ART+NATURE+SCIENCE+TECHNOLOGY=Beautiful Gestalt

According to Answers.com, Tropism is the "turning or bending movement of an organism or a part toward or away from an external stimulus such as light, heat, or gravity." With that tidbit of knowledge under your cap, you'll better understand the nature of the aptly-named "Tropism Well". What a wonderful new invention/work of art/blending of technology and nature!

"An elegant sculptural installation piece, The Tropism Well is both beautiful and intriguing. It is also unashamedly functional, existing simply to quench your thirst. When you approach one it will gently bow down and pour water into your glass." Watch the Tropism Well in action here.

Some Days It's an Easy Choice

Reading - A Multi-Sensory Experience

"The smell of e-books just got better"

If you’ve been hesitant to jump on the e-book bandwagon, you’re not alone. Book lovers everywhere have resisted digital books because they still don’t compare to the experience of reading a good old fashioned paper book.

But all of that is changing thanks to Smell of Books™, a revolutionary new aerosol e-book enhancer." Read more here!

Oh...and just ignore those nasty recall rumors...

Weird Remotes

Yep, that's right - weird remotes.

At least this one won't get lost under the cushions

Now I can Print-out My Dream Car

...but I probably still can't afford it! For years I longed for the Ultimate in cars - the 1969 Mustang. Now all I need is a lot of paper, a lot of ink, and a lot of glue!

"Brooklyn artist Jonathan Brand has constructed every single part of a 1969 Mustang coupe using nothing but paper. The 31-year-old made a digital blueprint of the car and then printed it on a large-format inkjet printer." Read more here - pictures + video!

Vintage Computer Pictures

You can have the blazing fast speeds and terabytes of storage of today's highfalutin computing machines.

For Absolute Cool Factor, however, nothing beats the physically mammoth banks of controls, drives, punches, readers and cores that were a part of my early computing experiences--with their mighty 8kB of memory and 8MB of storage! Check out computing in the 1960's!

Flipped the same switches, had the same muttonchops!

Let's Get Small - How Large IS a Solar Flare?

Today saw a new sunspot on the sun's eastern limb produce a X1.4-class solar flare. Just how big are these monsters? This big: