National Geographic Channel have created a real-life version of the animated film Up — launching a house thousands of metres into the air using balloons.
A team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16’ X 16’ (≈5x5m) house 18’ (5.4m) tall with 8’ (2.4m) coloured weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted.
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Eduardo showing Sean who’s the boss!
This image from NASA, shot yesterday, clearly shows the track of last week’s tornado as it headed into Sturbridge, Mass.
BBC News - Internet of things blurs the line between bits and atoms
A smart wine rack - every bottle has a RFID tag, and the rack is connected to the internet to let the owner know when a bottle has been removed
Imagine googling your home to find your child’s lost toy.
Or remotely turning on the tumble dryer for yet another cycle - after it has texted you that the clothes were still damp.
Or your plant tweeting you to be watered.
It might have been sci-fi just a decade ago, but with the internet forcing its way into every aspect of our lives, cyberspace is leaking out into the real world.
In the past few months, companies ranging from giants such as Google to small start-ups have been touting the possibility of interconnecting people and objects - lightbulbs, fridges, cars, buildings - to create an internet of things.
Many say this is a trend bound to hit us all in the near future.
“Some of the things that are possible are truly unbelievable,” says Constantine Valhouli from the Hammersmith Group, a strategy consulting firm.
“We’ve moved from a desktop internet to mobile phones and mobile internet - the next step is buildings and objects, enabling us to communicate with them directly or enabling them to even bypass people entirely and communicate directly with each other.”
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton released the following statement today on the shutdown of the Internet in Syria:
“We are deeply concerned by reports that Internet service has been shut down across much of Syria, as have some mobile communication networks. We condemn any…
![Syrian use the Internet at an internet cafe in Damascus on March 1,2008. [AP File Photo]](http://blogs.state.gov/images/Dipnote/behind_the_scenes/2011_0604_syrian_internet_cafe_m.jpg)
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee
