For the latest scruffy look you need to get yourself a sawn off USB drive.
To the average onlooker this handy gadget will make your laptop look like you have just fled from your desk, without a care for your connections, however hidden inside is a nifty 1Gb Flash Drive!
You can find out just how to make you own over at Evil Mad Scientist where you will be provided with a full step by step guide.
1. Clean up your desktop.
2. Get an empty folder (or a set of folders in different colors,) document icons, or whatever other thing is around your desktop. Don’t get big documents, as you will need to duplicate them to create your image.
3. Third, deactivate automatic snap-to-grid in the view desktop options in Windows or Mac OS X.
4. Optionally, load an image in the background to “trace.”
5. Start placing your folders/icons/whatever, always on a row and rendering the subject matter from top to bottom to ensure that no text from the icons on the top rows overlaps the icons on the bottom rows.
If you ever find yourself bored at work and feel like doing something creative, why not have a go!
Cardio Snake
A lot of people are scared of going under the knife for a variety of fears which grip them. That’s why scientists are constantly trying to find a way to create surgical methods with lower risk factors. At the Carnegie Mellon University, a snakelike robot called “CardioArm” was devised to aid in heart surgeries. The only contact the surgeon makes with the patient’s body is to make an incision so the robot can enter the system. Once inside, CardioArm is controlled by a joystick and a computer for monitoring.
For some reason this looks a lot more scary than going under the knife? See what you think have a look at the other pic on that post. Be warned that after some more tests the good doctors would love to stick this down your throat, or any other openings that don’t require a knife to get into…
There seems to be a never-ending flow of stunning images coming from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). In today’s high-resolution look at the Martian surface, large flat-topped hills (a.k.a. mesas) can be seen to be eroded by the Mars winds, stripping them of their material, creating sand dunes downwind. An incredible sight, it shows just how dynamic and powerful the Martian winds really are…
Original Post from Universe Today
I am continually being blown away by the images coming from the HiRISE project and Mars. These sand dunes and errosion patterns are quite spooky in a way, but well worth a look!
