Ouch! Movie Theater Food = more than a day's food!

"That large tub of buttered popcorn and soda can provide not only a day's calories(of the recommended daily allowance) but also two days' worth of fat and almost a cup of sugars."
Consumer Reports Mar 2012 p. 10
-Tom.

Hybrid minivans - not until 2013.

http://www.hybridcenter.org/hybrid-timeline.html

-Tom.

Tornado - beauty, elegance, power, havoc

The opening paragraphs are particularly well written.
http://m.popsci.com/science/article/2012-01/did-global-warming-destroy-my-hometown-0?page=all

-Tom.

Handsome Men's Club

Very funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyGJXLxtVEo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.

Useful google search tips

https://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator

Porsche bottoms out

Lowest reliability Jaguar and Porsche. Best American is only middle of the list.

Invisible Mercedes

Invisible car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIGzpi9lCck&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.

The $1,000 Genome, and the New Problem of Having Too Much Information | Popular Science

"Soon the price of sequencing will fall below the cost of storing the data it generates."

With New Standard, Wi-Fi Could Become As Widespread As Cellular | Popular Science

http://m.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-02/wi-fi-could-become-widespread-cellular

Looking forward to widespread free wifi without continually signing in!
-Tom.

Critique of Googles revamped privacy policy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2091508/Google-privacy-policy-Search-giant-know-partner.html

-Tom.

Popular Science: How We're Creating "Terminator Vision" in Your Future Contact Lenses

How We're Creating "Terminator Vision" in Your Future Contact Lenses

Terminator Vision "We made a lens that displays a single pixel that can be turned on and off wirelessly. An integrated circuit stores the energy, and ...

Source: http://goo.gl/mag/Ntw3B

Shared via Google Currents

-Tom. 

World's Largest Rope Swing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B36Lr0Unp4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.

Zorbing - Rolling inside a giant plastic ball

Looks like fun. Especially when you add water inside the ball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG3pgV8Crzk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yji-QGQ-gZw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.

SkyWalk & SkyJump

The cable reel connects to a fan that slows down the descent, like those exercise bikes with a big fan. Near the end of the drop, a gear change spins the fan faster for a soft landing. As described in Popular Science Feb 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPJGC9UizwM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.

World's first manned flight with an electric multicopter

Manned flight on a huge 16-rotor multicopter. Looks remarkably stable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L75ESD9PBOw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

-Tom.