Category: Science, Technology
The Grass Lamp
March 12, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
The Grass Lamp is a design concept from designer Marko Vuckovic, and it merges modern technology with nature, obviously it is designed for stylish apartments.
The lamp is made from PVC and it features a strip of lights which will grow whatever plants you place inside the lamp, although in the concept it features grass, I [...]
Valups Tivit
February 19, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
One of the big tech stories of 2009 was the transition of the U.S. broadcast TV standard from analog (NTSC) to digital (ATSC). But while ATSC broadcasts offer crystal clear high-def images, they have at least one drawback: unlike analog broadcasts, digital TV is tough to receive if you’re on the move. That means that [...]
LG’s BD590 Blu-ray Player
February 18, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
All the focus is on 3D in the home theater space, but LG appears content to take a wait-and-see approach to the new 3D Blu-ray format. Instead of getting on the bandwagon, LG has gone in a different direction with its new flagship Blu-ray player, the BD590, which includes all the features that made the [...]
Backyard Astrophotography
Backyard astronomy photography must be one of those really hard categories of photography which could possibly be done by a person who is just starting out a career in photography. It’s also one of those categories where you need to use a lot of equipment, which can be quite expensive.
However, quite fortunately, there are some [...]
Are There Other Beings Like Us in The Universe?
NASA is about to embark on a £428 million space mission in order to look for other planets which may have trails of alien existence.
Scientists say that the 3 ½ year journey by the Kepler telescope, which is being considered as NASA’s biggest project so far, will enable us to find the answer to the [...]
Leaking U.S. Space Information Puts China Back On The Space Map
November 18, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Embarrassing as it may sound it is true that the space programs taking place in China have received a lot of help from the president of AMAC, a high-tech International company in the States. Shu Quan-Sheng was born in China but he has become a U.S. citizen and due to his efforts China has managed [...]
The Earth As You Have Never Seen It Before
November 17, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Forty-two years ago NASA has amazed the world with the release of an image from the Lunar Orbiter 1 which presented a picture of the Moons surface being eclipsed by the appearance of Earth above it. It is easy to understand that the quality of the image was very poor and still traveled around the [...]
A Peak beyond Known Limits
November 15, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
It’s a first in the history of mankind that we possess the technology to take photos of other planetary systems. Researchers have discovered somewhere out there a galaxy very much like our own with several planets orbiting around a large sun. The first picture in the series was taken recently by the Hubble Telescope and [...]
USS Enterprise – The Latest!
This picture of the new USS Enterprise has been exclusively presented in the Entertainment Weekly. It still looks like the old Enterprise or the Kirk Enterprise as it is also known, it has an overall Enterprisey look. This new ship is in fact a combination of Jean Luc Picard’s Enterprise E and the Junker belonging [...]
Richard Garriot fixing a toilet at zero-gravity!
Richard Garriot a professional video game designer and programmer,son of Owen K. Garriot who is an astronaut and a scientist,on Octomber 12,2008 he has launched aboard Soyuz TMA-13 with help of the International Space station(8:26 GMT,3:26 EST).This means for Garriot 10 days of floating around the Earth,photographing the Earth’s surface for comparing his pictures to [...]
