I added a page with iOS Programming Books listed, in case you’re interested in learning how to program for iPhone and iPad.
Category: cool
Mythbusters Ice Cannon Ball
Yikes.
Heat Your Home With Pop Cans
This is one of the coolest (ha!) solar heating panels I’ve heard about. Very interesting tech!
Room Temperature Quantum Bit Storage Exceeding 39 Minutes
Room temperature quantum bit storage for over 39 minutes. It’ll be interesting to see how long they can extend this.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6160/830
Self-Assembling Robots
Prince Rupert’s Drop Demonstration
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Unboxing Video
Decoding Prairie Dog Language
Speech Recognition/Translation Breakthrough
This is pretty amazing. From Microsoft Research and the University of Toronto. Deep Neural Network technology is used to create software that allows you to speak in your own voice, have it translated, and then spoken in that new language in your own voice!
Building Apps For the App Store
The article “How to Become an App Store Millionaire: Make a Hit App, and Don’t Make Anything Else” – like Steve Martin’s advice of how to become a millionaire and not pay taxes “First, get a million dollars”. Both are easier said than done.
Link – via All Things D.