Today in grandiose space ambitions that would make even Newt Gingrich balk: a $60 billion, 1,000-mile long, 12-mile high, 20,000-miles-per-hour maglev train that starts on the ground and arrives in low Earth orbit. The minds behind the Startram project think it could reduce the cost per kilo (that's like 2.2 pounds American) for cargo from roughly $10,000 to just $50. More »
Printers have become a necessity in homes and offices. Most f the times and average home user use almost two ink cartridges per year. However, as offices require a lot of printed paper work, it uses around 7 cartridges per year.
The K supercomputer just got a bit quicker—boosting its computational output to 10.5 quadrillion calculations per second and making it the speediest number-crunching system on the planet. More »
Watch out Netflix, big blue's coming for you. The Blockbuster/Dish Network announcement is happening now. We've been anticipating a media streaming service that will compete with Netflix's $8 per month. Can Blockbuster's new offering shake customers off of Netflix's vine? More »
Aluminium baseball bats aren't the only weapon of defence that's proven popular on Amazon UK—wooden baseball bats are also up by 3,600 per cent; military police batons up by 5,000 per cent and the Zumba DVD workout set is up 342 per cent, which probably isn't related to the UK riots of the last few days. [Amazon UK via @Guardian via @AdrianChen] More »
