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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. 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us a taste of the “non-Retina” Web in 2010, we had to wait for the third-generation iPad to fully realize how fuzzy and outdated our Web graphics and content images are.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.
Towards A Retina Web
Compared with other Kindle models, Amazon's Kindle DX is gargantuan. 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?
How to Use a Kindle DX as a PC Display
Supersonic Flying Wing Nabs $100,000 from NASA | Bidirectional Flying Wing Aircraft
An aircraft that resembles a four-point ninja star could go into supersonic mode by simply turning 90 degrees in midair. 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.
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. 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.Scientist Beams Up a Real 'Star Trek' Tricorder
Starships, warp speed, transporters, phasers. 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.
This is a guest post written by Reid Hoffman , Ali Rosenthal and James Slavet from Greylock Partners . Credit and debit cards are ubiquitous, but they’re mostly pretty dumb. That’s about to change.
The Credit Card Is The New App Platform
Everyone knows about New York’s famous Central Park, the nearly one-and-a-half square mile strip of green in midtown Manhattan, with over 24,000 trees and 150 acres of lakes and streams. While that may be enough park to sustain many New Yorkers, some residents find the lack of grass a major downside to the city. Unfortunately, NYC doesn’t have a lot of open space for creating new viable parks for visitors and residents to enjoy.
New York designers aim to build world’s first underground park
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