1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands. 1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake. 1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club 1981 – The ZX81, a […]
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Popular Science: A transplantable heart, alas, is an increasingly rare find. It has to come from a person who is in the blush of good health and also, somehow, dead. As cars have gotten safer and states have passed laws requiring seatbelts and motorcycle helmets, the number of such hearts has dwindled. The need for
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when Forbes: Seattle and Bay Area-based developers and entrepreneurs Justin Wilcox (CTO of Nimbus Health) and Ondrej Hrebicek (CTO of Syncplicity) devoted 24 consecutive hours to building [Bounce][7], a hybrid of your location, upcoming calendar events and real-time traffic data (provided by [Bing’s Routes API][8]) to notify you exactly when it’s time to leave for
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Ideabox: Introducing aktiv, the first in a new line of houses designed by ideabox and appointed by IKEA. Swedish inspired, wide open living, functional, no wasted space, and full of personality! It’s a house designed to live in… with all the fun. The 745 square foot homes go for $86.5K. Just hope you don’t have
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Inventors will do anything to prove their invention works. Just how dedicated are you? One man actually shot himself to prove his bulletproof vest worked.
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On this date in 1976, I was born on a rainy day in Modesto, California. Some other, slightly more important things happened on this date, too: 1791 – Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris. 1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first
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Mises: The Jetsons’ world is our world: explosive technological advances, entrenched bourgeois culture, a culture of enterprise that is the very font of the good life. But there is one major difference, and it isn’t the flying car, which we might already have were it not for the government’s promotion of roads and the central
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