Sony's HMZ-T1: Home theater in a headset Gaddafi's high-tech computer spying facility revealed LoJack makers sued over privacy invasion after tracking stolen laptop Wacom Inkling Catholic officials in Ireland object to child abuse disclosure law How to make a crafting table 100 years of East London style in 100 seconds List of scienceers on Google+ Animals and the amygdala Inside the sea caves of Devil's Island Treating mental illness with cigarettes Finally, an extinct species you can feel good about Impaled by pruning shears through eye, doing ok "Cinematic journalism" for mobile devices, from Chris Colin and others How do you think this stairway was built? Hotel elevator has staff and guest buttons Chris Reccardi paintings in Australia A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe Car decaying in the forest—Sand Island, Wisconsin The landscapes of Philip Govedare Partially completed octopus sand sculpture on Venice Beach promenade Federal Court: recording cops an unambiguous first amendment right Gweek 014: Hokum Scorchers! Montana morning 
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Sony's HMZ-T1: Home theater in a headset
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 31, 2011 12:46 pm Sony's HMZ-T1 is a head-mounted 3D headset, to be released later this year in Japan. Two 1280x720 OLED displays, each just 7/10 of an inch across, create a virtual 750" screen. Perceived 20m from the viewer, it "corresponds to the …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 31, 2011 04:01 am I know it doesn't look like much, but see that "1.44" off to the right? That means they are high density floppies. First Look Inside Security Unit [WSJ. Photos: Edu Bayer]
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 31, 2011 03:47 am Illustration: Sean Gladwell, Shutterstock. See more like this. A schoolteacher who bought a stolen laptop from one of her students ($60, with a scraped-off serial number) is suing the makers of LoJack, the pre-installed software used by investigators to recover …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 31, 2011 02:52 am Wacom's Inkling is a pen that draws both on paper and on-screen, tracking the artist's linework with 1024 levels of sensitivity. At $200, it's barely even expensive! The Inkling will be in stores by mid-September. Inkling [Wacom]
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 30, 2011 11:50 pm Officials of the Catholic church in Ireland object to a new law that mandates the reporting of child abuse. From the BBC: The Irish Children's Minister Frances Fitzgerald said that priests who are given admissions of child abuse during the …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 30, 2011 11:02 pm The multi-talented maker Nick Britsky made this cool crafting table for his multi-talented crafter girlfriend, Lish Dorset. How-to: Custom crafting table
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 30, 2011 09:13 pm [Video Link] From Laughing Squid: "To announce the grand opening of Westfield Stratford City, which will soon be "the largest urban shopping centre in Europe", Westfield created this fun short film, 100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON. The film, …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 30, 2011 07:18 pm Are you looking for cool science news and thoughts on Google+? Check out this spreadsheet, which collects a bunch of scientists, science writers, and other related people into one place. You can even circle them en-masse! (Thanks Chris Robinson!)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 30, 2011 07:12 pm As part of a cool project in blogging on Google+ ("plogging"), Nature editor Noah Gray writes about a recent experiment that found that specific neurons in the human amygdala respond instantly to images of animals. These responses were stronger and …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 30, 2011 06:54 pm Last year, when I posted here about the history of the lighthouse at Devil's Island, Wisconsin, several of you noticed the island's extensive network of sea caves, carved into the sandstone cliffs by splashing waves and moving water. This year, …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 30, 2011 06:22 pm While nationally, only about 20% of Americans smoke, 80% of schizophrenic Americans smoke. That's interesting, but it's not the most interesting part. Apparently, there's some evidence that those people with schizophrenia are using tobacco as a form of self medication. …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 30, 2011 06:11 pm The specific strain of the bacteria Yersinia pestis that was responsible for the Black Death in Europe is probably now extinct, according to a new study. The bacterial DNA extracted from historic samples doesn't match modern Y. pestis. This could …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 30, 2011 05:41 pm Leroy Leutscher, 86, of Arizona, slipped and fell on a pair of pruning shears that went right through his eye and down his neck. Amazingly, he's doing pretty well given the circumstances. From The Telegraph: Luetscher was rushed to the …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 30, 2011 05:28 pm [video link] The Atavist is a platform for publishing and selling short nonfiction, what they call "cinematic journalism," for mobile devices. The full pieces are $2.99/each for iOS devices (with Android coming soon) and stripped-down versions for the Kindle are …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 30, 2011 05:14 pm This gorgeous spiral staircase is from the lighthouse at Sand Island, Wisconsin, leading from the basement fuel room to the lighthouse room at the top of the house, with stops at the two floors of living space along the way. …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 30, 2011 05:12 pm I snapped this photo in an elevator at the Holiday Inn Express in Mérida, Mexico. There are two sets of buttons in the elevator, one "for exclusive use of guests" and another "for exclusive use of staff." I made sure …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 30, 2011 05:07 pm Psi-fi painter Chris Reccardi has a show of new work up at Melbourne, Australia's Outre Gallery. Chris's roots are in the animation industry, having contributed to modern classics like The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 30, 2011 05:00 pm From Neil Bowdler at the BBC: A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial "alkaline hydrolysis" unit at a Florida funeral home. The unit by Resomation Ltd is billed as a green alternative to cremation and works by dissolving the …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 30, 2011 04:49 pm I went back to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore last weekend for a short vacation. One of my goals was to get out to Sand Island. This particular one of the 22 Apostles (Official story behind the name: Jesuit missionaries …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 30, 2011 03:43 pm The only thing that could make Philip Govedare's curious landscape paintings better is if we had found them buried on Mars in an airtight cylinder, with a copy of the March 12, 1888 edition of the London Times, a locket …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 30, 2011 02:38 pm It was very hot in Studio City on Sunday, so I went to Venice Beach with my wife and kids to cool off. It wasn't much cooler, but we had fun. The highlight of my day was this cartoony octopus …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 30, 2011 01:55 pm When Simon Glik recorded Boston Suffolk County police doing something they shouldn't, he was threatened and ultimately arrested by a crackpot cop who boasted, "I've been doing this for thirty years and there's nothing you can hold over my head." …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 30, 2011 01:10 pm Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps and other neat stuff. Rob and I are happy to have as our returning guest Ruben Bolling, creator of Tom the …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 30, 2011 01:08 pm Good morning from a sustainable cattle ranch in Montana's Centennial Valley. Here is a snapshot I just took on my phone of one of the residents. I am here with PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien, and PBS NewsHour producer …
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