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My mouth is jealous of Jason Sheehan's mouth. It got to taste the tastiest burger ever, and tell the best burger story of all time. I won't ruin it for you, but it involves a-bombs, Oppenheimer, and green chiles. Yum. [Gilt Taste]
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Contrary to popular belief, DOGS (of either the WAR or POLICE variety) are not impervious to bullets. And yet! Man's best friend still throws caution to the wind in order to serve and protect.
In honor of these proud beasts—for whom Super Bowl MVP and True American Hero Ben Roethlisberger just bought some swank kevlar vests in Montgomery County, MD—here are seven pieces of awesome gear to create an unstoppable K-9 canine.
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It looks like a tiny bottle of liquid, but you are looking at the breath of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the crew of Apollo 11, the first humans to land on the Moon, condensed into liquid:
A sample of wastewater taken from the Apollo 11 command module after its return to Earth. The item is a 2.5-inch tall bottle about one-quarter of the way full of the clear liquid. A typed label affixed to the glass reads Apollo 11, Post Flight Waste Tank 0720Z 7/25/69.
According the consignor, the liquid is actually condensation formed as a result of the astronauts breathing.
Needless to say, if you drink this holy water, you will become stronger than Captain America, smarter than Stephen Hawking and grow your steel balls courage level up to +2591. Yes, my dear space nerds, that's courage balls the size of two entire planetary systems.
The breath's humidity was captured by the Apollo environmental control system, which had 180 parts compared to the eight for a window AC unit. It performed 23 functions, which included air cooling, air heating, ventilation to suits, ventilation to cabin, air filtration, CO2 removal, odor removal using activated charcoal filters and humidity control. The latter was the part that collected excessive humidity in the command module atmosphere, which couldn't exceed 70% or go below 40%. That condensed liquid was then stored in a waste tank.
In case you are wondering, the pee was ejected directly into space as a golden nebula of frozen stars using a hose in which astronauts introduced their penises. Feces weren't ejected as meteorites into space, however. They were stored in bags at the end of the cumbersome and disgusting process you can imagine, which included using your fingers and, after collecting every bit and piece into the bag, massaging the crap with an anti-germ dust inside the bag.
The bottle of space heroes' breath will be auctioned alongside stuff like an Apollo 11 flight plan page, Neil Armstrong's letter with his first words on the Moon, the Apollo 14 lunar Bible and Armstrong's training glove. Other objects in the auction start at only $200. [Apollo Experience Report, JSC and Apollo Saturn Facts via RR Auction via CNET]
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You thought you were pretty awesome in grade school when you'd pull your laser pointer out of your TMNT pencil case and pretended to use it like a pen. Admit it, you did. I did. Well yeah, Griffin's Stylus + Pen + Laser Pointer makes that thing look like an outmoded unitasker.
It's supposedly for artists, students, and professionals—and it will probably be totally useful kind of for them. But let's be serious: The chief virtue of this thing is going to be screwing around at your office or in your dorm room, where you now have an excuse for carrying around a laser pointer, since you don't have that Ninja Turtles pencil case anymore. It's available now for $50. [Griffin]
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Apple is giving Samsung a legal pummeling because it thinks the latter stole the iPad's design for the Galaxy Tab. So far, the fight's going well for Apple. But Samsung has something up its sleeve: Apple ripped off science fiction.
Or so Samsung claims. Patent expert Florian Mueller noticed something odd in Samsung's American legal counteroffensive: they argue the idea for the iPad existed back in 1968, when Stanley Kubrick dreamed up his sci fi classic. And in American patent law, if the idea existed before your patent application—what's known as prior art—your patent is null. So essentially, Samsung is pulling a hell of a legal maneuver here, alleging they couldn't possibly have stolen the iPad's design, because Apple took it from an imaginary science fiction movie space station:
Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers. The clip can be downloaded online at
Mueller says it would be "amazing" if the court bought this. But Samsung does have a point, even if it's a futile one. The problem with Apple's radically minimal design is that it's hard to say there's terribly much singular about it. Unlike the design of, say, a Lamborghini, which is distinctive and iconic because of its detail, Apple's gorgeous industrial design is striking because of how invisible it is.
All tablets are pretty much just black glass rectangles. Most smartphones are pretty much just smaller black glass rectangles. Apple certainly made this design ubiquitous through the iPad and iPhone, respectively, but did they invent it? With a form so vague, it might be hard to prove that they did. And if the realm of science fiction becomes fair game, the fights of Samsung—and any other company Apple might square off against—could become easier. I'd never have guessed Space Age design and beautiful futurism could be a liability. [FOSS Patents via 9to5Mac]
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