Hyperloop — theoretical, 760 mph transit system made of sun, air, & magnets

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Think passenger capsules fired along an airtight tube by manipulating air pressure & magnets.

Elon Musk is pushing this, so just before dismissing it, remember PayPal, SolarCity, Spacex & Tesla Motors ...

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/hyperloop-a-theoretical-760-mph-transit-system-made-of-sun-air-and-magnets/ / magnet magnetic magnetically bearing seal sealed airtight vacuum hard partial passenger passengers futuristic transit system open-source open source proposed design Hyperloop ultra-fast transit system run between San Francisco Los Angeles Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors website founder SpaceX Tesla Motors system moves pods low pressure tube two cities I-5 freeway document aluminum pods two steel tubes direction of travel connected terminus tubes pylons spaced 100 feet apart tube 20 feet in the air tube covered solar arrays generate power PV photovoltaic photo voltaic tubes pods carry people 760 miles per hour pods 28 passengers departing every two minutes location 30 seconds peak times pod about 23 miles between one another while traversing the tube transport capacity 840 passengers per hour capsules’ speed low pressure low-pressure environment, 1/6 pressure atmosphere Mars Earth maintained by vacuum pumps. reduce drag 1,000 times document hard vacuum low pressure solution pneumatic tube passenger capsules passengers reclined chairs air bearing skis float pressurized cushion of air injecting air into the gap bearing /

iPhone 5S fingerprint sensor: sapphire used for home button

http://bgr.com/2013/08/12/iphone-5s-fingerprint-sensor-sapphire/ / iPhone high-end device Apple iPhone 5S new research note KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo scratch proof scratch-proof sapphire crystal iPhone 5S home button double fingerprint sensor Kuo plastic sapphire home button fingerprint sensor smartphone manufacturers material durable smartphone displays display fingerprint sensor device device’s functionality, Apple experience material currently sapphire crystal iPhone 5 protect handset handset’s rear camera /

Leonardo, an advanced photo editor app for iPad & iPhone

Credit: Leonardo/ Pankaj Goswami/ TheGadgeteer

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Buying Apple products is a form of "Narcissism"

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This may be more popular with Android/Windows users than the iOS/OS X crowd.

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/08/buying-apple-products-is-a-form-of-narcissism/ / iPad iPhone iMac Macintosh Mac iOS OSX OS X smartphone phone computer pad Steve Jobs picture photograph himself /

Einstein likely never said one of his most oft-quoted phrases

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Albert Einstein called the cosmological constant his "biggest blunder", right?

Quite likely, it never happened.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/einstein-likely-never-said-one-of-his-most-oft-quoted-phrases/278508/ / tales biggest blunder problem bugging theory of general relativity universe stable theory Universe collapse collapsing collapsed steady state fixed physicists equations work 1917 Einstein introduced additional term into them expression expressed Greek letter lambda ƛ cosmological constant new term represented repulsive force would counter gravity gravity's attraction evidence mounted belief Universe's morionless motion motionlessness Universe expand expansion expanding equation intuition intuit cosmos concoction concocted contrivance preserve false assumption repeated thousands of times books journal articles across the disciplines discipline uttered phrase biggest blunder astrophysicist author Mario Livio documentation references physicist George Gamow posthumously published autobiography My World Line 1970 Scientific American article September 1956 Livio Brilliant Blunders thin sourcing Gamow brilliant physicist reputation student Ralph Alpher write paper astrophysicist Hans Bethe Alpher Bethe Gamow Einstein archive Jerusalem collection personally correspondence scientist famous physicist correspondence between Einstein Gamow confirm /

Time Warner Cable CEO admits "Game Of Thrones" piracy is good for HBO

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http://bgr.com/2013/08/08/time-warner-cable-ceo-hbo-piracy/ / pirate piracy pirating copy copying download file sharing torrent watch popularity word of mouth excitement producer most pirated television show crack down illegal streaming Game of Thrones company BitTorrent users illegally watch hit show Business Insider Time Warner Cable CEO Jeff Bewkes Game of Thrones piracy net positive creates word-of-mouth excitement new subscribers sharing more penetration paying subs subscription subscriptions paid advertising programming president Michael Lombardo /

Get rid of those damn mosquitoes with the Mosquito Magnet

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