Fashion Glass

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/30Pjl31cyDY?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><b>n the video <i>DVF through Glass</i>, designer Diane von Furstenberg uses Google Glass to record behind-the-scenes at New York Fashion Week last year (yes, that’s Sergey Brin seated in the front row).</b><br /><br />Today Vogue released <a href="http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/the-final-frontier-google-glass-and-futuristic-fashion/" target="_blank">a series of images</a> from the September issue of models wearing Glass photographed by Steven Klein near Lubbock, Texas, with the tag: “Beyond the blue horizon lies a futuristic vision of fashion—a beautiful minimalism tailored for the brave and the bold.”<br /><br />Click any image for a larger view.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAlbwlVzzDvUw9ipNd4LJ3UGhbAqaKP_piI2ooqHkRV_8Z_R2mRl32mNDgcA9zcem0dDdwY7okyLHQrwLtiNRjNzOejnwoXe8Vm5JKqDfwVAs5xWiyrTzn8zOh2Hrl92Ny-IWIK_3KuCc/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAlbwlVzzDvUw9ipNd4LJ3UGhbAqaKP_piI2ooqHkRV_8Z_R2mRl32mNDgcA9zcem0dDdwY7okyLHQrwLtiNRjNzOejnwoXe8Vm5JKqDfwVAs5xWiyrTzn8zOh2Hrl92Ny-IWIK_3KuCc/s1600/1.jpg" width="853" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJp6XDOjp-BYhiJ8PL5LgI6AJusXSFbCC1eoAixbA0GCwq3681YhEP65-rxeXyJbiwDblDUpTh_w3HjRmYRsivPqe-gAzIOqBx1KT1TVeaSCo3k7ldN3yNRDIwJGovP2kKBoLWmpd3zw/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJp6XDOjp-BYhiJ8PL5LgI6AJusXSFbCC1eoAixbA0GCwq3681YhEP65-rxeXyJbiwDblDUpTh_w3HjRmYRsivPqe-gAzIOqBx1KT1TVeaSCo3k7ldN3yNRDIwJGovP2kKBoLWmpd3zw/s1600/2.jpg" width="853" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuiJCl0cuVIefPJHGfBVmG4rUcGE8AAJ9jFve4vI9S5UYsKXbRH0SgJ_2kQxvIB1W92o55fDk7I8h6jsEjA-8T6_9qhsBi53xcOEn9bVIVdvvLClUdxUSamQrL91QtW3DQQ7mH1Kg_UfM/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuiJCl0cuVIefPJHGfBVmG4rUcGE8AAJ9jFve4vI9S5UYsKXbRH0SgJ_2kQxvIB1W92o55fDk7I8h6jsEjA-8T6_9qhsBi53xcOEn9bVIVdvvLClUdxUSamQrL91QtW3DQQ7mH1Kg_UfM/s1600/3.jpg" width="853" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtti6eEcvVTWkbqSCQVlLOXLVcfsw9Tao6ptFzznMMojUvLPRFJFzqChM_LP6QfDHD46qvbxI-h5140D_PybfF70zkTf78MWQpiUvKq21GzR1X9RGyEwzuwiQlUBYpDT7yVAEy_oOt2sM/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtti6eEcvVTWkbqSCQVlLOXLVcfsw9Tao6ptFzznMMojUvLPRFJFzqChM_LP6QfDHD46qvbxI-h5140D_PybfF70zkTf78MWQpiUvKq21GzR1X9RGyEwzuwiQlUBYpDT7yVAEy_oOt2sM/s1600/4.jpg" width="853" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcD4CAeIwj3D4lEOlA7kITxmOhHAkZQkBYEh51lFERS0U3THs1Rx1XqqhnqHHkyRfNf-FN2BibqDCbv0aXVBFj04sT938ZjB7YeFzpmgJTB1JRx79_i91WV0K2UgwTLsyM4j9qQLvPFKE/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcD4CAeIwj3D4lEOlA7kITxmOhHAkZQkBYEh51lFERS0U3THs1Rx1XqqhnqHHkyRfNf-FN2BibqDCbv0aXVBFj04sT938ZjB7YeFzpmgJTB1JRx79_i91WV0K2UgwTLsyM4j9qQLvPFKE/s1600/5.jpg" width="853" /></a></div>

Fashion Glass

I n the video DVF through Glass , designer Diane von Furstenberg uses Google Glass to record behind-the-scenes at New York Fashion Week last...

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Me-Mover

<iframe width="853" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9iMgl5_rWM8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://me-mover.com/" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Me-Mover</span></b></a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><b>he Danish Me-Mover lets gets you out of the gym and on the streets. Like a step-machine but with the mobility of a bicycle, the Me-Mover feels like a mix of skiing and running, without the strain on your back, knees and ankles.</b> <br /><br />The stepping motion strengthens your leg and gluteal muscles as well as your hip flexor. The carving motion used when turning resembles downhill skiing and works your core muscles and improves your balance.<br /><br />You don’t need to sweat, you don’t need to workout, you just need to move.</div>

Me-Mover

Me-Mover T he Danish Me-Mover lets gets you out of the gym and on the streets. Like a step-machine but with the mobility of a bicycle, the...

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Miley Cyrus | MTV VMA 2013

<iframe frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:942064/cp~id%3D1712596%26vid%3D942064%26instance%3Dmtv%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A942064" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">“So la da di da di, we like to party</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">dancing with Molly </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">doing whatever we want”</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span><b>hen Miley sang the lyric “dancing with Molly” at the MTV VMAs, MTV bleeped the word “Molly” a reference to MDMA or ecstasy.</b><br /><br />Here’s what Miley says:<br /><br />“It depends who’s doing what. If you’re aged ten [the lyric is] Miley, if you know what I’m talking about then you know. I just wanted it to be played on the radio and they’ve already had to edit it so much,” she <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2371313/Miley-Cyrus-reveals-raunchy-video-We-Cant-Stop-MORE-explicit-opens-shedding-squeaky-clean-past.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" target="_blank">told the Daily Mail</a>. “I don’t think people have a hard time understanding that I’ve grown up. You can Google me and you know what I’m up to — you know what that lyric is saying.<br /><br />The world is such a fucked up place the last thing people need to worry about is my cute little video for <i>We Can’t Stop</i>, you know what I mean?”</div>

Miley Cyrus | MTV VMA 2013

“So la da di da di, we like to party dancing with Molly doing whatever we want” W hen Miley sang the lyric “dancing with Molly” at the MTV V...

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NASA Engineer Says He Has a Way to Move Faster Than the Speed of Light

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kdaMI2wnVBg?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">io9</span></b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">N</span><b>ASA engineer <a href="http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/team/harold-white/" target="_blank">Harold White</a> stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His proposed design, a re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks—and all without violating Einstein’s law of relativity—nothing with mass can accelerate to light speed.</b><br /><br />The idea came to White while he was considering an equation formulated by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre. In his 1994 paper titled, “The Warp Drive: Hyper-Fast Travel Within General Relativity,” Alcubierre suggested a mechanism by which space-time could be “warped” both in front of and behind a spacecraft.<br /><br />Alcubierre’s notion takes advantage of a quirk in the cosmological code that allows for the expansion and contraction of space-time, and could allow for hyper-fast travel between interstellar destinations. Essentially, the empty space behind a starship would be made to expand rapidly, pushing the craft in a forward direction—passengers would perceive it as movement despite the complete lack of acceleration.<br /><br />(Think of this bubble like a moving sidewalk: It carries you faster than you can walk, but your leg muscles still dictate how fast you can walk on the rubber surface. In the case of the space-time bubble, the “sidewalk” is moving faster than light, while objects inside that bubble still obey the speed limit.)</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL4hfMHmEOsPydwXu7Bz2sGCImA5SutbVlPpaul2pmQWT-bHRFUejCQVhF5HrqjSmcCRUupWA4nlqmjXg9PYOrUXMEEy2vgsmpRuJcraidyDcn0KLMXNk3pdAmAnZOu4QGv6m3gBQPy1I/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL4hfMHmEOsPydwXu7Bz2sGCImA5SutbVlPpaul2pmQWT-bHRFUejCQVhF5HrqjSmcCRUupWA4nlqmjXg9PYOrUXMEEy2vgsmpRuJcraidyDcn0KLMXNk3pdAmAnZOu4QGv6m3gBQPy1I/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Concept for warp drive craft. Photo: Michael Stravato for the NY Times</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;">In terms of the engine’s mechanics, a spheroid object would be placed between two regions of space-time (one expanding and one contracting). A “warp bubble” would then be generated that moves space-time around the object, effectively repositioning it—the end result being faster-than-light travel without the spheroid (or spacecraft) having to move with respect to its local frame of reference.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: large;">“Remember, nothing locally exceeds the speed of light, but space can expand and contract at any speed. However, space-time is really stiff, so to create the expansion and contraction effect in a useful manner in order for us to reach interstellar destinations in reasonable time periods would require a lot of energy.”</span> ~Harold White</blockquote><br />Early assessments published in the ensuing scientific literature suggested horrific amounts of energy—basically equal to the mass-energy of the planet Jupiter (what is 1.9 × 1027 kilograms or 317 Earth masses). As a result, the idea was brushed aside as being far too impractical.<br /><br />The key, says White, may be in altering the geometry of the warp drive itself.<br /><br />White has redesigned the theoretical warp-traveling spacecraft—and in particular a ring around it that is key to its propulsion system—in a way that he believes will greatly reduce the energy requirements.<br /><br />White says, “I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger—like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape—and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required—perhaps making the idea plausible.” White had adjusted the shape of Alcubierre’s ring which surrounded the spheroid from something that was a flat halo to something that was thicker and curvier.<br /><br />White’s new new design could significantly reduce the amount of exotic matter required. And in fact, White says that the warp drive could be powered by a mass that’s even less than that of the Voyager 1 spacecraft.<br /><br />That’s a significant change in calculations to say the least. The reduction in mass from a Jupiter-sized planet to an object that weighs a mere 1,600 pounds has completely reset White’s sense of plausibility—and NASA’s.<br /><br />The warp drive design appears to be based on <a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/quantum-thruster-warp-drive-physics-130823.htm" target="_blank">an exotic form of matter</a> that nobody has seen experimentally.</div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OIC1E-GSj_w?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"></div>

NASA Engineer Says He Has a Way to Move Faster Than the Speed of Light

io9 N ASA engineer Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the developm...

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GolfBoard

<iframe frameborder="0" height="640" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/765640644/surf-the-earth-with-the-golfboard/widget/video.html" width="853"> </iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">G</span><b>olf carts are so slow and boring. What to do? How about a <a href="http://golfboard.com/#section1" target="_blank">skateboard for golfers</a>?</b></div>

GolfBoard

G olf carts are so slow and boring. What to do? How about a skateboard for golfers ?

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