Babycomp and Ladycomp

Babycomp and Ladycomp are personal family planning devices. Whether you’re looking for birth control (Ladycomp) or want to make a baby (Babycomp), these devices offer a totally natural solution. By monitoring your patterns and comparing them to a local database of over 700,000 women’s patterns the device manufacturers claim it will accurately predict periods of fertility and infertility. All you do to use it is …

Genevieve Bell: Other Internets

Intel's Genevieve Bell is nearing completion of her 3 year long study on the role technology plays in Asian culture. The anthropologist shadowed families and individuals in India, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China and Korea and learned first hand many important factoids for designers and engineers alike. During her travels, Ms. Bell found people in China who take their mobile phones to a temple to …

NanoFlowers

While developing a new water repellant coating for solar cells, Cambridge University PhD student Ghim Wei Ho generated these phenomenal microscopic organisms. If you're brainy enough to follow, here's how he does it: [ he ] passes a methane gas over silicon carbide wires, grown from Gallium, to cause these structures — called nanobouquet, nanotrees, and nanoflower — to condense, depending on the temperature and …