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Dish Network Kills Commercials with Auto Hop
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Dish Network has just added a new feature to some of its DVRs that may be the best thing to happen to TV since the DVR. The new feature is called Auto Hop and is only featured on the company’s Hopper DVRs.… |
May 12th, 2012
DARPA SeeMe Lets Soldiers Launch Their Own Personal Satellites
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Launching a satellite can cost millions of dollars – not counting the millions of dollars your average satellite costs to build. The military and various governmental organizations have satellites in orbit that are able to peer from space to the surface of the Earth to help soldiers get a better… |
May 9th, 2012
School Looks Like the Millennium Falcon, Can’t Do the Kessel Run in Under 12 Parsecs
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Is this evidence that Parkland High School was built upon the ancient crash site of the Millennium Falcon? Are they secretly planning a Smugglers school? Did George Lucas re-edit this institution?… |
April 16th, 2012
Photographic Moon Globe is out of This World
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For just under $100, you can get the “first entirely new globe of the Moon’s surface in over 40 years.”… Ironically, it looks a bit like the Death Star. It’s perfect for the desk of any space geek. |
April 13th, 2012
Swiss Satellite Aims to Clean up Space Junk
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I can’t say that I ever really thought about Switzerland as being a space power. In fact, I didn’t even know the country had its own satellites in orbit but apparently, it does. As a matter of fact, the Swiss have enough satellites up there that they have devised a… |
February 17th, 2012
Google Earth Smooths Out its Rough Edges
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I remember back when Google Earth first launched. I thought it would be cool to see the planet right from my desktop and immediately went to find my house. The area where I live was so blocky and cut together from so many individual photos that it was impossible to… |
January 28th, 2012
DARPA’s Phoenix Assimilates Other Satellites
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DARPA has had some wild ideas, but any time I hear something from the agency that seems really improbable, I don’t discount them completely. Those cats at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have a way of making the improbable into reality. One of their latest projects is a satellite… |
October 22nd, 2011
Cookup Solar Barbecue: Like Cooking With Your Satellite Dish
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Have plenty of sunlight and money to spare? Check out the Cookup, a neat-looking solar grill from French company ID Cook. As you may have guessed, instead of using traditional fuel like coal or gas, the Cookup concentrates the power of the sun to heat food up to 200°C. The… |
October 7th, 2011
NASA Lays 1-in-3200 Odds That We’ll Get Pegged by a Satellite Chunk
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We all think we can win the lottery even though the odds against us are in the millions to one range. NASA has a massive satellite the size of a bus set to come blazing back into the atmosphere this week. NASA has stated that the odds of a chunk… |
September 20th, 2011
Seagate GoFlex Satellite External Hard Drive Goes Wireless for iPad Streaming
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Seagate just released information about the upcoming GoFlex Satellite external hard drive, the first hard drive to include a battery pack and WiFi, allowing you to stream data off the 500 GB drive onto your iPad or other mobile device without the need for wires.… |
May 17th, 2011
