Daily Archives: 11.11.2014

This Tiny Hotel Pod Sits on the Roof of a 60-Year-Old Historic Building

By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

This Tiny Hotel Pod Sits on the Roof of a 60-Year-Old Historic Building

The idea of super-dense cities building new structures on top of old buildings has been kicking around sci-fi novels and architecture circles for decades, but the idea still isn’t ubiquitous. In Austria, the owner of a 1950s-era building is giving it a shot.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/tAMLRKIi42Q/this-tiny-hotel-pod-sits-on-the-roof-of-a-60-year-old-h-1657488299

      

Rosetta’s Comet Is Singing and You Can Listen To It Here

By Attila Nagy

Rosetta's Comet Is Singing and You Can Listen To It Here

Listen to it! That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko singing. This cosmic song was just discovered by the European Space Agency, which released the soundtrack for our enjoyment. It’s totally new and unexpected, say the scientists who will remotely land a probe on the rocky surface of the comet tomorrow.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/yRgKXO4i4t8/rosettas-comet-is-singing-and-you-can-listen-to-it-here-1657338057

      

Rosetta’s Comet Is Singing and You Can Listen To It Here

By Attila Nagy

Rosetta's Comet Is Singing and You Can Listen To It Here

Listen to it! That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko singing. This cosmic song was just discovered by the European Space Agency, which released the soundtrack for our enjoyment. It’s totally new and unexpected, say the scientists who will remotely land a probe on the rocky surface of the comet tomorrow.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/yRgKXO4i4t8/rosettas-comet-is-singing-and-you-can-listen-to-it-here-1657338057

      

ICS Insight Blog: Applying Scrolling and Eliding Text in a Natural User Interface

We recently made a presentation at the Qt Developer Days conference in San Francisco, entitled Make Your Content Shine: Design Choices for a Qt Touch Kiosk. In the presentation we talked about numerous issues related to content display in our touchscreen kiosk product, ViewPoint and explained the best practices that we used to solve those issues. In this post, we are going to focus on a couple of issues with scrolling and eliding text.

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Source:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IcsInsight/~3/YecC46HrAvw/applying-scrolling-and-eliding-text-natural-user-interface

      

ICS Insight Blog: Applying Scrolling and Eliding Text in a Natural User Interface

We recently made a presentation at the Qt Developer Days conference in San Francisco, entitled Make Your Content Shine: Design Choices for a Qt Touch Kiosk. In the presentation we talked about numerous issues related to content display in our touchscreen kiosk product, ViewPoint and explained the best practices that we used to solve those issues. In this post, we are going to focus on a couple of issues with scrolling and eliding text.

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Source:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IcsInsight/~3/YecC46HrAvw/applying-scrolling-and-eliding-text-natural-user-interface

      

This New Super-Yacht Aims to Break the Toughest Records in Sailing

By Andrew Tarantola

A speedy new vessel owned by tech-billionaire Jim Clark is set to make some waves at next month’s Sydney to Hobart sailing race. Not only is his super-yacht super fast, it’s one of the most technologically advanced ships on the sea today.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/jvejnDCkMvc/this-new-super-yacht-aims-to-break-the-toughest-records-1656909854

      

Quirky, GE unveil 7 ‘building blocks’ of the affordable smart home

By Ben Fox Rubin The partnership between the New York startup and industrial conglomerate came out with seven new connected-home products, adding new smarts to light switches, doors and wall outlets.

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Source:: http://cnet.com.feedsportal.com/c/34938/f/645093/s/406049f0/sc/36/l/0L0Scnet0N0Cnews0Cquirky0Ege0Eunveil0Enew0Eaffordable0Esmart0Ehome0Eline0C0Tftag0FCAD590Aa51e/story01.htm