Author: Brett

Burn victims usually have to wait weeks for new skin to be generated and grafted onto their wounds. The recovery process alone can take weeks or even months. And once healed, those burns will always look like burns. In even the best cases, the surface of the skin and the areas surrounding the wound usually…

Border’s answer to Amazon’s Kindle, Kobo, just dropped to $99 today. While Kobo does support ePub and PDF natively, it’s also fully supported by Calibre, so getting your books on there should be easy. When Barnes and Noble dropped their Nook to $150 a few months ago Amazon followed their lead that same day and…

If The Onion were a person, we would be friends. Not just friends, actually – we’d be best friends. We would be the kind of best friends that finish each others’ sentences. Autistic Reporter Covers Gathering Of Crying People

54 years after Sputnik, the UK is getting into the “tiny orbiting satellite” game. At 10x10x10cm, the “FUNCube” will launch later this year. There’s a product being developed in concert with the satellite, the FUNCube Dongle, which is a USB device designed to listen to and broadcast through FUNCube’s transceiver. It’s aimed at schools and…

Alex Chadwick was laid off from NPR two years ago in the midst of a budget shortfall bloodbath that left more than 60 talented long-time employees in its wake. In the meantime he’s been setting up card tables in public places and paying passers-by 50 cents to sit down for quick interviews. Some are quirky,…

In the world of eBook file formats, you’ve basically got epub, mobi, lit, and fb2. There are many others, but those seem to be the most widely distributed. If you’re not buying books from a store tied to your device (Amazon for the Kindle, for example) you generally need to use a third-party tool like…

The orchestra hits turn this video into something very special. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64aTVG5PF38

The Carnegie Hero Fund was established in 1904 “to recognize persons who perform acts of heroism in civilian life in the United States and Canada, and to provide financial assistance for those disabled and the dependents of those killed helping others.” Firefighters/police/soliders are in the business of saving lives and hence are not eligible. Awardees…

Ted Williams was a homeless man living in Columbus, Ohio. Hearing his voice is like having melted butter dripped into your ears. He was discovered by a passer-by who tipped off The Columbus Dispatch. They then did a quick interview with him and threw it up on YouTube. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTysXITBCmk 5 million views later and Ted…

If you haven’t yet hooked an antenna up to your HDTV you’re missing out on the purest uncompressed signal that broadcast ATSC has to offer. And of course, it’s all free, recordable, fast-forwardable, DRM-free (for now) content. Some changes happened after New Year’s in the Southern California market that may not interest you…but they interest…