Amazing Trick Contest Winners

Now it’s the time to announce the winners of the Amazing Trick contest, which ended on April 30th. Many thanks to those of you who sent their (more or less) lucky guesses, or knowledge bits. Not all of them were correct, but even the wrong ones were rewarded,...

The World’s smallest Windows Vista PC

The global obsession of productivity anytime, anywhere has lead the OQO company to release model 02, world’s smallest Windows Vista operated computer. OQO model 02 provides a highly productive mobile computing experience for professional users: you can benefit from...

Do you know who reads your blog?

Do you have a blog? If you do, then I’m sure that you know how many visitors you have. There are so many free tools which measure traffic, that it is hard to believe that you did not grab at least one and put it at work on your blog. For instance, on this blog I use...

The ice complex at Balea Lac: hotel, church and more

The ice hotel at Balea Lac is at its second edition. In 2006, the builder had some troubles with the local authorities, who asked him to shut down the place, claiming that he does not have all required authorizations. Once the problem solved, the ice hotel was open...

First Quantum Teleportation between Light and Matter

Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have succeeded in transferring a quantum state of light to a material object – an ensemble of atoms. It seems that Star Trek inspired once more the...