Oct

Nano radio

Posted by Catfish as Computerz, Tech, enviornment, science

When I was 8 or 9, I remember hearing about how certain people, after they had gotten fillings in their mouths, had inexplicably inherited the ability to hear radio stations. I thought the very idea was the coolest thing I had ever heard. Imagine sitting in class, or in church, Sunday school…slightly clenching your teeth and hearing the sweet sounds of Huey Lewis and the News being snatched from the air by your molars. Years later we’ve got the iPod, which is small in size, but still detectable enough to get confiscated in class…but now Scientists have produced the first working radio that receives radio waves wirelessly and then converts those waves into sound through a nano-sized detector made of carbon nanotubes. Just imagine the potential ramifications of this…all of the equipment and electronics that clutter up our homes, and eventually our landfills will soon be reduced to the size of a few grains of rice.

Probably more likely to happen first is Big Advertising will get a hold of the technology, and we’ll have them float in our ears while we sleep, as they hum subliminal straight into their target: our brains. Zestfully, zestfully, zestfully cleeeeeaaaaan…wait, why am I singing that? At least in the future, I will have the nanos to blame.

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Oct

Melons^2

Posted by Catfish as Tech, enviornment, science, sexuality

Round and squishy is a shipping nightmare. Think of how many bruised fruits we could prevent if Mother Nature had just planned accordingly and engineered fruit to be sqaure instead of spherical. Well, proving once again that we think we can do anything, we’ve come up with square watermelons. By placing frames around the melons when the reach about 11cm diameter, square shaped melons were brought into this world. I have to say, I was quite relieved to find out that these melons were grown with frames or boxes around them in order to constrain the melons’ growth into the square shape. If we had somehow discovered a gene to make round things square, that would square me, uh I mean scare me. All the soft suppleness of nature suddenly subject to the boxy minds of mad scientists. Not my reality…

Anyhow, go here for more square melonage.

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Oct

Your last hour?

Posted by Catfish as Tech, UFO, enviornment, science, sexuality, spirituality

blip Everyone has played the “what if” game before. What if I was born 100 years ago? What if I never went to college? What if I was ever born? What if I was a hot chick, would I do me? Ummm…sorry about that. What if I never typed that last part…Well, a recent survey given to a group of Britons asked what if an asteroid was about to slam into the earth in 60 minutes, what would you do with your last hour?

Most people (54%) answered that they would spend the time with or on the phone with their loved ones. I imagine I would do the same, but I’d definitely be paying my respects to the 13% of those surveyed who said they’d sit back and relax into oblivion with some booze. Interestingly, only 9% of people responded that they would meet their maker in the missionary position. I guess if I am already spending my last hour getting drunk with my family, then I’m not having sex at the end of times, so I can understand why that figure is so low. It is interesting to note though, how the full knowledge of death of the human race as a whole shifts the biological imperatives around. [ED-If you have a goatee, this is the part where it is appropriate to stroke it.]

So, here I am, drunk, with my family staring up at the sky, just waiting for the moment when we will all just vaporize in the asteroid’s hot breath, what’s the last thing I am going to think about? Well, 2% of people responded that with 60 minutes left to live, they would go out and steal stuff. Free TVs! The Going Out of Business for Eternity 5 Finger Discount Sale! This is perhaps the funniest thing ever revealed about humanity. However, to be fair, the Egyptians seemed to believe that they were somehow going to “take it all with them” when they entered the after-life. Who’s to say they were wrong? Although, supposing it is true, and you can take it with when you die, then there’s some pretty pissed off Pharaoh’s who got all their bling jacked by some archaeologist punk. Just because we’re all about to be vaporized, doesn’t mean I’m not gonna want to kick your ass in the after-life for nabbin’ my stash. Beware the curse of the mummy is all I have to say…that TV you steal in the last 60 minutes might just come back to haunt you. Bru hu haw haw haw.

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