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Cartoonist Daryl Cagle Collects ‘Oil Spill Cartoons’ into iPhone/iPod Touch App
Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Comics, Marketing, Technology on June 16, 2010
We’re not familiar with MSNBC cartoonist, Daryl Cagle’s work. What he’s done here is of interest to us. Centering an app around a theme in his work that just so happens to match current events is pretty nifty. Hell, it’s so obvious we wonder why it hasn’t occurred to us before.
The level of advertising Cagle is running for his new ‘Oil Spill Cartoon’ app, however, slams hard against the spam line. If he wasn’t advertising so hard, we never would have noticed them. Now that we notice them, and him, we can’t help but see his pleas for your $0.99.
Marketing and sales is a delicate dance between you and potential costumers. It’s never a good idea to slam hard on your partner’s toes.
via @dcagle, The Cagle Post
Magic Cloth Separates Oil from Water. Do they Have One in Gulf Sized?
Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Science, Technology on June 9, 2010
The cloth, seen above, developed by Assistant Professor Di Gao of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh easily separates oil from water in the lab. How? Look below:
It’s a simple cotton cloth that’s been coated in a chemical polymer that’s both hydrophilic (it bonds with the hydrogen molecules in water) and oleophobic (oil-repelling). What’s that mean? It can filter oil out of water easily, over and over again. Just look at the video above, where Gulf seawater mixed with oil is filtered out quickly and painlessly.
Now how to apply this to real world parameters. That’s the next question.
via dvice
Science!: Bionic Vision Australia Unveils Prototype Bionic Eye, See What They Did There?
Posted by mistergroonk in Science, Technology on April 16, 2010
A quick search of our archives reveals bionic eyes were always in our sights.
*ahem*
Anyway, it’s not quite seeing with your tongue. It is an achievable technology in our near future. 2013 to be precise.
The set-up includes a video camera mounted to glasses to capture images, a wireless processor to convert and send those images to the implant, and a chip with 98 electrodes that is attached to the retina. When the implant receives signals from the processor, it stimulates the optic nerve, which directs the electrical impulses from the retina to the brain’s visual center.
“We anticipate that this retinal implant will provide users with increased mobility and independence,” said Anthony Burkitt, BVA’s research director and an engineering professor at the University of Melbourne.
Next up: Scientists find a way to lick with your eyes, eat with your ears, and drink with your finger.
Oh, wait.
Science!: MIT Students Create Wireless “Glove Mouse,” Cites Average MINORITY REPORT as Inspiration
Posted by mistergroonk in Science, Technology, The Future on April 16, 2010
It amazes us how often the So Ok It’s Average flick MINORITY REPORT has generated more inspired greatness.
MIT students Tony Hyun Kim and Nevada Sanchez created the electrical engineering project in 2009, and put together the entire package for less than $100. The glove allows users to zoom around a map application, like using a smartphone touchscreen without the screen — the gloved hands can “grab” the map and do the familiar pinching motion with their fingers to zoom in.
Video of these students amazements lie below the cut.
Two April Fools That Should Be April Truth. Yes, an iPad is Involved
Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Panel Perfect, Technology on April 2, 2010
Every April Fools the thousand thousand joksters that inhabit Internet and Twitter believe they are a thousand thousand times funnier than on any other day. We tend to ignore the day as best we’re able. Yet here are two items that managed to cross from the stream into consciousness and make us think, ‘this should be a real thing. It should happen.
And here they are:
1) Top Shelf Announces ‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1988”
Lisa(Weird Science), MacGyver(MacGyver), Doc Brown(Back to the Future), Mr. T (80s The A-Team ), and Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China) band together to fight the evilest evil of the 1980s. A mysterious shadow consortium known only as The Empire plots to destroy American icons from the inside out. The League failed once already. Superman III was a blight on many young souls.
Emboldened by this dastardly move, The Empire decides to go for the jugular. This time they will strike so hard, so ruthless, that no one would be spared. People would speak of the stench for decades to come. This time, The Empire would make the ultimate of all evil adaptations in order to weaken the spirits of geeks all over the nation. This time they will make Howard the Duck: The Movie.
The extraordinary League of 1988 has their work cut out for them.
Top Shelf, if you don’t make this vision come true, there will be blood.
2) iCade – iPad Arcade Cabinet
We have a very strong sense that in a month to two months time, this will become a reality. It’s not like this gag hasn’t happened before.
Large Hadron Collider Collides at 7 TeV, Internet Science Geeks Overjoyed
Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Science, Technology on March 31, 2010
“It’s a great day to be a particle physicist,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. “A lot of people have waited a long time for this moment, but their patience and dedication is starting to pay dividends.”
“With these record-shattering collision energies, the LHC experiments are propelled into a vast region to explore, and the hunt begins for dark matter, new forces, new dimensions and the Higgs boson,” said ATLAS collaboration spokesperson, Fabiola Gianotti. “The fact that the experiments have published papers already on the basis of last year’s data bodes very well for this first physics run.”
As the Large Hadron Collider continues to interest us, we’d be remiss for not reporting on it’s epic state of finally working yesterday.
But we fear poor bread-bombing Jacques must forever live in failure.
iPad Frenzy: Comic Zeal V4 has Less Awesome App Demonstration, Still Manages to Impress
Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Comics, Technology, The Future on March 31, 2010
So why is this called Comic Zeal 4 and not Comic Zeal iPad?
The plan at the moment is to have both versions on the app store (this means that Comic Zeal 4 will be an additional purchase).
As the tools to do it become easier we’ll make version 4 iPhone compatible too and at that point we’ll stop development of version 3. Whilst both versions are on the store I’ll do my best to ensure that any big version 4 features that are feasible on the iPhone also make it into version 3.
So Comic Zeal Version 4 isn’t just for the iPad, at some point it will also be available for the iPhone, just not yet.
Read the complete tech and features write-up in its entirety at Bitolithic’s site.
(via Bitolithic)
iPad Frenzy: iVerse Demonstrates Mobile Comics App Preview, +20 Hype Increase
Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Comics, Technology, The Future on March 31, 2010
The Application has been submitted and passed the initial approval stages, so we’re expecting it to be available on launch day. This is a Universal Application — so it will be the same App as the iPhone application — and all your iVerse Comics In App Purchases will transfer over to the iPad at no additional cost.
Below the cut you’ll find an awesome video of awesome digital comics being demonstrated awsomely.
iPad Frenzy: “Captain’s Log†App Just Made Star Trek Geeks Wet their Pants
Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Technology, The Future on March 31, 2010
Let’s build some iPad hype, yes?
The PADD was a wondrous Star Trek device that damn damn near what any plot required in the 24th century.
The iPad is a wondrous 21st century device that Steve Jobs says will change the world as you know it.
The “Captain’s Log” is an iPad app that blends 21st century happenings with 24th century props. You bet your ass we’re gonna own the hell out of it once we own a second generation iPad.
UPDATE: Because nothing good lasts forever: ‘Star Trek app for iPad pulled after infringement complaint‘
Scientists Help Blind Man See with Tongue, Cunning Linguist Joke Gets Extra Level
Posted by mistergroonk in Science, Technology, War on March 25, 2010
Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg, 24, can read words, make out shapes and walk without assistance thanks to a device developed in the United States which could revolutionize life for other blind people.
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The different strength of the tingles can be interpreted so the user can mentally visualise their surroundings and navigate around objects.
(via discovery)
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