Archive for September 2004

Methane, Water Vapor Point to Something Interesting on Mars

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

A few months ago, scientists announced preliminary data indicating the presence of methane gas in the atmosphere of Mars. The same team has now announced that this methane appears to be coming from [...]


3D on the Web - Where is it?

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

In 1994, Tony Parisi and team invented VRML to bring 3D graphics to the web. The demise of VRML has been well documented. Eventually, it evolved into a second standard called X3D that [...]


Hamlet in 1603, 1605, 1611, 1622, and 1637

Friday, September 10th, 2004

The British Library has recently digitized 93 pamphlet editions of Shakespeare’s plays that were printed during his lifetime and a few decades after. His manuscripts no longer exist [...]


Image of an Exoplanet?

Friday, September 10th, 2004

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently took near-infrared images of a body apparently orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207 that [...]


Your Wildest Desires, Captured on Video

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

Ever since consumers got their hands on personal camcorders they have been making movies, but production values have kept wide the chasm between amateur and professional video. In the past few years many [...]


Cell Phone with a Spin

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

Spinning inside the Samsung SPH-V5400 cell phone is a 1.5GB hard drive, an industry first, according to the company. The cell phone can be used as an organizer, Korean-English [...]