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 [...]
E-Voting Machines To Be ScrappedIs 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 [...] |
MIT Develops Trillion-Frame CameraResearchers 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 [...] |
Lytro Light-Field Camera ReleasedImagine 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 GumScientists 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 [...] |
Steve Jobs DiesWord 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 [...] |
Satellite CrashDid 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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