Rumors of an Android-based tablet from Motorola and Verizon have surfaced claiming the 10-inch device may be on store shelves by the fall. Motorola’s tablet would be a direct competitor to Apple’s iPad. But unlike Apple’s tablet, you would be able to watch television on the Motorola device thanks to integration with Verizon’s FIOS digital TV service, according to the Financial Times. The Times doesn’t provide any detailed specs for the tablet, but does say it [...]

The Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was the more successful of the only two supersonic passenger airliners to have ever operated commercially (the Tupolev Tu-144 being the other). The development programme was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, with 20 aircraft built. The costly development phase thus represented a substantial economic loss. Air France and British Airways were subsidised to buy the aircraft by their governments, while other sales were blocked [...]

The Lockheed SR-71 is an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird, and called the Habu by its crews. Clarence “Kelly” Johnson was responsible for many of the design’s advanced concepts, with the SR-71 being one of the first aircraft shaped to reduce its radar cross section, although its radar signature could be tracked by contemporary [...]

The Mad Catz controllers for call of duty: Black Ops are a little different to what we saw earlier. But yes they are Precision Aim controllers, and are in the same shape, but they do have some art on their controllers for PS3, XBOX and Wii. Also Mad Catz are launching a PC gaming mouse. The PC gaming mouse comes with a 2GB USB dogtag flashdrive, also a gaming mouse pad. You can also buy a lenticular inductive charger for your Wiimote. PS3 and XBOX users will be able to buy the OptiCom ProGaming [...]

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“It seems plausible that with technology we can, in the fairly near future create (or become) creatures who surpass humans in every intellectual and creative dimension. Events beyond such an event — such a singularity — are as unimaginable to us as opera is to a flatworm.” Vernor Vinge -SciFi great The Singularity is an apocalyptic idea originally proposed by John von Neumann, one of the inventors of digital computation, and elucidated by figures such as Ray Kurzweil and [...]

“It seems plausible that with technology we can, in the fairly near future create (or become) creatures who surpass humans in every intellectual and creative dimension. View original post here: The Emergence of a Global Brain – Will It Happen?

The Mobile Decade: Greatest Gadgets From 10 Years of Innovation During the first decade of the 21st century, we saw a whole slew of new mobile technologies capture the public imagination: the smartphone, the MP3 player, the USB stick, touchscreens, Wi-Fi, 3G wireless, pocket camcorders, digital SLRs and more.Thanks to these inventions, people got increasingly plugged into an always-on, totally portable, always-connected existence. Where we stand now, notebooks outsell desktop PCs, people spend more [...]

While many Americans chase millionaire status by “sitting with lotto tickets” and “giving their cash to casinos” (which at least gets us out of the house), some make their money by being out of this world awesome.  The 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander competition has been completed, awarding two million dollars to the winners – and advancing extraterrestrial science in the process. The competition was to build a prototype lunar lander which could take off, hover, [...]

Warmer Seas Blocking Nature’s Carbon Pump Climate change isn’t just warming the atmosphere, it’s also warming the ocean’s surface and deeper levels of the water column. More:  The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (10/02)