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Submission + - A New LOW COST Open Sourcxe 3D Metal Printer (phys.org)

Submitted by Phoghat
Phoghat writes: A new low-cost 3D printer developed by Michigan Technological University's Joshua Pearce and his team could add hammers to the list of items you can print at home. The detailed plans, software and firmware are all freely available and open-source, meaning anyone can use them to make their own metal 3D printer.
The work is described in "A Low-Cost, Open-Source Metal 3-D Printer," to be published Nov. 25 in IEEE Access

Submission + - Things you can bring on a plane: A homemade shotgun. (fastcoexist.com)

Submitted by Phoghat
Phoghat writes: Evan Booth hacks together working weapons--like a shotgun, a grenade, and a crossbow--with purchases anyone can make after they go through security, to show that the TSA is more spectacle than real protection. And the FBI is taking notice.

Submission + - The Battery That Would Not Die ! (phys.org)

Submitted by Phoghat
Phoghat writes: IF you get enough batteries entangled, you become so arbitrarily close to the thermodynamic limit that you can consider the energy exchange ‘almost perfect’ (because, you can’t have a perfect energy exchange without violating thermodynamics).
There are flaws though: no one knows how to build such a battery using current technology. Another is that even if there were a way, the practicalities of building a real battery would likely introduce inefficiencies into the system, removing its perfection.

Submission + - Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers (wired.com)

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Phoghat writes: The guys at Glassdoor have compiled a list of the 25 tech companies with the best salaries for software engineers. Google and Facebook made the list, of course. So did Apple and Twitter. But the company at the very top is a bit of a surprise: networking gear maker Juniper Networks.

Submission + - The Grasshopper Can Fly Sideways (nbcnews.com)

Submitted by Phoghat
Phoghat writes: I'm of a "certain age" and as a child grew up watching shows like "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger and others popular at the dawn of the space age. They always showed rocket ships sitting on ther tails and blasting off, and landing, straight up. The shuttle went up that way but had to land like a plane, and anything else was considered impossible or impractical.
Now, the Space X rocket Grasshopper can not only do that, but has demonstrated sideways flight also.

Comment Re:Piracy! (Score 2) 323

by Phoghat (#44533897) Attached to: Have eBooks Peaked?

and get rid of the ridiculous DRM that prevents me from actually owning the book, and then lets talk. In the meantime I'll stick to Project Gutenberg and DRM-free niche publishers.

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Submission + - The Least Expensive Car (msn.com)

Submitted by Phoghat
Phoghat writes: Paul Elio has purchased a factory in Tennessee and will be producing the Elio three wheeled vehicle. Production is starting up, and the first cars will be on sale in Summer of 2014. The retail price is set at $6,800, the lowest priced car in the United States. It is reported to get 84 mpg, and will have an 8 gallon tank ( for a range of about 670 miles per tank, and have a top speed of over 100 mph. It seats 2, in a tandem arrangement, and will have space for groceries. Currently classed as a motorcycle, as it has 3 wheels in a pollywog arrangement, it will probably not require helmet use, because it is fully enclosed.

Comment Re:Expect more of this. (Score 1) 608

by Phoghat (#44246761) Attached to: The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue'

Most people use Windows because they've been using Windows.

Windows 8 isn't really "Windows" as they knew it, it requires change. People hate change and if they're going to change, maybe they'll look at alternatives. If they have the cash, they might go for Macs (look at the sales figures lately).

If they don't... what's cheaper than Windows 8?

Ubuntu, Lubuntu, and a host of others

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