«Scientists at a government lab here are trying to use the world’s largest laser — it’s the size of three football fields — to set off a nuclear reaction so intense that it will make a star bloom on the surface of the Earth. »
Source: cnn.com
«From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they’re about to do it again.
The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled-dry American empire, reads like a Who’s Who of Goldman Sachs graduates…»
Source: contreinfo.info
«The swirling mass of plastic soup in the Pacific Ocean, known by a handful of names — the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, North Pacific Gyre, Trash Vortex, and Plastic Graveyard among them — has been gaining notoriety lately, for all the wrong reasons. It’s ballooned to twice the size of the continental U.S., causing a variety of problems, but what does it really look like out there? This satellite photo is just the beginning; get up close and personal with the patch in the rest of the slideshow..»
Source: treehugger.com
«In the center of Stuttgart, Germany, lies an odd roundabout called Oesterreichischer Platz. Speeding traffic circles around it, and for the last 40 years no one has found much use for it, except as a parking lot. Now German designer Lars Behrendt has conceived of an incredible tower for the unused site that is comprised of 55 shipping containers stacked up like blocks. The Lotto Turm would function as a mixed-use development with a sphere at the top, which would be used to announce the city’s lotto numbers..»
Source: inhabitat.com
«A new type of speed cameras which can use satellites to measure average speed over long distances are being tested in Britain. Drivers are going to love cloudy days :) »
Source: telegraph.co.uk, 20minutes.fr
«As Grand Designs Live opens, TV presenter Kevin McCloud selects 10 products from recycled scourers to insulating blinds:
Source: guardian.co.uk
« Un nouveau label, «Bio Cohérence», va apparaître dans les rayons en 2011. A l’initiative d’agriculteurs bio français, son cahier des charges sera plus exigeant que celui du label bio européen et du label français AB (Agriculture Biologique). Pour obtenir la certification «Bio cohérence», les produits ne devront contenir aucun OGM (alors que le label AB en tolérait 0.1% et le label européen 0.9%), être composés à 100% de produits bio (contre 95% pour les labels AB et européen) et les exploitations dont ils sont issus devront faire uniquement du bio..»
Source: 20minutes.fr
«M LIVE puts your audience in the middle of the action so they can experience an individual viewing adventure.. Each viewer can independently look up, down, sideways, and all around the arena for a complete 360° view of the action»
Watch the demo: immersivemedia.com
«Lors d’une conférence de presse qui devait à l’origine servir à présenter le nouvel OS de l’iPhone, Steve Jobs a dévoilé iAd, un système qui permettra aux développeurs d’insérer des pubs dans leurs applications et d’«associer l’émotion des spots TV à l’interactivité des pubs online». Jobs a ensuite montré plusieurs exemples de pubs que les possesseurs d’iPhone ne tarderont pas à voir apparaître sur leur mobile: un spot Nike en plein écran, une pub pour le magasin de meubles Target où les utilisateurs doivent équiper un dortoir avec les articles disponibles en magasin, et une pub pour Toy Story 3 en forme de jeu. Apple touchera 40% du revenu publicitaire, et le développeur 60%.»
Source: slate.fr
