‘Planet’ Archives
10 iPad Self-Portraits
I’ve selected 10 top examples of iPad owners having fun with both versions of the Apple tablet to create playful portraits — a very modern twist on the classic artistic genre. [Read More]
China opens first ‘space post office’
To celebrate Thursday's docking of the Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft with space lab module Tiangong-1, China's post authority has opened a new branch office outside the country and out of this world -- 343 kilometers above the Earth, to be exact. [Read More]
520 Days of Mars Mission
The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500’s six brave volunteers stepped out of their ‘spacecraft’ today to be welcomed by the waiting scientists – happy that the venture had worked even better than expected. [Read More]
9 Incredible Halloween Costumes
That’s right, nowadays white sheets and bloody fangs are out — unless you’re desperately hanging on to theTwilight trend, which is only borderline acceptable in my book. This Halloween you’ll be encountering “aha” moments around every corner. Mermaid with [Read More]
Artificial Super-Skin Could Transform Phones, Robots and Artificial Limbs
Using carbon nanotubes bent to act as springs, Stanford researchers have developed a stretchable, transparent skin-like sensor. The sensor can be stretched to more than twice its original length and bounce back perfectly to its original shape. It can sense pressure from a [Read More]
1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad
Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads. [Read More]
Star Wars + Maroon 5 = “Moves Like Jabba”
Jabba the Hutt, the slug-like crime lord from the Star Wars saga, has inspired the latest parody of Maroon 5′s chart-topping “Moves Like Jagger.” The lyrics for the new spoof — titled “Moves Like Jabba” — poke fun at the fictional character’s unfavorable [Read More]
iPads Now Driving More Web Traffic Than iPhones
Smartphones and tablets — particularly the iPad — are becoming an increasingly significant source of web traffic in the U.S. [Read More]
No major changes in NASCAR’s 2012 Cup schedule
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR made no major changes to the 2012 Sprint Cup Series schedule aside from flipping a few race dates and moving the start of the season back one week. [Read More]
