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Submission + - China Announces Plans to Export Greenhouse Gases to Terraform Mars (inhabitat.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: As an extension of China’s $16 billion plan to combat air pollution in its cities, today the CNSA announced an ambitious plan to export the nation’s emissions to Mars. The unprecedented plan would greatly reduce emissions on Earth while warming the climate on Mars.
Power

Submission + - Apple Files Patent for Wind Turbine That Can Produce Power Without Wind (appleinsider.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Critics of wind power all like to point out the same problem with turbine technology: “What happens when the wind doesn’t blow”? Apple, usually a maker of products that consume energy, recently filed for a patent that may answer that question once and for all. The tech giant’s latest patent details a wind turbine that generates electricity from heat energy rather than rotational energy created by the rotation of the unit’s blades. According to the patent, this could allow wind energy to be stored in a “low-heat capacity fluid” which could then be tapped on an as-needed basis, i.e. whenever the wind dies down.
Google

Submission + - Glass by Google Makes Its Runway Debut at New York Fashion Week (ecouterre.com)

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fangmcgee writes: Diane von Furstenberg shared her New York Fashion Week spotlight on Sunday with an unlikely collaborator: Google. The legendary designer and Council of Fashion Designers of America president sent Google’s much-vaunted augmented-reality goggles down the Lincoln Center catwalk with her Spring/Summer 2013 collection. Von Furstenberg even had Google founder Sergey Brin join her and her creative director, Yvan Mispelaere, on the runway for her victory lap. Each sported a pair of the futuristic frames with a different colored accent: von Fursteberg in orange, Brin in blue, and Mispelaere in black.
Programming

Submission + - Meet TshirtOS, the World's First Programmable T-Shirt (ecouterre.com)

Submitted by fangmcgee
fangmcgee writes: Your T-shirt has always doubled as your personal billboard, but why settle for just one static statement per wear? Leave it to the wizards at CuteCircuit to pioneer the world’s first programmable T-shirt. An unlikely collaboration with Ballantine’s, a producer of blended Scotch whisky, “TshirtOS” allows you to display virtually anything you want, whether it’s your Facebook status, Mindy Kaling’s latest tweet, a screed on global warming, or a picture of Maru the cat.
Earth

Submission + - The Pacific Ocean is Polluted With Coffee (sciencedirect.com) 2

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An anonymous reader writes: People aren’t the only ones getting a jolt from caffeine these days; in a new study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, scientists found elevated concentrations of caffeine in the Pacific Ocean in areas off the coast of Oregon. With all those coffee drinkers in the Pacific Northwest, it should be no surprise that human waste containing caffeine would ultimately make its way through municipal water systems and out to sea – but how will the presence of caffeine in our oceans affect human health and natural ecosystems?
Science

Submission + - UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Elliot Chang
Elliot Chang writes: A team from UCLA has developed a new transparent solar cell that has the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. In short, they’ve created a solar power-generating window! Described as “a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC)” that produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light instead of traditional visible light, the photoactive plastic cell is nearly 70% transparent to the human eye—so you can look through it like a traditional window.
Idle

Submission + - Medieval "Lingerie" From 15th Century Castle Could Rewrite Fashion History (ecouterre.com)

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fangmcgee writes: Archaeologists have unearthed several 500-year-old bras that some experts say could rewrite fashion history. While they’ll hardly send pulses racing by today’s standards, the lace-and-linen underpinnings predate the invention of the modern brassiere by hundreds of years. Found hidden under the floorboards of Lengberg Castle in Austria’s East Tyrol, along with some 2,700 textile fragments and one completely preserved pair of (presumably male) linen underpants, the four intact bras and two fragmented specimens are thought to date to the 15th century, a hypothesis scientists later confirmed through carbon-dating.
Idle

Submission + - Rolls-Royce Unveils World's First LEGO Jet Engine Made from 152,455 Bricks (inhabitat.com)

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Elliot Chang
Elliot Chang writes: "Rolls-Royce debuted the world’s first ever LEGO Jet Engine at the Farnborough International Airshow this week in England. The model is a half-size replica of the enormous Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 that powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. It took 152,455 LEGO bricks, eight weeks, and a team of four fulltime employees to assemble the model. While the real engine weighs in at 1.25 tons, the LEGO replica still weighs a hefty 676 pounds and measures 4.9 feet long and 6.5 feet wide."
Space

Submission + - Virgin Galactic announces new satellite launch vehicle (arstechnica.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Virgin Galactic has announced a new craft called LauncherOne which it will use to put satellites and other small spacecraft into orbit. 'It appears to leverage some of the hardware already developed for SpaceShipTwo, Virgin's suborbital tourist vehicle. Like SpaceShipTwo, the new rocket rides up underneath Virgin's big carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo, to about 50,000 feet. After release, the rocket drops for approximately four seconds before the first stage ignites. After the first stage burns out, a second stage takes the satellite to orbit.' Launching from a moving airplane eliminates many cost and scheduling concerns inherent to ground-based launches, and it's much easier to reach a broad range of trajectories for putting objects into orbit. According to the press release LauncherOne will get objects up to 225kg into orbit for less than $10 million.
Idle

Submission + - A 50 Foot-Long, Battery Powered, Mechanical Robot (inhabitat.com)

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greenrainbow
greenrainbow writes: "The Titanoboa, a 50-foot long mechanical snake, was created by the artist's collective eatART. The giant slithering robot is a replica of a real 50-foot long snake that is now extinct due to a change in the climate about 60 million years ago. The Titaoboa's re-creators are hoping that this new mechanical version of the snake will spread awareness while slithering across the ground, just like a real snake, but powered by a lithium polymer battery system."
Transportation

Submission + - Germans Recreate the World's Oldest Electric Vehic (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Elliot Chang
Elliot Chang writes: Employees at the Autovision Museum in Germany weren’t content just staring at the historic plans for the world’s first electric vehicle, they wanted to actually ride in it! So they recreated the fabled three-wheeled automobile from the ground up and took it for a spin. It looks a bit like a steampunk segway if you ask us!

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