Doorbell that tricks burglars into thinking you're home invented by schoolboy Laurence Rook, 13
Smart Bell, designed by Laurence Rook, dials the homeowner's mobile phone when pressed, allowing them to talk to whoever is outside their front door.
Hasnain says:
13 year old kid invents something, earns £250,000. Interesting.
Posted on 2011-06-12T12:45:46+0000
A new way to make lighter, stronger steel -- in a flash
A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers here recently, when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record in less than 10 seconds.
Hasnain says:
It's interesting to see that even in such a developed field as steel making; an amateur can come along and make such big improvements in the process. (7 percent stronger; made in less than 10 seconds, compared to an average of a few hours to days for other steels).
Posted on 2011-06-12T10:21:51+0000
Voyagers ride 'magnetic bubbles'
Humankind's most distant emissaries are flying through a turbulent sea of magnetism as they seek to break free of our Solar System.
Hasnain says:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13715764
Posted on 2011-06-10T12:23:09+0000
Profile: Zong Qinghou, Wahaha
Nick Rosen profiles Zong Qinghou, boss of drinks and clothing firm Wahaha and one of China's richest men.
The Sun lets loose a HUGE explosion | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Astronomy | Early this morning, the Sun erupted with an explosion I can only describe as ginormous. We're in no danger from it, but the size and scope of this thing are sim
THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS, The New Yorker, 5/29/95, pp 45-53
ON a warm June day in 1978, William J. LeMessurier, one of the nation's leading structural engineers, received a phone call at his headquarters, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from an engineering student in New Jersey. The young man, whose name has been lost in the swirl of subsequent events, said tha
CS 525, Spring 2011 : Course Schedule
Pastry: scalable, distributed object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems, A. Rowstron et al, Middleware 2001.
Hasnain says:
Treasure trove for people interested in distributed systems.
Posted on 2011-06-01T11:07:35+0000
» The Revolutionary New Birth Control Method for Men
A maverick Indian scientist has developed an elegant, injectable, easily reversible birth control method for men.
Hasnain says:
Interesting how they use a concept from physics to solve a medical problem.
(big warning: the snapshot from the video is a bit gruesome. scroll down at your own risk on the first page)
Posted on 2011-05-31T16:26:49+0000
HTC pays Microsoft $5 for each Android phone it sells
Mobile phone makers HTC is paying Microsoft $5 for every handset it sells with the Google-owned Android operating system installed. According to a report on Business Insider, a Citigroup ...
Hasnain says:
Interesting... windows phone isn't making money, so let's get some money off those android phones!
Posted on 2011-05-27T18:54:27+0000
China using prisoners in lucrative internet gaming scam | World news | The Guardian
Labour camp detainees endure hard labour by day, online 'gold farming' by night
Hasnain says:
This is interesting... being forced to play World of Warcraft all night just to sell ingame gold...
Posted on 2011-05-27T09:57:13+0000