Geeks Ben, Al, Alex, Lindsey, and Miles take your calls and cover the Week in Geek: Solar Car Speed record, the first [HDR|High Dynamic Range] video camera, the new iPoo Android tablet, and astrology word clouds.
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We all know that ever since Apple introduced the iPod, many different manufacturers came up with names that began with the letter
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There’s a new world record for the fastest solar-powered land vehicle: 88km/h (54.68mph) over one kilometre, using about the same power as a toaster (1050 watts).
The vehicle is called Sunswift IVY. It was built from scratch in 2009 by students from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. They managed to convert 98% of power from solar panels into kinetic energy. The project took 18 months to complete and cost $280,000 plus goods provided by sponsors.
The wonderful website Information is Beautiful does terrific work taking interesting data and turning into easy-to-grasp information. They recently turned their attention to astrology
As the ISS races around the Earth at 8 km/sec (5 miles/sec), it sees up to 18 sunrises and sunsets each day, and the same number of moonrises and moonsets. Check out these pictures!
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In his big New Yorker profile on AOL this week, Ken Auletta explained that 80% of the company’s profits STILL come from AOL’s subscription business. Even though 75% of those people have another ISP and are only keeping it because they think they need it to keep their AOL email – but they don’t.
Anyone who regularly uses a video camera will know that the devices do not see the world the way we do. The human visual system can perceive a scene that contains both bright highlights and dark shadows, yet is able to process that information in such a way that it can simultaneously expose for both lighting extremes
