Kodak Files For Bankruptcy

Kodak Files For Bankruptcy

Taste and smell are the things that define our earliest memories, and I can still feel the tang of the darkroom on my palate, the mystical alchemy as we hung [...]

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E-Voting Machines To Be Scrapped

E-Voting Machines To Be Scrapped

Is there anything that shows up the stupidity of the Ahern years better than the e-voting debacle? Back in 2002, they paid €50 million for 7,000 e-voting machines, which works [...]

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MIT Develops Trillion-Frame Camera

MIT Develops Trillion-Frame Camera

Researchers at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology have developed a camera that can take a trillion frames per second.  That's 1,000,000,000,000 frames every second.  The mind boggles. It's so fast [...]

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Lytro Light-Field Camera Released

Lytro Light-Field Camera Released

Imagine being able to shoot a picture in three dimensions using a camera costing  €300.  That's what a light-field camera can do, and Lytro has produced the cheapest one yet. [...]

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Bio-Degradable Chewing Gum

Scientists in University College, Cork have come up with a bio-degradable chewing gum which does the same thing as the filthy stuff people currently chew but which breaks down instead [...]

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Steve Jobs Dies

Word is just coming in that Steve Jobs has died. Looks like the old reality distortion field has finally let him down, but I suppose that happens to us all [...]

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Satellite Crash

Satellite Crash

Did you ever hear of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite? No?  Well you might find out all about it shortly, if a bit of it falls on your head.  You [...]

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Steve Jobs Steps Down from Apple

Steve Jobs Steps Down from Apple

Jobs is gone. Now what?  Is this the end of iStuff?

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One Man and His Smartphone

One Man and His Smartphone

All the tools I need in one handy package

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Obama's Bulletproof Tailors

Obama's Bulletproof Tailors

Classy protective leisure-wear

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