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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
NASA Studying Ground Laser for Orbital Clean Up
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NASA is tired of all that space junk that’s orbiting our planet. The myriad of broken satellites and other junk orbiting poses a hazard to functioning satellites that are in orbit. A tiny little chunk of anything traveling at orbital speeds is enough to destroy a satellite and possibly harm… |
March 15th, 2011
Ford MyKey Blocks Explicit Satellite Radio Content, Kills Teenage Angst
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I did some really stupid stuff behind the wheel of a car when I was a teen. My cousin and I used to play car tag where the goal was to rear end the other car. Thankfully, I have grown up a bit since then. I also used to drive… |
December 29th, 2010
Russia to Spend $2b to Clean Up Space Junk by Knocking Old Satellites Out of Orbit
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I grew up in the 80′s, when grownups seemed to talk about the Cold War and how evil Russia was all the time. The Russians were always the bad people in the flicks I watched too. Maybe those old feelings that Russia is full of nefarious sorts are why the… |
November 27th, 2010
Dishpointer Augmented Reality iPhone 3gs App Helps You Find Satellites With Ease
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Ever try to install a satellite dish? Speaking from personal experience, I can say that finding the right line-of-sight from the dish to the skies can be a real pain in the a$$. Now there’s a new app coming for the iPhone 3GS that could make satellite dish positioning just… |
August 28th, 2009
Elgato Eyetv Sat: Watch 1080p Satellite Tv on Your Computer… if You have a Satellite Dish
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Elgato’s EyeTV Sat captures DVB-S and DVB-S2 satellite transmissions and enables playback on a computer, allowing you to record, export and even share recorded broadcasts over a network of computers. As long as you have a satellite dish. Aside from receiving free satellite transmissions, the EyeTV Sat also has a… |
July 1st, 2009
