Michelle Dickinson • Apr 10, 2014 •
With all the tweeting and checking of e-mail that I do, my phone battery barely makes it to lunchtime without needing a charge, so I was excited when I saw in the press today several articles talking about a company called StoreDot. Apparently they have built a new battery charger that can charge a smartphone… … Read More
Darcy Cowan • Oct 01, 2012 •
I happened to be browsing and saw a review of the newly released iPhone 5. On a whim I figured I’d have a look, turned out the most interesting part of the review for me was the misunderstanding of psychology in the opening paragraphs. In setting up how “everyman” their acquisition of the new phone [&hellip … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Mar 20, 2012 •
Gosh, but this is gorgeous. Admittedly, I have a jones for data. And for maps, too*. And NASA/JPL** and their work. All of which means that Earth Now, a recently-released iPhone/iPod/iPad app from JPL, is my idea of phonepr0n. It shows, on an interactive model of earth, various overlays for various types of near-real [...] … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 31, 2012 •
Greetings, podcast audience of ours! This week’s podcast was supposed to be slightly shorter than usual, but then Elf and aimee got into a Discussion or two. There may have been some slight ranting 🙂 We cover the human brain connectome (peeeerdy), awesome urchin-like nanospheres, a NZ critter app, the world’s first iridescent mammal, a medical/bioinformative challenge, science … Read More
Ken Perrott • Dec 21, 2010 •
If you often find you read articles on the Richard Dawkins’ Foundation web site, watch videos or listen to audio on the site you might find the iPhone app useful. And it’s only NZ$1.19. It provides access to all that … Continue reading → … Read More
Jim McVeagh • Oct 22, 2010 •
Readers of MacDoctor will know that I always find virus scares on Macs vastly amusing. While there have been the odd trojan and plenty of those nasty phishing scams, there has never been a virus reported in the wild on Mac OSX. It is not surprising that I viewed the following headline with great skepticism: [...] Related posts: … Read More
Ken Perrott • Sep 27, 2010 •
Here’s a handy little resource of anyone interested in evolutionary science – The Timetree of life. It enables you to find the last common ancestor of two species. Or, as the website describes it: “TimeTree is a public knowledge-base for … Continue reading → … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Aug 20, 2010 •
The weekend’s coming, and so I’m clearing out some of the stuff that’s cluttering up my web browser. NIWA recently posted an excellent explanation of the carbon/greenhouse gas relationship in pastoral agriculture, taken from the July issue of their magazine, Water & Atmosphere: Why isn’t grass in, methane out, carbon neutral? Click on the image [...] … Read More
Peter Griffin • Jun 08, 2010 •
Take a look at the mobile phone you own – does it have a camera on the front of it? If it does, chances are that its capable of making video calls. That’s right, another feature they stamped all over the box that you never actually use – and for good reason. To date, video calling on mobile phones has … Read More
Ken Perrott • Mar 10, 2010 •
This photograph of the sun’s corona is a real beauty. it was captured by Miloslav Druckmüller and colleagues from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, during an eclipse on July 22, 2009. They were located on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. For further image details, equipment used and a spectacular high-resolution photograph, visit Miloslav Druckmüller’s [...] … Read More