space Telescope Captures The Ring Nebula In Astonishing Detail
8 hours 12 minutes ago - Pop Sci
The Ring Nebula New images of the Ring Nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope are redefining the way astronomers understand its shape. NASA, ESA, C.R. Robert O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), G.J. Ferland (University of Kentucky), W.J. Henney and M. Peimbert (National Autonomous University of Mexico) Astronomers love to point their telescopes...
Disco-Ball People And Other Amazing Images From This Week
9 hours 12 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Disco-Ball People For an exhibition at Christian Larsen gallery in Stockholm, artist Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen covered mannequins in broken mirror shards, then projected light onto them, turning the mannequins into disco-ball people. Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen via Colossal Plus a Lamborghini from the future, a full-size Lego X-wing, and more ...
Robotic Kite Power Could Turn The Sky Into A Wind Farm
9 hours 57 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Turbines and Kites Makani Power Google's acquisition of a kite power generator manufacturer suggests a strong future for the technology. Google has acquired a Bay Area technology company that generates power through wind turbines attached to robotic kites. The news comes just a couple weeks after the company, Makani Power, completed the first fully...
Bridge Collapse in Washington State Sends Two Cars Plunging Into The Skagit River
10 hours 43 minutes ago - Pop Sci
The collapsed I-5 span over Washington's Skagit River No one was killed, but it's just another example of how badly American infrastructure is crumbling. It's been a rough week for bridges around the U.S. At about 7 p.m. local time in Washington state yesterday a bridge spanning the Skagit river north of Seattle (part of Interstate 5) collapsed aft...
These 11 Robot Bartenders Will Get You Drunk
11 hours 12 minutes ago - Pop Sci
The MakrShakr Shaking Arm MIT These robotic bartenders can do everything from mix drinks to evaluate the quality of your wine Click here to enter the gallery In the future, we'll take self-driving cars to cookouts, raise a glass to the robots fighting wars abroad (or, okay, to their remote human operators), and drink cocktails made by robots. Wait...
NASA Inspects Ion Engine Prototype For Asteroid-Hauling Rocket
11 hours 39 minutes ago - Pop Sci
Ion Propulsion Thruster An ion propulsion thruster, developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, that's being considered for NASA's Asteroid Retrieval Initiative. This thruster uses xenon ions. NASA/JPL-Caltech A look at possible propulsion for NASA's plan to bring an asteroid home for study. When NASA sends a rocket out to tow an asteroid into Eart...
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