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Submission + - What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane? (discovery.com) 2

Submitted by

astroengine

on Saturday April 09, 2011 @04:33PM

astroengine writes: "We've all wondered about it. When flying at 30,000ft, you look around the cramped economy class cabin thinking 'I wonder if I'd survive being sucked out of this plane if a hole, say, just opened above my head?' That's probably around the time that you should fasten your seat belt. According to medical experts interviewed by Discovery News in the wake of the Southwest Airlines gaping hole incident, the rapid depressurization, low oxygen levels and freezing cold would render you unconscious very quickly. Assuming you don't get chopped in half as you exit through the hole and hit the tail, you'd be long dead before you hit the ground. Nice."

Submission + - Toyota yields to Apple over jailbroken phones (wired.com)

Submitted by

zakkie

on Saturday April 09, 2011 @12:54PM

zakkie writes: "Toyota has caved to pressure from Apple and pulled custom themes from jailbroken iPhones. According to ModMyi.com founder Kyle Matthews, a representative of Toyota's ad agency said that Toyota gave in to Apple's request in order to "maintain their good relationship with Apple", and amounted to a direct attack by Apple on jailbroken iPhones."

Submission + - An autonomous sailing robot to clean up oil spills (kickstarter.com) 1

Submitted by rDouglass on Saturday April 09, 2011 @12:47PM

rDouglass writes: Protei : a low-cost open-source oil collecting robot that autonomously sails upwind, intercepting oil sheens going downwind. This crowd sourced, open source hardware, collaboratively developed project could help prevent the tragedy of the next oil spill. Furthermore, it is a prime example of what people can do together when they collaborate, working together on the research and development, design, and funding. Licensed under the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) license guarantees that as many people in all parts of the world will benefit from this effort as possible.

Submission + - The Awesome Button (makezine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 09, 2011 @12:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: An awesome hardware hack which demonstrates how easily human interface (eg, Keyboard, Mouse) devices can be created and hacked into ordinary objects, with all the programming done using simple Arduino software environment.

Submission + - Google Earth to include Google Deep Sea (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Saturday April 09, 2011 @09:21AM

mikejuk writes: You may have heard about the swash buckling adventures to be undertaken by Virgin Oceanic — visits to the bottom of the deepest parts of the oceans of the world. What you might not have noticed is that in the future we can all join in. The data from video cameras taken down on the five planned dives will be fed back to Google Earth.
As Sir Richard Branson said at the launch of Virgin Oceanic, more men have been to the moon than have ventured further down than 20,000 feet. As long as everything goes according to plan, the entire population should be able to experience a trip to the bottom of the oceans — if only virtually courtesy of Google Earth.

Submission + - ALS sufferer used legs to contribute last patch (gnome.org) 1

Submitted by

krkhan

on Saturday April 09, 2011 @06:17AM

krkhan writes: "This is a little old but seeing as it didn't make it to /. at the time I think it deserves a headline now. Adrian Hands was suffering from ALS and had lost motor skills when he used his legs to type in Morse code and fix a 9 year old bug in Gnome. The patch was submitted three days before he passed away."

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