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Towards A Retina Web. Advertisement With the recent announcement and release of the Retina Macbook Pro, Apple has brought double-density screens to all of the product categories in its current lineup, significantly paving the way for the next wave of display standards.

Towards A Retina Web

While the fourth-generation iPhone gave us a taste of the “non-Retina” Web in 2010, we had to wait for the third-generation iPad to fully realize how fuzzy and outdated our Web graphics and content images are. In the confines of Apple’s walled garden, popular native apps get updated with Retina graphics in a timely fashion, with the help of a solid SDK and a well-documented transition process. By contrast, the Web is a gargantuan mass whose very open nature makes the transition to higher-density displays slow and painful.

In the absence of industry-wide standards to streamline the process, each Web designer and developer is left to ensure that their users are getting the best experience, regardless of the display they are using. Device Pixels. How to Use a Kindle DX as a PC Display. Compared with other Kindle models, Amazon's Kindle DX is gargantuan.

How to Use a Kindle DX as a PC Display

Its 9.7-inch E Ink screen provides ample space for reading books and viewing graphs and images. But what if you could use all of those E Ink pixels for something more creative, such as displaying your Windows desktop? As it turns out, with a few simple tricks you can use the Kindle DX as a computer display that can show anything your usual monitor can show. (Granted, E Ink's grayscale display can't perform or refresh as quickly as a color LCD can, so you're best off using this screen for static content such as documents or Web pages.)

In this guide I'll explain how to do it. Ingredients To get started, you need a Kindle DX, its USB cable, and a PC. Supersonic Flying Wing Nabs $100,000 from NASA. An aircraft that resembles a four-point ninja star could go into supersonic mode by simply turning 90 degrees in midair.

Supersonic Flying Wing Nabs $100,000 from NASA

The unusual "flying wing" concept has won $100,000 in NASA funding to trying becoming a reality for future passenger jet travel. The supersonic, bidirectional flying wing idea comes from a team headed by Ge-Cheng Zha, an aerospace engineer at the University of Miami, and including collaborators from Florida State University. He said the fuel-efficient aircraft could reach supersonic speeds without the thunderclap sound produced by a sonic boom — a major factor that previously limited where the supersonic Concorde passenger jet could fly over populated land masses.

"I am hoping to develop an environmentally friendly and economically viable airplane for supersonic civil transport in the next 20 to 30 years," Zha said. "Imagine flying from New York to Tokyo in four hours instead of 15 hours. " Onswipe. MWE Lab - Products. The Remee Lucid Dreaming Mask. NASA unveils Orion spacecraft to hurl humans to Mars in 2021.

It’s no Prometheus, but the spacecraft shown in the photo above is what NASA plans on using to put a human on the planet Mars.

NASA unveils Orion spacecraft to hurl humans to Mars in 2021

Yesterday, NASA unveiled the Orion passenger module at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Orion crew still has plenty of work to do on the vehicle before it logs any time away from the ground, but NASA plans to have it run an unmanned test flight by 2014. A manned mission to the planet Mars is scheduled to take place some time in 2021. “The vehicle we see here today is not a PowerPoint chart. It is a real spacecraft moving toward a test flight in 2014,” Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana told Space.com. The Orion isn’t a full-fledged spaceship. Create a Website and an Online Store. iA plans, designs and implements digital products. TYPO Berlin » Blog Archiv » Oliver Reichenstein: Typographic Therapy. - SketchBook News.

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Scientist Beams Up a Real 'Star Trek' Tricorder

Think "Star Trek" technology is only the stuff of fiction? Think again. Dr. Peter Jansen, a Ph.D. graduate of the Cognitive Science Laboratory at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has developed a scientific measurement device based on the tricorders used by Captain Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy and other space adventurers on the classic TV series that has spawned numerous spin-offs in more than 45 years. "Star Trek inspired me to be a scientist" said Jansen, who has been formally working on his tricorder prototypes since 2007, but toying with the idea of making a functioning device since he was "a kid in high school. " The Credit Card Is The New App Platform. New York designers aim to build world’s first underground park. oStylus - Capacitive Drawing Stylus. Graphic design software, vector drawing software.

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