The Drink Exchange: Stock Market for Bars
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After a long day on the trading floor, this bar will make them feel …
back at work! Behold, economics at work with The Drink [...]
Skin patch can determine when you are ill
Scientists are developing an electronic patch that can monitor a person’a vital signs in real time. The tiny patch is only about as thick as a human h…
Tortoise Eating a Salad
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A Sulcata tortoise enjoys a salad, which probably took hours in real time. With time-lapse photography and a dramatic soundtrack, he’s an unstoppable eating machine. -via Geekosystem
Road Frustration Index
How bad is traffic right now across the United States? Thanks to Audi,
we now have Road Frustration Index, a real-time map of how frustrated
drivers in your city are, at any given moment (all I can say is "calm
[...]
Star Wars 3D holograms ‘close to reality’
3D holograms such as that seen in Star Wars are one step closer to becoming a reality. Previous attempts at producing a real-time hologram have suffer…
A Brief History of Closed Captioning
Whether you’ve encountered its unmistakable white text on black background at the gym, in a bar, or on the couch, you’re familiar with closed captioning. Here’s a brief history of the technology that has provided a (mostly accurate) transcript of television programming for nearly 40 years.
Television captioning begins – with Julia Child
The nation’s first captioning [...]
