From Wired:
Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s
Suffering from its exorbitant price point and a dearth of titles, Sony’s PlayStation 3 isn’t exactly the most popular gaming platform on the block. But while the console flounders in the commercial space, the PS3 may be finding a new calling in the realm of science and research.
Right […]

This train can reach top speeds of 310 Miles per hour (hits 267 in the video)
And no, it’s not French, or German, or Japanese.
It’s a Chinese magnetically levitated train.
And in the USA?   What do we have?
An underfunded rail system using 1970’s technology and 60 mph trains.  We should be embarassed.

For you music fans out there, you’re going to love this.
Musicovery is a website that gives you an interactive remote control device,  click on the device, select your mood (energetic, dark, positive, etc.) and the device will bring up music that fits the mood, playing entire tracks,  FOR FREE!
But cooler still, it then creates a […]

Apparently some hackers broke into the live weather web cam that belonged to a TV station in the Czech Republic. As you can tell from the video, it may have caused a mini panic. More info here.

 
From The BBC:
Bear robot rescues wounded troops
The US military is developing a robot with a teddy bear-style head to help carry injured soldiers away from the battlefield.
The Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR) can scoop up even the heaviest of casualties and transport them over long distances over rough terrain
It is expected to be ready for […]

Google Maps has a new feature that’s even cooler than seeing a satelite image of your house.  Now, in selected cities you can actually zoom into the street level!   It shows a zoomable view as if you were walking down the sidewalk in front of your house.   Right now I believe it may be limited […]

 
From Yahoo News:
Can the PlayStation 3 aid cancer research?
An experimental science project reaches epic proportions courtesy of Sony’s powerful processor.
While gamers endlessly bicker about which system will come out on top of the console war, a group of inventive scientists at Stanford University are concerned with a very different kind of battle - the fight […]

By Restless
I love internet radio. From the first, I would listen to stations outside the Bay Area (like kpig in Santa Cruz, jazz stations in San Diego and Tokyo, pirate radio outside the UK). Then there was live365, which allows individuals to broadcast and finally, pandora, which uses new software techniques to deliver tunes based on […]

 
Can words determine gender?
I tried it about a dozen times, with pieces of emails, or text I had written, or women I know had written, and each time it correctly guessed the gender of the text.   Very interesting, I would have never known that you could determine gender from words before this.

From Bloomberg.com: 
Russia Plans World’s Longest Tunnel, a Link to Alaska
April 18 (Bloomberg) — Russia plans to build the world’s longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia.
The project, which Russia is […]

 
From SFGATE.COM:
Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet
Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but many believe a “clean slate” approach is the only way to truly […]

I was never a user of the original Macintosh, but this is a pretty cool little application/device dealio here.
Click here for a guide on how to create a portable “Mac on a stick” using an old USB 32 MB Keychain (you can get these for free these days) and some Mac emulation software.
Now if they […]

By Restless
From Trend Hunter Magazine:
This notebook made for people that travel with their cars to work. The unique design allows you to mount your laptop securely on your steering wheel so you can comfortably use your laptop while sitting in the driver’s seat of your vehicle. The Cario Notebook is easily positioned by the existing […]

     
Fastest French Locomotive. 2007  Fastest U.S. Locomotive.  1935
From YahooNews:
French train hits new world new speed record
ON BOARD TGV V150, eastern France (AFP) - France’s TGV train set a new world speed on rails Tuesday, hitting 574.8 kilometres (357.2 miles) per hour on a stretch of track in eastern France.
The experimental version of the Traine […]