The most famous mummy in history, Tutankhamun, has had his artifacts exhumed and studied since 1922. For the last two years, in an effort to reveal why the Egyptian ‘boy king’ died young, teams of scientists from Egypt, Germany, and Italy, have studied Tut’s DNA and come up with some interesting conclusions.
A free online service from Japan called ‘Last Letter’ lets you send your loved ones a final message… after you’ve drawn your final breath.
What a clever and fun design is the Chop Stick Wardrobe. Not created by an Asian, but by Swiss designer Andreas Saxer, who happens to be a design professor at the Chang-Geng University Taipei in Taiwan. I’d say Saxer’s Chop Stick Wardrobe just may have been influenced by his stay on the Chinese island.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is holding a moon-sized art contest for high-school and college students. The challenge is to submit an original work on the theme: Life and Work on the Moon.
Remember James Peret? He’s pictured here, eating fried fish cooked in the oil that Peret recycles to heat his fish restaurant. Peret and his invention, the Vegawatt was one of the 10 top winners of the 2009 Popular Science Invention Awards. Well, now Popular Science is looking for the best 2010 inventions; that’s right, PopSci is looking for you !
Though Slowcooker by Margriet Foolen doesn’t exactly fit easily into interior design categories, it did happen to win Wallpaper’s Best Domestic Design 2010. Personally, I think it’s great that its good looks are matched by its utility and I can’t wait to purchase one!
Buying a tasty Valentine’s Day gift for the mechanically minded man need not be a wrenching decision, just order up these cool chocolate tools from Frantz Kobe Sweets!
AT&T now stands to make even more money than they’re making now, which they said in a press release yesterday was a record high.
Ladies, are you overly shy? Can’t get up the nerve to talk to that cute guy in your building, much less look him in the eye?
The Internet as the ecosystem of our lives is expanding beyond the confines of desktops and mobile devices to connect with actual things that take up space in our world. Back in February, 2009, I predicted that by 2020 appliances, vehicles, buildings and smart homes will be able to start talking with one another. Well that Internet of Things’ timetable might have just been moved up a decade as a result of what one company is doing with this new technology.
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