Pocket : 362-hp BMW i8 plug-in speeds closer to production on French test track

Pocket : 362-hp BMW i8 plug-in speeds closer to production on French test track: "Last week BMW revealed the i3, the first car in its "i" brand of sustainable vehicles. While we enjoyed the look at BMW's $42K electric, the reveal really left us wondering when we'll see the sportier i8. As if in answer, BMW held an event at its Miramas test track in France, showing the latest prototype."

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Techatticup Mine - CNET News

Techatticup Mine - CNET News: "As they do each summer, the annual Perseid meteor showers are about to rain down, offering a spectacular sight for earthling sky gazers. The display, known as the Perseid shower because the meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern sky, is a result of Earth's orbit passing through debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years. But talk about luck -- bad luck in this case: the arrival of the Perseids coincides with the August full moon."

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Fishers Island - Top 100 Golf Courses in World Golf Magazine 25-1 - Photos - GOLF.com

Fishers Island - Top 100 Golf Courses in World Golf Magazine 25-1 - Photos - GOLF.com:

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Pocket : New technique for turning sunshine and water into hydrogen fuel

Pocket : New technique for turning sunshine and water into hydrogen fuel: "A new technique developed by a University of Colorado Boulder team converts sunshine and water directly into usable fuel. The technique involves concentrating sunlight in a solar tower to achieve temperatures high enough to drive chemical reactions that split water into its constituent oxygen and hydrogen molecules. In this way, the team says it should be able to cheaply produce massive amounts of hydrogen fuel."

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Pocket : Ring Weeder gets to the root of the manual weeding problem

Pocket : Ring Weeder gets to the root of the manual weeding problem: "Removing weeds can be annoying, especially in an area with a lot of plants. Ring Weeder slips over the user's index finger and allows for precision weed pulling all the way down to the root."

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Pocket : Pebble Smartwatch Review & Giveaway

Pocket : Pebble Smartwatch Review & Giveaway: "Smartwatches are the new hottest trend in today’s tech world, and the Pebble e-ink watch helped start the fire. The most successful Kickstarter project to date, the Pebble raised over $10 million during its 1-month campaign which ended in May 2012. It had almost 70,000 backers, and more than that in non-Kickstarter pre-orders, and still you don’t see many people in the street wearing the watch. Why?"

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Pocket : Radical new icebreaker will travel through the ice sideways

Pocket : Radical new icebreaker will travel through the ice sideways: "Given that icebreakers clear a path for other ships by traveling through the ice head-on (or sometimes butt-on), then in order for one of them to clear a wider path, it would have to be wider and thus larger overall ... right? Well, Finland’s Arctech Helsinki Shipyard is taking a different, more efficient approach. It’s in the process of building an asymmetric-hulled icebreaker that can increase its frontal area, by making its way through the ice at an angle of up to 30 degrees."

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Pocket : NIAC 2013 Phase I winners showcases futuristic aerospace concepts

Pocket : NIAC 2013 Phase I winners showcases futuristic aerospace concepts: "A dozen inventors have received a chance to demonstrate the potential for their pet space projects as winners of NASA's 2013 Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program Phase I awards. The winners were chosen based on their potential to transform future aerospace missions by enabling either breakthroughs in aerospace capabilities or entirely new missions. Read on for a closer look at some of the most promising proposals with a view to how they would work, and where the tricky bits might be hiding."

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World's Largest Geyser Puts on Rare Show

World's Largest Geyser Puts on Rare Show:

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Twelve Months in Two Minutes – Curiosity’s First Year on Mars

Twelve Months in Two Minutes – Curiosity’s First Year on Mars: "It has been one Earth year since NASA’s Curiosity Rover touched down on Mars, so NASA has put together an awesome video with 500+ images from the mission to celebrate this milestone. The photos are from a ‘rover’s eye point of view’ showing Curiosity driving around, scooping, and drilling during its first year of work."

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World's largest tunneling machine digs in

World's largest tunneling machine digs in: "Bertha, the world’s largest tunnel boring machine (TBM), started digging under Seattle on Tuesday as it chewed through the north wall of the 80-ft (24.3 m) deep trench where it was assembled after being shipped in pieces from its manufacturer in Japan. Designed to bore a 1.7 mi (2.7 km) tunnel for State Route 99 (SR 99) under the Seattle city center to replace the old viaduct, the machine will both dig out soil and lay a concrete tunnel wall as it goes."

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Lamborghini's most extreme Gallardo comes to the street

Lamborghini's most extreme Gallardo comes to the street: "Lamborghini has announced that the latest model in its Gallardo line-up will make its world premiere at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show. Based on Lamborghini’s Super Trofeo track cars, the new LP 570-4 Squadra Corse sports a 570 hp, V10 engine that will launch it from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in a prompt 3.4 seconds before hitting a top speed of 320 km/h (198 mph)."

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